Millions of US low-income households face power shutoffs amid deadly heat (www.theguardian.com)
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Schools receive third — and potentially final — round of federal funding for homeless students (apnews.com)
From the start of the 2023-24 school year to its conclusion, the number of students experiencing homelessness in Kalispell’s public school system jumped from 293 to 365. Assistant Superintendent Sara Cole said the increase reflects a growing trend in her district, one driven primarily by the soaring cost of living in the wake...
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A prison union's big spending on Gavin Newsom: Is it an ‘800 pound gorilla’ or a threatened species? (apnews.com)
A year after he took the top job in 2019, the president of one of California’s largest and most powerful unions said in a newsletter that he wanted to be “the 800 pound gorilla” in Sacramento politics....
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“Gods in the Building”: How the Texas Senate Buries Sexual Harassment Complaints and Enables Bad Actors (www.texasmonthly.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/texas-senate-sexual-harassment/
Thailand's economy: factory closures due to cheap Chinese imports with job losses jumping by 80% within one year (www.reuters.com)
The manufacturing sector’s woes have left Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, who took power last year, struggling to fulfil his promise of bringing average annual GDP growth to 5% over his four-year term, up from 1.73% in the past decade....
The U.N. Calls Restraint Chairs Torture. Illinois Jails Use Them Every Day. (illinoisanswers.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/the-u-n-calls-restraint-chairs-…
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[AP News] IRS collects milestone $1 billion in back taxes from high-wealth taxpayers (apnews.com)
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Brutal 1984 gay bashing brings community together 40 years later (www.lgbtqnation.com)
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Louisiana 'miracle baby' 'Miracle baby' survives days alone on a roadside (www.bbc.com)
A days-long search for a missing baby boy in Louisiana has ended after a truck driver spotted the one-year-old crawling through the grass alongside a busy highway....
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Latvian and Estonian court documents show how the Russian government is recruiting Baltic citizens to vandalize and set fire to targets in the West (theins.press)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/675777...
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Congress OKs bill overhauling oversight of troubled federal Bureau of Prisons (apnews.com)
The Senate passed legislation Wednesday to overhaul oversight and bring greater transparency to the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons following reporting from The Associated Press that exposed systemic corruption in the federal prison system and increased congressional scrutiny....
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Hundreds Say Nebraska Group Tricked Them Into Signing Anti-Abortion Ballot (www.jezebel.com)
Feds poised to sue pharmacy gatekeepers over high drug costs (www.politico.com)
The FTC action would target often high costs by trying to curb rebates it says drug makers pay to steer patients to their brand name products....
Johns Hopkins med school will be free for most after $1 billion donation (www.axios.com)
Starting this fall, most students at Johns Hopkins’ medical school will attend tuition-free thanks to a $1 billion donation from billionaire Mike Bloomberg....
Oregon county seeks to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for extreme heat (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/14335560...
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FCC to block phone company over robocalls pushing scam “Tax Relief Program” (arstechnica.com)
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Yellowstone gunman told woman held at gunpoint he planned mass shooting, park officials say (www.theguardian.com)
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Indonesia and US seal $35 million coral reef debt swap (www.msn.com)
The U.S. has agreed to forgive $35 million of Indonesian debt over the next nine years, the U.S. Treasury said on Monday, in return for the Southeast Asian country restoring and preserving coral reefs in what experts estimate is the world’s most biodiverse patch of ocean.
Richmond Agrees to Ranked Choice Voting Ballot Measure (contracosta.news)
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House Freedom Caucus drops two members in one night (www.axios.com)
A spokesperson for the Freedom Caucus declined to comment on the vote, telling Axios: “HFC does not comment on membership or internal proceedings.”...
Reform UK under pressure to prove all its candidates were real people (www.theguardian.com)
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Georgia accused of stopping defense lawyers visiting ‘Cop City’ protest site (www.theguardian.com)
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Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bug (www.404media.co)
Google’s research focuses on real harm that generative AI is currently causing and could get worse in the future. Namely, that generative AI makes it very easy for anyone to flood the internet with generated text, audio, images, and videos.
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