Judge rules that lawsuits against social media can move forward in Buffalo massacre case (www.democratandchronicle.com)
Candace Owens’ Ex-Boss Rips Her ‘Antisemitism,’ Shrugged At Anti-Blackness, Sexism And Homophobia (newsone.com)
Qatari royal invested about $50 million in pro-Trump network Newsmax (www.washingtonpost.com)
NY judge issues gag order on Trump in hush money trial (www.cnn.com)
A New York judge has imposed a gag order on Donald Trump, limiting the former president from making statements about potential witnesses in the criminal trial relating to hush money payments scheduled to begin next month....
Supreme Court signals it is likely to reject a challenge to abortion pill access (www.nbcnews.com)
The Biden administration is defending FDA decisions that lifted restrictions on mifepristone, including one that made it available by mail....
‘Beyond shocked’: Shohei Ohtani says interpreter stole from him and told lies (www.theguardian.com)
White House looks to repeal funding bill provision that would keep US embassies from flying Pride flags (ground.news)
The measure permits only certain flags to be flown over US embassies, including the US flag, US Foreign Service flag, POW/MIA flag, Hostage and Wrongful Detainee flag, flag of a state, “insular area” or DC, Indian tribal government flag, the official branded flag of a US agency, and the sovereign flag of another nation.
US and UK doctors in Washington to warn of IDF’s ‘appalling atrocities’ in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
The doctors … warn that pledges of increased aid to Palestinians under bombardment are largely meaningless without an immediate ceasefire to allow safe distribution of food and the revival of healthcare services.
US and UK doctors in Washington to warn of IDF’s ‘appalling atrocities’ in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
A delegation of American and British doctors is in Washington DC to tell the Biden administration the Israeli military is systematically destroying Gaza’s health infrastructure in order to drive Palestinians out of their homes....
Cyberattacks are hitting water systems throughout US, Biden officials warn governors (www.cnn.com)
Rule of law declining across EU, report warns (www.theguardian.com)
Civil liberties network says in states where far-right parties influence power, rule-of-law deterioration risks becoming systemic...
The Real Lessons of the Alabama IVF Ruling (www.theatlantic.com)
In fact, the case had essentially nothing to do with abortion. Three families pursuing IVF sued their clinic after another patient apparently wandered into the facility’s freezers without the staff realizing it and picked up a container of embryos. The extreme cold burned that person’s hand, causing them to drop the...
Paul Alexander: 'Man in the iron lung' dies at the age of 78 (www.bbc.com)
Paul Alexander contracted polio in 1952 when he was six, leaving him paralysed from the neck down....
In their words: Children in Haiti describe harrowing stories of survival as gangs rampage | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
They have the calm of people who have lived through terrible things. But they are just kids....
The NYPD is using social media to target critics. That brings its own set of worries (apnews.com)
Produced in-house by the New York Police Department and promoted across its official social media channels, the dramatic two-minute clip reflects a concerted effort by the nation’s largest police force to engage the public and influence policy through a more aggressive online presence....
As the NRA struggles, the gun lobby has a new leader in D.C. (www.nbcnews.com)
The top advocate for the gun industry in Washington is spending more than ever to influence the federal government. The group accuses President Joe Biden of waging war on the Second Amendment. It resists any effort to create universal background checks and argues that attempts to crack down on untraceable “ghost guns” are...
Iowa House OKs bill to criminalize death of an "unborn person" despite IVF concerns (www.seattletimes.com)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republicans in Iowa’s House of Representatives approved a bill Thursday that would criminalize the death of an “unborn person” — over Democrats’ concerns about how it might apply to in vitro fertilization, after an Alabama court found frozen embryos can be considered children....
Pfizer Couldn’t Pay for Marketing This Good - The Atlantic (ghostarchive.org)
Colorado grandmother awarded $3.76M after bungled SWAT raid based on Find My iPhone ping (www.nbcnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/colorado-grandmother-awarded-37…
Southern anti-trans laws are uprooting families -- and leaving them with impossible choices (www.rollingstone.com)
Families in the South had just learned to navigate care for their transgender kids when a slew of new laws put their health and futures in limbo...
INDIA More and more people killed by wild animals in Kerala, authorities blamed (www.asianews.it)
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul sending National Guard members to New York City subways to combat ongoing crime (www.nbcnews.com)
New York will send National Guard to subways after a string of violent crimes (apnews.com)
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced plans Wednesday to send the National Guard to the New York City subway system to help police search passengers’ bags for weapons, following a series of high-profile crimes on city trains....
Mark Dodson, famous for ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Gremlins,’ dead at 64 after suffering ‘massive heart attack’ (pagesix.com)
Dodson voiced Jabba the Hutt’s little pet, Salacious B. Crumb, and also mogwai and gremlins in the movies Gremlins and Gremlins 2, but not Gizmo as the picture in the article would make you think. That was Howie Mandel....
Rich Countries Are Becoming Addicted to Cheap Labor (www.wsj.com)
