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2024-07-05 19:00:31

After journalist Anna Wolfe won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing a welfare fraud scandal in Mississippi, the former governor has sued her and her editor, Adam Ganucheau, for defamation. They are both resisting a court order requiring them to turn over files and reveal their sources, saying the request is an attack on journalism. “If one of us goes to jail, we will be the first person to go to jail in the Mississippi welfare scandal,” Wolfe says. Read more from NBC News.
https://flip.it/O9MHA-
#Mississippi #Welfare #Journalism #Pulitzer #Fraud

2024-07-02 10:49:34

Hurricane Beryl becomes the earliest Category 5 observed in the Atlantic basin on record.
AP reports the storm inflicted heavy damage on Grenada and is now headed towards Jamaica and Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.
https://flip.it/0wDeqj
#Hurricane #Beryl #ClimateChange #Climate #Weather #Caribbean #News

2024-06-21 16:10:14

A U.S. journalist shot by police while covering the 2020 protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis is dying of her injuries.
NPR reports a "nonlethal" foam plastic bullet hit Linda Tirado, 42, in the eye — even though she was wearing protective goggles and press credentials. "While we she has battled, her condition has continued to worsen to the point she is at life's end and receiving palliative care," the National Press Club said in a statement.
https://flip.it/nfgQ-p
#Journalist #Journalism #LindaTirado #Press #PressFreedom #FreePress #Media #GeorgeFloyd

2024-06-21 10:46:04

How is North Korea supporting Russia in Ukraine?
@npub104w…90ct explores the new defense pact between the two countries: https://flip.it/aH8PiY
#NorthKorea #Russia #Ukraine #Putin #KimJongUn #Korea #RussiaUkraineWar #News

2024-06-19 23:43:12

Louisiana just became the first state in the country to require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools and state-funded universities. The American Civil Liberties Union says they plan to sue on the grounds that the law violates First Amendment. Louisiana is the first state to require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in schools since the Supreme Court struck down a similar Kentucky law in 1980. Supporters of the new law say a 2022 Supreme Court ruling in favor of a school football coach’s right to pray on the field after games bolsters their legal case. Read more from UPI.
https://flip.it/rgciXr
#ACLU #Louisiana #TenCommandments #Schools #SupremeCourt

2024-06-19 21:14:32

The number of heat-related deaths in Maricopa County, Arizona, has been rising every year. In 2013, 76 people died from the heat, while 645 people died from the heat in 2023, a staggering 784% increase. Many of them are homeless or low-income. Cities across the U.S. have started taking more proactive measures to keep residents safe as temperature records keep falling. Read more from BBC News.
https://flip.it/8NMDmQ
#Heat #Arizona #HeatWave #Weather #Climate #ClimateChange

2024-06-15 21:36:16

Eight Israeli soldiers were killed in southern Gaza on Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces says, in one of the deadliest single incidents involving its troops since October 7. CNN reports: https://flip.it/AS_sNC
#News #WorldNews #Israel #Gaza #Hamas

2024-06-14 21:26:57

Donald Trump turns 78 years old today, making him just three years younger than President Joe Biden. But polling shows that U.S. voters are more focused on Biden's age than Trump's.
Why? Is the media to blame? Are the polls wrong? Vox explores some theories: https://flip.it/6usn_i
For ongoing coverage, follow [@2024-elections-AxiosNews](https://flipboard.com/@axiosnews/2024-elections-0vnr9lr8z )
#Trump #Biden #USPolitics #Politics #Age #Aging #Media #Journalism

2024-06-14 13:57:20

Pope Francis becomes first pontiff to address a G7 summit, raises alarm about artificial intelligence.
AP quotes the Pope: "We would condemn humanity to a future without hope if we took away people’s ability to make decisions about themselves and their lives, by dooming them to depend on the choices of machines. We need to ensure and safeguard a space for proper human control over the choices made by artificial intelligence programs: Human dignity itself depends on it.”
https://flip.it/6fflFm
#Pope #G7 #AI #PopeFrancis #G7Summit #Politics #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #News

2024-06-12 10:39:27

U.N. inquiry says Israel and Hamas have both committed war crimes since October 7.
CNN reports: "The damning reports released Wednesday, which cover events up to the end of 2023, paint an alarming picture of both sides routinely disregarding international law in a devastating conflict that has now raged for more than eight months."
https://flip.it/5GbSoq
#Israel #Hamas #UN #WarCrimes #Gaza #Palestine #News

2024-05-26 23:35:13

An Israeli airstrike killed at least 35 people on Sunday and hit tents for displaced people in the southern city of Rafah, Palestinian health workers say. The report came hours after Hamas fired a barrage of rockets that set off air raid sirens in Tel Aviv. AP reports: https://flip.it/fTMULA
#News #WorldNews #Israel #Gaza

2024-05-16 22:13:47

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott granted a full pardon to Daniel Perry, a man convicted of murdering a Black Lives Matter protester in downtown Austin in 2020, after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously recommended the move. Perry claimed during the trial that he shot Garrett Foster, who was carrying an AK-47 rifle, in self-defense. Prosecutors argued Perry was seeking out the confrontation. Read more from USA Today.
https://flip.it/KoGjyH
#Texas #Pardon #BLM #Protest #Guns

