Georgia father sentenced to 50 years for poisoning his newborn's breastmilk with antifreeze (www.nbcnews.com)
Police say Curtis Jack admitted that he added antifreeze to his newborn daughter’s milk to avoid paying child support....
American women are stockpiling abortion pills amid political uncertainty (www.businessinsider.com)
Donald Trump’s views on abortion are muddled at best and threatening at worst....
The Fed may have no choice but to tip the US into recession, economist says (www.businessinsider.com)
Texas Surgeon Is Accused of Secretly Denying Liver Transplants (www.nytimes.com)
Freshly purged RNC peddles 2020 election lies in robocall to voters (www.salon.com)
How Texas teens lost the one program that allowed birth control without parental consent (www.texastribune.org)
Texas is in the minority of states that requires parental consent before a teenager can get birth control, in virtually all circumstances. But there’s long been one exception to that rule: the federal Title X program, which provides confidential contraception regardless of age, income or immigration status....
‘An epidemic of loneliness’: How the pandemic changed life for aging adults (www.colorado.edu)
Years after the U.S. began to slowly emerge from mandatory COVID-19 lockdowns, more than half of older adults still spend more time at home and less time socializing in public spaces than they did pre-pandemic, according to new CU Boulder research....
‘Shame! Shame!’: Arizona Republican leaders block effort to repeal abortion ban (www.theguardian.com)
Democrats stymied after state supreme court rules that 1864 law with no exceptions for rape or incest can go into effect...
Ex-Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg will be sentenced for perjury and faces a second stint in jail (apnews.com)
Allen Weisselberg, a former longtime executive in Donald Trump’s real estate empire, is set to be sentenced Wednesday for lying under oath in the ex-president’s New York civil fraud case....
Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Is Provoking Tax Resistance in the US (truthout.org)
A new investigation of a deadly fire that killed 40 migrants in a locked detention cell in Mexico shows that keys and fire extinguishers were readily available, but withheld (www.texasobserver.org)
Until now, injustice has impeded serious faults, abuses, and negligence from that night from coming to light. These actions contributed to the fatalities that occurred inside the overcrowded locked cell without fire extinguishers, ventilation, fire sprinklers, and working smoke detectors, a death trap for migrants from...
Why more Americans are making hardship withdrawals from retirement accounts (www.pbs.org)
Boeing pays Alaska Airlines $160 million in compensation for the blowout of a panel during flight (apnews.com)
Alaska Airlines says Boeing has paid the carrier $160 million in “initial compensation” for a panel that blew out of an Alaska Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliner in January....
Tampa police chief Lee Bercaw would ‘retire’ — and still earn a $241,000 salary as chief (www.tampabay.com)
The city has drafted an agreement that would allow Lee Bercaw, a 28-year veteran with the force, to[retire and then] immediately be hired back by the city as a contractor to continue serving as chief after he retires in September....
Owner of Dali ship seeks to limit liability in Baltimore bridge collapse (www.cbsnews.com)
The Singaporean company that owns the cargo ship that collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge last week took steps Monday to limit its liability for the accident....
Invaders from underground are coming in cicada-geddon. It's the biggest bug emergence in centuries (apnews.com)
This spring, an unusual cicada double dose is about to invade a couple parts of the United States in what University of Connecticut cicada expert John Cooley called “cicada-geddon.” The last time these two broods came out together in 1803 Thomas Jefferson, who wrote about cicadas in his Garden Book but mistakenly called them...
Gaza medical officials say Israeli strike kills 4 foreign aid workers, driver after delivering food (apnews.com)
An apparent Israeli airstrike killed four international aid workers with the World Central Kitchen charity and their Palestinian driver late Monday, hours after the group brought in a new shipload of food by a maritime route the United States has hoped would be an alternative lifeline for northern Gaza, isolated and pushed to...
Mass shooting outside Indianapolis mall leaves 7 injured, all children and teens, police say (www.cbsnews.com)
Seven minors were hospitalized with injuries late Saturday night after a mass shooting broke out in downtown Indianapolis, police said....
A New Jersey man didn’t trust police but sought their help anyway. Two days later, he was dead (whyy.org)
Jamaica pulls U.S. boys from troubled teen school after allegations they were abused (www.nbcnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/jamaica-troubled-teen-abuse-all…
'Undated' Pa. mail ballots don't count, appeals court rules (whyy.org)
The technical mandate caused thousands of votes to be declared invalid in the 2022 election....
Disgraced Chicago cops still on the streets and in the courtrooms - Hundreds of officers have documented histories of dishonesty and misconduct. Many continue to make arrests. (chicagoreader.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/web/…/police-misconduct-brady/
Central American and Mexican families mourn the workers lost in the Baltimore bridge collapse (apnews.com)
The construction workers who went missing in the Baltimore bridge collapse came to the Maryland area from Mexico or Central America, including an enterprising Honduran father and husband who started a delivery business before the pandemic forced him to find other work, according to his family....
Lawmakers in Thailand overwhelmingly approve a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, could become the first nation in Southeast Asia to do so (apnews.com)
Ex-Trump lawyer Eastman should lose state law license for efforts to overturn election, judge says (apnews.com)
A judge has recommended that conservative attorney John Eastman lose his California law license over his efforts to keep former President Donald Trump in power after the 2020 election....
