Elon Musk hosted an ‘anti-Biden’ dinner party. Here’s who attended (www.independent.co.uk)
15 Portland police cars badly burned Thursday morning; arson suspected (www.oregonlive.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14943650
Revealed: Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes (www.theguardian.com)
Fox News takes down Hunter Biden ‘mock trial’ miniseries after lawsuit threat (www.cnn.com)
Florida outdoor workers rally against law banning local regulations against extreme heat [Rocío Magnani | Apr 29 2024 | LatinTimes] (www.latintimes.com)
Protesters took to the streets to march against HB433...
Texas AG drops “abusive” attempt to get info about trans kids from Seattle hospital (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Tough new EPA rules would force coal-fired power plants to capture emissions or shut down (apnews.com)
Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency....
Google sacked staff protesting about contract with Israel (www.bbc.com)
Kansas prosecutor who framed innocent man surrenders law license, will soon be disbarred (kansaspublicradio.org)
Terra Morehead, a longtime county and federal prosecutor who helped police frame at least one innocent man, has agreed to surrender her law license and faces disbarment....
Trump Hush Money Trial Live: The ex-president loses another bid to oust judge (www.reuters.com)
This is a live feed from the courthouse. As such the title may change from the original....
Family Balks at Donating O.J. Simpson’s Brain for Research (www.thedailybeast.com)
California Governor Gavin Newsom orders state workers back to office (thehill.com)
Trump Media shares drop by more than 8%, putting market cap under $5 billion (www.cnbc.com)
NYPD Officials Orchestrated Smear Campaign of Police Critic Using Confidential Details of Her Rape, Lawsuit Alleges (www.thecity.nyc)
In the lawsuit, filed in the Eastern District of New York on Monday, Rachlin alleges that in mid-2020 NYPD officials cut off her access to the North Brooklyn precincts her nonprofit serves and told precinct leaders not to work with her....
Michigan school shooter's parents sentenced to at least 10 years in prison (apnews.com)
NOTE: article updated....
These are the most challenged library books in America — yes, most are LGBTQ+ (www.advocate.com)
Israeli military fires two senior officers as report finds strike on aid workers was in ‘violation of commands’ (www.cnn.com)
US Navy Veteran Who Feds Say Rammed FBI Headquarters Had QAnon-Linked Online Presence (www.wired.com)
An Iowa woman is sentenced in a ballot box stuffing scheme that supported husband's campaign (apnews.com)
The wife of an Iowa county supervisor was sentenced Monday to four months in jail after being convicted in a scheme to stuff the ballot box to support her husband’s unsuccessful campaign for a congressional seat....
Iowa Fertilizer Spill Kills Nearly All Fish Across 60-Mile Stretch of Rivers (www.nytimes.com)
“I refer to this one as ‘the big one,’” said the official, Matt Combes, an ecological health unit science supervisor for the Missouri Department of Conservation. He added: “Calling something a near-total fish kill for 60 miles of a river is astounding and disheartening.”
‘Shortcuts Everywhere’: How Boeing Favored Speed Over Quality (www.nytimes.com)
Utah basketball team’s experience in Coeur d’Alene shows history of racism still ‘very much alive’ in North Idaho (www.spokesman.com)
The Utah team was staying at the Coeur d’Alene Resort after it was selected to play in the NCAA Tournament hosted by Gonzaga University. As team members walked from the hotel to a downtown restaurant, they were followed by a driver in a truck who was shouting racial slurs at them....
The Hotel Guest Who Wouldn’t Leave: Mickey Barreto’s five-year stay cost him only $200.57. Now it might cost him his freedom. (www.nytimes.com)
On a June afternoon in 2018, a man named Mickey Barreto checked into the New Yorker Hotel. He was assigned Room 2565, a double-bed accommodation with a view of Midtown Manhattan almost entirely obscured by an exterior wall. For a one-night stay, he paid $200.57....
Trump can appeal ruling that kept Georgia prosecutor on case, judge says (www.reuters.com)
A Georgia judge on Wednesday said Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and eight of his co-defendants in the state’s criminal election subversion case could appeal a ruling that let lead prosecutor Fani Willis remain on the case....
US abortions reach highest level in over a decade, sparked by surge in medication abortion (www.cnn.com)
Abortions are on the rise in the United States, despite bans that have taken effect in more than a dozen states since the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that revoked the federal right to abortion in June 2022....
