Missouri execution plans move forward despite prosecutor trying to overturn murder conviction (apnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/marcellus-williams-execution-mi…
Instagram influencer jailed for trafficking and slavery (www.bbc.com)
Nancy Pelosi stops short of saying Biden should stay in the race, says 'time is running short' for him to decide (www.nbcnews.com)
US mountaineer buried by avalanche 22 years ago found preserved in ice, police say (www.theguardian.com)
TSA sets new single-day record with more than 3 million travelers at airport security (abcnews.go.com)
The previous 2.99M record was set just last month....
Republicans demand Biden’s doctor sits for interview about medical assessments (www.independent.co.uk)
Papal arch enemy Archbishop Vigano found guilty of schism and excommunicated (www.reuters.com)
Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a fierce ultra-conservative critic of Pope Francis, has been found guilty of schism and excommunicated, the Vatican’s doctrinal office said on Friday. Vigano, the papal envoy in Washington from 2011-2016, went into hiding in 2018 after alleging that the pope knew for years about sexual...
France asks two Chinese spies to leave the country after attempt to forcibly repatriate exiled Chinese dissident (www.lemonde.fr)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/509234...
Boeing’s crisis in Washington is about to soar to a new phase (www.politico.com)
Embattled aerospace giant Boeing faces a monumental choice: Plead guilty to a felony fraud charge for its role in past deadly plane crashes, or roll the dice on a high-profile trial against the Justice Department....
GameStop investor retracts suit accusing Roaring Kitty of pump-and-dump scheme (arstechnica.com)
IRS criticized for taking nearly 2 years to help ID theft victims get their refunds (www.usatoday.com)
‘A death sentence for music’: the battle for America’s last Live Nation-free city (www.theguardian.com)
From tiny coffee shops where folkies sway to acoustic guitars and mandolins, to thronging dark halls where bodies collide as metal bands and hip hop artists dominate the stage, live music can be heard seeping out of venues across Portland on almost any given night....
U.S. proposed new language in effort to reach Gaza hostage-ceasefire deal (www.axios.com)
Seattle library network outage nears a month (www.seattletimes.com)
The library and its 27 branches continue to struggle through a ransomware attack that has disabled its networks, rendered its hundreds of public computers useless and turned its normal operations upside down....
The Supreme Court rejects a nationwide opioid settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma (apnews.com)
Hiker dies in cow herd charge in Austrian Alps (www.freemalaysiatoday.com)
A hiker in the Austrian Alps died when a herd of cows charged her, while her two daughters survived with injuries […]. The woman was on a hike with her two daughters […] and two small dogs yesterday […] in the Salzburg region when the cow herd charged […]. “It is still not clear what happened,” a police spokesman...
Pollution from Ohio train derailment reached 110 million Americans (grist.org)
Afghan girls accuse Taliban of sexual assault after arrests for ‘bad hijab’ (www.theguardian.com)
Reports surface days before UN summit on Afghanistan that will exclude Afghan women and debate on women’s rights...
State judge upholds most fines against group seeking repeal of Alaska ranked choice voting - Chilkat Valley News (www.chilkatvalleynews.com)
An Anchorage Superior Court judge has ruled that opponents of Alaska’s ranked choice election system violated state campaign finance laws in their effort to gather signatures for a repeal ballot measure....
Someone apparently hacked 50 Cent’s accounts to peddle a memecoin and made off with millions (www.engadget.com)
Genovese mobster ‘Tony Cakes’ ID’d as NYC pedestrian, 86, decapitated by DOT truck (nypost.com)
“He spent his life looking over his shoulder but he forgot to look both ways before crossing the street,” one police source said.
Trump to ask judge to toss out lawyer notes in Mar-a-Lago documents case (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: if ex-president succeeds, prosecutors could be left with only a sliver of evidence for obstruction charge...
White House cancels meeting, scolds Netanyahu in protest over video (www.axios.com)
The White House canceled a high-level U.S.-Israel meeting on Iran that was scheduled for Thursday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video on Tuesday claiming the U.S. was withholding military aid, two U.S. officials tell Axios.
Sex Workers Are Getting Scammed on Instagram. Meta Needs to Step In (www.rollingstone.com)
Biden administration’s new protections for LGBTQ+ students blocked in 6 more states (www.cnn.com)
The Biden administration cannot enforce new protections for LGBTQ+ students in Ohio, Virginia and four other states, a federal judge ruled Monday, becoming the latest court to rebuff efforts to expand the scope of a decades-old law that prohibits sex-based discrimination....
