Donald Trump says he would encourage Russia to attack Nato allies who pay too little (www.theguardian.com)
'Disenfranchised' millennials feel 'locked out' of the housing market and it taints every part of economic life, top economist Mark Zandi says (fortune.com)
Few milestones in life mean as much to the American Dream as owning a home. And millennials have encountered the kind of trouble totally befitting their generation, which largely graduated into the teeth of the disastrous post-2008 job market. Just as they entered peak homebuying and household formation age, housing...
How Washington is bracing for Trump’s next trade war (www.politico.com)
Trading partners are taking the threat of a new trade war seriously, even if they don’t take Trump’s comments literally....
Fighting the smartphone ‘invasion’: the French village that voted to ban scrolling in public (www.theguardian.com)
Seine-Port is introducing restrictions on phone use in streets, shops and parks – but young people say there’s little else to do...
Nightclubs on the brink as clean-living Gen Zs ditch scene (www.yahoo.com)
‘Fleeing under the cover of darkness’: How Idaho’s abortion ban is changing pregnancy in the state (edition.cnn.com)
Jen and John Adkins never expected to have to send a package like this....
Baby in Missouri dies after mother mistakenly puts her in oven for nap (www.theguardian.com)
Florida man bludgeons father to death after learning he got 'the vaccine:' Investigators | WCHS (wchstv.com)
Trump Says He Might 'Encourage' Russia To Attack NATO Allies (www.huffpost.com)
Trump attacks Haley for absence of her husband, who is deployed | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
‘This should not have happened,’ lawyer says of 16-year-old’s death at poultry plant (mississippitoday.org)
Family of 16-year-old worker killed cleaning a machine at Mar-Jac Poultry plant in Hattiesburg files lawsuit.
New York City sees tightest rental market in more than five decades (www.politico.com)
The city’s rental vacancy rate fell to its lowest level since 1968....
Everest Climbers To Bring Poop Down With Them As Mountain Starts To Stink (www.iflscience.com)
Judge blocks Omaha's ban on guns in public places while lawsuit challenging it moves forward (apnews.com)
Nebraska’s largest city won’t be able to enforce its ban on guns on all public property, including parks and sidewalks, while a lawsuit challenging that restriction moves forward....
China Keeps Building Stadiums in Africa. But at What Cost? (www.nytimes.com)
This year’s Africa Cup of Nations, like several previous editions, played out in Chinese-built arenas. It will end with familiar questions about their legacy....
Is the Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event? (www.newyorker.com)
Chernobyl's mutant wolves appear to have developed resistance to cancer, study finds (news.sky.com)
The wolves are exposed to cancer-causing radiation as they roam the wastelands of the abandoned city - with researchers finding part of their genetic information seems resilient to increased risk of the disease.
Parents fuming after Montreal-area teacher allegedly lists students' art for sale online (montreal.ctvnews.ca)
The weirdest part of this is it isn’t even good art. It’s the sort of art you would expect from 12-year-old junior high students....
Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D (arstechnica.com)
Florida man seriously injured and unable to speak after encounter with police, daughter says after her father was falsely accused of stealing a banana (wiredposts.com)
A woman in Florida says her 55-year-old “medically fragile” father was falsely accused of theft at a Florida grocery store last week and then seriously injured in a violent encounter with police. Now, she says, he is hospitalized and has lost the ability to speak.
Gay adult film actor-turned-Proud Boy from Pasco gets jail time for Capitol riot (www.wfla.com)
Georgia police and FBI conduct Swat-style raids on ‘Cop City’ activists’ homes (www.theguardian.com)
Proposed mine outside Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp nears approval despite environment damage concerns (apnews.com)
The Georgia Environmental Protection Division said it will take public comments on the draft permits for 30 days before working up final versions to send to the agency’s director for approval....
Investigators will try to find out why a private jet crashed onto a Florida interstate and killed 2 (apnews.com)
The Federal Aviation Administration said the Bombardier Challenger 600 jet had five people were aboard when the crash happened around 3:15 p.m. Friday near Naples, just north of where the interstate heads east toward Fort Lauderdale along what is known as Alligator Alley....
Gaza residents surviving off animal feed and rice as food dwindles (www.bbc.com)
People have also described digging down into the soil to access water pipes, for drinking and washing....
