South Dakota has apologized and must pay $300K to transgender advocates (apnews.com)
South Dakota has apologized and will pay $300,000 under a settlement with a transgender advocacy group that sued Gov. Kristi Noem and her health secretary.
China's chances of overtaking US economy "declining" (www.newsweek.com)
The possibility that China will overtake the United States as the world’s biggest economy is declining as the country faces an obvious slowdown, according to Cornell professor and former International Monetary Fund (IMF) official Eswar Prasad....
Summer Has Long Stressed Electric Grids. Now Winter Does, Too. (www.nytimes.com)
Electric utilities, which designed their system to meet peak demand in sizzling weather, are straining to keep up during the cold....
Is housing health care? State Medicaid programs increasingly say ‘yes’ (kffhealthnews.org)
States are plowing billions of dollars into a high-stakes health care experiment that’s exploding around the country: using scarce public health insurance money to provide housing for the poorest and sickest Americans....
Tennessee law denied Allie Phillips an abortion. So she's now running for office (www.kpbs.org)
The path to Tennessee politics for Allie Phillips began last year in her doctor’s office. She was 19 weeks pregnant when she got the devastating news about her unborn daughter: only two of the four chambers in her heart were formed....
Angry Chinese take to US Embassy’s social media account to vent about plunging stock market (www.cnn.com)
Tens of thousands of people in China are flocking to an unusual venue to vent their outrage about the continuing meltdown in the country’s stock market....
North Dakota lawmaker who insulted police in DUI stop gets unsupervised probation and $1,000 fine (apnews.com)
Rios has said he is “seriously mulling all aspects” of his future, and plans to seek help for alcoholism, but he has made no plans to resign....
Biden Threatens to Veto Bill That Would Help Israel but Not Ukraine (www.nytimes.com)
President Biden vowed on Monday to veto a House Republican bill that would provide $17.6 billion in aid to Israel, calling it a “cynical political maneuver” intended to hurt the chances of passage for broader legislation that would provide money for Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan and the U.S. border....
SpaceX just sent 2 Saudi astronauts—including the country’s first woman in space—to the ISS (fortune.com)
Rayyanah Barnawi, a stem cell researcher, became the first woman from the kingdom to go to space....
Here's how 2 sentences in the Constitution rose from obscurity to ensnare Donald Trump (apnews.com)
It took months before the first mention of Section 3 in a public document. Free Speech For People, a Massachusetts-based liberal nonprofit, sent letters to top election officials in all 50 states in June 2021, warning them not to place Trump on the ballot should he run again in 2024 because he had violated the provision....
Family of Black girls handcuffed by Colorado police, held at gunpoint reach $1.9 million settlement (apnews.com)
The 6-year-old Lovely watched as her mother, Brittney Gilliam, was led to a patrol car in handcuffs after she shouted in frustration at the police, who mistakenly believed the car she was driving was stolen....
WeWork’s Co-Founder Is Trying to Buy the Company (www.nytimes.com)
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Credit card debt hits a 'staggering' $1.13 trillion. Here's why so many Americans are under pressure (www.cnbc.com)
Two-thirds of Canadian and American renters are in unaffordable housing situations (theconversation.com)
Death cuts off dreams of man recently freed after 3 decades wrongfully in prison (www.chicagotribune.com)
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History shows that lower mortgage rates make housing less, not more, affordable (creditnews.com)
Sound Amplifies Suspense in Horror Films Without Altering Time Perception, Study Suggests (researchinenglish.com)
UAW Signs Up Majority of Workers at Volkswagen Plant After Detroit Wins (www.bloomberg.com)
Appeals court rejects Trump's immunity claim in federal election interference case (abc7news.com)
SpaceX Accused of Sexual Harassment as Fight With Ex-Employees Intensifies (www.bloomberg.com)
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Fake Biden video prompts call for Meta to label posts (www.bbc.com)
“Since the quality of AI deception and the ways you can do it keeps improving and shifting this is an important element to keep the policy dynamic as AI and usage gets more pervasive or more deceptive, or people get more accustomed to it,” Mr Gregory said....
Immigrants who flock to Las Vegas for casino and service jobs fear AI could replace them (www.nbcnews.com)
Federal Appeals Court Denies Trump Presidential Immunity (www.usnews.com)
Biden's vow of affordable internet for all is threatened by the looming expiration of subsidies (apnews.com)
President Joe Biden recently traveled to North Carolina to promote his goal of affordable internet access for all Americans, but the promise for 23 million families across the U.S. is on shaky ground....
Louisiana governor accused of using public records law to intimidate EPA and ‘Cancer Alley’ community (www.theguardian.com)
Louisiana’s far-right government has quietly obtained hundreds of pages of communications between the Environmental Protection Agency and journalists, legal advocates and community groups focused on environmental justice. The rare use of public records law to target citizens is a new escalation in the state’s battle with the...
