New bill aims to limit harmful heavy metals found in baby food (www.cnn.com)
Homeless woman was living inside Michigan rooftop store sign with computer, coffee maker (apnews.com)
US revokes Intel, Qualcomm's export licenses to sell to China's Huawei, sources say | Reuters (www.reuters.com)
Saudi forces 'told to kill’ to clear land for eco-city (www.bbc.com)
Catholic Group Defrocks AI Priest After It Gave Strange Answers (futurism.com)
I used resume spammers to apply for 120 jobs. Chaos ensued. (www.businessinsider.com)
Despite numbers showing a healthy economy overall, lower-income spenders are showing the strain (abcnews.go.com)
Half of Gaza water sites damaged or destroyed, BBC satellite data reveals (www.bbc.com)
Barron Trump to step into the political arena as a Florida delegate at the Republican convention (www.nbcnews.com)
The position as an at-large delegate for the Florida Republican Party will be the highest-profile political role thus far for Barron, former President Donald Trump’s youngest son....
No one will take credit for calling state police on UVa campus protesters: Neither the governor's office nor the school's president nor the university police chief have taken credit for the decision (dailyprogress.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/article_ea6bd3f0-0c0b-11ef-bc6c…
Small-Town Politics, National Consequences: The Supreme Court takes up a Texas power struggle involving allegedly retaliatory arrests of two councilwomen. (www.texasobserver.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/small-town-politics-national-co…
Study reveals "widespread, bipartisan aversion" to neighbors owning AR-15 rifles (www.psypost.org)
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that across all political and social groups in the United States, there is a strong preference against living near AR-15 rifle owners and neighbors who store guns outside of locked safes. This surprising consensus suggests that when it comes...
They Bought Tablets in Prison—and Found a Broken Promise (www.wired.com)
A Bureau of Prisons spokesperson reportedly issued a statement in October 2022 confirming that it was “in the process of introducing the Keefe Score 7c tablet into federal institutions, offering it for sale through the commissaries at a cost of $118.” Initially, the bureau said, the tablets could only be used for music...
Blinken Says Israeli Units Accused of Serious Violations Have Done Enough to Avoid Sanctions. Experts and Insiders Disagree. — ProPublica (www.propublica.org)
Mom of captured U.S. soldier Gordon Black says girlfriend 'lured' him to Russia (www.nbcnews.com)
The worried mother of a U.S. soldier in Russian custody said Wednesday that her son “was lured” there by a Russian woman he had been seeing in South Korea for over a year and that he’s being held on trumped-up charges of stealing roughly $100 from her....
Paid sick leave sticks after many pandemic protections vanish (kffhealthnews.org)
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Court rules North Carolina Catholic school could fire gay teacher who announced his wedding online (apnews.com)
A Catholic school in North Carolina had the right to fire a gay teacher who announced his marriage on social media a decade ago, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, reversing a judge’s earlier decision....
Georgia appeals court agrees to review ruling allowing Fani Willis to stay on Trump election case (apnews.com)
A Georgia appeals court on Wednesday agreed to review a lower court ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the election interference case she brought against former President Donald Trump....
Boeing 737 skidded off runway in Senegal airport, injuring 10 people (apnews.com)
A Boeing 737 plane carrying 85 people skidded off the runway at the airport in Dakar, Senegal’s capital, injuring 10 people, a statement from the country’s transport minister said in a statement on Thursday....
Looking Up an NYPD Officer’s Discipline Record? Many Are There One Day, Gone the Next. (www.propublica.org)
ProPublica has found the NYPD site for allowing the public to track officers’ misconduct is shockingly unreliable. Cases against officers frequently vanish from the site for days — sometimes weeks — at a time. The issue affects nearly all of the officers in the database, with discipline disappearing from the profiles of...
Flame retardants in auto seats pose multiple health risks, research shows (www.theguardian.com)
The use of flame retardants in auto interior seats pollutes the air in car cabins with the highly toxic chemicals, putting those who spend significant time in cars at the most risk, peer-reviewed research in the US has found....
Israel-Gaza live: Israel shells Rafah as Biden warns against major ground offensive - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Heavy shelling is reported in Rafah, in the southern Gaza strip, as US President Joe Biden warns Israel against a major offensive there...
Parts supplied to Boeing had 'serious defects' - whistleblower (www.bbc.com)
Fuselages made by Boeing’s largest supplier regularly left the factory with serious defects, according to a former quality inspector at the firm....
Republican clerk charged in Michigan voting-system breach (www.reuters.com)
A Michigan township clerk was charged with multiple felonies on Wednesday, the latest turn in a state inquiry into efforts by Donald Trump supporters to tamper with voting machines to prove his false claim that he lost the 2020 election due to fraud....
54% of young Americans say food costs are the biggest strain on their finances (www.cnbc.com)
