Biden sees highest approval rating since November (thehill.com)
Giuliani loses bid to dismiss $148 million defamation judgment (thehill.com)
Owners of Colorado funeral home where 190 bodies were found charged with Covid fraud (www.theguardian.com)
Drugmakers' low U.S. taxes belie their high sales (www.npr.org)
Nike’s ‘hoo haa’ Olympic uniforms reveal everything, including sexism in sport (www.theguardian.com)
US woman arrested, accused of targeting young boys in $1.7M sextortion scheme (arstechnica.com)
The EPA Has Done Nearly Everything It Can to Clean Up This Town. It Hasn’t Worked. (www.propublica.org)
‘Sleepy Don?’: Trump Nods Off During Trial of the Century (www.thedailybeast.com)
Americans Have Never Been So Far Behind on Their Credit Card Bills (money.com)
Judge in Trump’s hush money trial allows prosecutors to discuss 'Access Hollywood' tape, affair allegations and tabloid stories (www.nbcnews.com)
Trump’s New York criminal trial kicked off Monday. It’s the first time a former president is standing trial on criminal charges....
Ohio man, 81, fatally shoots Uber driver, 61, after scammers target both of them, officials say (www.nbcnews.com)
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Judge awards $23.5 million to undercover St. Louis officer beaten by colleagues during protest (abcnews.go.com)
Judge halts Texas probe into Media Matters’ reporting on X (arstechnica.com)
Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory” (theintercept.com)
The New York Times instructed journalists covering Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip to restrict the use of the terms “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” and to “avoid” using the phrase “occupied territory” when describing Palestinian land, according to a copy of an internal memo obtained by The Intercept....
Israel vows to retaliate against Iran for missile attacks (www.axios.com)
1 in 3 Americans maxing out credit cards because of inflation (www.foxbusiness.com)
More older Americans delaying retirement, returning to workforce (www.news4jax.com)
"Rust" armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed sentenced to 18 months in prison over deadly 2021 shooting (www.cbsnews.com)
Justice Clarence Thomas misses Supreme Court arguments (www.nbcnews.com)
The conservative justice was not present for oral arguments on Monday, but the court did not provide a reason why....
Bondi Junction mall attack: 'Obvious' killer targeted women, Sydney police say (www.bbc.com)
Joel Cauchi, 40, sent the crowded Westfield Bondi Junction complex into panic on Saturday when he began stabbing people with a long blade....
3 children, 1 adult injured in drive-by shooting outside of Kentucky health department (www.usatoday.com)
Bureau of Prisons to close California women's prison where inmates have been subjected to sex abuse (apnews.com)
Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters said in a statement to the AP that the agency had “taken unprecedented steps and provided a tremendous amount of resources to address culture, recruitment and retention, aging infrastructure - and most critical - employee misconduct.”...
Trump stock tanks after issuing tens of millions new shares (www.cnn.com)
Trump Media & Technology Group’s stock is tumbling again after the company announced a massive new influx of shares. The struggling company is rapidly losing money, and a new stock offering could help it stay afloat....
Trump rages at judge hours before hush money case begins (thehill.com)
Former President Trump railed against the judge in his criminal hush money case early Monday, just hours before the first criminal trial against a former U.S. president is set to begin....
Israeli war cabinet to meet again to consider response to Iran’s attack (www.theguardian.com)
