Has Polling Become Weaponized? (thinkbigpicture.substack.com)
The Nationalization of Boeing Begins (www.thebignewsletter.com)
First female LA Times editor in newspaper’s 142-year history talks layoffs, losing journalists of color (www.nbcnews.com)
Iowa promised $75 million for school safety. Two shootings later, the money is largely unspent (apnews.com)
The June 2022 announcement was addressed to parents horrified by the massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas: Iowa would spend $75 million in federal pandemic relief funds to improve school building security....
U.S. and China to hold high-level talks aimed at curbing the fentanyl crisis (www.nbcnews.com)
The United States and China will hold formal high-level talks in Beijing next week aimed at limiting the flow of fentanyl into the U.S., senior Chinese officials tell NBC News, resuming counternarcotics cooperation that was suspended for more than a year even as America struggles with what has been called its worst drug crisis...
Governor drafting plan to help Pennsylvania higher ed system that's among the worst in affordability (apnews.com)
Gov. Josh Shapiro plans next month to propose an overhaul of a higher education system in Pennsylvania that is among the worst in the nation in affordability, his administration said Friday....
Fake rich? Affluent millennials are more likely to exaggerate to appear wealthy (www.cnbc.com)
Housing is now unaffordable for a record half of all U.S. renters, study finds (www.npr.org)
Florida could deploy state guard to Texas border under new bill (www.newsweek.com)
Donald Trump storms out of closing arguments in E Jean Carroll trial (www.independent.co.uk)
Top UN court says Israel must take ‘all measures’ to prevent genocide in Gaza but stops short of calling for ceasefire (www.cnn.com)
The UN’s top court ordered Israel to “take all measures” to prevent genocide in Gaza, but stopped short of calling for Israel to suspend its military campaign in the war-torn enclave....
Ohio pastor charged for housing the homeless in his church sues city in federal lawsuit (www.nbcnews.com)
The suit, filed Monday, accuses the city and its officials of launching a harassment campaign against Dad’s Place, a church in Bryan, for keeping its doors open 24/7 for the homeless....
George Carlin estate sues over fake comedy special purportedly generated by AI (apnews.com)
The lawsuit filed in federal court in Los Angeles on Thursday asks that a judge order the podcast outlet, Dudesy, to immediately take down the audio special, “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead,” in which a synthesis of Carlin, who died in 2008, delivers commentary on current events....
Proud Boys member gets six years in prison for Capitol riot after insulting judge (www.theguardian.com)
Bru has been representing himself with an attorney on standby. He has spewed anti-government rhetoric that appears to be inspired by the sovereign citizen movement. At the start of the hearing, Bru demanded that the judge and a prosecutor turn over five years of their financial records....
Tesla recalling nearly 200,000 vehicles because software glitch can cause backup camera to go dark (apnews.com)
The recall covers certain Models Y, S and X from the 2023 model year. All are equipped with “Full Self-Driving” computer 4.0 and run software version 2023.44.30 through 2023.44.30.6 or 2023.44.100....
Kenneth Smith ‘struggled for life’ for 22 minutes in Alabama nitrogen gas execution: Updates (www.independent.co.uk)
“Kenny just began to gasp for air repeatedly and the execution took about 25 minutes total.”...
Internal audit slams shoddy investigations of police shootings. St. Louis keeps it secret. (www.stltoday.com)
The city has been fighting to keep the audit out of public view ever since it was finished....
Musk brain implant company violated US hazardous material transport rules -documents (news.yahoo.com)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink was fined for violating U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) rules regarding the movement of hazardous materials, according to records from the federal agency reviewed by Reuters....
Babies born in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ record lower birth weight, preterm births – report (www.theguardian.com)
New report shows babies born in notorious industrial corridor experience low birth weight at three times the national average...
Gustav Klimt portrait found after almost 100 years (www.bbc.com)
A painting by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, that was believed lost for 100 years, has been found in Vienna....
A day after Trump testifies, lawyers have final say in E. Jean Carroll defamation trial (apnews.com)
Closing arguments are to begin Friday in the defamation case against Donald Trump a day after the former president left a New York courtroom fuming that he hadn’t been given an opportunity to refute E. Jean Carroll’s sexual abuse accusations....
Schools are using surveillance tech to catch students vaping, snaring some with harsh punishments (apnews.com)
When Aaliyah Iglesias was caught vaping at a Texas high school, she didn’t realize how much could be taken from her....
Biden delays consideration of new natural gas export terminals. Democrat cites risk to climate (apnews.com)
The Biden administration is delaying consideration of new natural gas export terminals in the United States, even as gas shipments to Europe and Asia have soared in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine....
BJP is more dangerous than Coronavirus, says Stalin (www.thehindu.com)
Mr. Stalin said people of “Hindi-speaking States underwent untold miseries” during the pandemic as they could not get “transport facilities to return to their hometowns.” “We had shed tears for them. They walked hundreds of kilometres. Some of them were even crushed by trains. If something is more dangerous than the...
Man accused of smuggling migrant family who froze to death at border found living outside Toronto (www.cbc.ca)
A man accused by police in India of helping smuggle a family of four through Canada just before they froze to death on the Manitoba border with the United States has been found living freely in a suburb outside Toronto, an investigation by CBC’s The Fifth Estate has found....