Supreme Court leaves Illinois semiautomatic gun ban in place (text.npr.org)
Ohio prosecutors broke rules to win convictions and got away with it (text.npr.org)
Jail populations are bouncing back to near pre-pandemic levels (text.npr.org)
The excitement of 70,000 Swifties can shake the Earth (ghostarchive.org)
Fed Signals Shift to Easing: Rate Cuts Likely in 2024, Economy Expected to Remain Solid. (lemmy.world)
'Damaging': Saskatchewan high school rejects author's talk on son coming out as gay (www.brandonsun.com)
“I got this email back, and it said, ‘As you’re probably aware, there’s been a lot going on in Saskatchewan over the past few months and we’ve been waiting for a directive,‘” Remenda Swanson told The Canadian Press in an interview this week. She graduated from the high school in 1972 and now lives in Edmonton....
Testimony ends in Donald Trump's civil fraud trial, but the verdict isn't expected until next month (apnews.com)
After more than 10 weeks, 40 witnesses and bursts of courtroom fireworks, testimony wrapped up Wednesday in former President Donald Trump’s civil business fraud trial. But a verdict is at least a month away....
New York removes medical debt from credit reports (apnews.com)
Unpaid medical debt will no longer appear in New York residents’ credit reports under a bill signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday....
Alabama’s plan for nation’s first execution by nitrogen gas is ‘hostile to religion,’ lawsuit says (www.nbcnews.com)
Kenneth Eugene Smith’s execution would be the nation’s first using nitrogen gas....
House passes sweeping defense policy bill that includes 5.2% pay raise for members of the military (www.cnn.com)
The House voted Thursday to pass a critical defense policy bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act, which sets the policy agenda and authorizes funding for the Department of Defense annually....
Hong Kong places arrest bounties on activists abroad for breaching national security law (apnews.com)
Stranger killed Jewish leader in random, violent home invasion once feared to be hate crime: Prosecutors (lawandcrime.com)
1 in 5 seniors still work — and they're happier than younger workers (www.cbsnews.com)
ExxonMobil says it will stay in Guyana for the long term despite territorial dispute with Venezuela (apnews.com)
Exclusive: Nearly half of the Israeli munitions dropped on Gaza are imprecise ‘dumb bombs,’ US intelligence assessment finds (www.cnn.com)
Nearly half of the air-to-ground munitions that Israel has used in Gaza in its war with Hamas since October 7 have been unguided, otherwise known as “dumb bombs,” according to a new US intelligence assessment.
China's Global Repression a Risk for the US: Commission Advising Congress (www.newsweek.com)
U.S. Blocks Shipment of Rifles to Israel Over Concerns of West Bank Settler Violence (www.msn.com)
Idaho Keeps Some Psychiatric Patients in Prison, Ignoring Decades of Warnings About the Practice (www.propublica.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/idaho-keeps-some-psychiatric-pa…
Kids complained for years about sexually abusive probation officers. Some of them still work for L.A. County (www.latimes.com)
Starting in the late 1990s, the complaints by young girls incarcerated at Camp Scott began to pile up — all alleging similar sexual abuse by the same man: Thomas E. Jackson, then a deputy at the Santa Clarita juvenile camp....
Tennessee prisons mishandled sexual assault cases, saw staggering turnover, audit finds (www.tennessean.com)
Archived at ghostarchive.org/archive/281vz?wr=true
Rankin Sheriff’s Department faces another lawsuit, this one for a jail suicide (mississippitoday.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/rankin-sheriff-department-sued-…
‘A Crazy System’: How Arbitration Returns Abusive Guards to New York Prisons (www.themarshallproject.org)
Archived at ghostarchive.org/archive/VpiFG?wr=true
Ohio prosecutors broke rules to win convictions and got away with it (www.npr.org)
Among the findings:...
Race played role in sentencing of Black child, 10, for urinating in public, lawyer says (www.nbcnews.com)
The lawyer said he’s baffled that prosecutors pursued the case and that a youth judge oversaw a sentence that included probation and requiring the child to write a report about Kobe Bryant....
