House passes an expanded child tax credit bill and sends it to the Senate (www.nbcnews.com)
It’s unclear whether the bill can pass the Senate, where some members want changes and GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley said he’s worried it would make President Joe Biden “look good.”...
Indiana Lawmakers Trying to Kill Historic Suit Seeking Gun Industry Accountability (www.propublica.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/indiana-guns-gary-lawsuit-gunma…
$960 Million in Funding to Boost Transportation Electrification, EV Charging, & Battery Innovation (cleantechnica.com)
Activists renew push to repeal Kentucky's near-total abortion ban (apnews.com)
Abortion rights supporters mounted another push Wednesday to restore abortion access in Kentucky, but the Democratic lawmaker sponsoring the legislation acknowledged the odds are overwhelmingly against them in the Republican-dominated legislature....
Texas' standoff with the feds in Eagle Pass is igniting calls for secession and fears of violence (www.texastribune.org)
The calls for Texas to defend itself and defy the federal government have set fire to a long-simmering fight over states’ rights, emboldening right-wing figures....
Some IRS employees still access TikTok despite ban on government devices | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
In key election year, prisoners with felonies seek right to vote in Massachusetts (www.wgbh.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/in-key-election-year-prisoners-…
Current and former DHS officials grumble about Biden's talk of shutting down the border (www.nbcnews.com)
One of the two former officials said Biden is sending a political message but not one that is based in logistical reality....
U.S. Will Pay to Add Solar Panels to Hospitals, Schools After Disasters (www.nytimes.com)
The federal government plans to reimburse state and local governments that rebuild damaged public buildings to be more energy resilient....
NYC Mayor Adams Loses Showdown Over 2 Criminal Justice Bills (www.nytimes.com)
Police officers will be required to record the race, age and gender of most people they stop and solitary confinement will be banned in New York City jails after the City Council overrode Mayor Eric Adams’s veto of two criminal justice bills on Tuesday....
Newly released recordings reveal what officers said after Tyre Nichols' fatal beating (www.npr.org)
As they walked away, Mills told the lieutenant he believed the parents “know more than what they are saying” and seemed suspicious because they didn’t open their screen door. Then he said, “I just hope … he just needs to make it, that’s all. He needs to make it. He ain’t looking too good.”
Middletown man posts Youtube video claiming to show beheaded father in Levittown (www.phillyburbs.com)
“The video, reviewed by this news organization, includes a manifesto-style rant in which Mohn calls on his followers to take action against federal employees. It is titled “Call to Arms for American Patriots.”...
Sotomayor says she feels ‘frustration’ daily as conservative justices move US to right (thehill.com)
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Monday she feels daily “frustration” as conservative justices move the country to the ideological right....
Student loan borrowers skip payments: It's "an act of civil disobedience", 1 in 10 say they won't pay (www.newsweek.com)
'White Lives Matter' member gets 18 years for firebombing church that planned drag events (www.nbcnews.com)
Aimenn Penny told the FBI that he would have felt better if his Molotov cocktails had burned an LGBT-friendly church to the ground.
New York expands the legal definition of rape to include many forms of nonconsensual sexual contact (apnews.com)
New York will expand its legal definition of rape to include various forms of nonconsensual sexual contact, under a bill signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday....
First penguins die in Antarctic of deadly H5N1 bird flu strain (www.theguardian.com)
Judge strikes down Elon Musk’s massive, multi-billion-dollar pay package | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
A Delaware state court judge has thrown out the 2018 pay package that helped to make Tesla CEO Elon Musk one of the richest people in the world.
Elon Musk cannot keep Tesla pay package worth more than $55 billion, judge rules (apnews.com)
UPS delivers 12,000 job cuts to white-collar management months after historic deal for unionized drivers—yet another sign the pendulum is swinging toward blue-collar workers (fortune.com)
Migrant Caravans Are Challenging an Oppressive Border Regime (jacobin.com)
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CIA chief says Russia's failures in the Ukraine war have sealed its fate as 'China's economic vassal' (www.businessinsider.com)
The Russia-Ukraine war has dealt multiple setbacks to Vladimir Putin, the director of the CIA says....
House Panel Approves Impeachment Charges Against Mayorkas (www.nytimes.com)
The House Homeland Security Committee approved two articles of impeachment early Wednesday against Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, over his handling of the southwestern border, as Republicans raced forward with a partisan indictment of President Biden’s immigration policies....
China’s Censorship Dragnet Targets Critics of the Economy (www.nytimes.com)
As Beijing struggles with a slumping stock market and a collapsing real estate sector, commentary and even financial analysis it deems negative are blocked....