Tennessee teacher arrested after bringing guns to preschool and threatening to shoot colleague (www.nbcnews.com)
Sheneca Cowart faces multiple felony gun charges following the incident at The Academy of McCrory Lane on Thursday....
2 children dead, 15 people injured after vehicle crashes into building holding child's birthday party (abcnews.go.com)
A 66-year-old suspect was arrested at the scene, police said....
‘He erased the entire project’ … the book Stanley Kubrick didn’t want anyone to read to be published (www.theguardian.com)
Stanley Kubrick, the relentless perfectionist who directed some of cinema’s greatest classics, was so sensitive to criticism that, in 1970, he threatened legal action to block publication of a book which dared to discuss flaws in his films....
San Francisco sues Oakland over new airport name that includes 'San Francisco' (apnews.com)
San Francisco on Thursday sued Oakland after officials there voted in favor of changing the name of the city’s airport to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport, saying the change will cause confusion and is already affecting its airport financially....
Residents push for renaming of Trump Plaza to disassociate from ex-president (www.theguardian.com)
While Donald Trump endures the ignominy of being the first former US president to face criminal trial, there is further humiliation brewing, with a movement to strip the Trump name from a building in his home state....
Hawaii lawmakers take aim at vacation rentals after Lahaina wildfire amplifies Maui housing crisis (apnews.com)
A single mother of two, Amy Chadwick spent years scrimping and saving to buy a house in the town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui. But after a devastating fire leveled Lahaina in August and reduced Chadwick’s home to white dust, the cheapest rental she could find for her family and dogs cost $10,000 a month....
Hyundai pauses X ads over pro-Nazi content on the platform (www.nbcnews.com)
The move came after a Hyundai ad appeared next to antisemitic posts from a user who has posted pro-Hitler content....
Ukrainian and Western leaders laud US aid package while the Kremlin warns of 'further ruin' (apnews.com)
Ukrainian and Western leaders welcomed a desperately needed aid package passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, as the Kremlin warned the passage of the bill would “further ruin” Ukraine and cause more deaths....
Some young people see Trump as an answer to their economic woes (www.reuters.com)
Thin with a boyish face and earrings in both ears, 23-year-old Isayah Turner does not look like a stereotypical Trump supporter, who tend to be middle aged or older....
US migrant crisis shifts from Texas to California border (www.bbc.com)
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Unilever to scale back environmental and social pledges (www.theguardian.com)
10-year-old boy confesses to fatally shooting a man in his sleep 2 years ago, Texas authorities say (apnews.com)
Brandon O’Quinn Rasberry, 32, was shot in the head in 2022 while he slept at an RV park in Nixon, Texas, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) east of San Antonio, investigators said. He had just moved in a few days before....
Man who won primary election while charged with murder convicted on lesser charge (apnews.com)
A Boone County jury convicted Andrew Wilhoite, 41, of Lebanon on Thursday, local news outlets reported....
For the first time in one billion years, two lifeforms truly merged into one organism (www.popsci.com)
Trump Privately Rages About His Sketch Artist, Courtroom Nap Reports (www.rollingstone.com)
The court dismissed one potential juror after Trump’s legal team had flagged their social media post last month of an AI-generated video featuring Trump saying “I’m dumb as fuck.” Trump’s lawyers sought to strike another potential juror over social media posts made or shared by her husband in 2016. In one, Trump’s...
House passes critical aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan along with a TikTok ban (www.nbcnews.com)
The House on Saturday passed a $95 billion aid package that includes two long-awaited bills with $60.8 billion of Ukraine aid and $26 billion in aid to Israel....
California exodus of home insurance companies continues (www.latimes.com)
Two more insurers are pulling out of California’s troubled homeowners insurance market, straining a marketplace that already has seen the pullback of several other companies that have cited increase costs related to wildfire risks....
North Texas man sues Cinemark claiming 24-ounce beer cups can't hold 24 ounces (www.fox4news.com)
A North Texas man has filed a class action lawsuit against Cinemark, claiming the movie theater chain is lying to customers about the size of its drinks....
Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient (www.nbcnews.com)
Far more animals than previously thought likely have consciousness, top scientists say in a new declaration — including fish, lobsters and octopus....
Credit-Card Delinquency Rates Were Worst on Record in Fed Study (www.bloomberg.com)
TikTok ‘ban’ passes in the House again, moving to the Senate in foreign aid package (www.theverge.com)
The House once again passed a bill that could ban TikTok from the US unless its Chinese parent company ByteDance divests it — but this time, it’s in a way that will be harder for the Senate to stall....
An Israeli attack in southern Gaza results in the deaths of at least 9 Palestinians, including 6 children (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
Discover the tragic aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza's Rafah, where innocent lives, including six children, were lost amid ongoing conflict
Lawsuits under New York's new voting rights law reveal racial disenfranchisement even in blue states (apnews.com)
Weihua Yan had seen dramatic demographic changes since moving to Long Island’s Nassau County....
Record numbers in the US are homeless. Can cities fine them for sleeping in parks and on sidewalks? (apnews.com)
The justices on Monday will consider a challenge to rulings from a California-based appeals court that found punishing people for sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking amounts to unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment....
Trump was forced to listen silently as potential jurors offered their unvarnished assessments of him (apnews.com)
New Yorkers who said they couldn’t approach the case fairly were excused during jury selection. But one of the women with the harshest assessments of him will be among those who will determine his fate on 34 counts of falsifying business records....
