Republicans are pushing to expand the death penalty (www.salon.com)
Don Jr. calls jurors 'clowns' and blames them for Trump not testifying (www.rawstory.com)
Tennessee to become first US state to provide families with diapers (www.independent.co.uk)
706 people named Kyle got together in Texas. It wasn’t enough for a world record (apnews.com)
How many people named Kyle can fit in one place? For one Texas city, not enough....
[US Representative] Stefanik Loses It When Fox News Host Reminds Her She Called Trump a 'Whack Job' (www.rollingstone.com)
California home prices just reached a new record high, median now $904,210 (www.ktla.com)
Man sentenced to 30 years in federal prison in attack on Paul Pelosi (www.cnn.com)
School board in Virginia votes to restore Confederate names (www.reuters.com)
The education board for a rural Virginia county voted early on Friday to restore the names of Confederate generals stripped from two schools in 2020, making the mostly white, Republican district the first in the U.S. to take such an action....
Supreme Court Rules Against Women Whose Cars Were Seized by the Police (www.nytimes.com)
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How Republicans Echo Antisemitic Tropes Despite Declaring Support for Israel (www.nytimes.com)
The Republican speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, traveled to Columbia University two weeks ago to decry the “virus of antisemitism” that he said pro-Palestinian protesters were spreading across the country. “They have chased down Jewish students. They have mocked them and reviled them,” he said to jeers from...
Over 100 far-right militias are coordinating on Facebook (arstechnica.com)
Martin Myers tried and failed to steal a cigarette. Why has he spent 18 years in prison for it? (www.theguardian.com)
As Biden Plans to Reschedule Marijuana, Advocates Say 'Fully Legalize' It (www.commondreams.org)
FTC bans noncompete agreements for workers (www.washingtonpost.com)
West Virginia confirms first measles case since 2009 (apnews.com)
Prosecutors will make history with opening statements in Trump's hush money criminal trial (apnews.com)
The drug war devastated Black and other minority communities. Is marijuana legalization helping? (apnews.com)
Argument for legalizing the adult use of cannabis was to stop the harm caused by disproportionate enforcement of drug laws in Black, Latino and other minority communities.
FBI says Chinese hackers are inside US infrastructure to cause ‘devastating blow’ (www.independent.co.uk)
China wants to target critical infrastructure like water facilities and energy grids, FBI director said...
Iran's Revolutionary Guard seizes a container ship near Strait of Hormuz amid tensions with West (apnews.com)
Commandos from Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard rappelled down from a helicopter onto an Israeli-affiliated container ship near the Strait of Hormuz and seized the vessel Saturday, the latest in a series of attacks between the two countries....
Why car insurance rates are so high (www.vox.com)
Nearly half of US prisons draw water likely contaminated with toxic PFAS – report (www.theguardian.com)
Around 1m people, including 13,000 youths, especially vulnerable because they can do little to protect themselves, co-author says...
New Mexico mental health first responders are increasingly civilians, not police (gazette.com)
Unarmed emergency responders Nevada Sanchez and Sean Martin take a police dispatch call in southeast Albuquerque, New Mexico, a city with high rates of violent crime and police shootings....
Space is the new ‘Wild West.’ The EU is dying to step in and regulate. (www.politico.eu)
The European Commission is gearing up to publish the world’s first comprehensive space law....
Louis Gossett Jr., 1st Black man to win supporting actor Oscar, dies at 87 (apnews.com)
I may have to try to find a copy of Enemy Mine to watch in remembrance.