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....
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....
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. ...
California school board president who led conservative culture war loses recall vote ( www.theguardian.com )
Joseph Komrosky, who decried critical race theory and called Harvey Milk a pedophile, was recalled by 51% of Temecula voters...
Israeli soldiers who drove with wounded Palestinian tied to their vehicle 'violated orders', military says ( www.abc.net.au )
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.
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....
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....
New Colorado law will ban sales of dental floss, clothes, & other household products containing toxic "forever chemicals" ( www.cbsnews.com )
Melting? Fossil Fuels Have Made Extreme Heat 35 Times More Likely in North America ( www.motherjones.com )
‘We’ve all broken the Ten Commandments’: The evangelicals still backing Trump ( www.independent.co.uk )
Someone apparently hacked 50 Cent’s accounts to peddle a memecoin and made off with millions ( www.engadget.com )
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....
Now an abortion rights advocate, woman raped by stepfather as a child will campaign with first lady ( apnews.com )
Hadley Duvall of Owensboro, Kentucky, first told her story publicly last fall in a campaign ad for the governor’s race in her home state, discussing the consequences of abortion restrictions, particularly those without exceptions for rape or incest....
Pastor Robert Morris tried to scare his sex abuse victim with threat of prosecution ( www.salon.com )
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....
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....
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...
California Democrats agree to delay health care worker minimum wage increase to help balance budget ( abcnews.go.com )
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....
Second Canadian scientist alleges brain illness investigation was shut down ( www.theguardian.com )
‘News deserts’: if local newspapers are dying, will local democracy die with them? ( www.theguardian.com )
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...
Sotomayor: Ruling Against Foreign Spouses Will 'Most Heavily' Harm Same-Sex Couples ( www.commondreams.org )
Illinois may soon return land the US stole from a Prairie Band Potawatomi chief 175 years ago ( apnews.com )
Some 175 years after the U.S. government stole land from the chief of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation while he was away visiting relatives, Illinois may soon return it to the tribe....
