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California bans state travel to Florida, 4 other states California added five more states, including Florida, to the list of places where state-funded travel is banned because of laws that discriminate against members of the LGBTQ community, the state attorney general announced Monday. Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta added Florida, Arkansas, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia to the list that now has 17 states where state employee travel is forbidden except under limited circumstances. “ Make no mistake: We’re in the midst of an unprecedented wave of bigotry and discrimination in this country — and the State of California is not going to support it ,” Bonta said. Lawmakers in 2016 banned non-essential travel to states with laws that discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. The 12 other states on the list are: Texas, Alabama, Idaho, Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Kentucky, North Carolina, Kansas, Mississippi, Tennessee. AP G...

Senate Democratic leaders on Friday demanded that former attorneys general in the Trump administration testify over secret subpoenas of two House Democrats. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) called the secret subpoenas “a gross abuse of power and an assault on the separation of powers.” They said that if former Trump Attorneys General William P. Barr and Jeff Sessions do not voluntarily testify, they will be subpoenaed to appear before Durbin’s committee. The statement from Schumer and Durbin is in response to reports Thursday night that the Justice Department in 2018 secretly subpoenaed Apple for the data of two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.) and Rep. Eric Swalwell (Calif.), as well as the data of their current and former staffers and family members. Source: Senate Democrats threaten to subpoena Barr, Sessions for testimony over Justice Dept.’s secret pursuit o...

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The end of Trump's presidency brought the US one of its biggest spikes in global approval ratings on record The global image of the United States has vastly improved under President Joe Biden from all-time low ratings under President Donald Trump,  data released by Pew Research Center  on Thursday indicates. Pew polled 16,254 people in 16 countries from March 12 to May 26 and found a major shift in their attitudes since Trump left the White House. The US's median favorability rating increased by 28 percentage points, one of the biggest spikes since Pew started polling more than two decades ago: It jumped to 62% this year from 34% in 2020. In six countries — France, Germany, Japan, Italy, the Netherlands, and Canada — the share of favorable opinions of the US grew by at least 25 percentage points, returning to the high ratings seen during the Obama era. Business Insider Wow, what a difference a POTUS makes! Who knew the office of the United States President ...

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Coronavirus in Oregon: 370 new cases, 10 deaths   OregonLive Oregon Health Authority reports 10 new deaths related to COVID-19, 370 new cases   KPTV.com Oregon reports 10 more COVID-19 related deaths, 370 new cases   KTVZ Oregon reports 370 new COVID cases   KOIN.com Oregon coronavirus update, June 10: Salem Hospital's year-long outbreak is over   Statesman Journal View Full Coverage on Google News Read More The article was originally published here!

Drop in childhood vaccinations during pandemic may raise risk of other outbreaks when schools reopen, CDC says   Washington Post Drop in routine childhood vaccinations during coronavirus may spur increase in preventable illness, CDC warns   Fox News View Full Coverage on Google News Read More The article was originally published here!

The meat supplier JBS USA paid an $11 million ransom in response to a cyberattack that led to the shutdown of its entire US beef processing operation last week, the company said in a statement Wednesday evening. The ransom was paid after most of the company's facilities had come back online, JBS said. “This was a very difficult decision to make for our company and for me personally,” said Andre Nogueira, CEO of JBS USA, in the statement. “However, we felt this decision had to be made to prevent any potential risk for our customers.” Source: JBS says it paid $11 million ransom after cyberattack – CNN The article was originally published here!

This is my little rant on rich people. If you're rich, why are you reading my little newsletter? You should be reading the Wall Street Journal. Amiright? DUH: Many Wealthy Americans Escape Big Income Tax Bills Taxes: Jeff Bezos rates them 1 out of 10. Some of the world’s wealthiest executives, including Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg and Elon Musk, pay little to no taxes compared to their wealth, a ProPublica  report  revealed on Tuesday. “The tax law is not designed for the wage worker,” said Eric Pierre, an Austin, Texas-based certified public accountant and owner at Pierre Accounting.  Most Americans earn income through their labor, such as wages, salaries or other employer-provided benefits. However, the top 1% often receive income from interest, dividends, capital gains or rent, from their investments, known as capital income.  CNBC The problem is that we tax income, not consumption. If we really were to practice conservatism, we would disco...

It's the latest version of the wanted posted of the Wild West — and it's working. Read More The article was originally published here!

A 6-year-old Michigan boy was allegedly threatened with a sledgehammer and shot in the arm over the weekend by a neighbor while trying to retrieve his bicycle in front of his home. Read More The article was originally published here!

