Graduation rates for low-income students lag while their student loan debt soars (theconversation.com)
New York Passed an Ambitious Climate Bill for Publicly Owned Power. The Perfect Partner? McKinsey (hellgatenyc.com)
Black death row inmates suffer botched executions at twice rate of whites in US (www.theguardian.com)
A glaring racial disparity is evident in the 73 botched procedures involving lethal injections since 1976, report by Reprieve finds...
Dickey Betts, Allman Brothers Band Singer-Guitarist, Dead at 80 (www.rollingstone.com)
Researchers Develop AI to Predict Resignation Risk With New Recruits (www3.nhk.or.jp)
What could go wrong?
Marjorie Taylor Greene is an idiot. She is trying to wreck the GOP (www.foxnews.com)
*** Technically this is news from a far right-wing source. In reality it’s priceless comedy. ***...
Researchers Develop AI to Predict Resignation Risk With New Recruits (lemmings.world)
This seems fine. What could go wrong?
ABC4.com: Students walk out of Utah middle school to protest 'furries' (www.abc4.com)
“A lot of the information that’s been put out there is completely incorrect and inaccurate,” Nebo School District Public Information Officer Seth Sorensen told ABC4.com....
Trump hush-money trial: Juror excused over concerns identity made public - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Jury is shrinking, not growing...
Google sacked staff protesting about contract with Israel (www.bbc.com)
US and UK impose fresh Iran sanctions in wake of Israel attack (www.politico.eu)
Pennsylvania school board cancels gay '30 Rock' actor's anti-bullying talk, citing his 'lifestyle' (www.nbcnews.com)
Proposed changes to state Medicaid plans could shake up health coverage for 1.8 million low-income Texans (www.texastribune.org)
The move, which has not been finalized, would drop three large health plans run for two decades by nonprofit children’s hospitals....
‘You are my son, I love you’: stabbed Sydney bishop forgives attacker (www.scmp.com)
Oklahoma man arrested after authorities say he threw a pipe bomb at Satanic Temple in Massachusetts (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.one/post/13374455...
Pesticides pose a significant risk in 20% of fruits and vegetables, Consumer Reports finds (www.cbsnews.com)
25 years after Columbine, trauma shadows survivors of the school shooting (apnews.com)
Hours after she escaped the Columbine High School shooting, 14-year-old Missy Mendo slept between her parents in bed, still wearing the shoes she had on when she fled her math class. She wanted to be ready to run....
Blinken Is Sitting on Staff Recommendations to Sanction Israeli Military Units Linked to Killings or Rapes (www.propublica.org)
A special State Department panel recommended months ago that Secretary of State Antony Blinken disqualify multiple Israeli military and police units from receiving U.S. aid after reviewing allegations that they committed serious human rights abuses....
Mexico, facing US pressure, will halt incentives to Chinese EV makers (www.reuters.com)
Trump Media tells shareholders how to block their DJT stock being loaned to short sellers (www.cnbc.com)
Supreme Court makes it easier to sue for job discrimination over forced transfers (apnews.com)
The Supreme Court on Wednesday made it easier for workers who are transferred from one job to another against their will to pursue job discrimination claims under federal civil rights law, even when they are not demoted or docked pay....
Maui's deadly wildfires fueled by lack of preparedness, communication breakdowns (www.usatoday.com)
Challenges to communication and evacuation, unprecedented weather conditions and the lack of a “heightened sense” of emergency about fire warnings from the National Weather Service are just a few of the factors that contributed to the devastating fires on Maui last August laid out in two reports released this week....
Georgia beach town, Tybee Island, trying to curb Orange Crush, large annual gathering of Black college students (www.cbsnews.com)
Thousands of Black college students expected this weekend for an annual spring bash at Georgia’s largest public beach will be greeted by dozens of extra police officers and barricades closing off neighborhood streets. While the beach will remain open, officials are blocking access to nearby parking....
Incarcerated people died 3.5 times more frequently at Covid peak than those outside – report (www.theguardian.com)
Study from University of California, Irvine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital shows prison mortality rate spiked at least 50%...