U.K.’s Richest Family Spent More on Dog Than Paying Staff, Court Hears (www.thedailybeast.com)
Gigantic sunfish that washed up on Oregon beach could be the largest of its species ever found (n24hr.com)
Judge rules that federal agency can't enforce abortion rule in Louisiana and Mississippi (apnews.com)
A federal judge on Monday granted the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, as well as employers in two Southern states, temporary relief from complying with a federal rule that would have required them to provide workers with time off and other workplace accommodations for abortions....
'This kind of growth can’t be sustained’: As inflation rises, payday loans are undermining the Russian economy and threatening a new crisis (meduza.io)
Archived link...
State abortion bans forcing interstate travel, U.S. Senate panel hears (michiganadvance.com)
More insanity that is 21^st^ Century American Life…...
Sir Ian McKellen Set to Make 'Full Recovery' After Falling Off London Stage (www.rollingstone.com)
Who tried to steal Graceland? (www.nbcnews.com)
The search for the mysterious company behind a scheme to steal Elvis Presley’s Graceland estate ended last week, not in Nigeria–where initial clues seemed to lead–but at the front door of “a grandmother in Branson, Missouri, a con woman with a decades long rap sheet of romance scams, forged checks and bank fraud totaling...
Two Pulse survivors are now 'ex-gays' running a conversion therapy organization (www.advocate.com)
"People are angry": Mike Johnson faces bipartisan uproar over Intelligence Committee picks (www.axios.com)
Both picks were bound to be inflammatory:...
Biden Asylum Order Doesn’t Move Needle - Trump’s retrospective job rating better than Biden’s current numbers (www.monmouth.edu)
Archived at web.archive.org/web/…/monmouthpoll_us_061224/
Lynn Conway, revolutionary trans computer scientist & activist, dies at 86 (www.lgbtqnation.com)
A jet missing since 1971 has been found at the bottom of Vermont's Lake Champlain (www.npr.org)
How an Israeli raid freed 4 hostages and killed at least 274 Palestinians in Gaza (www.msn.com)
Anchorage Alaska police won't release bodycam video of 3 shootings. It's creating a fight over transparency (apnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/anchorage-police-body-cameras-k…
Swimmer Trying to Make Olympic History Is Left Off the U.S. Team (www.nytimes.com)
NYTimes gift article, no paywall
Biden's asylum halt leaves migrants unsure and rattled (apnews.com)
Secretive court system has awarded over $100bn public money to corporations, finds new analysis (www.theguardian.com)
Fossil fuel firms are biggest beneficiaries of investor-state dispute settlement courts which have awarded $114bn of public money...
Colorado GOP calls LGBTQ+ people 'godless groomers' in Pride month email: 'God hates flags' (www.advocate.com)
Russia co-opts far-right politicians in Europe with cash, officials say (wapo.st)
A Kremlin-backed media outlet — the Prague-based Voice of Europe — funneled hundreds of thousands of euros to far-right politicians, officials say.
Multiple Trump Witnesses Have Received Significant Financial Benefits From His Businesses, Campaign (www.propublica.org)
Nine witnesses in the criminal cases against former President Donald Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages, new jobs, and a grant of shares and cash from Trump’s media company....
Why investors are doubling down on Truth Social despite Trump's historic conviction (www.npr.org)
China’s Chang’e-6 probe successfully lands on far side of the moon | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Chad Daybell sentenced to death in triple murder of family - ABC News (abcnews.go.com)
Pride event canceled because they were going to give away banned books (www.lgbtqnation.com)
What polls say about Trump’s conviction and the 2024 presidential race (www.axios.com)
A YouGov poll conducted in the wake of the verdict found that 27% of voters said the conviction made them less likely to vote for Trump, while 26% said they were more likely to vote for him and 39% said the verdict “makes no difference” in how they’ll vote.