Judge allows migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard by DeSantis to sue plane firm (www.theguardian.com)
About 50 people sent to island in 2022 in DeSantis’s ‘relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations’...
Woman breaks her neck inside St. Clair County Jail, isn't taken to the hospital for days (www.wxyz.com)
‘They were moving me all around and I had a broken neck.’...
China will use AI to disrupt elections in the US, South Korea and India, Microsoft warns (www.theguardian.com)
Beijing did a test run in Taiwan using AI-generated content to influence voters away from a pro-sovereignty candidate...
Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up. (mashable.com)
A shocking story was promoted on the “front page” or main feed of Elon Musk’s X on Thursday:...
Democratic senators pressured EPA to ease rules on steel mill pollution (www.motherjones.com)
‘Building an authoritarian axis’: the Trump ‘envoy’ courting the global far right (www.theguardian.com)
Richard Grenell’s shadow foreign policy campaign is unsettling diplomats and threatens to collapse US interests...
Earthquake centered near New York City rattles the Northeast (apnews.com)
The agency reported a quake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.7, centered near Lebanon, New Jersey, or about 45 miles west of New York City and 50 miles north of Philadelphia....
'We pay taxes so the corporations don’t have to': Amazon to get 100% tax cut for project in Mississippi — when the state has the ‘highest rate of poverty in America.' (finance.yahoo.com)
Joe Lewis spared jail time for part in ‘brazen’ insider trading conspiracy (www.theguardian.com)
The British billionaire Joe Lewis was spared jail time for his part in a “brazen” insider trading conspiracy on Thursday, and was instead fined $5m and given a three-year probation by a New York judge....
New York AG questions whether California company can handle Trump's $175M bond (abcnews.go.com)
Letitia James asked the firm to show it’s capable of paying the bond if needed....
New Bill Could Pave the Way Toward Banning Student Debt Cancellation (truthout.org)
Autoworkers at Alabama’s Mercedes-Benz Plant File for a Union Election (prospect.org)
Former University of Iowa Hospital employee used fake identity for 35 years (www.thegazette.com)
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Israel to open 3 aid corridors following Biden's call with Netanyahu (www.cbsnews.com)
Diplomatic spat erupts between Poland and Israel after WCK killings in Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
A diplomatic crisis has erupted between Poland and Israel following the death of a Polish aid worker in Gaza, with the Polish president denouncing a comment by the Israeli ambassador as “outrageous” and the foreign ministry in Warsaw saying it was summoning him for a meeting....
Israel is using artificial intelligence to help pick bombing targets in Gaza, report says (www.cnn.com)
Mother’s Custody In Danger After Officer Shot 11-Year-Old Son (www.mississippifreepress.org)
A Sunflower County, Miss., woman could lose custody rights to her children nearly a year after an Indianola police officer shot her then-11-year-old son, Aderrien Murry, in the chest at the family’s home in May 2023. In court filings, Sunflower County Prosecuting Attorney Gwendolyn Jimison cited the shooting while accusing...
Biden calls for ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
Spain to recognize Palestinian statehood by July (www.politico.eu)
Touching fentanyl won’t kill you. Why won’t cops and policymakers get the memo? (www.salon.com)
Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse (www.theguardian.com)
‘He was a human being’: US prisoners are dying from treatable conditions (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: a Guardian investigation finds that inmates who died of preventable conditions were deemed malingerers and ‘time wasters’...
The mind-bending new rules for doing business in China (www.economist.com)
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Biden Demands Immediate Gaza Cease-Fire in Call With Israel’s Netanyahu (www.wsj.com)
He also called on Israel to take immediate steps “to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering, and the safety of aid workers” and “made clear that U.S. policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate action on these steps,” according to the White House statement....
McDonald’s buys all of its Israeli franchise restaurants amid damage from Middle East turmoil | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)
McDonald’s will buy every one of its 225 franchise restaurants in Israel, it announced Thursday, just weeks after saying that the Israel-Hamas war was hurting its business....
