Abortion Pill Use Is Surging. Now It’s Under Threat ( 12ft.io )
Making Headway on Indigenous Land Rights ( reasonstobecheerful.world )
This WWII battle wasn't against Nazis. It was between Black and white GIs in England ( www.npr.org )
This story is well known in the UK. Apparently less so in the US.
Scientists Find Cannabis Compound Inside a Totally Different Plant ( www.sciencealert.com )
Ex-CNN producer sentenced to more than 19 years for luring 9-year-old into sex acts ( abcnews.go.com )
Ballsy EU Commission moves to make Russia pay for Ukraine ( www.politico.eu )
[Texas] Gov. Greg Abbott vetoes bill that would give people with disabilities new option to vote by mail ( www.texastribune.org )
Gov. Greg Abbott on Saturday vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have expanded vote-by-mail access for people with disabilities — specifically people who are blind or paralyzed and need assistance marking their ballot.
New figures reveal scope of military discrimination against LGBTQ troops, with over 29,000 denied honorable discharges ( www.cbsnews.com )
Musk-owned Twitter stiffed employees on promised bonuses, class action says ( arstechnica.com )
Congress has reintroduced the PRESS Act. Now lawmakers must pass it. ( freedom.press )
'Hope': Banging sounds heard in missing OceanGate Titan submersible search at Titanic site ( www.youtube.com )
The first cultivated meat is approved for sale in the US ( upsidefoods.com )
Amazon Prime too easy to join, hard to quit, claims FTC suit ( www.theregister.com )
Tesla hacker discovers secret ‘Elon Mode’ for hands-free Full Self-Driving ( www.theverge.com )
A Tesla software hacker has found an ‘Elon Mode’ driving feature that seems to allow Tesla vehicles with Full Self-Driving to operate without any driver monitoring....
Binge drinking, prison and loony bin — how Russians evade mobilization or avoid, at least, deployment to the front ( web.archive.org )
Young Russians shared their strategies for evading combat: one individual became a defendant in a criminal case, another sought refuge in a psychiatric clinic, and a third, originally from the Luhansk region and having fled the war in Donbass to Russia in 2014, has successfully resisted being dispatched from his unit for several...
‘Continued genocide’: First Nations leaders disturbed by effort to dig up unmarked graves in B.C. ( globalnews.ca )
First Nations leaders in British Columbia are “very disappointed” by a recent report that residential school deniers tried to dig up suspected unmarked grave sites at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School....
F.T.C. Sues Amazon for Inducing Users to Subscribe to Prime ( www.nytimes.com )
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Phoenix is emerging as the city of the future ( www.axios.com )
"The broad attention is showing the world what local leaders have spent the past half-century trying to prove: This desert city can be a major player in global tech and manufacturing."...
Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court ( www.propublica.org )
In early July 2008, Samuel Alito stood on a riverbank in a remote corner of Alaska. The Supreme Court justice was on vacation at a luxury fishing lodge that charged more than $1,000 a day, and after catching a king salmon nearly the size of his leg, Alito posed for a picture. To his left, a man stood beaming: Paul Singer, a...
The Guardian view on danger at sea: The contrast between the frantic hunt for a missing submersible and the failure to save migrants drowning in the Mediterranean is illuminating ( www.theguardian.com )
A massive operation is under way to find and save a stricken vessel and its passengers. As time passes, anxious families and friends wait with growing fear. The US coastguard, Canadian armed forces and commercial vessels are all hunting for the Titan submersible, which has gone missing with five aboard on a dive to the wreck of...
Mystery powder letters sent to Kansas Republicans, Trump, Supreme Court Justice Thomas ( abcnews.go.com )
Parts of Broward County under quarantine due to giant African land snails ( www.nbcmiami.com )
The snail can grow up to eight inches long, and can potentially carry the parasite rat lungworm, which may cause meningitis in humans and animals. The snail should not be handled without gloves because of the meningitis risk....