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Sheriff says baby dies after teen mom put fentanyl in bottle (www.cnn.com)
With 735 million people hungry, UN says world is 'off track' to meet its 2030 goal (www.reuters.com)
Rehabilitated sea turtle released in Florida Keys to join Tour de Turtles (apnews.com)
Mexico surpasses China as top U.S. trade partner (www.cbsnews.com)
Cruise line apologizes after dozens of whales slaughtered in front of passengers (abcnews.go.com)
A cruise line has apologized to over 1,000 of its passengers after one of its ships arrived at port in the middle of a whale hunt where dozens of the marine mammals were being slaughtered.
1 Fargo police officer killed, 2 injured in shooting that also left suspect dead in North Dakota (apnews.com)
One police officer was killed and two others were critically injured in a shooting that also left the suspect dead on a busy street in Fargo, North Dakota, police said.
988 mental health crisis line gets 5 million calls, texts and chats in first year (www.npr.org)
California man gets life sentence in deaths of 3 teens killed after doorbell prank (www.nbcnews.com)
Anurag Chandra, 45, followed “doorbell ditch” pranksters who were in a Toyota Prius that ultimately went off a road. Three of six teens in the car died.
A Rivian owner was in a fender bender. The repair bill was $42,000 (www.businessinsider.com)
A Rivian owner said his R1T electric pickup truck cost about $42,000 to fix after it was hit at a stoplight earlier this year, according to a report The New York Times.
Families of Buffalo Massacre Victims Sue Meta, Reddit, and Google Over Conspiracy Theories (gizmodo.com)
The lawsuit seeks changes to the changes companies’ safety standards, with the plaintiffs calling the platforms “defective and unreasonably dangerous.”
IRS says it collected $38 million from more than 175 high-income tax delinquents (abcnews.go.com)
The IRS is showcasing its new capability to audit high-income tax dodgers aggressively as it makes the case for sustained funding and tries to avoid budget cuts sought by Republicans who want to gut the agency
An Alabama woman is missing after stopping to help a toddler she saw walking on the interstate, police say (www.cnn.com)
Mexico files complaint accusing Texas of breaking boundary laws with floating barriers (thehill.com)
Iowa governor signs 6-week abortion ban into law (www.cnn.com)
US heatwave: A third of Americans under extreme heat advisories (www.bbc.com)
These are America’s 10 best states to live and work in for 2023 (www.cnbc.com)
Americans are ‘hunkering down’ and buying less food as inflation bites, one grocery giant says—instead they’re raiding their freezers (fortune.com)
Consumers have long been warned they were going to be pushed to the “point of pain” in order to curtail their spending. It seems like we’ve finally reached it.
Arizona Republican refers to Black Americans as 'colored people' in House floor debate (www.nbcnews.com)
Rep. Eli Crane used the derogatory phrase in describing his proposed amendment to a military bill. Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty asked that his words be stricken from the record.
Scottsdale bans natural grass in front yards of new houses to conserve water amid Arizona’s drought (www.cnn.com)
Airfares tumble, helping bring down overall inflation (www.nytimes.com)
Ticket prices are subject to several idiosyncratic factors, but they have eased markedly since last summer’s surge in demand.
Stability AI releases Stable Doodle, a sketch-to-image tool (techcrunch.com)
Jury finds Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooter eligible to face the death penalty (www.cnn.com)
F.D.A. Approves First U.S. Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill (www.nytimes.com)
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a birth control pill to be sold without a prescription for the first time in the United States, a milestone that could significantly expand access to contraception....
Indigenous women in Canada forcibly sterilized decades after other rich countries stopped (apnews.com)
TORONTO (AP) — Decades after many other rich countries stopped forcibly sterilizing Indigenous women, numerous activists, doctors, politicians and at least five class-action lawsuits say the practice has not ended in Canada.
Lawyers with supreme court business paid Clarence Thomas aide via Venmo (www.theguardian.com)
Payments to Rajan Vasisht, an aide from 2019-21, underscore ties between the justice and lawyers who argue cases in front of him
Executives who helped create Fox News say network has become ‘disinformation machine’ (www.independent.co.uk)
Hollywood actors poised to strike and join writers on picket lines (www.reuters.com)
A Florida sinkhole that killed a man in 2013 opens for a third time (www.nbcnews.com)
Minnesota’s Republican Party Is Totally Broke (www.thedailybeast.com)
Ocean heat around Florida is ‘unprecedented,’ and scientists are warning of major impacts (www.cnn.com)
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New Arkansas law removes work permit requirement for children under 16 (katv.com)
Beginning on August 1, children in Arkansas under the age of 16 will no longer need employment certificates to work, thanks to a law passed in the last legislative session.
Former Manson family member Leslie Van Houten released from California prison, official says (www.cnn.com)
Free-solo climber dies after falling hundreds of feet from ridge in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park (www.cnn.com)
Woman fatally shot in apparent road-rage incident in Texas (www.nbcnews.com)
Bank of America fined $150 million for consumer abuses including fake accounts, bogus fees (www.cnbc.com)
Senators call for Supreme Court to follow ethics code like other branches of government (apnews.com)
White neighbour who fatally shot Black mother in row over children playing pleads not guilty to manslaughter (www.independent.co.uk)
Anthropic — the $4.1 billion OpenAI rival — debuts new A.I. chatbot and opens it to public (www.cnbc.com)
Trans model and actor is crowned Miss Netherlands and will compete for Miss Universe (www.nbcnews.com)
Solomon Islands signs policing pact with China (www.npr.org)
10 days after 3rd party reddit app shutdown, Lemmy's top 10 instances combine for a thriving userbase of 234,000 (lemmy.world)
Current breakdown at the time of this post sorted by the number of monthly active users:...