Possible summer COVID surge? What to know about the new FLiRT variants (abc7.com)
Walmart is cutting hundreds of corporate jobs, relocating majority of remote office staff (www.pymnts.com)
NTSB releases report on Baltimore bridge collapse (www.cnn.com)
www.ntsb.gov/investigations/…/DCA24MM031.aspx...
DOJ requests judge order Steve Bannon to begin prison sentence (abcnews.go.com)
AT&T paid bribes to get two major pieces of legislation passed, US gov’t says (arstechnica.com)
Jimmy Carter: Grandson says former president is ‘coming to the end’ (www.cnn.com)
Nazi flag-bearing man who crashed a truck into barriers near the White House pleads guilty to felony (apnews.com)
Google is “reimagining” search in “the Gemini era” with improved AI options (arstechnica.com)
Google’s Gemini AI wants to help you plan, brainstorm, and shop inside Search....
Boat found in connection with hit-and-run that killed Florida teen: Authorities (abcnews.go.com)
T-6 Instructor Pilot Dies After Ejection Seat Goes Off on the Ground (www.airandspaceforces.com)
Stormy Daniels wore a bulletproof vest to Trump’s hush money trial, attorney says (www.independent.co.uk)
Earlier this year, porn star said she accepted hush money so Donald Trump could not have her killed...
Appeals court denies Trump’s latest request to overturn hush money trial gag order (www.cnn.com)
Mother identified as person killed in fall at daughter’s Ohio State graduation ceremony (www.today.com)
The authorities think it was an apparent suicide. At her daughter’s graduation ceremony. Seriously WTF?!
Is your bank funding climate change? - Which? News (www.which.co.uk)
JPMorgan Chase was named the biggest fossil fuel financier in the world, having increased its financing from $38.9bn in 2022 to $40.8bn in 2023....
As Insurers Around the U.S. Bleed Cash From Climate Shocks, Homeowners Lose (www.nytimes.com)
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Takeaways from AP investigation into police training on the risks of handcuffing someone facedown (apnews.com)
For decades, police across the United States have been warned that the common tactic of handcuffing someone facedown could turn deadly if officers pin them on the ground with too much pressure or for too long....
A US-China EV trade war threatens Biden's clean-car agenda (www.reuters.com)
The Biden administration’s plan to slap heavy new tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and batteries would provide temporary protection for U.S. auto jobs, potentially at the expense of White House efforts to fight climate change by accelerating U.S. EV adoption....
Another hospital in Gaza forced to close amid intensified Israeli offensive in Rafah | MSF (www.msf.org)
The intensification of the onslaught by Israeli forces on Rafah, in Gaza, Palestine, has forced MSF to stop providing lifesaving care at Rafah Indonesian Field hospital as of 12 May. The 22 patients who remained in the hospital have been referred to other facilities, as we can no longer guarantee their safety....
FAA bill would force the agency to craft 'real world' rules for airplane evacuations (www.wpr.org)
If an airplane has to be evacuated, the Federal Aviation Administration says all passengers must be capable of getting outwithin 90 seconds....
Florida man sentenced to 3 years in prison for firebombing California Planned Parenthood clinic (apnews.com)
A 21-year-old Florida man was sentenced Monday to three and a half years in prison for firebombing a Southern California Planned Parenthood clinic in 2022, federal prosecutors said....
US home prices have soared 47% so far this decade, outpacing all of the growth seen in the 1990s and 2010s (www.businessinsider.com)
US home prices have soared 47% so far this decade....
AP Investigation: In hundreds of deadly police encounters, officers broke multiple safety guidelines (apnews.com)
In hundreds of deaths where police used force meant to stop someone without killing them, officers violated well-known guidelines for safely restraining and subduing people — not simply once or twice, but multiple times....
US support for abortion rights up four points to 60% since fall of Roe v Wade (www.theguardian.com)
New polling data from Pew shows shift in Americans’ opinion since loss of constitutional right to abortion in June 2022...
FTC bans most noncompete agreements between employers and workers (www.npr.org)
The FTC estimates about 30 million people, or one in five American workers, from minimum wage earners to CEOs, are bound by noncompetes. It says the policy change could lead to increased wages totaling nearly $300 billion per year by encouraging people to swap jobs freely.
Revealed: US university lecturer behind far-right Twitter account and publishing house (www.theguardian.com)
Guardian investigation identifies Jonathan Keeperman, a former lecturer at the University of California, Irvine, as ‘Lomez’...
