Labour economists see rising recession danger in the US (www.telegraph.co.uk)
New York police used stun gun on migrant holding toddler, video shows (www.theguardian.com)
Less money, less house: How market forces are reshaping the American home (www.bostonglobe.com)
Major homebuilders are prioritizing narrower houses with fewer doors, windows and cabinets. Median homes sizes are at a 13-year low....
Girl Scouts were told to stop bracelet-making fundraiser for kids in Gaza. Now they can't keep up (apnews.com)
Missouri Girl Scout leaders threatened legal action against a troop that made bracelets to raise funds for starving children in Gaza, provoking outrage and ridicule from the girls’ supporters and advocates for people trapped in the Palestinian territory by the latest humanitarian crisis....
Following “flour massacre,” hundreds of thousands around the world protest Gaza genocide (www.wsws.org)
3 trains involved in collision, derailment in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley: NTSB (abcnews.go.com)
DeSantis Vetoes Blanket Social Media Ban for Youths Under 16 (www.nytimes.com)
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IRS targets wealthy ‘non-filers’ with new wave of compliance letters (www.cnbc.com)
The IRS on Thursday unveiled plans to target wealthy “non-filers” with a new round of compliance letters....
Tumblr and WordPress blogs will be exploited for AI model training (www.techspot.com)
Supreme Court appears torn over challenge to gun 'bump stocks' (www.nbcnews.com)
The ban was imposed by the Trump administration after the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas and is being defended by the Biden administration....
Oklahoma Schools Are Fighting Back Against Porn-Obsessed Superintendent (www.rollingstone.com)
Edmond Public Schools has petitioned the state’s Supreme Court to intervene in a dispute over efforts to ban two national bestselling books...
Nuclear fusion: Scientists say they can use AI to solve a key problem in the quest for clean energy | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Capital One to acquire Discover Financial Services in $35.3 billion all-stock deal (www.cnbc.com)
Tributes to Alexei Navalny, Putin's greatest foe, removed from Russian cities as police look on (apnews.com)
Navalny’s death at age 47 has deprived the Russian opposition of its most well-known and inspiring politician less than a month before an election that will give President Vladimir Putin another six years in power....
Long COVID Seems to Be a Brain Injury, Scientists Discover (www.sciencealert.com)
Some form of brain injury could be behind the symptoms reported by those with long COVID, according to a new study, and adapting tests and treatments to match could aid progress in tackling the condition....
Israeli special forces raid largest functioning hospital in Gaza (www.cnn.com)
Fuck Israel.
They started building a bulkhead for a new home on Hood Canal. Then the feds found out (www.seattletimes.com)
According to court documents, construction of the bulkhead began Aug. 1, 2017. Within days, the Corps of Engineers notified the defendants the construction violated the Clean Water Act. A stop-work order was later issued and other orders directed the defendants to remove concrete from the beach....
Trump seeks Supreme Court pause in 2020 election case (www.bbc.com)
Ex-US President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to suspend a lower court ruling that he does not have presidential immunity from prosecution.
Connecticut church pastor accused of selling meth out of rectory (apnews.com)
A Connecticut pastor has been arrested on allegations that he sold crystal meth out of his church’s rectory, police said....
In Private Remarks to Arab Americans, Biden Aide Expresses Regrets on Gaza (www.nytimes.com)
In a closed-door meeting with Arab American leaders in Michigan this week, one of President Biden’s top foreign policy aides acknowledged mistakes in the administration’s response to the war in Gaza, saying he did not have “any confidence” that Israel’s government was willing to take “meaningful steps” toward...
Utah teen athlete faces threats after state official posted photos questioning her gender (www.axios.com)
These conservative pieces of shit going after fucking children. They claim to care about kids when they force raped women to give birth or when they rail against gender-affirming care. But if a girl doesn’t look sufficiently girly, let’s just throw her to the wolves....
D.C. to Dangerous Drivers: We Will Slow You Down! (usa.streetsblog.org)
Americans under 40 saw a massive increase in wealth since 2019 (www.axios.com)
We did?! Where?
Blinken said to tell Netanyahu that he will think about the thousands of children killed in Gaza all his life (www.timesofisrael.com)
Illinois man gets 5 years for trying to burn down planned abortion clinic (apnews.com)
A 73-year-old Illinois man was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for driving a car into a planned abortion clinic and trying to set the building on fire last year....