'Barbie' beats Batman, becomes Warner Bros.' highest-grossing domestic release (www.cnbc.com)
“Barbie” has topped $537 million, making it the highest-grossing domestic movie in Warner Bros. Discovery’s 100-year history....
Hundreds of wildfires raging in Canada’s Northwest Territories prompt evacuations in what officials are calling a ‘crisis situation’ (www.cnn.com)
Hundreds of wildfires raging in parts of Canada’s Northwest Territories have prompted officials to issue evacuation orders and declare a state of emergency as the blazes threaten the capital city of Yellowknife....
Two brands suspend advertising on X after their ads appeared next to pro-Nazi content (www.cnn.com)
At least two brands have said they will suspend advertising on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, after their ads and those of other companies were run on an account promoting fascism. The issue came less than a week after X CEO Linda Yaccarino publicly affirmed the company’s commitment to brand safety for advertisers.
NYC bans TikTok on city-owned devices (www.theverge.com)
New York City is banning TikTok from city-owned devices and requiring agencies to remove the app within the next 30 days....
Pig kidney works in a donated body for over a month, a step toward animal-human transplants (abcnews.go.com)
New York surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it’s worked normally
Cancer diagnosis rates are going up in younger adults, study finds, driven largely by rises in women and people in their 30s (www.cnn.com)
Certain kinds of cancer are being diagnosed more often in younger adults in the US, a new study shows, and the increases seem to be driven by cancers in women and adults in their 30s.
Biden will use Camp David backdrop hoping to broker a breakthrough in Japan-South Korea relations (apnews.com)
Camp David, the rustic presidential retreat in the mountains of Maryland, has been a backdrop for signal moments in U.S. foreign policy, perhaps none more notable than the peace accord President Jimmy Carter brokered between Egypt and Israel in 1978....
Starbucks ordered to pay extra $2.7M to employee who said she was fired for being white (abcnews.go.com)
A jury previously awarded Shannon Phillips $25.6 million.
'Hell on wheels': Teen convicted of crashing car at 100 mph, killing boyfriend and friend (www.nbcnews.com)
“This was not reckless driving. This was murder,” the judge said before she read out Mackenzie Shirilla’s verdict Monday afternoon.
Texas woman charged over threat to kill judge overseeing Trump case (www.axios.com)
This one doesn’t sound like she was serious, but it’s a look at what is to come.
Target says backlash against LGBTQ+ Pride merchandise hurt sales (www.npr.org)
Air Force awards a start-up company $235 million to build an example of a sleek new plane (apnews.com)
The U.S. Air Force will invest $235 million to help a start-up manufacturer build a jet with a blended-wing body that officials say could provide greater range and efficiency for military tankers and cargo planes and perhaps eventually be used to carry airline passengers.
New Jersey Supreme Court rules in favor of Catholic school that fired a teacher for having premarital sex (www.cnn.com)
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Catholic school that terminated a teacher for having premarital sex, according to court documents.
62% of Student Loan Borrowers Say They're Likely to Boycott Repayments (www.commondreams.org)
Judge who approved raid on Kansas newspaper has history of DUI arrests (www.kansas.com)
The Kansas magistrate judge who authorized a police raid of the Marion County Record newsroom over its probe into a local restaurateur’s drunken-driving record has her own hidden history of driving under the influence
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North Carolina lawmakers override veto on bill limiting LGBTQ+ instruction in early grades (apnews.com)
Utah man posing as doctor selling fake COVID-19 cure arrested after three-year manhunt (www.cbsnews.com)
A 63-year-old man was arrested in Utah years after he was charged with crimes related to selling a fake cure for the coronavirus, officials said Monday.
Trump supporters post names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors online (www.nbcnews.com)
A fringe website featured the purported names and addresses of the Fulton County grand jury that indicted Trump and 18 others for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Why do wildfires often ignite a firestorm of conspiracy theories? (www.cbc.ca)
Kansas newspaper to regain items seized in controversial police raid (www.washingtonpost.com)
After nearly a week of intense criticism and national headlines, the local prosecutor behind a controversial police raid on a Kansas newspaper office has agreed to withdraw the search warrant and return items taken from the paper....
Some abortion drug restrictions are upheld by an appeals court in a case bound for the Supreme Court (apnews.com)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New restrictions on access to a drug used in the most common form of abortion in the U.S. would be imposed under a federal appeals court ruling issued Wednesday, but the Supreme Court will have the final say....
Judge Rules HP Must Face Class Action Lawsuit Over Disabled Printers (gizmodo.com)
The suit, filed earlier this year, argues that HP all-in-one printers stop all functions when ink levels reach some arbitrary point.
Trump, co-defendants in Georgia election case expected to be booked in Fulton County jail, sheriff says (www.cbsnews.com)
Former President Donald Trump and the 18 others facing state felony charges related to alleged efforts to reverse the outcome of the 2020 election in Georgia are expected to be booked at the jail in Fulton County, the sheriff’s office said Tuesday.
