Six-month-old baby shot repeatedly during Arizona standoff with child’s father ( www.theguardian.com )
Police were able to rescue child, who is in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, before house caught fire with father still in it...
Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ ubiquitous in Great Lakes basin, study finds ( www.theguardian.com )
PFAS chemicals present in air, rain, atmosphere and water in basin, which holds nearly 95% of US freshwater...
Why school segregation is getting worse ( www.vox.com )
Seventy years after the Brown decision, many students are divided by their race and socioeconomic status....
Houston storm: At least 5 killed, more than 600,000 without power ( abcnews.go.com )
A Black police chief in Colorado files a racial discrimination lawsuit after his firing ( www.nbcnews.com )
He claims leaders and officers in the mountain town of Leadville worked to force him from his job after an independent investigator cleared him of wrongdoing...
The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau Is Constitutional, After All ( theintercept.com )
In a blow to the conservative legal movement, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau is not, in fact, an unconstitutional abomination....
Jesus is their savior, Trump is their candidate. Ex-president's backers say he shares faith, values ( apnews.com )
As Donald Trump increasingly infuses his campaign with Christian trappings while coasting to a third Republican presidential nomination, his support is as strong as ever among evangelicals and other conservative Christians....
US prisoners are being assigned dangerous jobs. But what happens if they are hurt or killed? ( apnews.com )
Judge blocks Biden administration rule capping credit card late fees at $8 ( www.cnn.com )
A federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas, on Friday blocked a new Biden administration rule that would prohibit credit card companies from charging customers late fees higher than $8....
Paul Pelosi attacker sentenced to 30 years in prison ( www.bbc.com )
The man who attacked the husband of former US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been sentenced to 30 years in prison....
“Out of control”: Legal experts call for recusal, reform over Stop the Steal symbol at Alito home ( www.salon.com )
Legal experts say its time for the Supreme Court's ethics code to grow some teeth...
Four US daycare workers charged with spiking children’s food with melatonin ( www.theguardian.com )
Four New Hampshire daycare employees allegedly spiked children’s food with the sleep supplement melatonin and were arrested on Thursday....
At the top of Benjamin Netanyahu's agenda: self-preservation ( www.cbc.ca )
Like many Israelis, Galon blames Netanyahu for not preventing the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, which left more than 1,200 dead and resulted in the capture of more than 250 hostages. Israel responded with a ferocious military campaign in Gaza that has killed upward of 35,000 people, according to the Gaza health ministry....
New endangered listing for rare lizard could slow oil and gas drilling in New Mexico and West Texas ( apnews.com )
Federal wildlife officials declared a rare lizard in southeastern New Mexico and West Texas an endangered species Friday, citing future energy development, sand mining and climate change as the biggest threats to its survival in one of the world’s most lucrative oil and natural gas basins....
Missouri candidate with ties to the KKK can stay on the Republican ballot, judge rules ( apnews.com )
A longshot Missouri gubernatorial candidat e with ties to the Ku Klux Klan will stay on the Republican ticket, a judge ruled Friday....
Donald Trump wants to control the Justice Department and FBI. His allies have a plan ( www.reuters.com )
Some of Donald Trump's allies are assembling proposals to curtail the Justice Department's independence and turn the nation's top law enforcement body into an attack dog for conservative causes, nine people involved in the effort told Reuters....
Coroner's Report Reveals Boeing Whistleblower's Cause of Death ( gizmodo.com )
Massachusetts Placed Homeless Families in Shelters With Sex Offenders, Report Says ( www.thedailybeast.com )
North Koreans stole Americans' identities and took remote-work tech jobs at Fortune 500 companies, DOJ says ( fortune.com )
They took er jobs!! Derpa DERR!!!
Democrats introduce bill to aid older LGBTQ+ Americans in rural areas ( www.advocate.com )
Sorry, Harrison Butker, the Benedictine College nuns reject your "narrow definition" of Catholicism ( www.salon.com )
A cop allegedly shot and killed his Lyft driver, claiming he was being kidnapped for a 'gay fraternity' ( www.advocate.com )
Person Charged in Random Attack on Steve Buscemi: NYPD ( www.thedailybeast.com )
Mom of Slain BLM Protester Rips Guv for Killer’s Pardon ( www.thedailybeast.com )
Explosive police report reveals how Moms for Liberty co-founder arranged bisexual threesomes ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
