US prosecutors want Boeing to face criminal charges ( www.bbc.com )
US prosecutors have recommended that the Department of Justice (DoJ) brings criminal charges against Boeing....
Entire Edition Of Newspapers Stolen On Day It Publishes Story About Rape At Police Chief’s Home ( www.huffpost.com )
“It’s pretty clear that someone didn’t want the community to read the news this week,” said Ouray County Plaindealer co-publisher Erin McIntyre.
US police killed a record number of people in 2023 ( thehill.com )
In 2023, police in the U.S. Killed over 1,300 people, marking a steady increase in police killings, as reported by Mapping Police Violence....
A Texas Democrat voted against rights for trans kids. This queer Black mom challenged her – and won ( www.independent.co.uk )
In Georgia, conservatives seek to have voters removed from rolls without official challenges ( apnews.com )
They’re asking election administrators to use their data to purge voter registrations, which means names could be removed in a less public process than a formal voter challenge. The strategy could mean electors won’t be summoned in advance to defend their voting rights and the identities of those seeking to purge voters...
He flipped off a trooper and got charged. Now Vermont is on the hook for $175,000 ( apnews.com )
Vermont has agreed to pay $175,000 to settle a lawsuit on behalf of a man who was charged with a crime for giving a state trooper the middle finger in 2018, the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday. ...
A Proud Boys member who wielded an axe handle during the Capitol riot gets over 4 years in prison ( apnews.com )
A jailed member of the Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Friday to more than four years in prison for his role in a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol three years ago, court records show....
Trump attorney tells judges presidential immunity would even cover assassinating rivals, selling pardons ( themessenger.com )
US presidents cannot be prosecuted for selling pardons or assassinating political rivals through SEAL Team Six, personal Trump lawyer John Sauer argued Tuesday...
SEC Poised to Seek Enforcement Action Barring Elon Musk From Holding Executive Positions ( thedeepdive.ca )
My Health Insurance Company Is Trying To Kill Me ( www.huffpost.com )
One such encounter went like this:...
State laws are factoring into college choices for young adults ( www.nbcnews.com )
One survey shows as many as 73 percent of young adults are taking state abortion laws into account when making decisions about where to go to college. Savannah Sellers reports on one of the most important decisions in the lives of young students and their families.
DC Campaign to Submit Over 40K Signatures for Open Primaries, Ranked Choice Voting ( ivn.us )
Seeing as how some people here on Lemmy get upset at any mention of Ranked Choice Voting and respond that, in their opinion, it's not perfect, and that we should therefore keep the voting system we have while we debate which alternative is perfect for several decades, allow me to preemptively respond....
Judge orders surprise release of Epstein transcripts ( www.bbc.com )
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Forty-four of 50 US states worsen inequality with ‘upside-down’ taxes ( www.theguardian.com )
Doctor accused of illegally obtaining health data of Texas Children's patients, in crusade against Transgender medical treatments ( www.houstonchronicle.com )
The doctor has publicly identified himself as the person who released information to a conservative activist about the transgender care program at Texas Children's. Citing "whistleblower documents," the activist published a story in May 2023 saying Texas Children's provided transgender care, which was legal at the time, "in...
1 million voters have been purged from Florida's rolls as number of registered Democrats drops by nearly 10% while Republicans only lose 3% of registered voters ( www.dailymail.co.uk )
The active registered voters with the Florida Democratic Party fell by 467,337 voters or nearly 10 percent. The active registered voters with the Republican Part of Florida decreased by 153,369 or approximately three percent....
This gay veteran spent 2 years in jail because he had sex. He can finally get a pardon. ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
Trump’s Spiritual Adviser Quasi-Confesses to Molesting 12-Year-Old Girl ( www.thedailybeast.com )
Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers ( arstechnica.com )
In an open letter to publishers, more than 30,000 readers, researchers, and authors begged for access to the books to be restored in the open library, claiming the takedowns dealt "a serious blow to lower-income families, people with disabilities, rural communities, and LGBTQ+ people, among many others," who may not have access...
Biden administration demands Texas immediately stop blocking Border Patrol access ( www.cnn.com )
Megachurch pastor and former Trump spiritual adviser admits sexual abuse ( www.theguardian.com )
X's fresh temporary ban of several prominent journalists raises alarm ( www.nbcnews.com )
“We do sweeps for spam/scam accounts and sometimes real accounts get caught up in them,” Elon Musk wrote on X, responding to the temporary ban of at least 8 accounts, including those of a handful of journalists.
Republican governors in 15 states reject summer food money for kids ( www.washingtonpost.com )
The governors have given varying reasons for refusing to take part, from the price tag to the fact that the final details of the plan have yet to be worked out. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds ( R) said she saw no need to add money to a program that helps food-insecure youths “when childhood obesity has become an epidemic.” Nebraska...
Gender-affirming surgeries are mostly performed on cisgender people: 'Bitter irony' ( www.advocate.com )
North Carolina Supreme Court Secretly Squashed Discipline of Two GOP Judges Who Admitted to Violating Judicial Code ( www.propublica.org )
Last fall, out of public view, the North Carolina Supreme Court squashed disciplinary action against two Republican judges who had admitted that they had violated the state’s judicial code of conduct, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the decisions....
