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When Therapists Lose Their Licenses, Some Turn to the Unregulated Life Coaching Industry Instead (www.propublica.org)

How our brain tries to beat the heat — and why heatstroke is dangerous | Not only does heatstroke have a relatively high mortality rate, but those who recover still may face future health problems (www.washingtonpost.com)

A Christian writer attacked Dolly Parton for being pro-LGBTQ+. It didn't end well for the writer. (www.lgbtqnation.com)

First tropical storm watch of the season issued for South Texas and Mexico (thehill.com)

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore pardons 175,000 marijuana convictions: "This is a really big deal" (www.cbsnews.com)

Dozens of Groups Push FEMA to Recognize Extreme Heat as a ‘Major Disaster’ (www.nytimes.com)

Dozens of environmental, labor and health care groups banded together on Monday to file a petition to push the Federal Emergency Management Agency to declare extreme heat and wildfire smoke as “major disasters,” like floods and tornadoes.The petition is a major push to get the federal government to help states and local...

The economy remains a top concern for US voters ahead of the presidential election (www.scrippsnews.com)

Pornhub drops some shocking gay adult content data just for Pride Month 2024 (www.advocate.com)

Judge blocks Iowa law allowing police to charge people facing deportation (www.theguardian.com)

Detroit pastor says people laughed in his face when he invited them to Trump church event (www.rawstory.com)

Nato is in talks to deploy more nuclear weapons in the face of a growing threat from Russia and China, the head of the alliance says (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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Trump’s Spiritual Adviser Quasi-Confesses to Molesting 12-Year-Old Girl (www.thedailybeast.com)

Florida just got its first LGBTQ+ Latino state senator (www.advocate.com)

Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say (www.bbc.com)

The Greek coastguard has caused the deaths of dozens of migrants in the Mediterranean over a three-year period, witnesses say, including nine who were deliberately thrown into the water....

Georgia inmate shoots and kills 24-year-old female food service worker inside the prison’s kitchen (www.independent.co.uk)

Follow Up to Lakota Language Consortioum Story (www.npr.org)

So yesterday I shared a news article about a dispute of materials and distribution of the Lakota Language Consortium. I thought it was a recent article, but in fact it was almost two years old, so it was (understandably) removed....

More than 171,000 people traveled out-of-state for abortions last year (www.axios.com)

Some 171,300 patients traveled out-of-state for abortions last year, new data estimates from the Guttmacher Institute show. State abortion bans that took effect in the post-Roe era have severely curbed access to reproductive care across the U.S....

The war in Gaza has wiped out entire Palestinian families. AP documents 60 who lost dozens or more (apnews.com)

He is among the very last survivors of his Gaza family, a clan so close they knew without thinking how blood and marriage bound them across generations and city blocks....

Russia continues the abduction of Ukrainian children at the legislative level, denies legal guardians of forcibly deported and adopted Ukrainian children (essanews.com)