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Can homeless people be fined for sleeping outside? A rural Oregon city asks the US Supreme Court (apnews.com)
The scenes were emblematic of the crisis gripping the small, Oregon mountain town of Grants Pass, where a fierce fight over park space has become a battleground for a much larger, national debate on homelessness that has reached the U.S. Supreme Court....
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Right-wingers claim trans women have unfair advantage in hot dog-eating contests (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Fox News now accusing Scrabble of being too “woke” (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Bill to make marrying your first cousin illegal in Tennessee passes but not without a fight (www.wsmv.com)
Missouri executes Brian Dorsey for 2006 double murder after mercy bid backed by 72 correctional officers (www.cnn.com)
The state of Missouri on Tuesday executed Brian Dorsey for the 2006 murders of his cousin, Sarah Bonnie, and her husband, Benjamin Bonnie, after an effort to have his life spared failed in recent days....
Transgender Catholics say new Vatican document shows no understanding of their lives (apnews.com)
Transgender Catholics — as well as a priest who welcomes them to his parish — expressed disappointment Monday with a new Vatican document rejecting the fundamental concept of changing one’s biological sex....
Zelenskyy straight-up said Ukraine is going to lose if Congress doesn't send more aid (www.businessinsider.com)
Raleigh cops call release of body camera footage "dangerous" (when they raided the wrong family). (indyweek.com)
Solar Eclipse: Anticipation grows as millions hope for clear skies (www.bbc.com)
Eclipse watchers are keeping a close eye on the weather ahead of a solar eclipse that will plunge a wide strip of North America into daytime darkness on Monday....
Christian nationalists embrace Trump as their savior – will they be his? (www.theguardian.com)
Beyoncé Becomes First Black Woman to Nab Number One Country Album With 'Cowboy Carter' (www.rollingstone.com)
Caitlin Clark's reward for a record-smashing NCAA career: A $76,000 WNBA salary (www.motherjones.com)
Anonymous users are dominating right-wing discussions online. They also spread false information (apnews.com)
The reposts and expressions of shock from public figures followed quickly after a user on the social platform X who uses a pseudonym claimed that a government website had revealed “skyrocketing” rates of voters registering without a photo ID in three states this year — two of them crucial to the presidential contest....
Biden's campaign raised $90 million in March. Trump's war chest isn't even close (www.usatoday.com)
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign says it raised a whopping $90 million last month with help from the national party....
Israel says its strike that killed aid workers was a mistake. Rights groups say it was no anomaly (apnews.com)
Two basic mistakes, according to the Israeli military. First, an officer overlooked a message detailing the vehicles in the convoy. Second, a spotter saw something in one car – possibly a bag – that he thought was a weapon. Officials say the result was the series of Israeli drone strikes that killed seven aid workers on a...
Diplomatic spat erupts between Poland and Israel after WCK killings in Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
A diplomatic crisis has erupted between Poland and Israel following the death of a Polish aid worker in Gaza, with the Polish president denouncing a comment by the Israeli ambassador as “outrageous” and the foreign ministry in Warsaw saying it was summoning him for a meeting....
US economy adds 303,000 jobs, unemployment falls to 3.8% in March as labor market continues to impress (finance.yahoo.com)
Magnitude 4.8 Earthquake Strikes New York Metro Area and East Coast (www.nbcnews.com)
Raw data from the USGS: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/…/executive
Russia is trying to sabotage European railways, warns Prague (www.ft.com)
Bing cache past the paywall...
Roblox Studio boss: children making money on the platform isn't exploitation, it's a gift (www.eurogamer.net)
In an interview with Roblox Studio head Stefano Corazza at GDC in late March, where a new suite of AI-powered creation tools was demoed, I asked about the reputation Roblox hac gained and the notion that it was exploitative of young developers, since it takes a cut from work sometimes produced by children....