Trump Trial Judge Seals the Courtroom to Unload on MAGA Lawyer (www.thedailybeast.com)
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe (www.propublica.org)
Red Lobster files for bankruptcy, restaurants will stay open (www.nbcnews.com)
ChatGPT suspends Scarlett Johansson-like voice as actor speaks out against OpenAI (www.theguardian.com)
Almost 2 months after it destroyed Baltimore’s Key Bridge, the Dali cargo ship has been moved (www.cnn.com)
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....
Julian Assange wins right to appeal against extradition to US (www.theguardian.com)
Julian Assange has been granted leave to mount a fresh appeal against his extradition to the US on charges of leaking military secrets and will be able to challenge assurances from American officials on how a trial there would be conducted....
Exclusive: Tesla doing damage-control, discounts for European fleet buyers (www.reuters.com)
LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - Tesla is working to appease some European leasing companies after the automaker’s repeated retail price cuts tanked their fleets’ value and its slow service and expensive repairs alienated their corporate customers....
Judge admonishes defense witness for his behavior after prosecution rests in Trump hush money trial (apnews.com)
Arizona man gets life in prison in murder of wife who "vigorously struggled" after being buried alive, prosecutors say (www.cbsnews.com)
An Arizona man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2017 death of his wife, who was buried alive in a hand-dug grave near their home while their children slept, authorities said....
Iran's president, foreign minister and others found dead at helicopter crash site (apnews.com)
OpenAI loses its voice (www.platformer.news)
The company hasn’t been the same since Sam Altman’s return — and its treatment of Scarlett Johansson should worry everyone
US Senator Rubio says he won't accept election results if 'unfair' (www.reuters.com)
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, an ally of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, will not accept the results of the Nov. 5 election if they are “unfair,” he said on Sunday....
Biden: what would Trump have done if the Capitol riots had been led by Black Americans? (www.theguardian.com)
Joe Biden has launched one of his most scathing attacks yet on Donald Trump’s record of racism, suggesting that the former US president would have acted differently to the January 6 2021 insurrection if was led by Black people....
BMW, Jaguar and VW imported banned Xinjiang parts - Senate probe (www.bbc.com)
BMW, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Volkswagen (VW) used parts made by a supplier on a list of firms banned over alleged links to Chinese forced labour, a US congressional report has said....
US lawmakers slam ICC prosecutor’s Israel arrest warrant requests (www.aljazeera.com)
ICC Prosecutor Seeks Arrest Warrants For Hamas And Israeli Leaders (www.forbes.com)
After the only hospital in town closed, a North Carolina city directs its ire at politicians (apnews.com)
Weeds have punctured through the vacant parking lot of Martin General Hospital’s emergency room. A makeshift blue tarp covering the hospital’s sign is worn down from flapping in the wind. The hospital doors are locked, many in this county of 22,000 fear permanently....
Consumers are so demoralized by inflation and high rates they've given up on saving for the American Dream and are spending money instead, economist says (fortune.com)
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs admits he beat ex-girlfriend Cassie: ‘I take full responsibility’ (www.theguardian.com)
The rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs admitted in a video apology that he punched and kicked his ex-girlfriend in 2016 in the hallway of a hotel after CNN released footage of the attack, saying he was “truly sorry” and his actions were “inexcusable”....
Iranian President Raisi feared dead as helicopter wreckage found (www.yahoo.com)
(Reuters) -Hopes are fading that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister have survived a helicopter crash in mountainous terrain and icy weather, an Iranian official said on Monday after search teams located the wreckage. “President Raisi’s helicopter was completely burned in the crash … unfortunately, all...
Supreme Court won't hear Maryland school district gender identity case (www.nbcnews.com)
$400 for one pineapple: The rise of luxury fruit (www.cnn.com)
The lunch rush is dead as Americans live for the weekend, office workers are pinching lunchtime pennies (www.nbcnews.com)
Bluesky Is Building The Decentralized Social Media Jack Dorsey Wants, Even If He Doesn’t Realize It (www.techdirt.com)
