Los Angeles PD wants to remotely access 10,000 public and private security cameras (boingboing.net)
McConnell will step down as the Senate Republican leader in November after a record run in the job (apnews.com)
First responders in a Texas town are struggling to cope with the trauma of recovering bodies from the Rio Grande (www.nbcnews.com)
After a record-breaking year of migrant crossings, Eagle Pass is applying for a grant to help pay for therapy and other mental health services....
Washington State Troopers Charged Her With Drunken Driving. But Her Brain Was Bleeding. (www.nytimes.com)
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George Santos sues late-night host Jimmy Kimmel for tricking him into making videos to ridicule him (apnews.com)
Former U.S. Rep. George Santos alleged in a lawsuit filed Saturday that late-night host Jimmy Kimmel deceived him into making videos on the Cameo app that were used to ridicule the disgraced New York Republican on the show....
Man charged with beheading father carried photos of federal buildings, bomb plans, DA says (apnews.com)
The suburban Philadelphia man charged with decapitating his father and posting a video online in which he held up the severed head had a device with photos of federal buildings and apparent instructions for making explosives when he was arrested, authorities said Thursday....
Utah governor says school board member who questioned a student's gender ‘embarrassed the state’ (apnews.com)
Utah’s Republican governor and lieutenant governor are urging the State Board of Education to take action against a conservative board member whose social media post questioning the gender of a high school basketball player incited a tirade of threats against the girl....
'My memory is fine' - Biden hits back at special counsel (www.bbc.com)
US President Joe Biden has angrily criticised an investigation that found he mishandled top secret files and said he struggled to recall key life events....
McDonald's stock price drops after CEO promises affordability during latest earnings call (abcnews.go.com)
Quick and cheap are two of the first words that come to mind when thinking about fast food. But some McDonald’s customers have criticized the restaurant giant over recent higher menu prices, prompting the CEO to address the issue of affordability during the company’s latest earning call....
Black man was holding sandwiches and keys when an Ohio deputy fatally shot him, prosecutor says (www.nbcnews.com)
The gun the deputy said Casey Goodson Jr. was waving when he was shot in the back multiple times was found in the man's kitchen with the safety on, the prosecutor shared publicly for the first time.
Senate hearing highlights: Lawmakers grill CEOs from TikTok, X and Meta about online child safety (youtube.com)
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How was fugitive Kaitlin Armstrong caught? She answered U.S. Marshals' ad for a yoga instructor (www.cbsnews.com)
Kaitlin Armstrong is serving 90 years in prison for murdering professional up-and-coming gravel cyclist Anna Moriah “Mo” Wilson. It’s a story that drew international headlines because after being suspected of killing Wilson in Texas, Armstrong vanished – seemingly into thin air. The search for the suspected killer...
Elizabeth Holmes barred from federal health programs for 90 years (arstechnica.com)
Elizabeth Holmes—the disgraced and incarcerated founder of the infamous blood-testing startup Theranos—is barred from participating in federal health programs for nine decades, according to an announcement from the health department Friday....
Marjorie Taylor Greene leads MAGA fury as GOP leadership back crucial spending bill (www.independent.co.uk)
Right-wing Georgia Republican insists she opposes continuing resolution because she does not want to fund the defence of Ukraine...
Half of recent US inflation due to high corporate profits, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
Red Cross facing severe blood shortage (thehill.com)
Wells Fargo employees vote in favor of unionization, a first for major US bank (finance.yahoo.com)
New York will set up a commission to consider reparations for slavery (apnews.com)
New York state will create a commission tasked with considering reparations to address the persistent, harmful effects of slavery in the state, under a bill signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday....
US man charged over damage to Satanic Temple display in Iowa (www.bbc.com)
War resumes in Gaza after truce collapses (www.reuters.com)
As the deadline lapsed, Reuters journalists in Khan Younis in southern Gaza saw eastern areas come under intensive bombardment, sending columns of smoke rising into the sky. Residents took to the road with belongings heaped up in carts, fleeing for shelter further west....
Co-founder of Students for Trump was charged with assault after allegedly hitting a woman with a gun, court records show (www.cnn.com)
CNN — Ryan Fournier, a co-founder of the political organization Students for Trump, was arrested and charged with assault last week in North Carolina after allegedly hitting a woman with a gun, court records show.
At Meta, Millions of Underage Users Were an ‘Open Secret,’ States Say (www.nytimes.com)
Meta has received more than 1.1 million reports of users under the age of 13 on its Instagram platform since early 2019 yet it “disabled only a fraction” of those accounts, according to a newly unsealed legal complaint against the company brought by the attorneys general of 33 states....
New York calls PepsiCo's plastic pollution a 'public nuisance' in first-of-its-kind lawsuit (grist.org)
The company’s packaging was found to be the most significant contributor to plastic waste clogging the Buffalo River....
Nearly 240,000 Chicagoans living on less than $19 a day (www.illinoispolicy.org)
Living on less than half of the federal poverty level is considered “deep poverty.” That describes 53% of impoverished Chicagoans.