The company behind the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline said Wednesday it's officially terminating the project. TC Energy already had suspended construction in January when President Biden revoked a key cross-border presidential permit. The announcement ends a more than decade-long battle that came to signify the debate over whether fossil fuels should be left in the ground to address climate change. Environmentalists opposed the pipeline in part because of the oil it would carry— oil sands crude from Alberta. It requires more processing than most oil, so producing it emits more greenhouse gases. TC Energy had begun construction on the pipeline last year and said about 300 miles of the $8 billion project had been built. It would have carried oil from landlocked Alberta to the U.S. Gulf Coast. Source: Controversial Keystone XL Pipeline Is Halted : NPR The article was originally published here!

The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last year led to calls for change around the country, including a push for police reform in Aurora. Read More The article was originally published here!

Sudan and Egypt have renewed calls for the international community to help in resolving their decade-long dispute with Ethiopia over a giant dam that Addis Ababa is building on the Blue Nile, the main tributary of the Nile River Read More The article was originally published here!

The private investigator hired by Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell to serve a civil lawsuit against Republican Rep. Mo Brooks related to the US Capitol insurrection has described, for the first time, the tense situation that unfolded at Brooks' home when he handed over the legal papers. The lawsuit was filed in March by Swalwell, a California Democrat and fierce critic of former President Donald Trump. The suit attempts to hold Brooks, Trump, and other Republicans civilly responsible for the January 6 insurrection. Brooks was named in the lawsuit for, among other reasons, telling Trump supporters at a rally before the riot that they should start “kicking a–.” A controversy erupted over the process of serving Brooks with the lawsuit — handing over the paperwork notifying him that he was sued. This is typically a procedural formality, and occurs with little fanfare. But Swalwell told the court that he needed to hire a private investigator to track Brooks down, and ...

The president's first foreign trip will see him attend G7 and Nato summits and meet Vladimir Putin. Read More The article was originally published here!

Alabama is so dumb they made themselves a copy of Mississippi…and got it backwards. Is there anybody dumber than Mo Brooks, Rep. R-Alabama? The answer is no. Rep. Mo Brooks pushes falsehood that Trump won 2020 election, claims unlawful votes for Biden Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) is continuing to promote the false claim that former president Donald Trump won the 2020 election, ahead of a battle for the seat of Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.). There is no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. Nonetheless, in  an interview Monday  with the Washington Examiner, Brooks asserted that Trump beat President Biden “if only lawful votes cast by eligible American citizens were counted.” He argued that there is “overwhelming and compelling” evidence to support the claim — although he provided none. He said that “somewhere in the neighborhood of 900,000 to 1.7 million noncitizens voted in the 2020 presidential election overwhelmingly for Joe Biden,” but provide no data to ...

Alabama is so dumb they made themselves a copy of Mississippi…and got it backwards. Is there anybody dumber than Mo Brooks, Rep. R-Alabama? The answer is no. Rep. Mo Brooks pushes falsehood that Trump won 2020 election, claims unlawful votes for Biden Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) is continuing to promote the false claim that former president Donald Trump won the 2020 election, ahead of a battle for the seat of Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.). There is no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. Nonetheless, in  an interview Monday  with the Washington Examiner, Brooks asserted that Trump beat President Biden “if only lawful votes cast by eligible American citizens were counted.” He argued that there is “overwhelming and compelling” evidence to support the claim — although he provided none. He said that “somewhere in the neighborhood of 900,000 to 1.7 million noncitizens voted in the 2020 presidential election overwhelmingly for Joe Biden,” but provide no data to ...

“The purpose of this law is to regulate bitcoin as unrestricted legal tender with liberating power, unlimited in any transaction, and to any title that public or private natural or legal persons require carrying out,” the law reads. Prices can now be shown in bitcoin, tax contributions can be paid with the digital currency, and exchanges in bitcoin will not be subject to capital gains tax. Bitcoin is known for wild price swings that have prompted critics to suggest it is not suitable to be an effective currency. It’s still unclear how El Salvador will ultimately roll out bitcoin as legal tender.The exchange rate with the U.S. dollar “will be freely established by the market,” according to the proposed law. El Salvador’s current official currency is the U.S. dollar. Source: El Salvador adopts bitcoin as legal tender after passing law The article was originally published here!

The Senate Passes A Bill To Encourage Tech Competition, Especially With China   NPR Senate passes massive bipartisan bill to combat China's growing economic influence   CNN Senate Passes Sweeping Bill to Help U.S. Compete With China   Bloomberg Politics Senate Passes Bill to Bolster Competitiveness With China   The New York Times Senate passes $250 billion bipartisan tech and manufacturing bill aimed at countering China   CNBC View Full Coverage on Google News Read More The article was originally published here!

