Voting in Harmony: A Wisconsin township sets itself apart and has a knack for picking winners (apnews.com)
Since 2000, Harmony voters have sided with the winner in all 13 presidential and gubernatorial races....
Clarence Thomas admits billionaire paid for private club membership and luxury Bali trips (www.rawstory.com)
Tesla chair says Elon Musk needs $46 billion pay plan to stay motivated (arstechnica.com)
Denmark’s Prime Minister Is Attacked in Copenhagen Square (www.nytimes.com)
Edit: it seems like the NYT missed the mark on this one....
EV sales slowdown is mostly a Tesla problem, according to sales data (arstechnica.com)
Trump plans to claim sweeping powers to cancel federal spending (www.washingtonpost.com)
Two arrested, including 71-year-old man, for allegedly stealing almost 3,000 boxes of LEGOs (www.nbcnews.com)
Republican group pushing back on Trump immunity claim in $2M campaign (thehill.com)
Kari Lake's election challenge lawyer suspended from practicing in Arizona (www.rawstory.com)
Texas asks people to avoid using their cars (www.newsweek.com)
US must pay more of Native American tribes' healthcare costs, Supreme Court rules (www.reuters.com)
The FDA reverses its ban on Juul e-cigarettes (www.nbcnews.com)
The Food and Drug Administration announcedThursday that it has reversed its ban on Juul e-cigarettes while it reviews new court decisions and considers updated information provided by the vape maker....
Southern Baptists are poised to ban churches with women pastors. Some are urging them to reconsider (apnews.com)
From its towering white steeple and red-brick facade to its Sunday services filled with rousing gospel hymns and evangelistic sermons, First Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia, bears many of the classic hallmarks of a Southern Baptist church....
The Olympics has new guidelines for journalists covering trans athletes in Paris this summer (www.lgbtqnation.com)
William Anders, Apollo 8 astronaut who took Earthrise photo, killed in plane crash (www.cbc.ca)
Retired major-general William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic Earthrise photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90....
AI 'gold rush' for chatbot training data could run out of human-written text (apnews.com)
Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT could soon run out of what keeps making them smarter — the tens of trillions of words people have written and shared online....
Consumers say they're pulling back on tipping servers, drivers and hair stylists (www.nbcnews.com)
People are a little bit stingier in barber chairs and Ubers than they were just a few years ago....
‘Rigged’: Trump attacks judge and courts in first post-conviction rally (www.theguardian.com)
Ex-president in Arizona warns appeal courts to ‘step up and straighten things out’ and insists he committed no crimes...
2 police officers under investigation after they were recorded beating a man with batons at a bus stop (www.nbcnews.com)
Two Seattle police officers are under investigation after a bystander recorded them beating a man with their batons at a bus stop last week....
Alex Jones agrees to liquidate his assets to pay Sandy Hook families, in move that would end his ownership of Infowars (www.cnn.com)
Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday moved to liquidate his personal assets, agreeing to demands from the families of Sandy Hook victims whom he owes more than $1.5 billion in damages over his lies about the 2012 school massacre....
NAACP urges Biden to halt weapons to Israel and help end Gaza war (www.nbcnews.com)
Retired judge David Tatel issues a stark warning about the Supreme Court (www.washingtonpost.com)
Smoke exposure from California's wildfires linked to 52,000 early deaths, study says (www.statnews.com)
A new account rekindles allegations that Trump disrespected Black people on 'The Apprentice' (apnews.com)
Gene Folkes had just been jettisoned as a contestant on “The Apprentice” and was commiserating with a crew member at a bar inside the lobby of Trump Tower. He was indignant — and not just at having been kicked off the reality show after its star, Donald Trump, had delivered his catchphrase: “You’re fired.”...
Judge orders Steve Bannon to report to prison on July 1 for contempt of Congress sentence (www.nbcnews.com)
A federal judge on Thursday ordered former Trump adviser Steve Bannon to report to prison on July 1 to begin a four-month prison sentence for defying subpoenas from the Jan. 6 Committee after a higher court rejected his appeal....
