Construction workers are dying from suicide at an alarming rate, with an estimated 6,000 construction workers dying as a result of suicide in 2022 (www.nbcnews.com)
FBI offers reward for information about deadly southern New Mexico wildfires (apnews.com)
Federal authorities offered a reward for information about those responsible for igniting a pair of New Mexico wildfires that killed two people and destroyed hundreds of homes in the past week....
Synagogue in Russia’s Dagestan on fire as gun attack leaves at least one police officer dead | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
The synagogue is now on fire with large flames and plumes of smoke billowing heavily out of a series of windows on at least one floor of the structure....
Man arrested in attack on UCLA pro-Palestinian protesters won't face felony charges (www.yahoo.com)
The Killing of Hind Rajab (forensic-architecture.org)
On 29 January 2024, a six-year-old Palestinian girl in Gaza City, Hind Rajab, pleaded over the phone for emergency workers to rescue her from a bullet-ridden car. Her body was found two weeks later, alongside the bodies of six of her family members. FA was asked by Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines to investigate the circumstances of...
Woman 'tried to drown three-year-old girl' in alleged racist attack in Texas (news.sky.com)
The attempted murderer took issue with the fact that the girl and the rest of her family were Palestinians and speaking in a different language.
Israeli airstrike kills eight at Gaza aid centre, witnesses say (www.reuters.com)
CAIRO, June 23 (Reuters) - Eight Palestinians were killed on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike on a training college near Gaza City being used to distribute aid, Palestinian witnesses said, as Israeli tanks pushed further into the southern city of Rafah....
Man survives being lost in California mountains for 10 days by eating berries (www.theguardian.com)
As McClish told it, the 34-year-old outdoors enthusiast from Boulder Creek, California, lost his bearings after beginning his hike the morning of 11 June. He had not informed anyone else of his plans, so it would not be until the afternoon of Thursday, 20 June, that the unkempt-looking hiker was found at the bottom of a remote...
‘The greatest thinker you’ve never heard of’: expert who explained Hitler’s rise is finally in the spotlight (www.theguardian.com)
After fleeing Hitler, brilliant Jewish economist Karl Polanyi was never welcomed by the British. Now, for the first time in 80 years, his masterwork The Great Transformation has been be published in the UK
Company Linked to Federal Execution Spree Says It Will No Longer Produce Key Drug (theintercept.com)
A CONNECTICUT CHEMICALS manufacturer that was identified as having sold a lethal drug to the Trump administration for use in its execution spree has said that it will no longer produce the substance, according to a letter obtained by The Intercept....
A fourth victim has died a day after a shooting at an Arkansas grocery store, police say (apnews.com)
Police said a fourth victim has died a day after a shooter opened fire at an Arkansas grocery store, wounding nine others and riddling cars with bullet holes as panicked bystanders scrambled for cover....
Illinois may soon return land the US stole from a Prairie Band Potawatomi chief 175 years ago (apnews.com)
Some 175 years after the U.S. government stole land from the chief of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation while he was away visiting relatives, Illinois may soon return it to the tribe....
Trump floats ‘migrant league of fighters’ in latest dehumanizing rhetoric against migrants (www.cnn.com)
Former President Donald Trump on Saturday said he floated the idea of having a “migrant league of fighters” to UFC President Dana White, again employing dehumanizing language to describe people who enter the US illegally....
Virginia proposed changes to African American history course, documents show (www.washingtonpost.com)
The elective course was reviewed to see if it complied with Youngkin executive order banning ‘inherently divisive concepts’...
JD Spain, Sr. wins Democratic nomination for Arlington County Board (wamu.org)
Spain’s victory came after the county’s second-ever ranked choice voting election. On their ballots, Arlington voters ranked three of the five candidates. In the first round of the tabulation, the person who got the least number of votes — in this case, Julie Farnam — was dropped, and her supporters’ votes allocated to...
State judge upholds most fines against group seeking repeal of Alaska ranked choice voting - Chilkat Valley News (www.chilkatvalleynews.com)
An Anchorage Superior Court judge has ruled that opponents of Alaska’s ranked choice election system violated state campaign finance laws in their effort to gather signatures for a repeal ballot measure....
Group tied to Colorado election overhaul drops $1 million in last-minute primary spending (www.denverpost.com)
The group is backed by Kent Thiry, the Denver-based former CEO of the dialysis giant DaVita who’s supporting a ballot measure to overhaul the state’s election process. In a statement to The Denver Post on Saturday morning, Thiry wrote that it was “time for many of us to stand up for the majority in the middle. We are...
LGBTQ+ librarians grapple with attacks on books - and on themselves (apnews.com)
Idaho librarian June Meissner was closing up for the day at the downtown Boise Public Library when a man approached her asking for help....
Cheap and Lethal: The Pentagon’s Plan for the Next Drone War (theintercept.com)
Trump’s sledgehammer message to Philadelphia is light on facts, heavy on fear (www.theguardian.com)
The former president used his first rally in the city of brotherly love to tie violent crime with illegal immigration, despite the evidence against this...
A woman is accused of attempting to drown a 3-year-old child in possible hate crime incident (www.cnn.com)
A woman in Texas has been charged with attempted capital murder and injury to a child after trying to drown a 3-year-old child at an apartment complex pool and making racial statements, according to police....
Police: Vandal spray paints ‘F--- Elon’ on 34 Tesla Cybertrucks in Fort Lauderdale (www.local10.com)
Police said 34 new Tesla Cybertrucks were damaged. The owner parked the exotic cars in a parking lot in Fort Lauderdale....