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Chicago community organizers and police reform advocates question the lack of transparency surrounding the city’s new contract with the FOP ( chicagoreader.com )

Full title (exceeded character limits) - "'Not the way a transparent, democratic process should work,' Chicago community organizers and police reform advocates question the lack of transparency surrounding the city’s new contract with the FOP and say Mayor Brandon Johnson should’ve pushed for greater accountability for cops,...

US women are stocking up on abortion pills, especially when there is news about restrictions ( apnews.com )

Medication abortion accounts for more than half of all abortions in the U.S., and typically involves two drugs: mifepristone and misoprostol. A research letter published Tuesday in JAMA Internal Medicine looked at requests for these pills from people who weren’t pregnant and sought them through Aid Access, a European online...

Russia Hammers Kyiv With Missiles in Large-Scale Attack ( www.nytimes.com )

Russian missiles and drones hammered Kyiv on Tuesday morning, officials said, in a large-scale attack on the Ukrainian capital and other cities that killed at least five people and injured nearly 130 others, a day after President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia promised to retaliate for a Ukrainian assault on a Russian city....

They Were Wrongfully Convicted. Now They’re Denied Compensation Despite Michigan Law. ( www.propublica.org )

Freedom, however, was frightening. Night after night, he awoke every 15 minutes or so, wrestling with the covers, wondering if he’d hallucinated it all. He kept the television on to remind himself he wasn’t in prison anymore. Its noise broke the first complete silence he’d experienced in half a lifetime, he said, which...

Judge orders Starbucks to rehire, give backpay to fired Colorado union leader ( www.cbsnews.com )

Alendra 'Len' Harris says she feels validated by the judge's ruling, which she says also backs up the hundreds of similar allegations from other Starbucks workers around the country who have unionized in an effort to get better pay and working conditions.

Prosecutors Ask Appeals Court to Reject Trump’s Immunity Claims in Election Case ( www.nytimes.com )

Federal prosecutors asked an appeals court on Saturday to reject former President Donald J. Trump’s claims that he is immune from criminal charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election and said the indictment should remain in place even though it arose from actions he took while in the White House....

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