Matthew Perry: Los Angeles police launch investigation into actor’s death (www.theguardian.com)
Trump says he's "looking at" allowing bans on birth control, backtracks after criticism (www.salon.com)
Trump lashes out after DOJ reveals classified documents were found in his bedroom (www.independent.co.uk)
Massive invasive snakes are on the loose and spreading in Puerto Rico (www.vox.com)
Why Americans' confidence in finding a new job is tanking even as the labor market is humming along (www.businessinsider.com)
These Child Sex Abuse Victims Had an Opportunity to Get Justice. The Louisiana Supreme Court Took It Away. (www.motherjones.com)
Feds say MAGA-aligned mogul had “opportunity and motive to start” apartment fire. (www.motherjones.com)
Wealth inequality starts at birth. Lawmakers debate whether child savings accounts can help, the 401Kids Savings Act (www.cnbc.com)
One Dead and Dozens Injured After ‘Extreme Turbulence’ on Flight (www.nytimes.com)
Recent research indicates that turbulence is rising and that climate change is a cause, specifically elevated carbon dioxide emissions that affect air currents.
After Torturing Him, U.S. Breaks Guarantees of Safety to Former Guantánamo Detainee (theintercept.com)
Former Guantánamo detainee Saeed Bakhouch was sentenced by a court in Algeria to three years in prison on terrorism charges, Bakhouch’s lawyers told The Intercept....
It's so hot in Mexico that howler monkeys are falling dead from the trees (apnews.com)
I was detained at a US airport and asked about Israel and Gaza for 2 hours. Why? | Ilan Pappé (www.theguardian.com)
I was held for two hours. The first round of questions was about my views on Hamas. Then the agents wished to know whether I thought Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip amount to genocide and what I think of the slogan “Palestine should be free from the river to the sea”. I said yes, I do think Israel is committing...
Jerry Seinfeld is interrupted onstage by pro-Palestinian protesters — again (www.latimes.com)
Jerry Seinfeld’s week of difficult appearances continues, this time in Virginia....
Israeli officials take down AP live shot of Gaza, US urges them to reverse block (apnews.com)
Original headline “Israeli officials seize AP equipment, citing new media law”
World of feelings (not-entertainment.blogspot.com) Greek
The world of feelings is the world of freedom, without the interference of malicious parasites. The end of the world will never come, the e...
Biden releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from Northeast reserve in bid to lower prices at pump (abcnews.go.com)
2 teens die in suspected drownings after accepting dare, jumping off bridge into lake (www.usatoday.com)
Israel shuts down live camera facing Gaza under its restrictive new law (www.cnn.com)
Bump stock ruling could trigger booming rapid-fire marketplace [Clayton Vickers | 05/21/24 | The Hill] (thehill.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15645865...
ShotSpotter Showdown Set in Chicago Amid Fierce Debate Over Value of Gunshot Detection System (news.wttw.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/shotspotter-showdown-set-amid-f…
Arrested. Injured. Suspended. These Six NYC university students say they'll keep protesting. (www.npr.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/pro-palestinian-protests-studen…
The NYPD's Public Relations Staff has More Than Doubled in the Past Two Years (nysfocus.com)
In a statement, Brooklyn Councilmember Lincoln Restler pointed to the contrast between the dcpi’s staffing surge and Mayor Eric Adams’s cuts to other city services, including hundreds of layoffs in the Department of Buildings. “It’s stunning to see the nypd Communications Department more than double to 86 staff while so...
In Chicago's Immigration Court, One of the Largest in the US, Only One in Four Have an Attorney (www.injusticewatch.org)
Only one out of four immigrants had a lawyer among the 211,096 persons whose cases were backlogged in Chicago as of December 2023, according to TRAC....
US says cyberattacks against water supplies are rising, and utilities need to do more to stop them (apnews.com)
Cyberattacks against water utilities across the country are becoming more frequent and more severe, the Environmental Protection Agency warned Monday as it issued an enforcement alert urging water systems to take immediate actions to protect the nation’s drinking water....
Man who sought revenge for a stolen phone pleads guilty to fire that killed a Senegalese family of 5 (www.nbcnews.com)
Kevin Bui wrongly believed people who had recently robbed him lived in the home after using an app to track his stolen iPhone to the general area, according to prior testimony in the case....
