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Wall Street has spent billions buying homes. A crackdown is looming. ( www.wsj.com )

Lawmakers say investors that scooped up hundreds of thousands of houses to rent out are driving up home prices...

Men behind the doomsday seed vault in the Arctic win World Food Prize ( apnews.com )

As Cary Fowler and Geoffrey Hawtin began thinking about ways to prevent starvation and protect the world’s food supply, they came up with what Fowler called “the craziest idea anybody ever had” — a global seed vault built into the side of an Arctic mountain. ...

Social media abstinence can boost self-esteem ( www.dw.com )

A Canadian study has found that refraining from social media for a week can have a positive impact on one's body image. Online beauty ideals are most harmful to young women who try to achieve unhealthy body shapes....

Virginia school board votes to restore names of Confederate leaders to schools ( www.nbcnews.com )

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, a school board in northern Virginia stripped the names of Confederate military figures from two schools. Four years later, the board approved a motion to restore the names....

Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1bn – report ( www.theguardian.com )

Donald Trump dangled a brazen “deal” in front of some of the top US oil bosses last month, proposing that they give him $1bn for his White House re-election campaign and vowing that once back in office he would instantly tear up Joe Biden’s environmental regulations and prevent any new ones, according to a bombshell new...

'Where's Ronald Greene's justice?': 5 years on, feds still silent on Black motorist's deadly arrest ( apnews.com )

Mona Hardin has been waiting five long years for any resolution to the federal investigation into her son’s deadly arrest by Louisiana State Police troopers, an anguish only compounded by the fact that nearly every other major civil rights case during that time has passed her by....

Seattle to open short-term recovery center for people after a fentanyl overdose ( abcnews.go.com )

Seattle will open a new space for people to recover and receive treatment for nearly 24 hours after they have overdosed on fentanyl or other drugs, Mayor Bruce Harrell announced Thursday....

A startling number of kids lost parents to overdoses. Experts on how to buck the trend. ( www.usatoday.com )

South Carolina will soon ban gender-affirming & out trans kids to their parents ( www.lgbtqnation.com )

U.S. University Did Something Crazy: Listened to Student Protesters Instead of Calling the Cops on Them ( www.jezebel.com )

Record-breaking increase in CO2 levels in world’s atmosphere | Experts issue warning after finding global average concentration in March was 4.7ppm higher than same period last year ( www.theguardian.com )

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MI5 sorry over handling of machete attack case ( www.bbc.com )

MI5 has apologised for failing to promptly disclose information to a woman who was attacked with a machete by one of its agents....

Florida man points AR-15 in Uber driver's face, forces him to ground for dropping daughter off: deputies ( www.fox35orlando.com )

Alabama sets nitrogen-gas execution for man who survived botched 2022 effort ( www.theguardian.com )

Stormy Daniels testimony reveals the triumph of #MeToo ( www.salon.com )

‘It wasn’t a big deal’: secret deposition reveals how a child molester priest was shielded by his church ( www.theguardian.com )

"We are so innocent": Trump fumes after judge denies 2nd motion for mistrial ( www.salon.com )

Trump and Republicans slam Biden over pledge to withhold weapons from Israel over Rafah ( www.usatoday.com )

In a Truth Social post, Trump attacked Biden − and Hamas − by accusing the president of "taking the side of these terrorists, just like he has sided with the Radical Mobs taking over our college campuses."

CFPB rule to save Americans $10 billion a year in late fees faces possible last-minute freeze ( www.cnbc.com )

Naming names, it's up to Texas Judge Mark T. Pittman.

Nearly half of cancer patients have more than $5,000 in medical debt, even though most are insured ( www.nbcnews.com )

How Republicans Echo Antisemitic Tropes Despite Declaring Support for Israel ( www.nytimes.com )

The Republican speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, traveled to Columbia University two weeks ago to decry the “virus of antisemitism” that he said pro-Palestinian protesters were spreading across the country. “They have chased down Jewish students. They have mocked them and reviled them,” he said to jeers from...