2024-04-29 13:54:43

Columbia University president says negotiations with pro-Palestinian protesters have stalled, school will not divest from Israel.
NBC News reports: "Columbia was the first elite institution [in the U.S.] struck by protests in support of the Palestinian cause, with students demanding that the school divest from investments in weapons manufacturing and that support Israel amid the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war, in which more than 34,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip. Protests spread quickly last week on campuses from coast to coast, resulting in mass arrests and crackdowns."
https://flip.it/MU9GQJ
#Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Protest #Columbia #News

2024-04-28 21:09:55

World Central Kitchen says it has 276 trucks with eight million meals ready and will resume distributing food in Gaza nearly a month after seven workers were killed in an Israeli airstrike. "Ultimately, we decided we must keep feeding," the charity said on Sunday. BBC News reports: https://flip.it/moViEt
#News #WorldNews #Israel #Gaza #Hamas #Palestine

2024-04-21 20:42:10

Salman Rushdie was nearly killed in a knife attack in 2022. Today, he is thinner, paler, scarred and blind is his right eye. Yet, the author remains the same engaging, articulate and uncensored champion of artistic freedom. Rushdie, who wrote “The Satanic Verses,” a book that spurred the call for his death by Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989, spoke to the Associated Press about the attack, the “iron in his soul,” and his new book, “Knife.” https://flip.it/gLxncF
#News #Books #Bookstodon #SalmanRushdie

2024-04-15 17:37:05

More than five years ago, a fire damaged the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris so badly that many were skeptical of President Macron’s promise to repair the landmark. Now, thanks to donations of funds and trees from around the world, an international team of carpenters has made “significant progress” rebuilding it. NBC News has more.
https://flip.it/ZoJ5q-
#Paris #NotreDame #Landmark #Construction

2024-04-11 15:09:01

O.J. Simpson, the former football great who was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and her friend, has died of cancer at age 76. Here's more from ABC.
https://flip.it/5Fko2k
#News #Celebrity #Sports #OJSimpson

2024-04-03 19:21:08

Activist investors led by billionaire Nelson Peltz have failed to take over the board at Disney. Peltz told CNBC in January that Disney was not being run "properly" and in a recent interview with the Financial Times, took aim at Marvel projects for focusing on diversity. However, Disney shareholders approved board members backed by current leadership including CEO Bob Iger, after public support from famous names such as George Lucas, Laurene Powell Jobs and Abigail E. Disney. Here's more from NBC.
https://flip.it/rRBqUG
#News #Business #Disney #NelsonPeltz #BobIger #Entertainment

2024-04-02 17:38:59

As next week’s solar eclipse approaches, inmates at a New York state prison have filed a lawsuit over a lockdown that would keep them from witnessing the rare astronomical event. The six plaintiffs say the eclipse is a religious experience, and barring them from seeing it violates their constitutional right to practice their faith. Read more about the case from ABC News.
https://flip.it/IFbYZZ
#Astronomy #Eclipse #Science #CriminalJustice

2024-04-02 13:27:28

"Oregon’s Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek on Monday signed into law a bill that recriminalizes the possession of small amounts of drugs, ending a first-in-the-nation experiment with decriminalization that was hobbled by implementation issues."
AP reports: "Measure 110, approved by voters with 58% support in 2020, made the personal use possession of illicit drugs such as heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine only punishable by a ticket and a maximum fine of $100."
https://flip.it/P6V_XL
#Oregon #Drugs #Crime #News #USPolitics #Politics

2024-04-02 10:57:52

"An apparent Israeli airstrike killed seven aid workers with World Central Kitchen, leading the charity to suspend delivery Tuesday of vital food aid to Gaza, where Israel's offensive has pushed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to the brink of starvation."
CBS News reports: "WCK, a nonprofit founded by celebrity chef José Andrés, has shipped more than 37 million meals to Palestinians in Gaza since Oct. 7, the group says."
https://flip.it/LP.2TT
#Gaza #Israel #Hamas #IsraelHamasWar #News #WCK

2024-04-01 21:47:05

After high levels of lead was found in baby food last fall, sickening dozens of children, officials last month warned they are still finding the heavy metal in some powdered cinnamon products and urged the public to avoid certain brands. Most of the world moved to eradicate lead from nearly all products by the 1990s, so why do we keep finding the toxic element? Vox takes a deep dive on the issue, exploring why it remains a problem and who is most at risk.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24115827/lead-poisoning-symptoms-exposure-children-cinnamon-paint-battery-pollution-global
#Lead #Health #Regulation #Food

2024-03-31 16:03:41

ABC News reports: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will undergo surgery for a hernia on Sunday, his office announced. Deputy Prime Minister Yariv Levin will fill in while Netanyahu is under full anesthesia. https://flip.it/r00BUK
#News #WorldNews #Netanyahu #Israel #Gaza

2024-03-22 18:04:10

Kate Middleton reveals cancer diagnosis in video released by Kensington Palace.
ABC News has the latest: https://flip.it/iH-HHa
#KateMiddleton #Royals #UK #RoyalFamily #Cancer #News