Michigan school shooter's parents sentenced to at least 10 years in prison (apnews.com)
The parents of a Michigan school shooter were each sentenced to at least 10 years in prison Tuesday for failing to take steps that could have prevented the killing of four students in 2021....
Chinese organized crime’s latest U.S. target: gift cards (www.propublica.org)
Chinese crime rings already dominate the illegal marijuana trade in the U.S. and launder cocaine and heroin profits. Now a federal task force is investigating their role in a burgeoning form of gift card fraud....
More Americans say they are living paycheck to paycheck this year than in 2023 (www.cnbc.com)
Miami shows how a new kind of gentrification is coming to US cities, climate change plays a role (www.businessinsider.com)
Transgender Catholics say new Vatican document shows no understanding of their lives (apnews.com)
Transgender Catholics — as well as a priest who welcomes them to his parish — expressed disappointment Monday with a new Vatican document rejecting the fundamental concept of changing one’s biological sex....
Ohio to purchase mobile homes to train public school staff in firearms (www.theguardian.com)
In a first, the state has purchased shoot houses designed for indoor gun training to help school staff ‘respond to active shooter’...
Michigan school shooter's parents sentenced to at least 10 years in prison (apnews.com)
NOTE: article updated....
He Faces Execution. His Lawyers May Have Earned Less Than $4 an Hour. (www.themarshallproject.org)
After [Brian] Dorsey confessed to killing his cousins Sarah and Ben Bonnie with a shotgun in 2006, Missouri paid two lawyers $12,000 each to defend him. If they had worked 3,557 hours — the average time spent by defense lawyers in death penalty cases, according to a 2010 report commissioned by the federal courts — they would...
Bloomberg: Republican Senators Poised to Kill $78 Billion Tax-Cut Deal (www.bloomberg.com)
I’m so confused as to what Republicans stand for that is legit and can be worked into a compromise....
Fake Photos, Real Harm: AOC and the Fight Against AI Porn (www.rollingstone.com)
In 2023, more deepfake abuse videos were shared than in every other year in history combined, according to an analysis by independent researcher Genevieve Oh. What used to take skillful, tech-savvy experts hours to Photoshop can now be whipped up at a moment’s notice with the help of an app. Some deepfake websites even offer...
Musk Admits He Doesn't Fact-Check Himself and Has Two Burner Accounts on Twitter (www.rollingstone.com)
Elon Musk‘s erratic posting on X, formerly Twitter, has come back to haunt him once again as a 22-year-old Jewish man pursues a defamation case over tweets in which the tech mogul baselessly suggested the recent college graduate was an undercover federal agent posing as a neo-Nazi during a street fight between far-right...
Arizona's top court revives 19th century abortion ban (www.reuters.com)
Arizona’s top court on Tuesday revived a ban on nearly all abortions under a law from 1864, a half century before statehood and women’s suffrage, further restricting reproductive rights in a state where terminating a pregnancy was already barred at 15 weeks of gestation....
Boeing whistleblower’s safety claims under investigation by FAA, reports say (www.theguardian.com)
The engineer, identified as Sam Salehpour, told the newspaper that sections of the fuselage of the Dreamliner were improperly fastened together and could eventually break apart mid-flight.
Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing: A Planned Amendment to This Week’s Vote Would Be the Largest Expansion of FISA in Over 15 Years (US-focused) (cdt.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/15139215...
Evers vetoes bill that would have eliminated work permits for younger teens • Wisconsin Examiner (wisconsinexaminer.com)
As expected, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers vetoed legislation Monday that would have eliminated the requirement for work permits for 14- and 15-year-old teens who take a job....
Teen arrested day before he planned to attack churches in name of ISIS, feds say (www.washingtonpost.com)
Person comes forward to claim $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot in Oregon (apnews.com)
A person with a ticket matching all six Powerball numbers in Saturday’s $1.3 billion jackpot came forward Monday to claim the prize, Oregon officials said....
A crucial report Wednesday is expected to show little progress against inflation (www.cnbc.com)
The bloody turtle video that sparked a plastic straw revolution (www.bbc.com)
Bloody and in pain, when a plastic straw became lodged in the nostril of a turtle, a video showing its removal shook the world – sparking a movement to rid the world of plastic straws....
EPA seeks to cut “Cancer Alley” pollutants (arstechnica.com)
Two [US] military members denied promotions for having HIV just won their lawsuit (www.advocate.com)
Saying prosecutors should focus on Antifa, judge frees white supremacist in beating (www.usatoday.com)
In his sentencing memo Thursday, U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney made it clear why he was letting Tyler Laube off lightly....
Without support, many menopausal workers are quitting their jobs (www.bbc.com)
Menopause-related symptoms can be debilitating. Many workers say they lack employer programmes – and have no choice but to leave their roles....