Judge to consider imposing gag order on Trump in 2020 election interference case (www.theguardian.com)
Protective order poses dilemma for Tanya Chutkan as Trump could use it to falsely attack the criminal case as political...
Hughes Van Ellis, one of last Tulsa race massacre survivors, dies aged 102 (www.theguardian.com)
One of the last known survivors of the Tulsa race massacre of 1921 has died, his family has confirmed in a statement....
California to require big firms to reveal carbon emissions in first law of its kind (www.theguardian.com)
Measure signed into law by Gavin Newsom on Saturday is strong blueprint for national climate accountability, experts say...
Amid Strikes, One Question: Are Employers Miscalculating? (www.nytimes.com)
Desert horror: Music festival goers first took cover from rockets, then Gaza militants began firing on them (www.cnn.com)
The rockets began around 6:30 a.m., Tal Gibly told CNN. Thirty minutes later, she and hundreds of others attending a music festival were running as Gaza militants fired at them....
Historic change for tipped workers: Subminimum wage to end in Chicago restaurants, bars [USA] (www.usatoday.com)
BBC witnesses Chinese ships blocking Philippines supply boats (www.bbc.com)
Tensions between Manila and Beijing remain high after the Philippines coast guard cut China’s barriers in disputed waters last month....
New U.A.W. Chief Has a Nonnegotiable Demand: Eat the Rich (www.nytimes.com)
A riled Trump sounds off outside the New York fraud trial that accuses him of lying about wealth (apnews.com)
Pinal Sheriff Mark Lamb’s office spent $200K on guns and ammo from an ‘inmate welfare' fund (azluminaria.org)
The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office run by U.S. Senate candidate Sheriff Mark Lamb has spent at least $217,000 from a jail commissary fund that Arizona lawmakers mandated be used “for the benefit and welfare of inmates” to instead buy a cache of weapons, ammunition and ballistic vests....
Judge: Starbucks violated federal labor law by withholding pay hikes from unionized workers (www.cnn.com)
Starbucks violated federal labor law when it increased wages and offered new perks and benefits only to non-union employees, a National Labor Relations Board judge found Thursday....
In Rare Alliance, Democrats and Republicans Seek Legal Power to Clear Homeless Camps (web.archive.org)
2023 was the year the US finally destroyed all of its chemical weapons (www.vox.com)
The United States’s Chemical Warfare Service readied hundreds of thousands of mortar shells and artillery rounds filled with mustard gas in the 1940s. During the Cold War, even more lethal chemical weapons followed: artillery and rockets filled with VX and GB, better known as Sarin, nerve agents that, with as little as a few...
On the brink of a federal shutdown, the House passes a 45-day funding plan and sends it to Senate (apnews.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) — On the brink of a federal government shutdown, the House on Saturday swiftly approved a 45-day funding bill to keep federal agencies open as Speaker Kevin McCarthy dropped demands for steep spending cuts and relied on Democratic votes for passage to send the package to the Senate....
Mortgage demand shrinks as interest rates hit the highest level in nearly 23 years (www.cnbc.com)
Mortgage interest rates just hit a level not seen since the year 2000. As a result, mortgage demand is now sitting near a 27-year low....
Teacher busted after students find her meth at family fun night: police (www.foxnews.com)
Facial recognition technology jailed a man for days. His lawsuit joins others from Black plaintiffs (apnews.com)
California bill to have human drivers ride in autonomous trucks is vetoed by governor (apnews.com)
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill to require human drivers on board self-driving trucks, a measure that union leaders and truck drivers said would save hundreds of thousands of jobs in the state....
Army Corps of Engineers to barge 36 million gallons of freshwater a day as saltwater intrusion threatens New Orleans-area drinking water (www.cnn.com)
The US Army Corps of Engineers is planning to barge 36 million gallons of freshwater daily into the lower Mississippi River near New Orleans as saltwater intrusion from the Gulf of Mexico continues to threaten drinking water supply, officials said Friday....
Migrants' DNA is fueling a massive expansion of the FBI's genetic database (www.motherjones.com)
Man formerly on death row gets murder case dismissed after 48 years (abcnews.go.com)
After 48 years, a man who says he was wrongfully convicted of murder has officially had his case dismissed....
Mexico is likely to get its first female president after top parties choose 2 women as candidates (apnews.com)
With the selection of former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum as the candidate of the country’s ruling party in next June’s election, Mexico will for the first time have time two women from its main political movements competing for the presidency....
Republican lawmakers launch an effort to block student-loan borrowers from enrolling in Biden's new plan intended to lower monthly payments (www.businessinsider.com)
GOP lawmakers have introduced bills to overturn Biden’s new SAVE income-driven repayment plan....
Texas highways are the next anti-abortion target. One town is resisting. (www.texastribune.org)
Even in conservative corners of Texas, efforts to crack down on abortion travel are meeting resistance with some local officials who support Texas’s strict abortion laws, expressing concern that the efforts go too far....
Former Google recruiter shares 7 toxic phrases bosses use that are 'major red flags' (www.cnbc.com)
