Massachusetts Placed Homeless Families in Shelters With Sex Offenders, Report Says (www.thedailybeast.com)
Dobbs had the opposite effect conservatives intended (www.motherjones.com)
World's top golfer Scottie Scheffler arrested on charges of assaulting officer at PGA championship event (www.cnbc.com)
Outrage after ex-Trump aide claims he gave unhoused people fake money (www.theguardian.com)
French government says Kristi Noem lied about cancelling meeting with Macron (www.theguardian.com)
A French official said there is no record of a scheduled meeting with the South Dakota governor – nor had they invited her...
"We are so innocent": Trump fumes after judge denies 2nd motion for mistrial (www.salon.com)
Utah fields nearly 4,000 “bogus" reports in first week of trans bathroom ban (www.salon.com)
NYPD Produces Propaganda Instead of Legally Required Public Records (www.404media.co)
NYPD officer fired gun while clearing protesters at Columbia: Live (www.independent.co.uk)
‘Like a war zone’: Emory University grapples with fallout from police response to protest | US universities (www.theguardian.com)
The university’s response was likely the quickest show of police force in response to a divestment protest among the dozens nationwide that have occurred in recent weeks. It was also probably the only one where pepper balls, stun guns and rubber bullets were used against students, faculty and community members – at one of...
Chaturbate Will Pay Texas $675,000 for Violating New Porn Age Verification Law (www.404media.co)
Netanyahu labels US student protests ‘antisemitic’ and calls for them to end (www.theguardian.com)
Cicadas are making so much noise that residents are calling the police in South Carolina (www.cbsnews.com)
Emerging cicadas are so loud in one South Carolina county that residents are calling the sheriff’s office asking why they can hear a “noise in the air that sounds like a siren, or a whine, or a roar.”...
New York AG asks court to reject Trump's $175M bond for civil judgment (abcnews.go.com)
Letitia James contended the bond company may not have enough resources to pay....
Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal (www.theverge.com)
Florida can’t ban teacher from asking students to use her preferred pronouns, judge rules (www.theguardian.com)
Katie Wood, a transgender algebra teacher, has long gone by ‘Ms Wood’ but the law required students to say ‘Teacher Wood’...
Israel threatens to strike Iran directly if Iran launches attack from its territory (apnews.com)
Israel’s foreign minister threatened Wednesday that his country’s forces would strike Iran directly if the Islamic Republic launched an attack from its territory against Israel, as tensions between the rival powers flare following the killings of Iranian generals in a blast at the Iranian consulate in Syria....
Railroad agrees to $600 million settlement for fiery Ohio derailment, residents fear it’s not enough (www.opb.org)
Per this source, a 25 mile radius includes 585,000 people. That means (before lawyer fees so imagine half in actuality), Norfolk-Southern wants to give $1,000 per person for permanently poisoning not only their property but their body which is now forever scarred. This was filed for approval by the Plaintiff (people hurt) but as...
Peter Higgs, physicist who theorised Higgs boson, dies aged 94 (www.bbc.com)
Arizona Supreme Court issues ruling banning nearly all abortions, invoking 1864 law (thehill.com)
Major mail delivery delays raise concerns about voting in the 2024 elections (www.nbcnews.com)
Residents and businesses nationwide have been reporting slowdowns in mail and package delivery by the U.S. Postal Service, raising concerns that mail-in ballots could be affected in the upcoming election....
Fire at Bernie Sanders' Vermont office investigated as arson (www.nbcnews.com)
A fire at Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Vermont office is being investigated as arson, the Burlington Fire Department said Friday.
Retirement crisis looms as Americans struggle to save (www.cnn.com)
The number of US workers in the labor market over the age of 75 is expected to nearly double over the next decade, creating a looming retirement crisis....
Fidelity cuts value of X stake, implying 73% decline in former Twitter since Elon Musk's takeover (fortune.com)
Fidelity’s Blue Chip Growth Fund cut the value of its position in X by 5.7% in February, implying a 73% decline in the former Twitter Inc. since Elon Musk bought the social-media company....
New Islamic State videos back claim it carried out Moscow concert hall attack (www.theguardian.com)
The videos, which were published by IS’s news agency Amaq, showed the gunmen filming themselves as they hunted concertgoers through the lobby of the Crocus City Hall and fired at them from pointblank range, killing scores of people. At one point, one of the gunmen tells another to “kill them and have no mercy”....