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)
This School for Autistic Youth Can Cost $573,200 a Year. It Operates With Little Oversight, and Students Have Suffered. (www.propublica.org)
Mom’s Fatal Fall at Ohio State Graduation Was No Accident: Coroner (www.thedailybeast.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....
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)
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....
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....
RFK Jr. says he had parasitic brain worm and undisclosed memory loss (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Israel frustrated U.S. paused weapons shipment over Rafah assault concerns, official says (www.nbcnews.com)
YouTube accused of censoring Macklemore's "Hind's Hall" (www.newsweek.com)
Steve Albini, Influential Producer of ’90s Rock and Beyond, Dies at 61 (www.nytimes.com)
Steve Albini, a rock musician and revered audio engineer who played a singular role in the development of the sound of alternative rock music in the 1980s, the ’90s and beyond — recording acclaimed albums by Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Pixies and hundreds of others — while becoming an outspoken critic of the music industry, died...
Search underway for 4 teens who ran away from inpatient Birmingham facility, police say (www.al.com)
Cruise worker accused of stabbing a 75-year-old and 2 guards with scissors on vessel bound for Alaska (www.adn.com)
Houston Police Chief Troy Finner resigns amid suspended-cases scandal (houstonlanding.org)
Tesla is under a federal wire fraud probe for misleading investors (arstechnica.com)
Trump spends day off from court hosting NFT customers at Mar-a-Lago (www.nbcnews.com)
