Woman fatally shot in apparent road-rage incident in Texas (www.nbcnews.com)
Chinese Hackers Breached Government Email Accounts, Microsoft Says (www.nytimes.com)
The hack, by a Chinese group that the company said was intent on conducting espionage, went undetected for a month.
California man paralyzed from run-in with police gets $20 million settlement (apnews.com)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California man who was left paralyzed after he was slammed to the ground during a traffic stop won a $20 million settlement, one of the largest in the state’s history, officials announced Tuesday.
Records reveal 75 years of government downplaying, ignoring risks of St. Louis radioactive waste • Missouri Independent (missouriindependent.com)
[Houston Chronicle] Houston just started enforcing a decade-old ban on feeding the homeless. Volunteers are fighting back. (www.houstonchronicle.com)
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UK’s Sunak tries to smooth things out after defense sec urges Ukrainian ‘gratitude’ (www.politico.eu)
Data broker loophole threatens journalists and whistleblowers (freedom.press)
Global hunger shows no sign of reversing (www.politico.eu)
Finnish PM: Deputy’s apology for racist slurs is enough (www.politico.eu)
Lawyers with supreme court business paid Clarence Thomas aide via Venmo (www.theguardian.com)
Germany loosens arms export restrictions to Saudi Arabia — but not on fighter jets (www.politico.eu)
Vilnius cheers on Ukraine at NATO summit: ‘They’re fighting for our freedom’ (www.politico.eu)
Florida is now America’s inflation hotspot (www.cnn.com)
Florida is America’s inflation hotspot because of a persistent problem with sky-high housing costs.
US swelters as south-west braces for record-breaking heatwave up to 120F (www.theguardian.com)
Two brothers, aged 3 and 6, are among 4 people wounded by a shooter on a scooter at a crowded New York park, police say by (www.cnn.com)
Twitter is “tanking” amid Threads’ surging popularity, analysts say (arstechnica.com)
Tesla reportedly suspected Musk was using company funds to build a literal glass house | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
Free-solo climber dies after falling hundreds of feet from ridge in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park (www.cnn.com)
3 tax prep firms shared 'extraordinarily sensitive' data about taxpayers with Meta, lawmakers say (www.kob.com)
US military police find missing 14-year-old girl in barracks on California Marine Corps base (apnews.com)
Man found dead in a Minnesota freezer was hiding from police, investigators say (apnews.com)
Problems With Abuse, Neglect and Cover-Ups at Choate Extend to Other Developmental Centers in Illinois (www.propublica.org)
Prompted by an outcry over abuse, Illinois proposed moving residents from Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center to similar facilities in the state. New reporting shows the problems at Choate are common throughout the statewide system.
Lawsuit accuses L.A. jailers of firing 58 tear gas canisters into correctional facility dorm, "allegedly because two of them were... uncooperative when staff ordered them to get off the phone...* (www.latimes.com)
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EU draws up plan for ‘sustained’ military aid to Ukraine (www.politico.eu)
