Disneyland Workers Form Union In Landslide Election Win (www.huffpost.com)
Medicaid “Unwinding” Disproportionately Affects Disabled People, Advocates Say (truthout.org)
The lunch rush is dead as Americans live for the weekend, office workers are pinching lunchtime pennies (www.nbcnews.com)
What happened to OpenAI’s long-term AI risk team? (arstechnica.com)
Former team members have either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups.
College Professors Are Being Fired for Activism on Gaza War (theintercept.com)
Two people caught on camera stealing artifacts at national park (www.sfgate.com)
NYPD officer caught on video punching pro-Gaza protester during Brooklyn rally (www.independent.co.uk)
[US Representative] Stefanik Loses It When Fox News Host Reminds Her She Called Trump a 'Whack Job' (www.rollingstone.com)
‘Scary’: public-school textbooks the latest target as US book bans intensify (www.theguardian.com)
Judge strikes down Long Island county’s anti-trans sports ban (www.lgbtqnation.com)
WNBA investigating Las Vegas Aces after every player received $100,000 in sponsorship (www.usatoday.com)
U.S. student shortage, falling birth rates threaten school closures (www.axios.com)
Large U.S. cities are grappling with too many underpopulated schools, forcing school districts to make difficult decisions on closures....
First Black astronaut candidate, now 90, reaches space in Blue Origin flight (www.theguardian.com)
Ex-air force captain Ed Dwight, passed over by Nasa in 1961, now oldest person to reach edge of space with Jeff Bezo’s space firm...
Rescuers struggle to find helicopter carrying Iranian president (live updates) (www.washingtonpost.com)
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi** **crashed in foggy weather Sunday, according to state-run media, which said Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and other officials were also on board. Their condition is not yet known, and the helicopter has not been found.
Could bird flu in cows lead to a human outbreak? Slow response worries scientists (www.nature.com)
Researchers also say more sampling is needed. Almost 50 herds of dairy cattle across 9 US states have had confirmed cases of H5N1, and one infected person has been linked to the outbreak. But the actual numbers are probably much higher, scientists say. “There’s almost certainly been a lot more human cases than just the...
U.S. governors urge Turks and Caicos to release Americans as Florida woman becomes 5th tourist arrested for ammo in luggage (www.cbsnews.com)
Teens charged with vehicle theft, criminal mischief after attempting to run away from wilderness therapy program - KRBD (www.krbd.org)
Jeff Bezos revealed his secret to Amazon’s success 25 years ago: ‘I asked everyone around here to wake up terrified every morning, their sheets drenched in sweat’ (fortune.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/32365208...
'People got betrayed': Cardi B says she's not voting in the presidential election (www.msnbc.com)
‘A history that’s been suppressed’: the Black cowboy story is 200 years old (www.theguardian.com)
When Larry Callies went to the movies as a boy in Rosenberg, Texas, the heroes riding horses and wearing 10-gallon hats were all white men....
Trump floats idea of three-term presidency at NRA convention (www.theguardian.com)
Donald Trump flirted with the idea of being president for three terms – a clear violation of the US constitution – during a bombastic speech for the National Rifle Association in which he vowed to reverse gun safety measures green-lighted during the Biden administration....
Helicopter carrying Iran's president suffers a 'hard landing,' state TV says without further details (apnews.com)
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state media reported, without immediately elaborating....
Translocation of 2,000 rhinos in Africa gets underway in “one of the most audacious conservation efforts of modern times” (www.discoverwildlife.com)
“It is a massive privilege to be part of such a conservation initiative,” says Donovan Jooste, wildlife NGO African Parks’ Rhino Rewilding Project Manager, who is overseeing the 2,000+ rhinos. “The opportunity we have to de-risk a species at scale is incredibly exciting.”
Gig companies spent $224 million to write their own labor law. The state Supreme Court could throw it out (calmatters.org)
CNN political commentator Alice Stewart dies (www.cnn.com)
Alice Stewart, a veteran political adviser and CNN political commentator who worked on several GOP presidential campaigns, has died. She was 58....
