It's taking longer to schedule abortions in Colorado and across the U.S. Doctors fear riskier, more complex procedures. (coloradosun.com)
About half of U.S. states now have laws that ban or restrict access to abortion
The border crossing in this tiny town has been closed because there are too many migrants (www.nbcnews.com)
A decline in funds has contributed to a drop in Mexico’s ability to stop U.S.-bound migrants from heading north, or to handle the migrants the U.S. wants to send back....
US senator tries to force debate on 'humanitarian cataclysm' in Gaza (www.reuters.com)
Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, sought to force debate under a provision in U.S. foreign assistance law prohibiting security assistance to any government that “engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights” and lets Congress vote to demand a report on a...
Prince Harry was phone-hacking victim and editors knew, London court rules (www.reuters.com)
** I’ve posted this because of the UK’s media, not because of any royal involved....
Four charged by feds, accused of running an $80 million ‘pig butchering’ scheme (www.nbcnews.com)
'I feel trapped': Scores of underage Rohingya girls forced into abusive marriages in Malaysia (apnews.com)
Last year, the Rohingya girl sacrificed herself to save her family, embarking on a terrifying journey from her homeland of Myanmar to a country she had never seen, to marry a man she had never met....
The nation’s largest credit union rejected more than half its Black conventional mortgage applicants (us.cnn.com)
Generative AI will be a huge boon for the public domain – unless copyright blocks it (walledculture.org)
The excitement of 70,000 Swifties can shake the Earth (ghostarchive.org)
Hong Kong places arrest bounties on activists abroad for breaching national security law (apnews.com)
Idaho Keeps Some Psychiatric Patients in Prison, Ignoring Decades of Warnings About the Practice (www.propublica.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/idaho-keeps-some-psychiatric-pa…
‘A Crazy System’: How Arbitration Returns Abusive Guards to New York Prisons (www.themarshallproject.org)
Archived at ghostarchive.org/archive/VpiFG?wr=true
U.S. grids face greater risks as generators retire, demand rises - NERC (www.reuters.com)
The group painted a bleak picture for some power markets in the U.S., as wide-scale electrification spurs demand to grow at a faster pace than new generation capacity additions, and as old facilities retire. Those markets could face capacity shortfalls as a result, NERC said....
Qatar sent millions to Gaza for years – with Israel’s backing. Here’s what we know about the controversial deal | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Qatar has come under fire by Israeli officials, American politicians and media outlets for sending hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Gaza, which is governed by the Palestinian militant group. But all that happened with Israel’s blessing.
Consumer group presses for stronger Botox warnings (thehill.com)
A consumer group is pushing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for stronger Botox warnings, pointing to the danger of negative health effects from the cosmetic injections....
Dozens of US lobbyists represent both climate-focused charities and fossil fuels – report (www.theguardian.com)
Settlement of lawsuit over Trump family separation border policy gets final approval (www.tucsonsentinel.com)
Arizona Is the Next Abortion Battleground (www.wsj.com)
The state Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on whether to allow a near-total ban to take effect—kicking off a 2024 showdown...
Scientists develop potential new drug treatment for multiple sclerosis (rite.link)
South Carolina jury convicts inmate in first trial involving deadly prison riots (apnews.com)
Smith was imprisoned at the time of the riot after being convicted of attempted murder in the shooting of a University of South Carolina student. That conviction was overturned by the state Supreme Court three years ago. He’s been held since then at a Columbia detention center.
Sudan: Designation of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity Committed in Sudan (allafrica.com)
It's taking longer to get an abortion in the US. Doctors fear riskier, more complex procedures (apnews.com)
A woman whose fetus was unlikely to survive called more than a dozen abortion clinics before finding one that would take her, only to be put on weekslong waiting lists. A teen waited seven weeks for an abortion because it took her mother that long to get her an appointment. Others seeking the procedure faced waits because they...
He blew the whistle on Amazon. He’s still paying the price (archive.ph)
Four years after Tang Mingfang called out the injustices he witnessed at a Foxconn factory in China, nothing has changed — except for him
Inside the Pro-Israel Information War (jackpoulson.substack.com)
Israeli gov-led Zoom calls, WhatsApp chat logs, and other docs provide a window into the massive effort to shape online discourse and silence pro-Palestinian voices.
Biden heads to Las Vegas to showcase $8.2B for 10 major rail projects around the country (www.independent.co.uk)
President Joe Biden is heading to Las Vegas to showcase $8.2 billion in funding for 10 major passenger rail projects across the country, including to spur work on high-speed, electric train routes that could one day link Nevada and California, as well as Los Angeles and San Francisco....
