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Reggie Bush gets Heisman Trophy back 14 years after forfeiting (www.espn.com)

Dolphin found dead on beach riddled with bullets, NOAA offers $20k reward to find killer (www.usatoday.com)

US ban on worker noncompete agreements faces lawsuit from major business group (www.reuters.com)

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the country’s largest business lobby, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking to strike down a federal agency’s near-total ban on employers requiring workers to sign agreements not to join rivals or launch competing businesses....

Cicadas are making so much noise that residents are calling the police in South Carolina (www.cbsnews.com)

Emerging cicadas are so loud in one South Carolina county that residents are calling the sheriff’s office asking why they can hear a “noise in the air that sounds like a siren, or a whine, or a roar.”...

The FTC has banned noncompete agreements (www.theverge.com)

New Biden rule would make 4 million white-collar workers eligible for overtime pay (www.usatoday.com)

The Biden administration on Tuesday announced a new rule that would make millions of white-collar workers newly eligible for overtime pay....

TikTok’s Pro-China Tilt (www.nytimes.com)

The times dives into an intelligence report on how TikTok’s political algorithm anomalies align with the CCP’s Geostrategic Objectives networkcontagion.us/…/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.2…...

Cleveland 'stalled' on police reforms because of city's failure to turn over records, federal judge says (www.news5cleveland.com)

Archived at web.archive.org/…/cleveland-stalled-on-police-ref…

USDA updates rules for school meals that limit added sugars for the first time (apnews.com)

Arizona judge declares mistrial in the case of a rancher accused of fatally shooting a migrant (apnews.com)

Archived at web.archive.org/…/border-rancher-migrant-killing-…

An Illinois law was supposed to help people earn time off their sentences, but poor implementation is leaving some locked up (www.opencampusmedia.org)

[A] new law… gives new credits for participating in education, work, and other programs....

Advocacy groups say Texas inmates are 'being cooked to death' in state prisons without air conditioning (www.usatoday.com)

Archived at web.archive.org/web/…/73419881007/

Arizona Democrats attempt to repeal the state’s 19th century abortion ban (apnews.com)

For a third straight week, Democrats at the Arizona Legislature are attempting Wednesday to repeal the state’s near-total ban on abortions, again spotlighting an issue that has put Republicans on the defensive in a battleground state for the presidential election....

Maine lawmakers approve shield law for providers of abortion and gender-affirming care (www.pbs.org)

The Democratic-controlled Maine Legislature gave final approval Friday to a bill that would protect health care workers who provide abortion and gender-affirming care from legal action brought in other states....

N.C. report finds wilderness camp failed to ensure boy was breathing before he died (www.nbcnews.com)

A state inspection report offers new details on the hours leading up to a 12-year-old’s death at Trails Carolina, a camp for troubled adolescents....

Two Turning Point USA members admit to assaulting queer professor (www.theguardian.com)

Kalen D’Almeida and Braden Ellis accosted David Boyles, also co-founder of Drag Story Hour Arizona, last October...

New federal rule to guarantee hassle-free airline cash refunds, administration says (www.nbcnews.com)

Airlines will be required to give refunds in cash for things like canceled or seriously changed or delayed flights, the administration said....

US seeing surge of climate-related power outages, report says (www.theguardian.com)

High winds, rains, winter storms and tropical cyclones accounted for 80% of power interruptions over the last 20 years...

US supreme court to hear arguments in key case on emergency abortion care (www.theguardian.com)

Federal Emtala law has become focal point in heated debate over emergency abortions in states that ban procedure...

WNBA star Brittney Griner opens up about harrowing Russian detention in exclusive '20/20' special (abcnews.go.com)

U.S. health officials warn of counterfeit Botox injections (www.seattletimes.com)

U.S. health officials issued a warning Tuesday about counterfeit Botox injections that have sickened 22 people....

Tesla driver was using Autopilot before fatal Monroe crash, police say (www.seattletimes.com)

A 56-year-old Snohomish man had set his Tesla Model S on Autopilot and was looking at his cellphone on Friday when he struck and killed a motorcyclist in front of him in Monroe, court records show....

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