Utility that bribed Ohio regulators secretly bankrolled Republican Mike DeWine's 2018 governor bid, records show (www.motherjones.com)
“Kill All Arabs”: The Feds Are Investigating UMass Amherst for Anti-Palestinian Bias (theintercept.com)
… In the previously unreported civil rights complaint, 18 students said that they have “been the target of extreme anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab harassment and discrimination by fellow UMass students, including receiving racial slurs, death threats and in one instance, actually being assaulted.” The result, the students...
New York prosecutors in Trump's hush money trial say former president continues to violate gag order (apnews.com)
Prosecutors said Thursday that Donald Trump again violated a gag order in his hush money trial, as the criminal case resumed on the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court weighed whether he should be immune from prosecution for actions taken during his time as president....
Homeless Georgians Could Face Hurdles to Voting Under New Legislation (www.nytimes.com)
There are thousands of voters like Mr. Dupree across Georgia and the country, those experiencing homelessness who are able to vote with the proper identification. They receive election related-mail at shelters, relatives’ addresses, temporary locations or P.O. boxes, and the vast majority vote in person....
Flint residents grapple with water crisis a decade later: ‘If we had the energy left, we’d cry’ (www.theguardian.com)
Years after the emergency, the Michigan city is yet to replace all lead pipes and affected families are still awaiting justice...
US Supreme Court justices scrutinize Trump immunity claim (www.reuters.com)
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Thursday quizzed lawyers for Donald Trump and Special Counsel Jack Smith about the former president’s claim of immunity from prosecution for trying to undo his 2020 election loss, posing questions about what happens if a president sells nuclear secrets, takes a bribe or orders a coup or...
Another ex-State Department official alleges Israeli military gets 'special treatment' on abuses (apnews.com)
A former senior U.S. official who until recently helped oversee human-rights compliance by foreign militaries receiving American military assistance said Wednesday that he repeatedly observed Israel receiving “special treatment” from U.S. officials when it came to scrutiny of allegations of Israeli military abuses of...
Journalists critical of their own companies cause headaches for news organizations (apnews.com)
This spring, NBC News, The New York Times and National Public Radio have each dealt with turmoil for essentially the same reason: journalists taking the critical gaze they deploy to cover the world and turning it inward at their own employers....
Migrants indicted in Texas over alleged border breach after judge dismissed charges (apnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/el-paso-texas-migrants-arrested…
‘We’re not going to stop’: Protests continue at the University of Minnesota campus (www.mprnews.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/university-of-minnesota-protest…
US Military Constructs Floating Pier to Aid Gaza (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
Discover how the US military is spearheading efforts to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza by constructing a floating pier for aid delivery
New York appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction from landmark #MeToo trial (apnews.com)
Tennessee legislature bans local cities and counties from passing their own red flag laws (www.newschannel5.com)
Chinese student given 9-month prison sentence for harassing person posting democracy leaflets (apnews.com)
A former Berklee College of Music student from China was sentenced Wednesday to nine months in prison for stalking and threatening a person who posted a flyer in support of democracy in the Asian country, authorities said....
Students arrested in California and Texas; Netanyahu compares campus protests to Nazi Germany (www.nbcnews.com)
US Supreme Court to decide if Trump has immunity in election interference case (www.bbc.co.uk)
Dow sinks nearly 700 points after GDP report, heading toward its largest drop of the year (www.cnn.com)
Here's why Harvey Weinstein's New York rape conviction was tossed and what happens next (apnews.com)
Tough new EPA rules would force coal-fired power plants to capture emissions or shut down (apnews.com)
Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency....
New California rule aims to limit health care cost increases to 3% annually (apnews.com)
Doctors, hospitals and health insurance companies in California will be limited to annual price increases of 3% starting in 2029 under a new rule state regulators approved Wednesday in the latest attempt to corral the ever-increasing costs of medical care in the United States....
Alameda County prosecutors allegedly excluded Black people and Jews from death penalty juries (oaklandside.org)
In an order issued today, U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria said that the hand-written notes of prosecutors from a 31-year-old murder case “constitute strong evidence that, in prior decades, prosecutors from the [Alameda County District Attorney’s] office were engaged in a pattern of serious misconduct, automatically...
Airlines will soon have to pay you back if they cancel or delay your flight (www.theverge.com)
US births fell last year, marking an end to the late pandemic rebound, experts say (apnews.com)
U.S. births fell last year, resuming a long national slide....
‘Underground hell’: Hamas publishes first video of mutilated American hostage, says 70 have been killed (www.news.com.au)
Netanyahu labels US student protests ‘antisemitic’ and calls for them to end (www.theguardian.com)
