DeSantis vetoes all arts grants in Florida ( www.nytimes.com )
Gov. Ron DeSantis gave no explanation for zeroing out the $32 million in grants that were approved by state lawmakers....
Police: Vandal spray paints ‘F--- Elon’ on 34 Tesla Cybertrucks in Fort Lauderdale ( www.local10.com )
Police said 34 new Tesla Cybertrucks were damaged. The owner parked the exotic cars in a parking lot in Fort Lauderdale. ...
New York’s Fat Beach Day gives plus-size people a space to be themselves ( www.theguardian.com )
Jacob Riis Beach hosts the day of body positivity and fun, in the city at the heart of the fat acceptance movement...
Israeli soldiers who drove with wounded Palestinian tied to their vehicle 'violated orders', military says ( www.abc.net.au )
US family sues Nasa for $80,000 in damages after space debris hits home ( www.theguardian.com )
A family in Naples, Florida, whose home was struck by debris that fell to Earth from outer space and punched a hole in the roof is pursuing $80,000 from Nasa in compensation for damages....
Man survives being lost in California mountains for 10 days by eating berries ( www.theguardian.com )
As McClish told it, the 34-year-old outdoors enthusiast from Boulder Creek, California, lost his bearings after beginning his hike the morning of 11 June. He had not informed anyone else of his plans, so it would not be until the afternoon of Thursday, 20 June, that the unkempt-looking hiker was found at the bottom of a remote...
A heat wave is bringing searing temperatures to New York and the I-95 corridor. Washington DC has hit 100 degrees ( www.cnn.com )
A dangerous heat wave is bringing sweltering temperatures to much of the US this weekend, including over parts of the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic. Meanwhile, a tropical system could develop this weekend through the southwest Gulf of Mexico.
‘We’ve all broken the Ten Commandments’: The evangelicals still backing Trump ( www.independent.co.uk )
New Colorado law will ban sales of dental floss, clothes, & other household products containing toxic "forever chemicals" ( www.cbsnews.com )
Your favorite clothes, cookware, and even dental floss may contain toxic chemicals that are harmful to human health. Now, a new Colorado law is aiming to make those products safer....
New Colorado law will ban sales of dental floss, clothes, & other household products containing toxic "forever chemicals" ( www.cbsnews.com )
5 men convicted for Jetflicks, illegal streamer with more content than Netflix, Hulu and Amazon combined ( www.nbcnews.com )
The men made millions of dollars streaming stolen copyrighted content to tens of thousands of paid subscribers, the Justice Department said....
Israeli army strapped wounded Palestinian to jeep ( www.bbc.com )
Virginia exonerates man who spent 45 years in prison for death of 3-year-old ( www.nytimes.com )
On Tuesday, a Virginia appeals court fully absolved Marvin Grimm Jr. of the 1975 crime, saying that new evidence had dismantled the state’s original case against him....
State judge upholds most fines against group seeking repeal of Alaska ranked choice voting - Chilkat Valley News ( www.chilkatvalleynews.com )
An Anchorage Superior Court judge has ruled that opponents of Alaska’s ranked choice election system violated state campaign finance laws in their effort to gather signatures for a repeal ballot measure....
A woman is accused of attempting to drown a 3-year-old child in possible hate crime incident ( www.cnn.com )
A woman in Texas has been charged with attempted capital murder and injury to a child after trying to drown a 3-year-old child at an apartment complex pool and making racial statements, according to police....
Trump floats ‘migrant league of fighters’ in latest dehumanizing rhetoric against migrants ( www.cnn.com )
Former President Donald Trump on Saturday said he floated the idea of having a “migrant league of fighters” to UFC President Dana White, again employing dehumanizing language to describe people who enter the US illegally....
Appeals court finds 'Obamacare' pillar unconstitutional in suit over HIV-prevention drug ( www.nbcnews.com )
If the Supreme Court ultimately takes the case and overturns the pillar, this could have a widespread impact on out-of-pocket health care costs, including costs for the HIV-prevention pill, known as PrEP....
GOP resolution calls on SCOTUS to ‘intervene’ in Trump’s hush money case ( www.politico.com )
Rep. William Timmons (R-S.C.) introduced a resolution Friday urging the Supreme Court to “intervene” in the hush money case against former President Donald Trump before the 2024 election — a move that experts say is a political stunt that faces significant legal obstacles....
Someone apparently hacked 50 Cent’s accounts to peddle a memecoin and made off with millions ( www.engadget.com )
California Democrats agree to delay health care worker minimum wage increase to help balance budget ( abcnews.go.com )
Rip currents kill 4 in 48 hours: Panama City Beach on pace to be deadliest in US ( www.usatoday.com )
Melting? Fossil Fuels Have Made Extreme Heat 35 Times More Likely in North America ( www.motherjones.com )
Woman 'tried to drown three-year-old girl' in alleged racist attack in Texas ( news.sky.com )
The attempted murderer took issue with the fact that the girl and the rest of her family were Palestinians and speaking in a different language.
A fourth victim has died a day after a shooting at an Arkansas grocery store, police say ( apnews.com )
Police said a fourth victim has died a day after a shooter opened fire at an Arkansas grocery store, wounding nine others and riddling cars with bullet holes as panicked bystanders scrambled for cover....
Trump’s sledgehammer message to Philadelphia is light on facts, heavy on fear ( www.theguardian.com )
The former president used his first rally in the city of brotherly love to tie violent crime with illegal immigration, despite the evidence against this...
