Supreme Court rejects Elon Musk over agreement with SEC to vet social media posts (www.nbcnews.com)
Jupiter may be the reason why Earth has a moon, new study hints | Live Science (www.livescience.com)
It would appear that the so-called “great instability” event that wreaked chaos among the planets, sending the gas giants careening through space until they settled into the orbits we know today, occurred between 60 and 100 million years after the birth of the solar system. This is the conclusion of some careful scientific...
Biden grants clemency to crack, cocaine dealers (www.washingtontimes.com)
Florida’s 6-week abortion ban set to take effect this week (www.cnn.com)
A stricter abortion law is set to take effect in Florida on Wednesday — dropping the state’s 15-week ban to a six-week ban — and it will likely affect thousands of people seeking abortion care within the first month alone....
ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it (noyb.eu)
It’s clear that companies are currently unable to make chatbots like ChatGPT comply with EU law, when processing data about individuals. If a system cannot produce accurate and transparent results, it cannot be used to generate data about individuals. The technology has to follow the legal requirements, not the other way...
Two people killed in Texas after 350,000 pound load detaches from trailer, crushes vehicle: officials (www.yahoo.com)
Imagine being crushed by a 350k pound load while out driving. Holy moly Batman!
Florida ‘callously’ strips healthcare from thousands of children despite new law (www.theguardian.com)
Governor Ron DeSantis’s challenging of a ‘continuous eligibility’ rule has booted over 22,000 children off insurance since January...
Tractor-trailers with no one aboard? The future is near for self-driving trucks on US roads (apnews.com)
Young Americans' wealth has soared since the pandemic (www.axios.com)
A Doctor at Cigna Said Her Bosses Pressured Her to Review Patients’ Cases Too Quickly. Cigna Threatened to Fire Her. (www.propublica.org)
Leaked U.S. Memos Say Israel May Be Violating International Law In Blocking Gaza Aid (www.huffpost.com)
Though NSM-20 imposes no new legal requirements, it also asks Secretary of State Antony Blinken to report to Congress by May 8 on whether he believes Israel has complied with the assurances....
Americans are falling behind on their payments (www.cnn.com)
Demonstrations roil US campuses ahead of graduations as protesters spar over Gaza conflict (www.seattletimes.com)
Protests are roiling college campuses across the U.S. as upcoming graduation ceremonies are threatened by disruptive demonstrators, with students and others sparring over Israel’s military offensive in Gaza and its mounting death toll....
‘Do not bow’: ex-Black Panther praises pro-Palestinian student protesters from prison (www.theguardian.com)
In a powerful and rousing live address to students at the City University of New York (CUNY) on Friday night, the incarcerated Black political activist Mumia Abu-Jamal praised the pro-Palestinian movement growing at US colleges as being on the right side of history....
They’re back: Cohen and Avenatti return to spotlight at Trump trial (www.theguardian.com)
As Donald Trump’s hush-money trial enters its second week, jurors will be asked to focus on the testimony of his former Mr Fixit – the disbarred lawyer Michael Cohen....
College Protests Over Gaza Deepen Democratic Rifts (www.nytimes.com)
Southern California woman pleads guilty in $150-million counterfeit postage scheme (www.latimes.com)
A San Gabriel Valley woman who was accused of using counterfeit postage on tens of millions of packages pleaded guilty Friday to defrauding the United States Postal Service out of more than $150 million....
Sexsomnia: An embarrassing sleep disorder no one wants to talk about (www.cnn.com)
A 38-year-old man repeatedly tries to force his wife to have sex in the middle of the night but has no memory of his actions when he wakes up....
Fights break out between pro-Israel, pro-Palestine protesters at UCLA (www.thehill.com)
Williams-Sonoma must pay almost $3.2 million for violating FTC's 'Made in USA' order (apnews.com)
Home products retailer Williams-Sonoma will have to pay almost $3.2 million for violating a Federal Trade Commission “Made in USA” order....
Two Chinese nationals charged in US with trying to export banned semiconductor machinery to China — one arrested in Chicago (www.tomshardware.com)
Two Chinese nationals have been charged for an alleged scheme to illegally export a semiconductor dicing machine to a Chinese tech company. One of the two, Han Li, 44, was arrested in Chicago on Wednesday, while Lin Chen, 64, is believed to be in China. The charges and arrest are the latest developments in a protracted trade war...
Tornadoes kill 4 in Oklahoma, leaving trail of destruction and thousands without power (apnews.com)
Tornadoes killed four people in Oklahoma and left thousands without power Sunday after a destructive outbreak of severe weather flattened buildings in the heart of one rural town and injured at least 100 people across the state....
Analysis: Misinformation has created an alternative world for some Americans (www.cnn.com)
There’s a tendency in this heated political climate to simply reject people who are saying false things and to write off conspiracy theorists writ large....