Church of Scientology ignored woman’s ‘very real psychosis,’ stopped her from receiving mental health care before suicide, lawsuit claims (lawandcrime.com)
Detroit pastor says people laughed in his face when he invited them to Trump church event (www.rawstory.com)
Trump’s Spiritual Adviser Quasi-Confesses to Molesting 12-Year-Old Girl (www.thedailybeast.com)
The fast-food industry claims the California minimum wage law is costing jobs. Its numbers are fake (www.yahoo.com)
Retired firefighter and veteran comes out as gay — in his obituary (www.advocate.com)
Justice Alito questions possibility of political compromise in secret recording (apnews.com)
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is heard questioning whether compromise between the left and right is possible in a conversation posted on social media Monday. The conservative justice is also heard agreeing with a woman who says the United States should return “to a place of godliness.”...
Girl who died in ‘troubled teen’ facility was dead for up to 10 hours before staff realized (www.fox13now.com)
Far-right gains in the EU election deal stunning defeats to France's Macron and Germany's Scholz (apnews.com)
Far-right parties rattled the traditional powers in the European Union and made major gains in parliamentary elections Sunday, dealing an especially humiliating defeat to https://apnews.com/article/france-macron-election-legislative-parliament-national-rally-07b742fe000170af8ee410e292bf23e2...
USA orchestrates shock defeat of Pakistan at Men’s T20 Cricket World Cup (www.cnn.com)
Donors raise $233,000 to give US cart pusher, 90, chance at retirement (www.theguardian.com)
Thousands of people have donated about a quarter of a million dollars to a 90-year-old US air force veteran who has been financially supporting himself by pushing shopping carts at a grocery store in sweltering Louisiana – and now has the option of retiring if he wants thanks to the strangers’ generosity....
1 million customers are without power in Texas as Dallas and Houston get slammed with destructive storms | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
More than a million customers in Texas were without power Tuesday as powerful storms delivered another round of violent weather to the state still reeling from an almost unrelenting parade of destructive and deadly storms in recent weeks....
Trying to buy a house is 'playing a game you can't win' (www.bbc.com)
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All 9 South Dakota tribes endorse Gov. Kristi Noem's banishment (www.usatoday.com)
On Friday, the second-term governor spent part of a 51-minute press conference in Pierre lamenting the seven prior banishment measures and continued to emphasize her claim that Mexican cartels are using South Dakota’s Indian lands as “safe havens” to distribute drugs in the state.
Bump stock ruling could trigger booming rapid-fire marketplace [Clayton Vickers | 05/21/24 | The Hill] (thehill.com)
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Former Far-Right Hard-Liner Says Billionaires Are Using School Board Races to Sow Distrust in Public Education (www.propublica.org)
Parishioners stopped teen with a rifle from entering church with 60 children inside (www.nbcnews.com)
Children were inside St. Mary Magdalen in Abbeville, Louisiana, waiting to take their first Holy Communion, the church said....
Parts supplied to Boeing had 'serious defects' - whistleblower (www.bbc.com)
Fuselages made by Boeing’s largest supplier regularly left the factory with serious defects, according to a former quality inspector at the firm....
Americans Are Racking Up 'Phantom Debt' That Wall Street Can't Track (www.bloomberg.com)
Consumers have embraced ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ products that allow them to pay for purchases in installments, but it’s not clear how many of these loans are out there....
Sen. Tim Scott dodges on whether he would accept 2024 election results (www.nbcnews.com)
The senator, who ran for the Republican nomination for president last year, repeatedly refused to say whether he’d accept this year’s presidential election results, regardless of who wins....
New Federal Rules Protect LGBTQ People From Misgendering, Bathroom Bans (truthout.org)
Today's campus protests aren't nearly as big or violent as those last century -- at least, not yet (www.yahoo.com)
The Onion is sold to new firm known as Global Tetrahedron (www.axios.com)
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Jan. 6 rioter who assaulted cops with metal whip has sentencing go haywire (lawandcrime.com)
The American Climate Corps is now hiring (www.salon.com)
Trump Calls for Less Courthouse Security, More MAGA Protests (www.rollingstone.com)
The former president suggested sending the NYPD officers running security around his trial to be deployed to quell protests at Columbia University...
