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Engine maker Cummins to repair 600,000 Ram trucks in $2 billion emissions cheating scandal ( apnews.com )

Engine maker Cummins Inc. will recall 600,000 Ram trucks as part of a settlement with federal and California authorities that also requires the company to remedy environmental damage caused by illegal software that let it skirt diesel emissions tests....

Shot in 1.6 seconds: Video raises questions about how trooper avoided charges in Black man's death ( apnews.com )

Julian Lewis didn’t pull over for the Georgia State Patrol cruiser flashing its blue lights behind him on a rural highway. He still didn’t stop after pointing a hand out the window and turning onto a darkened dirt road as the trooper sounded his siren....

Alabama readies never-before-used execution method that some veterinarians won't even use for pets ( www.cbsnews.com )

If Kenneth Eugene Smith is brought to the Alabama death chamber to face execution next week for his role in the 1988 murder-for-hire of a pastor's wife, the state plans to use an untested and untried method to end his life, suffocating him with a stream of nitrogen gas to be delivered through a face mask....

'My school abandoned me': California university cancels pro-Palestinian student's commencement speech ( www.middleeasteye.net )

The University of Southern California has cancelled a scheduled commencement speech by Asna Tabassum, citing unnamed security concerns after her selection as valedictorian was met with a wave of online attacks directed at her pro-Palestinian views....

Can homeless people be fined for sleeping outside? A rural Oregon city asks the US Supreme Court ( apnews.com )

The scenes were emblematic of the crisis gripping the small, Oregon mountain town of Grants Pass, where a fierce fight over park space has become a battleground for a much larger, national debate on homelessness that has reached the U.S. Supreme Court....

Anonymous users are dominating right-wing discussions online. They also spread false information ( apnews.com )

The reposts and expressions of shock from public figures followed quickly after a user on the social platform X who uses a pseudonym claimed that a government website had revealed “skyrocketing” rates of voters registering without a photo ID in three states this year — two of them crucial to the presidential contest....

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