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Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Thursday, June 5

US News: All the President’s Billionaires: The Extraordinary Wealth in Trump’s Administration

US News: Supreme Court Sides With Catholic Charities in Religious-Rights Case Over Unemployment Taxes

The Hill: What globalists get wrong about free trade

The Hill: Supreme Court throws out Mexico’s lawsuit against US gun industry

The Hill: Supreme Court unanimously revives straight woman’s ‘reverse discrimination’ lawsuit

The Hill: Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ losing momentum in Senate

NY Times : The Rise of the Japanese Toilet

Phys.Org: AI reveals hidden language patterns and likely authorship in the Bible

NPR: OpenAI takes down covert operations tied to China and other countries

Washington Post: My expensive, exhausting, happy failed attempt at homesteading

Indian Country Today: Proposed pipeline would cut through roadless area in Caribou-Targhee National Forest

Indian Country Today: White Earth Nation opens state’s first recreational cannabis dispensary outside tribal lands

Indian Country Today: Boarding school memorial statue unveiled in South Dakota

NBC News: ICE arrests record number of immigrants in single day, including hundreds at scheduled appointments

WLBT: Missing father, daughter found dead in Maine near mountain summit after going hiking together

NBC News: Man charged with supplying chemicals in Palm Springs fertility clinic bombing

Alaska Beacon: American Doctors Are Moving to Canada To Escape the Trump Administration

AP News: Afghans who helped America during the war plead for an exemption from Trump travel ban

Washington Post: Trump proposes policies that would increase the soaring national debt

Time: Fishing Communities in the Philippines Are Fighting for their Future as Waters Rise

Time: Trump Orders Investigation Into Biden and His Aides. Here’s What to Know

AP News: Trump announces travel ban and restrictions on 19 countries set to go into effect Monday

AP News: Trump’s EPA targets environmental rules projected to save billions — and many thousands of lives

BBC: How airline fees have turned baggage into billions

BBC: Israeli military recovers bodies of two Israeli-American in southern Gaza

The Atlantic: What the Fastest-Growing Christian Group Reveals About America

The Guardian: Contraception warning over weight-loss drugs after dozens of pregnancies

The Guardian: Millions in west do not know they have aggressive fatty liver disease, study says

The Guardian: Jewish Americans of all stripes reconsider safety protocols – but disagree on roots of recent violence

The Guardian: Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers ‘overwhelmed’

The Guardian: Guatemalan man deported to Mexico flown back to US after judge’s orders

The Atlantic: The Trump Administration Is Spending $2 Million to Figure Out Whether DEI Causes Plane Crashes

The Guardian: Trump travel ban includes exemption for World Cup and Olympic athletes

The Oregonian: 2 ex-military men arrested with arsenal, Nazi items after Lewis-McChord base robbery, prosecutors say

AP News: Outgoing head of Europe’s drug agency warns of surge of violence from stimulant trade

Reuters: Musk, hardline US Republicans ramp up attacks on Trump tax and spending bill

AP News: Chaos as federal officers in tactical gear go into a Latino community in Minneapolis

AP News: Flying boats make for a rare sight as Washington clears an island of derelict vessels by helicopter

OPB: Environmental groups take Oregon to court over renewable diesel refinery on Columbia River

OPB: As support for national parks wanes, Crater Lake’s former leader says he had to walk away

Reuters: Trump suspends entry of international students studying at Harvard

The Oregonian: Oregon senator fights Trump administration’s reversal on plastics in national parks

Courthouse News Service: Crunch time at SCOTUS: Trans rights, book bans and birthright citizenship headline opinion season

The Oregonian: Security guard stops hatchet-wielding attacker near Portland State, police say

Courthouse News Service: Trump sues Texas over in-state tuition for residents without legal status

Courthouse News Service: Marine heat waves likely to ramp up as shallow ocean layers become trend

CBS San Diego: California gas prices set to surge as new clean air regulations take effect

CBS San Diego: Wildfire forecasting at risk as NOAA staffing shortages raise local concerns

KRCR: Veteran launches program to train peers in financial crime detection

Courthouse News Service: Federal judge orders Trump to facilitate habeas challenges for Venezuelans deported to El Salvador