The US government opens 22 million acres of federal lands to solar (electrek.co)
A Colorado town's newspapers were stolen after a story about rape charges at the police chief's house (apnews.com)
Nearly all the copies of a small-town Colorado newspaper were stolen from newspaper racks on the same day the Ouray County Plaindealer published a story about charges being filed over rapes alleged to have occurred at an underage drinking party at the police chief’s house while the chief was asleep, the owner and publisher...
More concerning than the nanoplastics in water bottles are the chemicals on them (www.latimes.com)
They are used to give plastic products their distinctive durability, bendability and sleek, nonstick surface....
DC bar authorities file disciplinary charges against pro-Trump 2020 election lawyers (www.politico.com)
Washington, D.C., bar investigators have filed disciplinary charges against three lawyers who aided Donald Trump ally Sidney Powell’s campaign to mount discredited legal challenges to the 2020 election results....
Netanyahu just said Israel will permanently occupy the land ‘from the river to the sea.’ The U.S. media is covering it up (mondoweiss.net)
A 13-year-old used a ‘Help Me!’ sign to escape after being abducted. A Texas man has now pleaded guilty to kidnapping (www.cnn.com)
A Texas man who kidnapped a 13-year-old girl in San Antonio and sexually assaulted her multiple times while driving her to Southern California last year pleaded guilty to a federal kidnapping charge Friday as part of a plea agreement, the US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said....
Los Angeles Innocence Project takes Scott Peterson case up 21 years after wife’s murder (www.theguardian.com)
Two decades after Scott Peterson was sentenced to death for the murder of his pregnant wife in a high-profile trial, the Los Angeles Innocence Project said this week that it had taken up the case....
Angst over LGBTQ+ stories led to another canceled show. But in a Wyoming town, a play was salvaged (apnews.com)
Oliver Baez spent two months rehearsing a scene for a school play in which his character confronts another student about bullying a gay student who takes his own life....
In first known action in criminal justice system, special grand jury to examine Uvalde response, newspaper reports (www.cnn.com)
A special grand jury was chosen in Uvalde, Texas, Friday to investigate the response to the 2022 massacre at Robb Elementary School, according to area newspapers....
California, Illinois and NYC succeeded in getting 2020 census numbers double-checked and increased (www.kpbs.org)
Illinois is adding tens of thousands of people to its population total, and California is getting misplaced sailors on an aircraft carrier put in the right location after successfully asking for a review of their 2020 census figures....
Election-year politics threaten Senate border deal as Trump rallies opposition (www.kpbs.org)
A politically treacherous dynamic is taking hold as negotiators in Congress work to strike a bipartisan deal on the border and immigration, with vocal opposition from the hard right and former President Donald Trump threatening to topple the carefully negotiated compromise....
Revealed: far-right figures try to create white nationalist ‘haven’ in Kentucky (www.theguardian.com)
Ohio is poised to become the 2nd state to restrict gender-affirming care for adults (apnews.com)
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced proposals this month that transgender advocates say could block access to gender-affirming care provided by independent clinics and general practitioners, leaving thousands of adults scrambling for treatment and facing health risks....
State laws are factoring into college choices for young adults (www.nbcnews.com)
One survey shows as many as 73 percent of young adults are taking state abortion laws into account when making decisions about where to go to college. Savannah Sellers reports on one of the most important decisions in the lives of young students and their families.
Both of these agencies want a piece of Microsoft’s Open AI partnership (www.politico.com)
The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission are deep in discussions over which agency can probe OpenAI, including the ChatGPT creators’ involvement with Microsoft, on antitrust grounds.
Bangladesh's Opposition Launches "India Out" Campaign (www.firstpost.com)
Entire Edition Of Newspapers Stolen On Day It Publishes Story About Rape At Police Chief’s Home (www.huffpost.com)
“It’s pretty clear that someone didn’t want the community to read the news this week,” said Ouray County Plaindealer co-publisher Erin McIntyre.
Growing number of Senate Democrats question Biden’s Israel strategy (www.washingtonpost.com)
Five Senate Democrats on Friday signed onto a measure that would condition aid to Israel on its compliance with international law, bringing the total number of co-sponsors to 18. And a prominent Democrat, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, is rounding up support for his amendment to stop President Biden from circumventing Congress when...
Biden Presses Netanyahu on Working Toward a Palestinian State (www.nytimes.com)
President Biden pressed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Friday to agree to the creation of a Palestinian state after the war in Gaza is over and raised options that would limit Palestinian sovereignty to make the prospect more palatable to Israel....
CNN witnessed first-hand results of Israel's bulldozing of graveyards in Gaza (youtu.be)
Thousands sign Christian petition urging bishops not to back Donald Trump (www.newsweek.com)
Mexico, Chile refer Israel and Hamas to ICC over possible war crimes (www.reuters.com)
Day 2 – Turkish airstrikes on North and East Syria target electricity, oil and other civilian infrastructure. (rojavainformationcenter.org)
Accustomed as we are to looking where the spotlight shines, it is easy to forget that Rojava is still a reality and that Kurdistan has not stopped resisting just because the world has turned away
US warns of Russian efforts to turn public opinion against Ukraine in upcoming European elections (kyivindependent.com)
Russia’s use of disinformation to further its own goals and weaken its perceived adversaries has been widely documented. Russian disinformation operations have been implicated in several key elections around the world, including the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the Brexit vote in the U.K. in the same year....
Elizabeth Holmes barred from federal health programs for 90 years (arstechnica.com)
Elizabeth Holmes—the disgraced and incarcerated founder of the infamous blood-testing startup Theranos—is barred from participating in federal health programs for nine decades, according to an announcement from the health department Friday....
