Hawaii to limit vacation rentals in response to tight housing market (www.theguardian.com)
Last year’s deadly Maui wildfire revealed the extent of short-term rentals and their contribution to the state’s housing shortage...
Florida workers brace for summer with no protections: ‘My body would tremble’ (www.theguardian.com)
Effects of heat are expected to worsen after bill prohibiting municipalities from enacting shade and water protection is passed...
Frank Stella, influential American artist, dies aged 87 (www.theguardian.com)
His constantly evolving works have been hailed as landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction art movements...
Who were the ‘outsiders’ at Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall? (www.nbcnews.com)
When James Carlson was arrested inside Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall, he was already under investigation for snatching an Israeli flag out of a man’s hand near campus and setting it on fire....
Aldi Just Announced a Major Change to Grocery Prices, Lowering Prices (finance.yahoo.com)
Ten Years After the Flint Water Crisis, Distrust and Anger Linger (www.propublica.org)
That emergency manager law is still on the books. The work to replace the pipes is mostly done — but the city has blown repeated deadlines to complete it. Two state investigations under two administrations led to high-profile criminal charges, including allegations of involuntary manslaughter, official misconduct and willful...
B.C. man 3D-prints a moving, beeping R2-D2 (www.cbc.ca)
Keith Hampe of Prince George, B.C., is ready to show off his passion project at Northern FanCon weekend: a full-size R2-D2, with bleeps and all. CBC Daybreak North’s Jason Peters found the droid he was looking for on a visit to the Hampe house....
A judge is forcing Hawaii to give wildfire investigation documents to lawyers handling lawsuits (apnews.com)
Attorneys representing plaintiffs suing over the August fires filed a motion last month asking a judge to compel the state provide them with the material gathered by the Fire Safety Research Institute, which was hired by the state to investigate....
Boeing locks out its private firefighters around Seattle over pay dispute (apnews.com)
Boeing has locked out its private force of firefighters who protect its aircraft-manufacturing plants in the Seattle area and brought in replacements after the latest round of negotiations with the firefighters’ union failed to deliver an agreement on wages....
After Roe, the network of people who help others get abortions see themselves as 'the underground' (apnews.com)
Waiting in a long post office line with the latest shipment of “abortion aftercare kits,” Kimra Luna got a text. A woman who’d taken abortion pills three weeks earlier was worried about bleeding — and disclosing the cause to a doctor....
Trump vows to fight 'anti-white feeling' in US. His allies have a plan (www.reuters.com)
Donald Trump’s pledge to fight what he calls “anti-white feeling” in the U.S. will likely embolden allies who seek to dismantle government and corporate programs created to battle racism and boost diversity in American life....
Israel Briefs US on Plan for 'Ethnic Cleansing' of Rafah | Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org)
Dairy worker bird flu case shows need for protective gear, US CDC study shows (www.reuters.com)
I find it worth noting that, as opposed to COVID, this time around it’s affecting rural parts of the US first, instead of urban areas. It’s the rural areas that, generally, didn’t take COVID seriously....
Truth Social keeps shrinking despite the Trump trial and looming election (www.cnn.com)
Former President Donald Trump hit the jackpot this spring when his social media company finally went public....
Gas stoves increase nitrogen dioxide exposure above WHO standards – study (www.theguardian.com)
Science Advances report also finds people of color and low-income residents in US disproportionately affected...
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Pregnant women in Missouri can't get divorced. Critics say it fuels domestic violence (www.npr.org)
The turning point for Destonee was a car ride....
Automakers Want AM Radios Out of Cars. Congress Is About to Require Them (www.wired.com)
Right-wingers at war: Daily Wire reportedly gets gag order against ex-host Candace Owens (www.independent.co.uk)
California man charged with threatening to kill Fani Willis (www.theguardian.com)
How Counterprotesters at U.C.L.A. Provoked Violence, Unchecked for Hours - (NYT Gift Link) (www.nytimes.com)
A New York Times examination of more than 100 videos from clashes at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that violence ebbed and flowed for nearly five hours, mostly with little or no police intervention. The violence had been instigated by dozens of people who are seen in videos counterprotesting the encampment....
Bodycam Videos Show Mom Begging ‘Please Don’t Shoot’ as Cops Shoot Son During Mental Health Crisis (www.thedailybeast.com)
Angry Vendors Say They Were Deceived By Ottawa Book Festival Featuring Far-Right Convoy Speakers (pressprogress.ca)
Melisa Ruscsak, an American book publisherwho drove eight hours from Ohio to attend what she thought was going to be the “second biggest book fair in the world,” said the whole thing was “just weird.”...
Anti-UAW Media in Alabama Is Owned by Influential GOP Consultant With Corporate Ties (truthout.org)
Employer of visiting nurse who was killed didn't protect her and should be fined, safety agency says (apnews.com)
A home health care company failed to protect a visiting nurse who was killed during an appointment with a convicted rapist at a Connecticut halfway house and should be fined about $161,000, federal workplace safety officials said Wednesday....