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CCS softball playoffs Open Division Monday’s quarterfinals No. 6 Pioneer 4, No. 3 Los Altos 0 No. 2 Notre Dame-Salinas 4, No. 7 Archbishop Mitty 3 No. 4 Aragon 8, No. 5 Branham 5 No. 1 St. Francis 11, No. 8 Hillsdale 0 YEARBOOK:   Check out our best photos from unprecedented prep sports year Wednesday’s semifinals No. 6 Pioneer (14-5) at No. 2 Notre Dame-Salinas (15-2), 4 p.m. No. 4 Aragon (15-2) at No. 1 St. Francis (24-0), 4 p.m. Thursday Final Division I Monday’s quarterfinal No. 3 Westmont 4, No. 6 Silver Creek 3 Tuesday’s quarterfinals No. 7 Live Oak 11, No. 2 Cupertino 2 No. 5 Los Gatos 8, No. 4 Gunn 4 No. 1 Watsonville 7, No. 8 Sequoia 3 Wednesday’s semifinals No. 7 Live Oak (12-2) at No. 3 Westmont (18-5), 4 p.m. No. 5 Los Gatos (13-8) at No. 1 Watsonville (16-1), 4 p.m.  Thursday Final Division II Monday’s quarterfinals No. 3 Leigh 1, No. 6 Capuchino 0 No. 2 San Benito 9, No. 7 Burlingame 2 No. 4 Santa Teresa 6, No. 5 Saint Francis SCP 0 No. 8 Pre...

President Joe Biden ended talks with a group of Republican senators on a big infrastructure package on Tuesday and started reaching out to senators from both parties in a new effort toward bipartisan compromise, setting a summer deadline for Congress to pass his top legislative priority. The president is walking away from talks with lead Republican negotiator Sen. Shelley Moore Capito after the two spoke Tuesday, but would welcome her in the new bipartisan group, according to an administrative official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private negotiations. At the same time, with anxiety running high as time slips by, Democrats are laying the groundwork to pass some or all of the ambitious package on their own. Biden conferred Tuesday with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer about launching the budget resolution process for Senate votes in July, the White House said. Source: Biden ends GOP infrastructure talks, starts new negotiation...

ISLANDTON, S.C. (AP) — A mother and son from a prominent South Carolina legal family were killed on their family’s land, and authorities said they are investigating the deaths as a double homicide. Deputies in Colleton County found two people dead apparently from gunshots on property near Islandton around 10 p.m. Monday, the sheriff’s office […] Read More The article was originally published here!

On Monday, Motherboard reported that for years the FBI secretly ran an encrypted communications network called ‘Anom' popular among serious organized criminals in order to harvest the content of their communications. The elaborate operation has resulted in hundreds of arrests around the world. Now, the Department of Justice is also charging people who worked for the fake encrypted phone company, including administrators and “influencers” who used their position in the underworld to encourage criminals to use the Anom phones, according to newly unsealed court records. Source: DOJ Charges Criminal ‘Influencers' Who Worked For FBI's Honeypot Phone Company The article was originally published here!

A U.N. Declaration on Ending AIDS Should Have Been Easy. It Wasn’t.   The New York Times HIV positive Wake County man lives normal life as treatment evolves   WTVD-TV Science, HIV and COVID-19—where are we headed?   UNAIDS HIV 40 years on: four action points to end AIDS as a health threat   The Conversation CA Forty years on, far too many Indonesians are still dying from AIDS   Jakarta Post View Full Coverage on Google News Read More The article was originally published here!

Internet down today due to outage at cloud storage provider, (Not So) Fastly Global glitch: Swaths of internet go down after cloud outage Dozens of websites briefly went offline around the globe Tuesday, including CNN, The New York Times and Britain’s government home page, after an outage at the cloud service Fastly, illustrating how vital a small number of behind-the-scenes companies have become to running the internet. The sites that could not be reached also included some Amazon pages, the Financial Times, Reddit, Twitch and The Guardian. San Francisco-based Fastly acknowledged a problem just before 6 a.m. Eastern. About an hour later, the company said: “The issue has been identified and a fix has been applied.” Most of the sites soon appeared to be back online. Fastly said it had identified a service configuration that triggered disruptions, meaning the outage appeared to be caused internally. Brief internet service outages are not uncommon and are only rarely the result o...