Trump is booted off Bloomberg’s Billionaire list after Truth Social stock price dives (www.independent.co.uk)
Ford recalls nearly 43,000 SUVs due to gas leaks that can cause fires, but remedy won't fix leaks (apnews.com)
Stubborn US inflation dents hopes for imminent Fed interest rate cut (www.theguardian.com)
New Boeing Whistleblower Says 787 Fuselages Are Improperly Fastened Together, Could Break Apart (futurism.com)
Trump Media shares drop by more than 8%, putting market cap under $5 billion (www.cnbc.com)
Two far-right conspiracy theorists to pay up to $1.25m for robocall campaign (www.theguardian.com)
Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman found liable last March for trying to discourage Black New Yorkers from voting in 2020 election...
‘I cannot afford to live’: Gen Z is full of financial angst despite inheriting a golden job market (www.cnn.com)
Stubbornly high US inflation grew stronger than expected in March , vaulting to a 3.5% increase from last year (www.cnn.com)
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the first-ever national legally enforceable drinking water standard for PFAS (www.whitehouse.gov)
Boeing hit after new whistleblower raises safety concerns (www.bbc.com)
Boeing is facing new pressure after a whistleblower reported safety concerns over the manufacturing of some of its planes to US regulators....
Missouri executes Brian Dorsey for 2006 double murder after mercy bid backed by 72 correctional officers (www.cnn.com)
The state of Missouri on Tuesday executed Brian Dorsey for the 2006 murders of his cousin, Sarah Bonnie, and her husband, Benjamin Bonnie, after an effort to have his life spared failed in recent days....
Ex-Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg will be sentenced for perjury and faces a second stint in jail (apnews.com)
Allen Weisselberg, a former longtime executive in Donald Trump’s real estate empire, is set to be sentenced Wednesday for lying under oath in the ex-president’s New York civil fraud case....
Chinese organized crime’s latest U.S. target: gift cards (www.propublica.org)
Chinese crime rings already dominate the illegal marijuana trade in the U.S. and launder cocaine and heroin profits. Now a federal task force is investigating their role in a burgeoning form of gift card fraud....
Israel threatens to strike Iran directly if Iran launches attack from its territory (apnews.com)
Israel’s foreign minister threatened Wednesday that his country’s forces would strike Iran directly if the Islamic Republic launched an attack from its territory against Israel, as tensions between the rival powers flare following the killings of Iranian generals in a blast at the Iranian consulate in Syria....
The influential conservative group making it harder for Idaho districts to fix their schools (www.propublica.org)
The Idaho Freedom Foundation has gone beyond the education culture wars by targeting local bond and levy elections, which districts rely on heavily to build and repair schools....
EPA imposes first national limits on 'forever chemicals' in drinking water (www.nbcnews.com)
PFAS is a class of chemicals that can linger almost permanently in air, water and soil. Research suggests they are associated with a variety of health issues, including cancer....
Residents in wealthy California town block access to public hot springs with boulders (www.theguardian.com)
County officials alert Montecito homeowners that they face prosecution, including daily fines of $850 if stones are not removed...
Outrage after US hunter who reportedly took wolf in bar and killed it only fined (www.theguardian.com)
A Wyoming hunter who reportedly ran over a gray wolf with a snowmobile, taped the creature’s mouth shut, took a picture with it inside a local bar and then shot it to death behind the tavern has ignited calls for stiffer penalties in such an egregious case of animal abuse....
Trump Media stock erases all gains since it began trading as DJT shares fall again (www.nbcnews.com)
And many traders are betting that the stock price will continue to fall further....
Biden may miss window to appear on Alabama’s presidential ballot, secretary of state says (www.cnn.com)
Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing: A Planned Amendment to This Week’s Vote Would Be the Largest Expansion of FISA in Over 15 Years (US-focused) (cdt.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/15139215...
Videos show Chicago police fired nearly 100 shots over 41 seconds during fatal traffic stop (apnews.com)
Plainclothes Chicago police officers fired nearly 100 gunshots over 41 seconds during a traffic stop that left one man dead and one officer injured, according to graphic video footage a police oversight agency released Tuesday....
Miami shows how a new kind of gentrification is coming to US cities, climate change plays a role (www.businessinsider.com)
Arizona's top court revives 19th century abortion ban (www.reuters.com)
Arizona’s top court on Tuesday revived a ban on nearly all abortions under a law from 1864, a half century before statehood and women’s suffrage, further restricting reproductive rights in a state where terminating a pregnancy was already barred at 15 weeks of gestation....
57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016 (ground.news)
Only 57 fossil fuels and cement producers have been responsible for most of the world’s CO2 emissions since 2016, according to the Carbon Majors report by InfluenceMap...
