The fight over California community solar: ‘It’s everyone vs. utilities’ (www.canarymedia.com)
Community solar and storage could help power California toward its goals for clean energy, grid reliability, energy equity and affordable housing — but only if regulators don’t allow the state’s biggest utilities to undermine it....
California moves to decriminalize use of magic mushrooms and other natural psychedelics (www.latimes.com)
California lawmakers on Thursday narrowly approved a bill supported by veterans and criminal justice reform advocates to decriminalize the possession and personal use of a limited list of natural psychedelics, including “magic mushrooms.”...
Huntington Beach City Council approves banning mask and vaccine mandates (www.cbsnews.com)
The Huntington Beach City Council narrowly voted to approve a declaration to ban universal mask and COVID-19 vaccine mandates in the city....
Americans Are Less Motivated to Work This Year Compared to Last, New Data Shows (www.bloomberg.com)
Oakland 17-year-old arrested for San Leandro murder (www.kron4.com)
A 17-year-old boy from Oakland was arrested on Tuesday after he admitted to killing a man in January, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said....
Press Forward Will Award More Than $500 Million to Revitalize Local News (www.macfound.org)
A coalition of 22 donors today announced Press Forward, a national initiative to strengthen communities and democracy by supporting local news and information with an infusion of more than a half-billion dollars over the next five years. Press Forward will enhance local journalism at an unprecedented level to re-center local...
North Korea launches new tactical nuclear attack submarine (www.reuters.com)
North Korea has launched its first operational "tactical nuclear attack submarine" and assigned it to the fleet that patrols the waters between the Korean peninsula and Japan, state media said on Friday....
Grindr loses nearly half its staff to strict return-to-work rule (www.latimes.com)
Grindr has lost about 45% of its staff as it enforces a strict return-to-office policy that was introduced after a majority of employees announced a plan to unionize....
Willis asks court to protect jurors after doxing in Trump's Georgia case (www.axios.com)
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis asked a judge on Wednesday to take steps to protect jurors who indicted former President Trump and over a dozen of his allies for their alleged attempts to flip Georgia's election results in 2020.
Police called to yoga class mistaken for mass killing. (www.theguardian.com)
Brett Kavanaugh says justices are working on ‘concrete steps’ on ethics (www.cnn.com)
Justice Brett Kavanaugh said Thursday that the Supreme Court is working on “concrete steps” to address ethics issues at the high court amid an array of recent news stories on justices’ travel and relationships with political donors....
Walmart cuts starting hourly pay for some workers (www.detroitnews.com)
The retailer says the change will create consistency in starting hourly pay across individual stores.
'How am I in this war?': New Musk biography offers fresh details about the billionaire's Ukraine dilemma (www.cnn.com)
Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled “Elon...
Education Department Suggests More Student Loan Forgiveness Approvals This Month (www.forbes.com)
The Biden administration is suggesting that more student loan forgiveness is coming, possibly sometime this month, under an account adjustment.
Google: Political adverts must disclose use of AI (www.bbc.com)
The announcement follows fears AI-generated images and audio are already infiltrating ads.
Peter Navarro convicted of contempt of Congress for defying Jan. 6 committee subpoena (www.cbsnews.com)
‘How am I in this war?’: New Musk biography offers fresh details about the billionaire’s Ukraine dilemma (edition.cnn.com)
(CNN) — Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled...
A man bought a metal detector to get off the couch. He just made the "gold find of the century" in Norway. (www.cbsnews.com)
At first, the Norwegian man thought his metal detector reacted to chocolate money buried in the soil. It turned out to be nine pendants, three rings and 10 gold pearls in what was described as the country’s gold find of the century....
Famed tech journalist (Walt Mossberg) deletes X account with epic rant at Elon Musk (www.independent.co.uk)
Veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg announced on Tuesday he was deactivating his X (formerly known as Twitter) account, saying Elon Musk’s takeover of the site turned it into a “cesspool.”...
Over a year after 'Dobbs,' abortions have increased nationwide (reason.com)
New data from the Guttmacher Institute indicate that U.S. abortions have increased after the fall of Roe v. Wade, not decreased....
Biden will nominate a former Obama official to run the Federal Aviation Administration (apnews.com)
President Joe Biden will nominate a former Obama administration official to lead the Federal Aviation Administration after his first choice withdrew March after running into opposition from Republican senators....
Doctor arrested after guns, drugs and prostitutes found in yacht raid (www.independent.co.uk)
Scott Burke, 69, faces drug trafficking and weapons charges after arrest...
‘That ’70s Show' actor Danny Masterson gets 30 years to life in prison for rapes of 2 women (apnews.com)
Erasing the “Black Spot”: How a Virginia College Expanded by Uprooting a Black Neighborhood (www.propublica.org)
Sixty-plus years ago, the white leaders of Newport News, Virginia, seized the core of a thriving Black community to build a college. The school has been gobbling up the remaining houses ever since.