Chicago police won't discipline 9 officers tied to Oath Keepers extremist group (chicago.suntimes.com)
Chicago Police Department leaders said Thursday they have decided not to punish any officers whose names appeared on the leaked membership list of the Oath Keepers, an anti-government extremist group that played a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol....
Wisconsin school district says active shooter 'neutralized' outside middle school, lockdown ordered (apnews.com)
White House bolsters transgender health protections, rolls back Trump admin rule (thehill.com)
From skipping meals to working more to moving in with mom and dad—that's how Americans are trying to afford housing (fortune.com)
Tesla (TSLA) releases Q1 2024 deliveries: disastrous results (electrek.co)
Ex-Trump adviser says former president ‘hasn’t got the brains’ for dictatorship (www.theguardian.com)
A former national security adviser in the Donald Trump White House has said that the ex-president “hasn’t got the brains” to helm a dictatorship, despite his admiration for such rulers....
Best Buy offers to screen LGBTQ nonprofit donations after conservative pressure, filing shows (www.nbcnews.com)
In an email exchange with a conservative think tank, tucked into an SEC filing, the electronics retailer offered to screen its employee groups’ donations to LGBTQ causes....
A new US-run pier off Gaza could help deliver 2 million meals a day – but it comes with security risks (theconversation.com)
After Appalachian hospitals merged into a monopoly, their ERs slowed to a crawl (kffhealthnews.org)
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New government spending bill bans U.S. embassies from flying Pride flag (www.cbsnews.com)
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3 separate shootings erupt within 1 hour in Jacksonville Beach, Florida (abcnews.go.com)
Three separate, unrelated shootings erupted within an hour in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, on Sunday night, leaving one person dead and several hurt, according to authorities....
Starving Children in Gaza 'Cannot Wait' Weeks for US Port, Aid Groups Say (www.commondreams.org)
“Children in Gaza cannot wait to eat,” said Jason Lee, country director for Save the Children in the occupied Palestinian territory. “They are already dying from malnutrition and saving their lives is a matter of hours or days—not weeks.”...
A plastic fork, a phone, a car part: why does the LAPD keep shooting people holding harmless objects? (www.theguardian.com)
Police killed Jason Maccani as he held a fork, one of many cases of confused Los Angeles officers rushing to use lethal force...
Capital One-Discover merger may face stiff antitrust review in Washington (wapo.st)
American woman goes missing in Madrid after helmeted man disables cameras (www.nbcnews.com)
Police in Madrid and Fort Lauderdale were notified, launching investigations on each side of the Atlantic....
Hiker Found After Week Missing in California Blizzard (voxheadlines.com)
Why isn’t the Biden administration suing Texas for taking over the job of Border Patrol? (www.nbcnews.com)
The Biden administration has not sued. It did win a Supreme Court ruling that it could take down the razor wire that Texas has deployed in Shelby Park and elsewhere, which the administration said has led to drowning deaths among migrants. It has now cut razor wire in some sections of the border, but not in Shelby Park, which it...
Trump is not immune from prosecution in his 2020 election interference case, US appeals court says (apnews.com)
The ruling is significant not only for its stark repudiation of Trump’s novel immunity claims but also because it breathes life back into a landmark prosecution that had been effectively frozen for weeks as the court considered the appeal....
Ex-CIA software engineer sentenced to 40 years for giving secrets to WikiLeaks (www.theguardian.com)
A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) software engineer who was convicted for carrying out the largest theft of classified information in the agency’s history and of charges related to child abuse imagery was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday....
The majority of Americans are not engaged at work, 70% of managers have no training to lead a hybrid team and it could be killing employee engagement (www.cnbc.com)
Michigan’s Top Arab Elected Leader Says White House Never Reached Out About Gaza (www.huffpost.com)
US Senators Urge Biden to Retaliate with Direct Strike on Iran over Military Deaths in Jordan (www.jewishpress.com)
Bayer ordered to pay $2.25 billion in latest Roundup trial (news.yahoo.com)
(Reuters) -Bayer was ordered on Friday to pay $2.25 billion to a Pennsylvania man who said he developed cancer from exposure to the company’s Roundup weedkiller, the man’s attorneys said....
Donald Trump testifies for less than 3 minutes in defamation trial and is rebuked by judge (apnews.com)
He testified for under three minutes. But former President Donald Trump still broke a judge’s rules on what he could tell a jury about writer E. Jean Carroll’s sexual assault and defamation allegations, and he left the courtroom Thursday bristling to the spectators: “This is not America.”...