Uvalde grand jury indicts officers tied to botched shooting police response (www.statesman.com)
eBay Removes Listing for StingRay Cellphone Spying Tech (www.404media.co)
An apparently original StingRay cell phone surveillance device listed on eBay was taken down by the company on Tuesday after 404 Media contacted it about the listing. The device, which was labeled as used, was up for sale for $100,000....
Wild Boar Has Five Times More Toxic PFAS Than Humans Allowed To Eat (www.forbes.com)
A new study has found that European wild boar, Sus scrofa, contains toxic PFAS (per-and poly-fluoroalkyl substances) at levels that are nearly five times greater than what is allowed under EU law in meat sold for human consumption.
Utah man sues over Netflix’s ‘The Program,’ saying its portrayal of his ‘troubled teen’ career defamed him (www.sltrib.com)
Charges announced over alleged $120K bribe attempt during pandemic relief fraud trial (abcnews.go.com)
4 questions answered about the software cyberattacks affecting car dealerships (www.pbs.org)
CDK Global, a company that provides software for thousands of auto dealers in the U.S. and Canada, was hit by back-to-back cyberattacks Wednesday. That led to an outage that has continued to impact operations....
A Texas Democrat voted against rights for trans kids. This queer Black mom challenged her – and won (www.independent.co.uk)
Iowa schools must tell parents if a child changes their pronouns (www.usatoday.com)
Appeals court denies Bannon bid to stave off July 1 jail sentence (www.politico.com)
A federal appeals court has denied a last-minute bid by Steve Bannon, a longtime Donald Trump adviser and prominent conservative podcaster, to stave off a four-month jail sentence for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee three years ago....
Miami New Times runs slur-filled pro-Trump political ad on back cover (www.axios.com)
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax (www.propublica.org)
Chinese coast guard personnel armed with swords, spears and knives accused of ramming Filipino boats in disputed South China Sea (www.bbc.com)
Philippines soldiers used their “bare hands” to fight off Chinese coast guard personnel armed with swords, spears and knives in the disputed South China Sea, the country’s top military commander has said....
Wikipedia calls top Jewish civil rights org ‘unreliable’ on Israel-Palestine crisis (www.independent.co.uk)
Trans man forced to undergo prison genital exams wins $275,000 settlement (www.rawstory.com)
Xi Jinping claimed the US wants China to attack Taiwan, FT reports (www.yenisafak.com)
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Paul Pressler, a former Southern Baptist leader accused of sexual abuse, dead at 94 (feeds.texastribune.org)
Pressler was one of the most influential, if lesser-known, evangelical figures of the last half-century, having co-led a movement in the Southern Baptist Convention that pushed the nation’s second-largest faith group to adopt literal interpretations of the Bible, strongly condemn homosexuality and more closely align with the...
Cop busted for unauthorized use of Clearview AI facial recognition resigns (arstechnica.com)
Exclusive: US House panel finds Wall St 'colluded' to curb emissions (www.reuters.com)
New Jersey reviewing Trump golf club liquor licenses following conviction (thehill.com)
With a Democrat’s Help, the F.E.C. Goes From Deadlock to Deregulation (www.nytimes.com)
58 percent of Americans in new poll say they’re living paycheck to paycheck (www.thehill.com)
Who is Jonathan Kaye? Millionaire investment banker slugs woman on NYC street during Brooklyn Pride, shocking video shows (lemmy.today)
Jonathan Kaye, a managing director at Moelis & Co., was identified by social media users as the man caught-on-camera punching the woman and sending her crashing down on a Park Slope street on Saturday night