Exclusive: Tesla scraps low-cost car plans amid fierce Chinese EV competition (www.reuters.com)
The decision represents an abandonment of a longstanding goal that Tesla chief Elon Musk has often characterized as its primary mission: affordable electric cars for the masses. His first “master plan”, opens new tab for the company in 2006 called for manufacturing luxury models first, then using the profits to finance a...
Scientology tried to 'derail' star's rape trial by harassing prosecutor, suit says; church calls claim 'false' (www.latimes.com)
Nearly six months after actor Danny Masterson was convicted of sexually assaulting two fellow members of the Church of Scientology, lawyers for his victims filed a document that contained a stunning new allegation against the faith....
Magnitude 4.8 Earthquake Strikes New York Metro Area and East Coast (www.nbcnews.com)
Raw data from the USGS: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/…/executive
Israeli Real Estate Firm Used Genocidal Rhetoric — Then Politico's Parent Company Put Them in a Trade Fair (theintercept.com)
Yad2, the largest classifieds site in Israel and a subsidiary of German publishing giant Axel Springer, is hosting a real estate fair in Tel Aviv this weekend. The proceedings, which got underway Friday, were slated to showcase Israeli real estate firms, including both those that list properties within Israel’s internationally...
Israel sacks two officers after finding grave errors in strike on aid workers (www.reuters.com)
An Israeli inquiry into the killing of seven aid workers in an air strike in Gaza this week found serious errors and breaches of procedure by the military, with the result that two officers have been dismissed and senior commanders formally reprimanded....
How Gen Z Is Becoming the Toolbelt Generation (www.wsj.com)
More young workers are going into trades as disenchantment with the college track continues, and rising pay and new technologies shine up plumbing and electrical jobs...
Judge allows migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard by DeSantis to sue plane firm (www.theguardian.com)
About 50 people sent to island in 2022 in DeSantis’s ‘relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations’...
Woman breaks her neck inside St. Clair County Jail, isn't taken to the hospital for days (www.wxyz.com)
‘They were moving me all around and I had a broken neck.’...
China will use AI to disrupt elections in the US, South Korea and India, Microsoft warns (www.theguardian.com)
Beijing did a test run in Taiwan using AI-generated content to influence voters away from a pro-sovereignty candidate...
Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up. (mashable.com)
A shocking story was promoted on the “front page” or main feed of Elon Musk’s X on Thursday:...
Democratic senators pressured EPA to ease rules on steel mill pollution (www.motherjones.com)
‘Building an authoritarian axis’: the Trump ‘envoy’ courting the global far right (www.theguardian.com)
Richard Grenell’s shadow foreign policy campaign is unsettling diplomats and threatens to collapse US interests...
Earthquake centered near New York City rattles the Northeast (apnews.com)
The agency reported a quake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.7, centered near Lebanon, New Jersey, or about 45 miles west of New York City and 50 miles north of Philadelphia....
'We pay taxes so the corporations don’t have to': Amazon to get 100% tax cut for project in Mississippi — when the state has the ‘highest rate of poverty in America.' (finance.yahoo.com)
Joe Lewis spared jail time for part in ‘brazen’ insider trading conspiracy (www.theguardian.com)
The British billionaire Joe Lewis was spared jail time for his part in a “brazen” insider trading conspiracy on Thursday, and was instead fined $5m and given a three-year probation by a New York judge....
New York AG questions whether California company can handle Trump's $175M bond (abcnews.go.com)
Letitia James asked the firm to show it’s capable of paying the bond if needed....
New Bill Could Pave the Way Toward Banning Student Debt Cancellation (truthout.org)
Autoworkers at Alabama’s Mercedes-Benz Plant File for a Union Election (prospect.org)
Former University of Iowa Hospital employee used fake identity for 35 years (www.thegazette.com)
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Israel to open 3 aid corridors following Biden's call with Netanyahu (www.cbsnews.com)
Diplomatic spat erupts between Poland and Israel after WCK killings in Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
A diplomatic crisis has erupted between Poland and Israel following the death of a Polish aid worker in Gaza, with the Polish president denouncing a comment by the Israeli ambassador as “outrageous” and the foreign ministry in Warsaw saying it was summoning him for a meeting....
Israel is using artificial intelligence to help pick bombing targets in Gaza, report says (www.cnn.com)
Mother’s Custody In Danger After Officer Shot 11-Year-Old Son (www.mississippifreepress.org)
A Sunflower County, Miss., woman could lose custody rights to her children nearly a year after an Indianola police officer shot her then-11-year-old son, Aderrien Murry, in the chest at the family’s home in May 2023. In court filings, Sunflower County Prosecuting Attorney Gwendolyn Jimison cited the shooting while accusing...