Attorney General Merrick Garland says "no one" has told him to indict Trump (www.cbsnews.com)
Attorney General Merrick Garland told Congress Wednesday that “no one” has told him to indict former President Donald Trump, after Trump claimed in an interview that President Biden told Garland to indict him....
A grandmother seeks justice for Native Americans after thousands of unsolved deaths, disappearances (apnews.com)
Yolanda Fraser is back near a ragged chain-link fence, blinking through tears as she tidies up flowers and ribbons and a pinwheel twirls in the breeze at a makeshift roadside memorial in a small Montana town....
Maryland apologizes to man wrongly convicted of murder, agrees to $340K payment for years in prison (apnews.com)
A man wrongly convicted of two separate violent crimes will be compensated by the state of Maryland after spending years behind bars, including over a year after he had been proven innocent....
Sufjan Stevens is relearning to walk after Guillain-Barre Syndrome left him immobile, hospitalized (apnews.com)
Grammy- and Oscar-nominated indie musician Sufjan Stevens is relearning how to walk after the autoimmune disease Guillain-Barre Syndrome left him immobile, representatives confirmed to The Associated Press....
Pentagon working to remedy "don't ask, don't tell" discharges (www.cbsnews.com)
Twelve years after the repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy banning openly gay people from serving in the military, the Department of Defense says it will conduct a review of records of veterans who served under the ban and were discharged “under other than honorable conditions.”
UAW justifies wage demands by pointing to CEO pay raises. So how high were they? (apnews.com)
It’s been a central argument for the United Auto Workers union: If Detroit’s three automakers raised CEO pay by 40% over the past four years, workers should get similar raises....
The Jennifer Hudson Show pushes back return to air amid backlash from writers' strike (ew.com)
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California sues 5 major oil companies, accuses them of deceiving public over the risks of fossil fuel use (www.cnn.com)
The state of California is suing the oil companies BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and ConocoPhillips and their trade group, the American Petroleum Institute, over what the state says is a long-standing pattern of deceiving the public over the risks associated with fossil fuels and causing billions of dollars in damage to...
Anchorage scrambles to find enough housing for the homeless before the Alaska winter sets in (apnews.com)
Now, with the first snow just weeks away, those free tickets are nowhere in sight and the city is scrambling to pull together a grab bag of housing options for its more than 3,000 unsheltered residents. The city’s mass shelter in a sports arena closed after complaints from neighbors about bad behavior and bickering between the...
Oregon launches legal psilocybin access amid high demand and hopes for improved mental health care (apnews.com)
Oregon has taken an unprecedented step in offering psilocybin, also known as magic mushrooms, to the public....
DHS Continues To Violate Facebook Policies By Allowing CBP, ICE Officers To Create Fake Social Media Profiles (www.techdirt.com)
The US government may try to prosecute you for violating sites’ terms of service. But it won’t be handling its own actions the same way....
How Columbia Ignored Women, Undermined Prosecutors and Protected a Predator For More Than 20 Years (www.propublica.org)
For decades, patients warned Columbia about the behavior of obstetrician Robert Hadden. One even called 911 and had him arrested. Columbia let him keep working.
Miami city commissioner charged with bribery and money laundering (abcnews.go.com)
A city of Miami commissioner accused of bribery and money laundering was arrested Thursday on multiple corruption charges, officials said....
Republicans soften on federal marijuana reform in a shift that could make it a reality (www.nbcnews.com)
Cannabis reform is moving one step closer to reality at the federal level, with a committee hearing on a bipartisan bill to expand banking services for legal marijuana businesses expected to take place at the end of the month, according to multiple people directly involved in the process....
Families say inmates who protested over drinking water at Stillwater prison are being retaliated against (www.minnpost.com)
FDA warns CVS, Walgreens and others about unapproved eye products (www.usatoday.com)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned CVS, Walgreens and other companies that they violated federal law by marketing unapproved eye products....
The international Red Cross cuts budget, staffing levels as humanitarian aid dries up (apnews.com)
The part of the international Red Cross that deals with conflict and prisoners of war announced Monday it will trim its projected budget by about one-eighth next year and cut nearly 20% of staff at its headquarters....
Vietnam Air, Boeing near $10 billion deal for 50 737 Max planes, Bloomberg reports (www.cnbc.com)
Vietnam Airlines will sign an initial agreement to buy about 50 Boeing 737 Max jets in a deal valued at $10 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter....
3 Republicans just saved California’s magic mushroom bill (www.sfgate.com)
Police called to yoga class mistaken for mass killing. (www.theguardian.com)
More wild Atlantic salmon found in U.S. rivers than any time in the past decade, officials say (apnews.com)
The last wild Atlantic salmon that return to U.S. rivers have had their most productive year in more than a decade, raising hopes they may be weathering myriad ecological threats....
A judge orders Texas to move a floating barrier used to deter migrants to the bank of the Rio Grande (apnews.com)
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Texas to move a large floating barrier to the bank of the Rio Grande after protests from the the U.S. and Mexican governments over Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest tactic to stop migrants from crossing America’s southern border....
Hurricane Idalia blows flamingos as far as Ohio (www.bbc.com)
Senator appears to suggest bipartisan bill will censor transgender content online (www.nbcnews.com)
The Kids Online Safety Act, aimed at protecting children from harmful online content, has been endorsed by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, as well as by President Joe Biden.