U.S. Building More Apartments Than It Has In Decades, But Not For the Poor (www.vice.com)
The U.S. is building more apartments than it has in half a century, but the poorest people still can’t afford them....
Families of Buffalo Massacre Victims Sue Meta, Reddit, and Google Over Conspiracy Theories (gizmodo.com)
The lawsuit seeks changes to the changes companies’ safety standards, with the plaintiffs calling the platforms “defective and unreasonably dangerous.”
1 Fargo police officer killed, 2 injured in shooting that also left suspect dead in North Dakota (apnews.com)
One police officer was killed and two others were critically injured in a shooting that also left the suspect dead on a busy street in Fargo, North Dakota, police said.
A Rivian owner was in a fender bender. The repair bill was $42,000 (www.businessinsider.com)
A Rivian owner said his R1T electric pickup truck cost about $42,000 to fix after it was hit at a stoplight earlier this year, according to a report The New York Times.
IRS says it collected $38 million from more than 175 high-income tax delinquents (abcnews.go.com)
The IRS is showcasing its new capability to audit high-income tax dodgers aggressively as it makes the case for sustained funding and tries to avoid budget cuts sought by Republicans who want to gut the agency
Americans are ‘hunkering down’ and buying less food as inflation bites, one grocery giant says—instead they’re raiding their freezers (fortune.com)
Consumers have long been warned they were going to be pushed to the “point of pain” in order to curtail their spending. It seems like we’ve finally reached it.
US heatwave: A third of Americans under extreme heat advisories (www.bbc.com)
Mexico files complaint accusing Texas of breaking boundary laws with floating barriers (thehill.com)
Iowa governor signs 6-week abortion ban into law (www.cnn.com)
KKK flyers continue to appear in Kentucky neighborhoods (www.wymt.com)
After flyers appeared in Mt. Sterling and Paris appearing to promote services from the KKK, the same flyers have been found in Corbin.
These are America’s 10 best states to live and work in for 2023 (www.cnbc.com)
Man, teen arrested for allegedly posting KKK fliers around Columbia, Tennessee (www.wkrn.com)
Two people have been arrested for allegedly posting racist fliers at Black churches around Columbia.
Biden administration announces $39 billion in student debt relief following administrative fixes (www.cnn.com)
Scottsdale bans natural grass in front yards of new houses to conserve water amid Arizona’s drought (www.cnn.com)
Chopped finger was mailed to Macron’s home, prosecutor says (www.politico.eu)
Hollywood writers and actors are striking together for first time since 1960—here’s why (therealnews.com)
Musk’s X Corp. sues data scrapers for “severely taxing” Twitter’s servers (arstechnica.com)
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Secret Service ends White House cocaine investigation with no leads (www.nbcnews.com)
Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas — for free, forever (www.theverge.com)
“This ‘groundbreaking’ AI proposal that they gave us yesterday, they proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get one day’s pay, and their companies should own that scan, their image, their likeness and should be able to use it for the rest of eternity on any project they want, with no...
F.D.A. Approves First U.S. Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill (www.nytimes.com)
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a birth control pill to be sold without a prescription for the first time in the United States, a milestone that could significantly expand access to contraception....
Stars leave Oppenheimer premiere as Hollywood actors' strike called (www.bbc.com)
Airfares tumble, helping bring down overall inflation (www.nytimes.com)
Ticket prices are subject to several idiosyncratic factors, but they have eased markedly since last summer’s surge in demand.
Hollywood actors announce strike in first joint action with writers in 60 years (www.theguardian.com)
The union representing Hollywood actors formally announced a strike on Thursday, expanding the standoff between Hollywood workers and studio executives over wages, AI technology, and how to divide the profits of the new digital streaming era....
Jury finds Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooter eligible to face the death penalty (www.cnn.com)
Lawyers with supreme court business paid Clarence Thomas aide via Venmo (www.theguardian.com)
Payments to Rajan Vasisht, an aide from 2019-21, underscore ties between the justice and lawyers who argue cases in front of him
