Trump’s mass purge of state department likely to sow chaos, US diplomats say (www.theguardian.com)
Project 2025 blueprint for second Trump term envisages replacing thousands of career staff with political loyalists...
The diminishing returns of in-office mandates (www.bbc.com)
In-person collaboration has been linked to high performance and job satisfaction, but these benefits don’t increase with more days spent in the office....
New California laws go into effect on July 1 (www.ktvu.com)
Bad Bunny Concert Was Targeted By Mass Shooter, Feds Reveal In Indictment (deadline.com)
Supreme Court preserves access to abortion pill - SCOTUSblog (www.scotusblog.com)
The biggest rivals in hot dog-eating are headed for a rematch 15 years in the making (www.npr.org)
Cop busted for unauthorized use of Clearview AI facial recognition resigns (arstechnica.com)
Trevor Lawrence equals Joe Burrow as NFL’s highest-paid player [with $275 Million contract] (www.washingtonpost.com)
SpaceX retrieves space junk from Saskatchewan farmer (www.cbc.ca)
Number of People Living on New York City Streets Hits a Two-Decade High (www.nytimes.com)
Here are all 50+ sexual misconduct allegations against Kevin Spacey. (www.vox.com)
CA Gov. Gavin Newsom and top Democrats are deciding California’s budget behind closed doors (www.calmatters.org)
With only a few weeks left until the start of the new fiscal year on July 1, both sides refuse to publicly discuss what specific issues are holding up a deal....
FDA took months to react to complaint about Abbott infant formula factory, audit finds (abcnews.go.com)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration took more than 15 months to act on a whistleblower complaint it received about conditions at an Abbott Nutrition factory that was at the center of a nationwide shortage of infant formula, a new audit shows....
The fast-food industry claims the California minimum wage law is costing jobs. Its numbers are fake (www.yahoo.com)
New Hampshire to tighten voting laws, peddling MAGA election misinformation (www.salon.com)
Lauren Boebert complains media attention is turning public against her (www.rawstory.com)
Retired firefighter and veteran comes out as gay — in his obituary (www.advocate.com)
Steve Bannon asks appeals court to keep him out of prison due to his importance in Trump’s campaign (www.independent.co.uk)
Biden Asylum Order Doesn’t Move Needle - Trump’s retrospective job rating better than Biden’s current numbers (www.monmouth.edu)
Archived at web.archive.org/web/…/monmouthpoll_us_061224/
Killer sporting Nazi face tattoos is found guilty of brutal strangling of two Florida women hours apart (www.independent.co.uk)
Nasa astronaut distress message broadcast in error (www.bbc.com)
Nasa has confirmed audio shared widely on social media of astronauts in distress was a simulation broadcast on its YouTube channel in error....