The Supreme Court strips the SEC of a critical enforcement tool in fraud cases (apnews.com)
Eric Trump Says Dad’s Criminal Charges Are Attracting Black Voters: ‘Certain Communities Are Coming Over to My Father’ (www.mediaite.com)
Black Voters in This City Could Determine 2024. And It’s Not Looking Good for Biden. (www.politico.com)
The Biden campaign is increasingly worried about a group that could determine an important chunk of Electoral College votes.
Mysterious ‘Dark Fungi’ Are Lurking Everywhere (www.scientificamerican.com)
The land, water and air around us are chock-full of DNA fragments from fungi that mycologists can’t link to known organisms. These slippery beings are so widespread scientists are calling them “dark fungi.” It’s a comparison to the equally elusive dark matter and dark energy that permeates the universe.
Home price inflation is so high, it's changing American economic life (www.marketplace.org)
We’ve been dealing with high inflation in this economy over the last several years, with everything from groceries to new vehicles to construction supplies soaring in price....
Baltimore seeks to keep Dali crew from leaving US after bridge collapse (www.bbc.com)
In a petition sent to a judge on Tuesday, the city argues that allowing the foreign crew of the Dali to leave the country could interfere with two investigations being led by the FBI and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)....
North Carolina Supreme Court Secretly Squashed Discipline of Two GOP Judges Who Admitted to Violating Judicial Code (www.propublica.org)
Last fall, out of public view, the North Carolina Supreme Court squashed disciplinary action against two Republican judges who had admitted that they had violated the state’s judicial code of conduct, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the decisions....
Trump gets name of his doctor wrong as he challenges Biden to cognitive test (www.theguardian.com)
28 riders stuck upside down on amusement park ride for about 30 minutes (www.washingtonpost.com)
US banana giant ordered to pay $38m to families of Colombian men killed by death squads (www.theguardian.com)
Landmark verdict against Chiquita marks first time major US company held liable for funding human rights abuses abroad...
Charleston bridge closed as out-of-control ship powers through harbor (www.theguardian.com)
Police cleared traffic and pedestrians from bridge as cargo ship went nearly full throttle through South Carolina harbor...
Mexico man dies from first human case of bird flu strain H5N2 (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists are on alert for signs the virus is adapting to spread more easily among humans, after the WHO announced the death from April...
Italian court dismisses Amanda Knox appeal against slander verdict (www.theguardian.com)
Knox, 36, hoped to overturn conviction for wrongly accusing a bar owner of murdering British student Meredith Kercher...
College students leave behind hoard of trash at California’s Shasta Lake (www.theguardian.com)
Despite being asked to clean up after themselves, about 3,000 students celebrating Memorial Day weekend left piles of debris...
Louisiana chemical plant threatens to shut down if EPA emissions deadline isn't relaxed (apnews.com)
A synthetic rubber manufacturer accused of increasing the cancer risk for the nearby majority-Black community in Louisiana told a federal appeals court it will have to shut down “likely permanently” if it’s forced to meet the Biden administration’s deadline to reduce emissions....
Global sales of polluting SUVs hit record high in 2023, data shows (www.theguardian.com)
Half of all new cars are now SUVs, making them a major cause of the intensifying climate crisis, say experts...
North Korea drops balloons carrying trash and propaganda in South (www.bbc.com)
Photographs shared on social media show bags attached via string to white translucent balloons carrying toilet paper, dark soil, and batteries, among other contents....
Louisiana authorities search for 2 escaped jail inmates (apnews.com)
Four inmates escaped a south Louisiana jail over the weekend and two were still missing Tuesday, authorities said....
Gov. Abbott pardons Daniel Perry for 2020 fatal Black Lives Matter protest shooting after recommendation from pardons board | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Daniel Perry, a former US Army sergeant who was convicted of murdering a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally in 2020, was released from prison Thursday after he was pardoned by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott....
Exclusive: Musk's Neuralink has faced issues with its tiny wires for years, sources say (www.reuters.com)
Neuralink’s disclosure last week that tiny wires inside the brain of its first patient had pulled out of position is an issue the Elon Musk company has known about for years, according to five people familiar with the matter....
Jennifer Lawrence royally roasts Mike Pence over his support for conversion therapy (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Catholic Group Defrocks AI Priest After It Gave Strange Answers (futurism.com)
US fertility rate dropped to lowest in a century as US births dipped in 2023 (www.cnn.com)
The fertility rate in the United States has been trending down for decades, and a new report shows that another drop in births in 2023 brought the rate down to the lowest it’s been in more than a century....
Secret document says Iran security forces molested and killed teen protester (www.bbc.com)
Bill that would fine parents for kids’ crimes passes Tennessee legislature [Ashley Paul and David Royer | 04/25/24 | TheHill] (thehill.com)
Parents of kids who commit crimes in Tennessee will face fines up to $1,000 for each offense after the first one, under a bill that’s headed to Gov. Bill Lee’s Bill Lee...
