Electric Cars Are Suddenly Becoming Affordable (www.nytimes.com)
More efficient manufacturing, falling battery costs and intense competition are lowering sticker prices for battery-powered models to within striking distance of gasoline cars.
[opinion] Trump Says He's 'Okay' With Serving Jail Time, And He Might Do Just That (www.theroot.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/17713272...
Biden to sign executive order to close southern US border to asylum seekers (www.theguardian.com)
Joe Biden will this week sign an executive order to temporarily close the southern US border to asylum seekers in a sharp political U-turn aimed at winning support on a key voter concern in a presidential election year....
Butts, breasts, and genitals now explicitly allowed on Elon Musk’s X (arstechnica.com)
Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents (www.404media.co)
Spotify CEO sparks backlash after social media post that claimed the cost of making "content" is "close to zero" (www.loudersound.com)
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek sparked an online backlash after a social media post in which he said the cost of creating “content” is “close to zero”....
Glitch at New York Stock Exchange Throws Markets Into Chaos (gizmodo.com)
Why 1,000 Homicides in St. Louis Remain Unsolved (features.apmreports.org)
Of the roughly 1,900 homicides committed in the city of St. Louis from 2014 through 2023, more than 1,000 remain unsolved, according to an analysis of homicide data obtained by APM Reports and St. Louis Public Radio....
Trump Campaign Sent Cease-and-Desist Letter to ProPublica Attempting to Stop Their Latest Exposé. It Didn’t Work. (www.mediaite.com)
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign and businesses have provided “Significant financial benefits” to nine of the witnesses in his criminal cases, ProPublica reported Monday morning - shrugging off a threatening cease-and-desist letter sent by Trump’s attorney....
Car Deals Vanished During the Pandemic. They’re Coming Back. (www.nytimes.com)
For much of the last four years, automakers and their dealers had so few cars to sell — and demand was so strong — that they could command high prices. Those days are over, and hefty discounts are starting a comeback....
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)
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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…
