EXCLUSIVE: The number of people charged with breaking federal drug laws dropped to the lowest level in decades this year after the Trump administration ordered enforcement agencies to focus on deporting immigrants, a @reuters.com review of court dockets found. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Charlie Kirk's allies warn Americans: Mourn him properly or else reut.rs/3JYLkkp

Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 15 people, including four journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters. Reuters statement: reut.rs/3HPt6kE

Witnesses said the second strike took place after rescue workers, journalists and other people had rushed to the site of the initial attack. The Reuters live video feed from the hospital, which was operated by Masri, suddenly shut down at the moment of the initial strike reut.rs/41pmNLb

This is an important investigative story that was possible in part because an LLM helped solve a very challenging document processing problem - ~20,000 pages of handwritten temperature logs. This is groundbreaking work by Disha Raychaudhuri, @claretfarley.bsky.social and others.

An amazing behind the scenes look at how we reported this story out. Methodology here: www.reuters.com/world/us/how...

The graphics on this are just top tier. Really appreciate the care and detail that the team put into this one: reut.rs/3J1dlam

Prison advocates say the hot conditions amount to unfair treatment and excessive punishment. Current and formerly incarcerated individuals told Reuters in a series of interviews that they dreaded summers. One person said the heat was so oppressive it felt like they were “breathing under water.”

Nearly half of state prisons across 29 states have partial or no air conditioning in housing units, according to an exclusive database created by Reuters using documents obtained through public records requests to all 50 states.

Prisons prioritize security over comfort. But concrete walls, steel doors, sealed windows, limited ventilation, lack of tree cover and outdated infrastructure converge to create dangerously hot conditions. Nearly 1.2 million people are housed in federal and state prisons across the nation.

MUST READ: A new Reuters report uncovers a critical & often overlooked intersection of climate change & correctional policy: The dangerous heat crisis within U.S. prisons. An exclusive analysis of indoor temperature logs revealed some facilities exceed 100°F: www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...

New 📈✍️- we're hearing a lot about AI decimating graduate jobs. But the data paints a more complicated picture on what's behind the fall in entry-level roles With Delphine Strauss, @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & Sarah Lim on.ft.com/4f1wWmK

"Journalists endure many deprivations and hardships in warzones. We are deeply alarmed that the threat of starvation is now one of them." reutersagency.com/media-centre...

“Iman al-Shaer, another relative who lives nearby, said the family hadn't eaten anything before the bombs came down. ‘The children slept without food,’ he said.” www.reuters.com/world/middle...

An American toddler in foster care, a mom in ICE detention reut.rs/4lGklbf

FROM @reuters: Two-thirds of the lawyers in the DOJ unit that defends the government against the wave of lawsuits challenging President Trump's executive actions have quit since he was elected in November. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

US President Donald Trump was impressed by Liberian President Joseph Boakai's language skills during an African summit at the White House. Boakai was speaking in English — his country's official language reut.rs/3Id5O8i

The Ontario Science Centre 1 year later: The cost of a new site has escalated, its opening date has been pushed back, there is no sign of a temporary location, and the old building’s roof appears intact. #OnPoli By the superb Canadian Press team globalnews.ca/news/1125207...

Cole Schmidtknecht, 22, had insurance but couldn’t afford to refill his asthma inhaler after the cost jumped from $70 to more than $500. Five days after his pharmacy visit last year, Cole had a severe asthma attack and died. nbcnews.to/4mM9cGV

WASHINGTON, June 2 (Reuters) - Staff at FEMA were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, sources said. with @tedhesson.bsky.social and Nathan Layne: www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...

Five years after George Floyd's murder sparked a global protest movement for racial justice & police reform, the nation has seen a drastic reversal of support among some for racial equity. But experts say we’ve been here before & advocates remain committed. My latest: www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...

Trump's image of dead 'white farmers' came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa - www.reuters.com/world/africa...

I understand why people are theorizing that the Grok/South Africa thing was caused by a system prompt, but what it really reminds me of is Golden Gate Claude, which involved artificially amplifying some model features. I am so curious about how this happened. www.anthropic.com/news/golden-...

From @reuters.com: The FBI ordered agents on Monday to step up the amount of time they devote to immigration enforcement and to scale back investigating white-collar crime. Some offices will spend a third of their time doing immigration work, a huge shift. www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

Nice to see Toronto through a thoughtful visitor’s eye. See thread.

Read Reuters Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative series about how Chinese fentanyl chemicals fueling America’s deadly opioid crisis are cheap and easy to get — and why authorities are failing to stop them: reut.rs/4m1LLZN

“But while flattery does come with risk, the more worrisome issue is that we are training large language models to deceive us.” www.platformer.news/meta-ai-chat...

“A $400 billion opportunity,”- striking details on Iran’s ambitions in Syria, and just how indebted the Assad regime was to Tehran, from documents found in the looted Iranian embassy in Damascus after its fall. By John Davison, @allisonmartell.bsky.social and @readelev.bsky.social

Our first investigation based on papers uncovered after the fall of Assad is out today, w/ John Davison and @allisonmartell.bsky.social

This adds helpful context to the NYT magazine piece about ADHD. I was surprised by how little space in the original article was spent on impulsivity, and on the value of medication in managing impulsivity. www.additudemag.com/adhd-article...

Caroline Soler, Ansolabehere, & @bfschaffner.bsky.social: “Shor’s claims about young white women and men of color supporting Trump are simply not supported by the best public data available.” tufts-pol.medium.com/have-young-v...

Scoop for @reuters.com: On Friday, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission will stop collecting data on injuries from incidents like car accidents and adverse drug effects due to staff cuts at the CDC. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

“While she was pregnant, Musk had urged her to deliver the baby via caesarean section and told her he didn’t want the child to be circumcised. (Musk has posted on X that vaginal births limit brain size and that C-sections allow for larger brains.)” www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

The U.S. maternal mortality rate increased 27% between 2018 and 2022, a new NIH study finds.

The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US

The US has recorded a historic drop in overdose deaths. The Trump administration's campaign to slash spending and reduce the federal workforce could reverse this fragile progress, public health experts say reut.rs/3RwWU73

For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce" www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...

One of those days when I’m grateful for the markets wrap. This bit is relevant to that treasuries yield chart that is going around. www.reuters.com/markets/glob...

The Trump administration plans to fine migrants under deportation orders up to $998 a day if they fail to leave the United States and to seize their property if they do not pay, according to documents reviewed by Reuters. W/ @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

“The U.N. said last week that available information indicated one team was killed by Israeli forces and other emergency and aid crews were killed one after another over several hours as they searched for their missing colleagues.” www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Oopsies. "The formula for the tariffs ...does not make economic sense. ... But even if one were to take the Trump Administration’s tariff formula seriously, it makes an error that inflates the tariffs assumed to be levied by foreign countries four-fold." www.aei.org/economics/pr...

🚨 SCOOP 🚨 DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records. It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation. IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.

Hands Off Protest in the Boston Common

Lead story on Reuters.com at the moment www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...