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Climate's 'Catch-22': Cutting pollution heats up the planet (www.reuters.com)

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Honolulu’s Climate Suit Against Big Oil Advances Towards Trial (www.desmog.com)

A lawsuit filed by the city and county of Honolulu against nearly a dozen fossil fuel companies is moving towards trial in Hawaii after the Hawaii Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the companies’ arguments for dismissing the case on appeal. Honolulu first sued 10 fossil fuel companies — including BP, Chevron, Shell,...

Neo-Nazis and the Far-Right Are Trying to Hijack Pro-Palestine Protests (www.vice.com)

Neo-Nazis are showing up at protests in an attempt to push anti-Jewish conspiracy theories and tropes into the mainstream.

Health misinformation and lack of confidence in vaccines continue to grow, years after the Covid-19 pandemic, survey shows (www.cnn.com)

Vaccine misinformation, which first began spiraling during the Covid-19 pandemic, has grown in the United States in the years since, according to a new survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania....

State is paying fired Tennessee vaccine chief $150K in lawsuit settlement (apnews.com)

The state of Tennessee has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a federal lawsuit by its former vaccine leader over her firing during the COVID-19 pandemic....

Judge indicates she may delay Trump trial on charges he hid classified documents at Mar-a-Lago (apnews.com)

A federal judge in Florida indicated Wednesday that she may delay the start of the classified documents trial of Donald Trump, pointing to the other criminal cases the former president is facing as well as the mounds of evidence his attorneys need to review....

Cats have 276 different facial expressions, study finds (www.cnn.com)

Ears flattened, constricted pupils, a lick of the lips. If you’ve ever wondered if your feline friends’ furry faces were saying something whenever they got together, chances are they were....

IDF releases proof of Hamas stealing gas from Gazan hospitals (www.jpost.com)

Housing market affordability is so bad that Zillow says it will take you 13.5 years to break even on a purchase from July onward (finance.yahoo.com)

Man trapped in jewelry vault overnight is freed when timer opens the chamber as scheduled (apnews.com)

NEW YORK (AP) — A man was trapped inside a steel-reinforced concrete jewelry vault in New York City overnight after firefighters had to abandon an attempt to rescue him for safety reasons. Fortunately, the vault was on a timer and opened on its own Wednesday morning, officials said.

Strikes on south Gaza: BBC verifies attacks in areas of ‘safety’ (www.bbc.com)

The BBC has analysed four strikes in south Gaza, where civilians were told to evacuate to.

Delta says pilot accused of threatening to shoot the captain no longer works for the airline (apnews.com)

Bob Knight, Indiana’s combustible coaching giant, dies at age 83 (apnews.com)

14 big landlords used software to collude on rent prices, DC lawsuit says (arstechnica.com)

Three arrested in U.S. and charged with smuggling military technology to Russia (meduza.io)

Teachers kick off strike in Portland, Oregon, over class sizes, pay and resources (abcnews.go.com)

Teachers in Portland, Oregon, went on strike Wednesday, shuttering school for some 45,000 students in Oregon’s biggest city

HBO Bosses Used 'Secret' Fake Accounts to Troll TV Critics (www.rollingstone.com)

Highlights: In June 2020, Casey Bloys, HBO’s then-president of original programming, needed someone to “go on a mission.”...

Bernice King Calls Out Amy Schumer For Implying Her Father [MLK Jr.] Would Support Bombing Palestinians (www.theroot.com)

Highlights: Dr. Bernice King is no stranger to watching people on social media use her father’s legacy to score a point. But this time, she’d clearly had enough of it....

A far-right livestreamer is calling for immigrant aid workers to be shot (www.motherjones.com)

Highlights: Almost as soon as news of actor Matthew Perry’s death broke last week, anti-vaccine activists began speculating that a Covid shot had caused his untimely passing (the cause of death is still undetermined). This was just the latest example of a trend that began last year, with the advent of the hashtag...

Once valued at $47 billion, coworking-space provider WeWork nears bankruptcy (arstechnica.com)

The hidden culprit driving America’s apocalypse of boarded-up storefronts is the banks (www.businessinsider.com)

A new analysis finds 400,000-plus jobs will be created from the 210 EV, battery and clean energy projects launched since the climate law passed. (original.newsbreak.com)

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