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Trump Attorney Screwup Means Trump Won’t Get Jury Trial in NY Fraud Case (www.meidastouch.com)

Due to an oversight, Trump's attorneys failed to ask for a jury trial within the time allotted to them

This isn't theft of need. A more insidious type of crime is pushing some stores to close (www.cnn.com)

Scathing court ruling on Donald Trump’s empire is a bitter blow to his successful tycoon persona (www.theguardian.com)

For years Donald Trump was the host of The Apprentice, a reality TV show in which contestants vied for a management job within his organisation and he would deliver the verdict: “You’re fired!”...

US mother sentenced to two years in prison for giving daughter abortion pills (www.theguardian.com)

Jessica Burgess pleaded guilty in July to providing an abortion after 20 weeks and tampering with human remains

California moves to decriminalize use of magic mushrooms and other natural psychedelics (www.latimes.com)

California lawmakers on Thursday narrowly approved a bill supported by veterans and criminal justice reform advocates to decriminalize the possession and personal use of a limited list of natural psychedelics, including “magic mushrooms.”...

Fan ejected from US Open match after German player said the man used language from Hitler's regime (apnews.com)

A fan was ejected from a U.S. Open tennis match early Tuesday morning after German player Alexander Zverev complained the man used language from Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime....

Fauci on masks: people should take risks into account (www.cnn.com)

“The CDC does not mandate anything,” says Dr. Anthony Fauci. But if a Covid surge leads to a recommendation that people wear masks, “I hope they would abide by the recommendation and take into account the risks to themselves and to their families. We are not talking about forcing anybody to do anything.”

India lands spacecraft near south pole of moon in world first (www.theguardian.com)

Trump plans to turn himself in Thursday at Fulton County jail (www.cnn.com)

Former President Donald Trump plans to turn himself in and be processed at the Fulton County jail on Thursday, following his agreement earlier Monday to a $200,000 bond and other release conditions.

Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Coca-Cola front group (www.theguardian.com)

Texas woman charged over threat to kill judge overseeing Trump case (www.axios.com)

This one doesn’t sound like she was serious, but it’s a look at what is to come.

Whistleblowers testify about recovered UAP craft under oath (apnews.com)

Italy starts removing lesbian mothers’ names from children’s birth certificates (www.cnn.com)

The northern Italian city of Padua has started removing the names of non-biological gay mothers from their children’s birth certificates under new legislation passed by the “traditional family-first” government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

Donald Trump runs for cover as shots fired at Pennsylvania rally (www.msn.com)

Trump’s ‘secretary of retribution’ has a ‘target list’ of 350 people he wants arrested (www.rawstory.com)

Pope Francis Decries Populism and Says There’s a ‘Cancer’ Ailing Democracy (www.thedailybeast.com)

Trump asks for conviction to be overturned after immunity ruling (www.bbc.com)

Donald Trump’s lawyers have asked for the former president’s conviction in his hush-money criminal case to be overturned and his sentencing this month delayed, US media report....

DC Campaign to Submit Over 40K Signatures for Open Primaries, Ranked Choice Voting (ivn.us)

Seeing as how some people here on Lemmy get upset at any mention of Ranked Choice Voting and respond that, in their opinion, it’s not perfect, and that we should therefore keep the voting system we have while we debate which alternative is perfect for several decades, allow me to preemptively respond....

Supreme Court halts enforcement of the EPA's plan to limit downwind pollution from power plants (apnews.com)

Doctor accused of illegally obtaining health data of Texas Children's patients, in crusade against Transgender medical treatments (www.houstonchronicle.com)

The doctor has publicly identified himself as the person who released information to a conservative activist about the transgender care program at Texas Children’s. Citing “whistleblower documents,” the activist published a story in May 2023 saying Texas Children’s provided transgender care, which was legal at the time,...

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