Families urge judge to block law forcing display of ‘Protestant version of the Ten Commandments’ before kids return to public school in Louisiana (lawandcrime.com)
Justice Thomas raked in staggering $2.4 million in gifts, watchdog says (www.independent.co.uk)
Fix the Court, the group that released the findings, calculated the total in gifts from January 2004 to December 2023 and said the nine current justices received 344 gifts totaling nearly $3million....
Maker of Jeep and Dodge plans to kill chrome on cars, citing risks to those who make it (www.cnn.com)
Southern Baptists are poised to ban churches with women pastors. Some are urging them to reconsider (apnews.com)
From its towering white steeple and red-brick facade to its Sunday services filled with rousing gospel hymns and evangelistic sermons, First Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia, bears many of the classic hallmarks of a Southern Baptist church....
Doctor who claimed COVID vaccines made people magnets is sued by DOJ over taxes (www.independent.co.uk)
Incumbent Democrat Who Voted to Ban Gender-Affirming Care in Texas Loses Primary (truthout.org)
‘Psychologically tortured’: California city pays man nearly $1m after 17-hour police interrogation (www.theguardian.com)
A California city has agreed to pay $900,000 to a man who was subjected to a 17-hour police interrogation in which officers pressured him to falsely confess to murdering his father, who was alive....
AP Explains: 4/20 grew from humble roots to marijuana's high holiday (apnews.com)
Saturday marks marijuana culture’s high holiday, 4/20, when college students gather — at 4:20 p.m. — in clouds of smoke on campus quads and pot shops in legal-weed states thank their customers with discounts....
China will use AI to disrupt elections in the US, South Korea and India, Microsoft warns (www.theguardian.com)
Beijing did a test run in Taiwan using AI-generated content to influence voters away from a pro-sovereignty candidate...
Not Again: United Airlines Boeing 777 Makes Emergency Landing In Denver (simpleflying.com)
Dynamic pricing is coming to grocery stores (www.npr.org)
Houthis reportedly sink British ship in Red Sea (www.ynetnews.com)
23andMe is low on cash and its stock is worth pennies. The CEO wants another chance | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
IRS has already collected more than $500 million in back taxes from delinquent millionaires (www.marketwatch.com)
Spirit Airlines put six-year-old boy on the wrong flight alone (www.independent.co.uk)
Spirit Airlines issued an apology after putting a six-year-old unaccompanied minor on the wrong flight....
Elon Musk restores X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones (abcnews.go.com)
New Study: Police Kill Over 10,000 Family Dogs Every Year; According to The U.S. Justice Department (medium.com)
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These Evangelicals Are Cheering the Gaza War as the End of the World (www.rollingstone.com)
Pfizer plans to charge nearly $1,400 for Paxlovid (www.axios.com)
Pfizer will list its COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid at a price of $1,390 per five-day course when it soon hits the commercial market, the drugmaker confirmed to Axios....
Fact check: Biden falsely claims he was at Ground Zero 'the next day' after 9/11 (www.cnn.com)
He did it three times in a single speech last month – falsely claiming to have witnessed a bridge collapse in Pittsburgh in 2022 (he actually visited the site more than six hours after the collapse), falsely claiming his grandfather had died just days prior to his own birth at the same hospital (his paternal grandfather died...
Revealed: US pro-birth conference’s links to far-right eugenicists (www.theguardian.com)
Natal conference, to be held in Austin in December, promoted on far-right podcast circuit and set to host self-described eugenicists...
Supplier Caught Distributing Fake Parts for World’s Top-Selling Jet Engine (www.thedrive.com)
They invest in Black women. A lawsuit claims it’s discrimination. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Brianna Wise-Riley was working an administrative job with the Fulton County Superior Court when her manager gave her a great idea. Noting the food trucks parked near their office, her boss said: What if a nail salon could bring a manicure to you?...
Secret Service Agents Were in Contact With Far-Right Oath Keepers - A new report reveals members of the Secret Service were in communication with the group’s radical leader, Stewart Rhodes (newrepublic.com)
Giuliani struggling under massive legal bills after defending Trump (www.cnn.com)
Rudy Giuliani is staring down hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal bills and sanctions amid numerous lawsuits in addition to the new criminal charges – related to his work for Donald Trump after the 2020 election.
