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)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/18334136
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...
Trump calls union leader who endorsed Kamala Harris ‘a stupid person’ (www.theguardian.com)
The United Auto Workers’ decision to endorse Kamala Harris’ presidential run has apparently gotten under the skin of Donald Trump, who has responded by insulting the union’s leader as “a stupid person”....
ABC host reportedly received death threats after Trump interview (www.theguardian.com)
ABC News’s senior congressional correspondent Rachel Scott has reportedly faced threats to her life after her piercing interview of Donald Trump at the National Association of Black Journalists convention left the former president fuming....
Prosecutors plan to charge former Kansas police chief over his conduct following newspaper raid (apnews.com)
Two special prosecutors said Monday that they plan to file a criminal obstruction of justice charge against a former central Kansas police chief over his conduct following a raid last year on his town’s newspaper....
Most Americans Approve Of IVF, But Divided Over Embryo Destruction. (religionunplugged.com)
Ex-Trump attorney Jenna Ellis to cooperate in Arizona fake electors case, charges to be dropped (apnews.com)
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign attorney Jenna Ellis, who worked closely with his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, will cooperate with Arizona prosecutors in exchange for charges being dropped against her in a fake electors case, the state attorney general’s office announced Monday....
California lawmakers got ticket freebies as they cracked down on Ticketmaster’s Taylor Swift debacle (www.politico.com)
Ticketmaster’s troubled handling of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour prompted California lawmakers to spend months cracking down on the ticketing industry — while they enjoyed thousands of dollars worth of free tickets themselves from interest groups, a POLITICO analysis shows....
U.S. official: Biden realized Netanyahu lied to him about hostage deal (www.haaretz.com)
“Biden realized that Netanyahu was lying to him about the hostages,” the official told Haaretz. “He’s not saying it publicly yet, but in the meeting between them, he specifically told him, ‘Stop bullshitting me.’”...
Smotrich: Might be ‘justified and moral’ to cause 2 million Gazans to die of hunger, but world won’t let us (www.timesofisrael.com)
$1 trillion wipeout: Market rout punishes megacap tech (www.cnbc.com)
Kamala Harris’s chances in November could hinge on a women’s voting surge (www.brookings.edu)
Bloomberg apologizes for premature story on prisoner swap and disciplines the journalists involved (apnews.com)
Bloomberg News apologized Monday for prematurely publishing a story last week that revealed a prisoner exchange involving the United States and Russia and said it had disciplined the employees involved....
Wall Street headed sharply lower again after Japan's Nikkei index tumbles to worst loss since 1987. (www.voanews.com)
Prosecutors plan to charge former Kansas police chief over his conduct following newspaper raid (apnews.com)
Two special prosecutors said Monday that they plan to file a criminal obstruction of justice charge against a former central Kansas police chief over his conduct following a raid last year on his town’s newspaper....
Frontier Airlines pilot arrested at Houston airport, forcing flight's cancellation (apnews.com)
A Frontier Airlines flight that had been set to go from Houston to the Dallas area last week got canceled not because of weather, but because one of its pilots got arrested....
Google loses massive antitrust case over search dominance | AP News (apnews.com)
Faith-based rehab provider accused of harming patients' chances of recovery (www.abc.net.au)
US personnel wounded in attack against base in Iraq, officials say. (www.voanews.com)
MAGA outraged over Green Day's "severed" Trump head that's really just a mask (www.lgbtqnation.com)
