54% of young Americans say food costs are the biggest strain on their finances (www.cnbc.com)
Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna reveal bill to ‘cancel all medical debt’ (www.theguardian.com)
CNN's Burnett asks Biden how he is going to turn the economy around. He said he already has. (www.cnn.com)
US public school officials push back in congressional hearing on antisemitism (www.theguardian.com)
GOP Lawmakers in Louisiana Reject Adding Rape & Incest Exceptions for Children to Abortion Ban. Again. (www.jezebel.com)
Biden says US will withhold weapons from Israel if it invades Rafah (www.reuters.com)
May 8 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Wednesday publicly warned Israel for the first time that the U.S. would stop supplying it weapons if Israeli forces make a major invasion of Rafah, a refugee-packed city in southern Gaza....
To please Putin, universities purge liberals and embrace patriots (www.washingtonpost.com)
Abortion restrictions increase risk of intimate partner homicide, study finds (www.salon.com)
Florida deputies who fatally shot US airman burst into wrong apartment, attorney says (apnews.com)
Deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S. Air Force airman who was home alone when they saw he was armed with a gun, an attorney for the man’s family said Wednesday....
Biden says US won't supply weapons for Israel to attack Rafah, in warning to ally (apnews.com)
President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he would not supply offensive weapons that Israel could use to launch an all-out assault on Rafah — the last major Hamas stronghold in Gaza — over concern for the well-being of the more than 1 million civilians sheltering there....
Biden confirms that American bombs killed Palestinian civilians (www.nbcnews.com)
'Lost' spy satellite orbited Earth undetected for 25 years—until now, scientists say (phys.org)
Mom’s Fatal Fall at Ohio State Graduation Was No Accident: Coroner (www.thedailybeast.com)
This School for Autistic Youth Can Cost $573,200 a Year. It Operates With Little Oversight, and Students Have Suffered. (www.propublica.org)
Serbia to Xi Jinping: No one reveres you like we do (www.politico.eu)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said “the sky is the limit” on future cooperation....
Turning Point or Breaking Point? Biden’s Pause on Weapons Tests Ties to Israel (www.nytimes.com)
The message was not getting through. Not through the phone calls or the emissaries or the public statements or the joint committee meetings. And so, frustrated that he was being ignored, President Biden chose a more dramatic way of making himself clear to Israeli leaders. He stopped sending the bombs....
Motorist charged with assault for striking CUAD protester with car at picket outside trustee’s home (www.columbiaspectator.com)
Reuven Kahane, a 57-year-old man, drove a car into a crowd of protesters on Tuesday morning at a picket organized by Columbia University Apartheid Divest in front of Barnard trustee Francine LeFrak’s home, a New York Police Department spokesperson told Spectator....
House kills motion to vacate Johnson from speakership (www.cnn.com)
'Your Name' Movie Producer Confesses To Have Paid Over 20 Underage Girls For Sexual Favors - Animehunch (animehunch.com)
The Wakayama Prefectural Police revealed on May 8, 2024 that Your Name. movie producer Koichiro Itou has been referred to prosecutors for additional violation of Child Prostitution & Pornography law in Japan, after it came to light that he had paid an underage girl for sexual intercourse....
Israel abandoning captives to hunt Hamas leaders, say military officers (www.middleeasteye.net)
Israel has abandoned its goals of freeing the captives in Gaza, instead seeking to establish a long-term presence with its Rafah ground offensive and pursue top Palestinian leaders, Israeli military officers have told Middle East Eye....
Chemicals in vapes could be highly toxic when heated, research finds (www.theguardian.com)
Compounds produced by heating some fruit-flavoured vape liquids have implications for lung and cardiovascular disease and cancer...
Sense of Urgency About Climate Change Is Declining Among Youth, Poll Finds (truthout.org)
Released amid record-breaking temperatures and rising seas, the survey reports an alarming decline in perceived urgency....
RFK Jr says a worm ate part of his brain and then died inside his head (www.independent.co.uk)
Anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr said he also suffered mercury poisoning from eating too much fish: ‘I loved tuna fish sandwiches. I ate them all the time’
New York Times editor says Trump's danger to democracy is not a top concern (boingboing.net)
Cruise ship sails into New York with dead endangered whale across its bow (www.cbc.ca)
A cruise ship sailed into a New York City port with a 13-metre dead whale across its bow, marine authorities said....