San Francisco named healthiest city in US (thehill.com)
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Shell says landmark climate ruling obstructs fight against climate change (www.reuters.com)
Shell on Tuesday told a Dutch court a 2021 order that it should drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions lacks a legal basis and risks obstructing the fight against climate change....
Why is there so much lead in American food? (www.vox.com)
AT&T Says Personal Information From 73 Million Customers Leaked On The Dark Web—Including Social Security Numbers (www.forbes.com)
In Arizona’s Most Populous County, There’s a New Sheriff in Town (www.democracydocket.com)
In November of 2023, Paul Penzone announced that he was stepping down as Maricopa County sheriff, which became effective in January of this year. (He took a job at Blue Cross Blue Shield.)...
Mpox cases nearly double what they were at the same time last year (abcnews.go.com)
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Supreme Court's taking an influx of cases from one circuit (www.newsweek.com)
The Supreme Court has heard oral arguments in more than 50 cases this term, and the plurality of them have come from the nation’s most conservative appeals court: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit....
Media blackout of “suicide” of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett continues as company CEO David Calhoun steps down (www.wsws.org)
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton makes deal to end securities fraud charges weeks before trial (www.pbs.org)
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday agreed to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution under a deal to end criminal securities fraud charges that have shadowed the Republican for nearly a decade....
Isolated for six months, scientists in Antarctica began to develop their own accent (www.bbc.com)
Man arrested after allegedly taking leg of pedestrian after train incident in Wasco: KCSO (bakersfieldnow.com)
Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun to step down in wake of ongoing safety problems (www.cnn.com)
In major shakeup of Boeing’s leadership, CEO Dave Calhoun said Monday he intends to leave the beleaguered company by the end of the year. The company’s chairman and head of the commercial airplane unit are also leaving....
Mexico, a key U.S. ally on migration, pushes back hard on Texas law (www.washingtonpost.com)
MEXICO CITY — After years of bowing to U.S. pressure to help slow migration, Mexico is drawing the line at a Texas law that would give the state a dramatically bigger role in border enforcement, including the right to deport undocumented migrants....
Ex-Louisiana deacon whose son was sexually abused by a priest is excommunicated from church (www.theguardian.com)
IRS chief zeroes in on wealthy tax cheats in AP interview (apnews.com)
IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel has a message for high-wealth tax cheats who are wrongly deducting private jet travel and otherwise shorting the government on their taxes: Pay your fair share so “others aren’t shouldering the burden of funding our government.”...
Pro-Trump Michigan attorney arrested after hearing in DC over leaking Dominion documents (apnews.com)
Extremist groups take aim at middle school teacher, district fighting back (www.msn.com)
Corporations are Making Millions of Dollars from US Prison Labor - Human Trafficking Search (humantraffickingsearch.org)
The Inventor of Karaoke Has Died, But His Legacy Is Louder Than Ever (www.rollingstone.com)
Authorities seize ailing alligator kept illegally in New York home's swimming pool (apnews.com)
An ailing alligator was seized from an upstate New York home where it was being kept illegally, state officials said....
Biden administration discussing using Guantanamo Bay to process possible influx of Haitian migrants (www.cnn.com)
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Report: Boeing plane that blew out door plug over Portland was set for an inspection but flew with passengers anyway (www.kgw.com)
The New York Times reported that the plane was scheduled for a maintenance check over ongoing concerns, but Alaska Airlines chose to allow flights to go ahead.
Europe's world-first AI rules are set for final approval. Here's what happens next (apnews.com)
European Union lawmakers are set to give final approval to the 27-nation bloc’s artificial intelligence law Wednesday, putting the world-leading rules on track to take effect later this year....
Aaron Rodgers and Jesse Ventura on RFK Jr vice-presidential shortlist (www.bbc.com)
Celebrity conspiracy theorists and pseudoscience promoters with ties to Russian state-run media outlets. In case there weren’t already enough of those candidates.
Passenger on Boeing flight that suddenly dropped says pilot told him he lost control after instrument failure (www.cnn.com)
The pilot of a terrifying flight from Australia to New Zealand told those on board he temporarily lost control of his Boeing 787 after one of its instruments failed, a passenger said Monday, as authorities investigate what caused a sudden drop that threw travelers around the cabin, injuring dozens....
