Roger Corman, Pioneering Independent Producer and King of B Movies, Dies at 98 (variety.com)
Renters need to make roughly $20,000 more a year to afford the typical rent than they did 5 years ago (fortune.com)
California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices (www.wshu.org)
Need this nationwide. I hate having fees added on to the price of what I’m ordering.
Trump-appointed judge halts Biden administration credit card late fee cap (thehill.com)
Fox News won’t bother mentioning this to their viewers.
Putin’s Surprise Attack Leaves Ukraine in ‘Incredibly Difficult’ Position (www.thedailybeast.com)
Russia attacked with airstrikes in Vilcha, Liptsy, Liman, Izbitskoye, Veseloye, Petrovka, Kazachya Lopan, Sinelnikovo, Volchansk in Kharkiv, according to an assessment from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Suspect who allegedly lassoed and raped Bronx woman arrested by NYPD (www.foxnews.com)
The video, which circulated widely online Thursday, shows the masked man sneak up behind his victim, snag her around the throat with a looped belt and drag her to the ground.
Universities brace for another weekend of graduations following protests, dismantling of encampments (www.nbcnews.com)
During Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s commencement address at Virginia Commonwealth University, dozens of students got out of their seats and walked out.
'Let her go! Let her go!' Fontana officer shoots armed man who put his partner in a headlock (www.yahoo.com)
Seconds later, a shout rang out: “He’s got a gun!”...
Trump May Owe $100 Million From Double-Dip Tax Breaks, Audit Shows (www.nytimes.com)
A previously unknown focus of an I.R.S. audit is a dubious accounting maneuver that effectively meant taking the same write-offs twice on a Chicago skyscraper....
Wife of U.S. soldier detained in Russia says he was having an affair, not involved in 'geopolitical intrigue' (www.nbcnews.com)
Megan Black said her husband’s trip to Russia was “ill-advised” but simply part of an extramarital affair. Black’s mother said she thought he had been set up by his girlfriend....
Louisiana Supreme Court Makes It Harder For Church Abuse Survivors to Hold Priests Accountable (ballsandstrikes.org)
. . . Enter the Louisiana Supreme Court. In an opinion written by Justice James Genovese and published on March 22, the court found an absolute property right in the institutions’ right not to be sued. The Louisiana Child Victims Act, wrote Genovese, “cannot be retroactively applied to revive plaintiffs’ prescribed causes...
Dozens of professors among those arrested in campus protests | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
As police cracked down on anti-war protests on college campuses across the US in recent weeks, among those arrested were a pair of silver-haired 65-year-old professors armed only with their cell phones....
Elon Musk’s X can’t invent its own copyright law, judge says (arstechnica.com)
'Barbaric': Whistleblowers Further Expose Israel's Torture of Detained Palestinians (www.commondreams.org)
A medic who worked at Sde Teiman’s field hospital said that Palestinian detainees there are stripped “of anything that resembles human beings” and that the harassment and torture are done not to “gather intelligence” but “out of revenge” for the October 7 attacks....
Name and shame: Pro-Israel website ramps up attacks on pro-Palestinian student protesters (www.reuters.com)
Canary Mission is one of the oldest and most prominent of several digital advocacy groups that have intensified campaigns to expose Israel's critics since the war broke out, often leading to harassment such as Sayed experienced. The people behind the site have kept their identities, location and funding sources hidden....
GOP introduces bill that would send anyone convicted of unlawful activity on a campus since Oct. 7th, 2023 to Gaza. (www.thedailybeast.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15286301...
Thomas says critics are pushing 'nastiness' and calls Washington a 'hideous place' (apnews.com)
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told attendees at a judicial conference Friday that he and his wife have faced “nastiness” and “lies” over the last several years and decried Washington, D.C., as a “hideous place.”...
US woman charged with concealing bleach in husband’s coffee avoids jail (www.theguardian.com)
Melody Feliciano Johnson, initially charged in Arizona with attempted murder, receives probation after striking plea deal...
They made one-of-a-kind quilts that captured the public's imagination. Then Target came along (apnews.com)
Over the past two decades, Gee’s Bend quilts have captured the public’s imagination with their kaleidoscopic colors and their daring geometric patterns. The groundbreaking art practice was cultivated by direct descendants of slaves in rural Alabama who have faced oppression, geographic isolation and intense material...
America's debt tops $34 trillion, but a commission to address it appears dead in Congress (apnews.com)
For Mike Johnson it was effectively a Day 1 priority....
She was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and condemned. The problem? Nothing was fake after all (www.theguardian.com)
Madi Hime is taking a deep drag on a blue vape in the video, her eyes shut, her face flushed with pleasure. The 16-year-old exhales with her head thrown back, collapsing into laughter that causes smoke to billow out of her mouth. The clip is grainy and shaky – as if shot in low light by someone who had zoomed in on Madi’s...
29% of US households have jobs but struggle to cover basic needs: They are 'one emergency from poverty,' one expert says (www.cnbc.com)
Federal judge temporarily halts Biden plan to lower credit card late fees to $8 (abcnews.go.com)
The judge…...
Barron Trump declines Florida GOP delegate position due to 'prior commitments' (abcnews.go.com)
“While Barron is honored to have been chosen as a delegate by the Florida Republican Party, he regretfully declines to participate due to prior commitments,” the Office of Melania Trump wrote in a statement to ABC News.