Prosecutors blast "garbage" motion to dismiss Trump classified documents case (www.salon.com)
GOP candidate for NC governor blasts public spending as his family nonprofit rakes in taxpayer funds (apnews.com)
In his bid to become North Carolina’s first Black governor, Republican Mark Robinson assails government safety net spending as a “plantation of welfare and victimhood” that has mired generations of Black people in “dependency” and poverty....
After Torturing Him, U.S. Breaks Guarantees of Safety to Former Guantánamo Detainee (theintercept.com)
Former Guantánamo detainee Saeed Bakhouch was sentenced by a court in Algeria to three years in prison on terrorism charges, Bakhouch’s lawyers told The Intercept....
ShotSpotter Showdown Set in Chicago Amid Fierce Debate Over Value of Gunshot Detection System (news.wttw.com)
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Bluesky Is Building The Decentralized Social Media Jack Dorsey Wants, Even If He Doesn’t Realize It (www.techdirt.com)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange facing pivotal moment in long fight to stay out of US court [ BRIAN MELLEY | May 18, 2024 | Associated Press] (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15602407...
Helicopter carrying Iran's president suffers a 'hard landing,' state TV says without further details (apnews.com)
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state media reported, without immediately elaborating....
An Israeli Company Is Hawking Its Self-Launching Drone System to U.S. Police Departments (theintercept.com)
Created by the Israeli company High Lander, Orion allows users to direct hundreds of drones at once by automating them to navigate and perform actions without user input. The software system turns drones into “next-generation security guards,” according to an Orion brochure....
The Associated Press: Arkansas Supreme Court upholds 2021 voting restrictions that state judge found unconstitutional (apnews.com)
The measures upheld include a change to the state’s voter ID law that removes the option for someone to sign an affidavit affirming their identity if they don’t present a photo identification at the polls....
Lawsuit Brings to Light New Revelations About 2020 Fraudulent Electors Scheme (www.justsecurity.org)
In March, our team at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection—along with our co-counsel at Law Forward and Stafford Rosenbaum, LLP—settled Penebaker v. Hitt, a historic lawsuit brought by two Democratic Wisconsin electors against the ten individuals who fraudulently cast ballots for Trump and...
Netanyahu fends off criticism at home and abroad over his lack of a postwar plan for Gaza (apnews.com)
Albuquerque Is Throwing Out the Belongings of Homeless People, Violating City Policy (www.propublica.org)
Spain denies port of call to ship carrying arms to Israel (www.theguardian.com)
Spain has refused permission for a ship carrying arms to Israel to dock at a Spanish port, its foreign minister, José Manuel Albares, said on Thursday....
Another EV Factory Has Unionized Boosting Labor’s Push In US South (www.bloomberg.com)
What About the Palestinian Hostages? (www.haaretz.com)
Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh was the head of the orthopedic wing at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. During the war, he had to wander from one hospital to the next, as they were all destroyed by the IDF. He has not been back to his home in Jabalya since the start of the war, and last December all trace of him disappeared. Recently, it...
Supreme Court allows Louisiana's congressional map with new, mostly Black district (www.usatoday.com)
Students borrowing from the federal government this fall will face the highest interest rate in more than a decade (www.nbcnews.com)
'Barbaric': Whistleblowers Further Expose Israel's Torture of Detained Palestinians (www.commondreams.org)
A medic who worked at Sde Teiman’s field hospital said that Palestinian detainees there are stripped “of anything that resembles human beings” and that the harassment and torture are done not to “gather intelligence” but “out of revenge” for the October 7 attacks....
World Warned to Prepare for Today's Severe Geomagnetic Storm, First in 20 Years (www.yahoo.com)
A startling number of kids lost parents to overdoses. Experts on how to buck the trend. (www.usatoday.com)
Small-Town Politics, National Consequences: The Supreme Court takes up a Texas power struggle involving allegedly retaliatory arrests of two councilwomen. (www.texasobserver.org)
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