Trump Says Supreme Court Should Bail Him Out of Criminal Conviction (www.rollingstone.com)
The former president complained that his sentencing is set to take place days before the Republican National Convention...
Russia co-opts far-right politicians in Europe with cash, officials say (wapo.st)
A Kremlin-backed media outlet — the Prague-based Voice of Europe — funneled hundreds of thousands of euros to far-right politicians, officials say.
Top Canadian scientist alleges in leaked emails he was barred from studying mystery brain illness (www.theguardian.com)
A shady financial tool from the housing-bubble era is making a comeback | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
CEOs made nearly 200 times what their workers got paid last year (apnews.com)
The typical compensation package for chief executives who run companies in the S&P 500 jumped nearly 13% last year, easily surpassing the gains for workers at a time when inflation was putting considerable pressure on Americans’ budgets....
Multiple Trump Witnesses Have Received Significant Financial Benefits From His Businesses, Campaign (www.propublica.org)
Nine witnesses in the criminal cases against former President Donald Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages, new jobs, and a grant of shares and cash from Trump’s media company....
Texas professors want to use abortion ban to punish students for "consensual sexual intercourse" (www.salon.com)
“Along with their anger about abortion, they grouse about not being allowed to punish students “for being homosexual or transgender.” They also argue they should be able to penalize teaching assistants for “cross-dressing,” by which they appear to mean allowing trans women to wear skirts.”
High Rates and Prices Leave Many Stuck in a Starter Home (www.nytimes.com)
Squeezed by high interest rates and record prices, homeowners are frozen in place. They can’t sell. So first-time buyers can’t buy....
Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents (www.404media.co)
Google has accidentally collected childrens’ voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users, and made YouTube recommendations based on users’ deleted watch history, among thousands of other employee-reported privacy incidents, according to a copy of an internal Google database which tracks six years worth...
Top Democrats launch inquiry into Trump’s brazen $1bn pitch to oil execs (www.theguardian.com)
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse calls audacious request ‘definition of corruption’ amid investigation into Mar-a-Lago meeting in April...
Who is Elizabeth Teckenbrock? Single mom who went viral for crying while baking own birthday cake says ex-husband is ‘Scientologist’ (haor.org)
Elizabeth Teckenbrock, 29, from Tampa, Florida, went viral after sharing a clip on TikTok showing the difficulty of being a single parent which has amassed more than 53million views
California inmates fight wildfires — but if prisons can’t supply enough crews, what’s next? (www.sacbee.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/web/…/article287294735.html
Sonoma County jail inmates began a hunger strike a week ago, alleging jail staff weren't following COVID protocols. The jail is now quarantined with at least three positive cases. (www.pressdemocrat.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/sonoma-county-jail-hunger-strik…
Lengthy immigrant detention can be unconstitutional, US appeals court rules (www.reuters.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/lengthy-immigrant-detention-can…
Biden is said to be finalizing plans for migrant limits as part of a US-Mexico border clampdown (apnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/biden-immigration-border-crackd…
The number of deaths in ICE custody is already more than double all of last year (www.nbcnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/number-deaths-ice-custody-alrea…
After crackdown on Hong Kong, overseas communities carry the torch to keep Tiananmen memories alive (apnews.com)
HONG KONG (AP) — As the 35th anniversary of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square crackdown neared, Rowena He, a prominent scholar of that bloody chapter of modern China’s history, was busy flying between the United States, Britain and Canada to give a series of talks. Each was aimed at speaking out for those who cannot....
1 dead, 24 shot in overnight mass shooting in Akron, Ohio (www.cnn.com)
A 27-year-old man was killed and 24 other people were shot after gunfire erupted early Sunday morning in Akron, Ohio, during what a police official said was a big birthday party....
Donors raise $233,000 to give US cart pusher, 90, chance at retirement (www.theguardian.com)
Thousands of people have donated about a quarter of a million dollars to a 90-year-old US air force veteran who has been financially supporting himself by pushing shopping carts at a grocery store in sweltering Louisiana – and now has the option of retiring if he wants thanks to the strangers’ generosity....
Kansas supreme court rules state constitution does not provide the right to vote (www.theguardian.com)
In a bizarre mixed ruling combining several challenges to a 2021 election law, Kansas’s supreme court has ruled that its residents have no right to vote enshrined in the state’s constitution....
Preliminary results project Claudia Sheinbaum to become Mexico’s first female president (edition.cnn.com)
Mexico is set to get its first female president, with preliminary results showing Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and Mexico City’s former mayor, is on track to win the country’s largest election in history....
‘No way out without bloodshed’: the right believe the US is under threat and are mobilizing (www.theguardian.com)
The posts are ominous....
A growing California wildfire spanning 14,000 acres is forcing residents to evacuate (www.cnn.com)
Stormy Daniels urges Melania Trump to leave husband Donald now - for two reasons (www.mirror.co.uk)
'I'm not going to let you continue': ABC host stops Trump lawyer from lying about Biden (www.rawstory.com)
