Recreational marijuana sales in Ohio can start Tuesday at nearly 100 locations (abcnews.go.com)
Recreational marijuana sales will begin across Ohio on Tuesday when the state issues its first operating certificates....
Ex-Trump attorney to cooperate in Arizona fake electors case, charges to be dropped. (www.voanews.com)
Families of 190 corpses left rotting in funeral home owed US$950M: judge (www.ctvnews.ca)
The Colorado funeral home owners who allegedly stored 190 decaying bodies and sent grieving families fake ashes were ordered by a judge to pay US$950 million to the victims’ relatives in a civil case, the attorney announced Monday....
US supreme court declines to halt Trump’s sentencing in hush-money case (www.theguardian.com)
Missouri state lawsuit claimed that case against Republican nominee infringes on voters’ constitutional rights...
'He had everyone fooled': Former FBI agent sentenced to life for child rape in Alabama (apnews.com)
A former FBI agent was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl while serving as an Alabama state trooper....
Anti-trans Texas pastor arrested after paying undercover cop for sex (www.friendlyatheist.com)
'Genocide of Hindus': Bangladeshi Islamists attack minority population, burn houses, kidnap women as the country descends into unholy madness (www.businesstoday.in)
Clarence Thomas failed to disclose another trip on a GOP megadonor's private jet, senator says (www.salon.com)
Traders Wonder if the Fed Could Make an Emergency Rate Cut as Markets Tumble (www.nytimes.com)
New homes are getting smaller. That could be big news for first-time buyers (www.cnn.com)
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Nevada governor condemns racist Virginia City incident from viral TikTok video (www.rgj.com)
What can a city do when neo-Nazis start marching down its streets? (www.nytimes.com)
The brazen appearance of white supremacist groups in Nashville left the city grappling with how to confront hateful speech without violating First Amendment protections....
Electrocuted bird sparks Colorado brush fire (www.independent.co.uk)
Israeli Finance Minister Complains They Can't Starve 2 Million Civilians To Death (www.timesofisrael.com)
A direct quote from the finance minister of Israel today: “Nobody will let us cause 2 million civilians to die of hunger, even though it might be justified and moral, until our hostages are returned.”
Bloomberg fires reporter for ‘premature’ publication of Evan Gershkovich release – reports (www.theguardian.com)
Bloomberg News said it had taken “disciplinary action” against a number of its editorial staff after the outlet “prematurely” published news of the historic prisoner swap between Russia and the United States last week that it said could have endangered the safety of the Americans being released....
North Carolina election board investigates Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC after voter data complaint (www.cnbc.com)
The North Carolina Attorney General’s Office said Monday that it is eyeing a political action committee created by billionaire Elon Muskfollowing a complaint to the state election board over the PAC’s collection of personal data while failing to help users register to vote as promised....
Attention, jittery investors: Stop panicking … this is what a soft landing should look like. (theconversation.com)
'Another Day, Another Undisclosed Trip Clarence Thomas Took on a Billionaire's Private Jet': Wyden. (www.commondreams.org)
Google maintains illegal monopoly over search: US judge (www.thenewdaily.com.au)
Oklahoma’s Oil Industry Touts a Voluntary Fund to Clean Up Oil Wells. Major Drillers Want Their Contributions Refunded. (www.propublica.org)
Blindfolded, bound and beaten: Palestinians tell of Israeli jail abuse (www.bbc.co.uk)
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What’s Rattling Trump: The Size of Harris’s Crowds (www.nytimes.com)
The numbers game is everything to Donald J. Trump. Vice President Kamala Harris’s first big rally appears to have gotten under his skin....
Rural Nevada sheriff probes potential hate crime after Black man says he was racially harassed (apnews.com)
A rural Nevada sheriff is investigating a potential hate crime after a Black man who was collecting signatures for a ballot measure recorded a confrontation with another man he said directed a racial slur at him and said “they have a hanging tree” for people like him....
Lack of eviction data obscures extent of the affordable housing crisis. (stateline.org)
Climate change deniers make up nearly a quarter of US Congress (www.theguardian.com)
Climate denialists – 23 in Senate and 100 in House – are all Republicans and make US an outlier internationally...
