Efforts to release prisoners from long sentences draw new interest. (stateline.org)
City’s Public Health Vending Machine Program Ends With Just Four Installed Out of 10 Announced. (www.thecity.nyc)
California Isn’t Enforcing Its Strongest-in-the-Nation Oil Well Cleanup Law on Its Largest Oil Company. (www.propublica.org)
Chinese takeover of European seaports: EU turned a blind eye on security risks for years, experts say (www.ftm.eu)
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Fined for yellow and blue shoes: How Russian laws smother dissent (www.bbc.com)
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Judge Nixes Disciplinary Case Against Jeffrey Maddrey, NYPD’s Top Uniformed Cop. (www.thecity.nyc)
Kamala Harris vows US not going back to ‘chaos’ of Trump years in rally speech (www.theguardian.com)
Elon Musk denies reported $45 million a month pledge to Trump, says he doesn't 'subscribe to cult of personality’ (fortune.com)
Elon Musk is not spending $45 million a month to elect former President Donald Trump, though he has created a new super political action committee (PAC) to fund the Republican candidate, the billionaire told conservative commentator Jordan Peterson during an interview Monday evening....
Michigan man kills himself after running over 80-year-old Trump supporter (www.theguardian.com)
CrowdStrike CEO requested to testify on global IT outage (www.theregister.com)
Kim Davis Tees Up Supreme Court to Reverse Marriage Equality Ruling (www.jezebel.com)
Paris promised the most socially responsible Olympics ever. It's been moving out migrants (www.usatoday.com)
Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone sends up geyser of rock and steam (www.nbcnews.com)
A coup, fake signatures and deepfakes are the latest conspiracy theories about 2024 (www.npr.org)
Iowa [6 week] abortion ban law to go into effect next week (www.iowapublicradio.org)
Kamala Harris Grins as Crowd Chants ‘Lock Him Up’ on Campaign Debut (www.thedailybeast.com)
Dressage Star Booted From Olympic Games Over Alleged Horse Abuse (www.thedailybeast.com)
Sure, 2024 has had lots of news – but compared with 1940, 1968 or 1973, it’s nothing exceptional (theconversation.com)
Scientists beg Etsy sellers to stop selling dead bats as ornaments (www.salon.com)
AI-enhanced blood test may detect Parkinson’s years before onset | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Trump’s Sons Keep Falsely Blaming Democrats for the Assassination Attempt (www.motherjones.com)
A New Approach to Accelerate the Discovery of Quantum Materials | Berkeley Lab (newscenter.lbl.gov)
39% of Americans worry they can’t pay the bills (www.cnn.com)
Nearly four in ten (39%) of US adults say they worry most or all of the time that their family’s income won’t be enough to meet expenses, according to a new CNN poll. That’s up from 28% who expressed those concerns in December 2021, and it’s similar to the numbers seen during the Great Recession (37%)....
