‘We need more shade’: how US’s hottest city is cooling its least protected community (www.theguardian.com)
Phoenix broke several heat records last year. Now Grant Park, which has inequitable tree cover, is seeing a tree planting drive that promises some respite from 100F temperatures...
Michigan gets 3 years of probation for football recruiting violations; case vs. Jim Harbaugh pending (apnews.com)
Duke ends full-ride scholarship program for select Black students in wake of affirmative action ruling (www.dukechronicle.com)
The scholarship is named in honor of Reginaldo “Reggie” Howard, Duke’s first Black student government president who died in an automobile accident during his sophomore year in 1976....
1 in 3 Americans maxing out credit cards because of inflation (www.foxbusiness.com)
Israeli settlers storm West Bank village, setting cars and homes ablaze (edition.cnn.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14235015...
Hormel settles pork price-fixing lawsuits for $11 million (www.startribune.com)
Hormel Foods will pay more than $11 million to settle class-action lawsuits alleging the company worked with other pork producers to illegally fix prices and overcharge customers, according to court records....
Sean 'Diddy' Combs' son accused of sex assault in lawsuit that also names music mogul as defendant (www.nbcnews.com)
A woman alleges she was attacked while working on a yacht in late 2022....
Officials confirm planned closure of Quaker Oats plant behind recall of dozens of products | Food Safety News (www.foodsafetynews.com)
Get your goat: Italian island overrun by the animals offers to give them away (www.theguardian.com)
Mayor makes offer after number of goats on Alicudi reaches six times human population
US preparing for significant Iran attack on US or Israeli assets in the region as soon as next week (www.cnn.com)
‘He was a human being’: US prisoners are dying from treatable conditions (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: a Guardian investigation finds that inmates who died of preventable conditions were deemed malingerers and ‘time wasters’...
World Central Kitchen aid worker's family calls for an independent probe into the deadly attack (www.nbcnews.com)
As obesity rises, Big Food and dietitians push ‘anti-diet’ advice (www.washingtonpost.com)
San Francisco named healthiest city in US (thehill.com)
Story at a glance...
Shell says landmark climate ruling obstructs fight against climate change (www.reuters.com)
Shell on Tuesday told a Dutch court a 2021 order that it should drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions lacks a legal basis and risks obstructing the fight against climate change....
Why is there so much lead in American food? (www.vox.com)
AT&T Says Personal Information From 73 Million Customers Leaked On The Dark Web—Including Social Security Numbers (www.forbes.com)
In Arizona’s Most Populous County, There’s a New Sheriff in Town (www.democracydocket.com)
In November of 2023, Paul Penzone announced that he was stepping down as Maricopa County sheriff, which became effective in January of this year. (He took a job at Blue Cross Blue Shield.)...
Mpox cases nearly double what they were at the same time last year (abcnews.go.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13665619...
Supreme Court's taking an influx of cases from one circuit (www.newsweek.com)
The Supreme Court has heard oral arguments in more than 50 cases this term, and the plurality of them have come from the nation’s most conservative appeals court: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit....
Media blackout of “suicide” of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett continues as company CEO David Calhoun steps down (www.wsws.org)
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton makes deal to end securities fraud charges weeks before trial (www.pbs.org)
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday agreed to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution under a deal to end criminal securities fraud charges that have shadowed the Republican for nearly a decade....