The Salt Lake Tribune, which went from for-profit to non-profit 6 years ago, is about to drop its paywall. "The Tribune cannot afford to limit who has access to independent and trusted news." Meanwhile, it just launched a new newspaper in southern Utah. www.sltrib.com/news/2025/11...

"Here’s what we don’t say out loud: There’s no money in journalism anymore. No fame, no glamour, no prestige. But there’s lots and lots of money in media—in being a brand, an influencer, a personality. We stopped paying journalists and started rewarding performers."

Various historical barriers to casting ballots in person make having a mail-in option crucial. https://capitalbnews.org/black-voting-rights-mississippi-mail-in-case/

'What are young and/or struggling journalists supposed to think when the most successful people in the business are the ones with malleable ethics and poor judgement (and, to be honest, pretty bad writers)?' This is a great read from @marisakabas.bsky.social www.thehandbasket.co/p/moral-rot-...

A new statement from the Dallas News Guild: 26 of our members at @dallasnews.com are being outsourced—a violation of our contract.

The national news cycle this week : 🫨🫨🫨

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

I was recently laid off by ARTnews, a few days before the theft at the Louvre. The terms of my TN work visa means I can't freelance unless I donate the funds to charity. I'm open to new FT roles in business reporting and communications, and am willing to relocate to other cities, including Toronto.

That is a blood curdling howl of anguish characteristic of Mariners fandom at this point.

Millions of Americans will face hard choices as state or federal marketplace health insurance plans will be up for renewal in November.

Friends: Please join me in the fight to save Dallas City Hall. Spread the word.  www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

If a low in the 50s still hasn’t arrived by Thursday – which is not predicted in the forecast – this year will see the latest arrival of the fall chill ever recorded.

If not for R&B singer D’Angelo, who died Tuesday of pancreatic cancer at age 51, the world might never have known Erykah Badu.

Love this cover, especially all the phones on the table

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

President Trump filed a lawsuit against the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, alleging the newspaper defamed him in an article about a birthday letter sent to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein

Most years, Washington sees 500 to 600 hate crime incidents reported to police, according to the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs. This places Washington consistently in the top five states with the most reports. (Jake Goldstein-Street / Washington State Standard)

Someone recently asked: “Why [aren’t] Mississippians in particular no longer passing on farming knowledge?” My response: They are, and here are some of the Black farmers who are training up the next generation in the Mississippi Delta. MY LATEST: capitalbnews.org/black-farmer...

Level 3 “go now” evacuation notices are in effect for the area. (Tammy Ayer / Yakima Herald-Republic)

Camp Mystic, a private Christian summer camp for girls in Hunt, had to be evacuated overnight after “catastrophic” flooding along the Guadalupe River.

Coco Gauff went down in a shocking first-round Wimbledon upset to Dayana Yastremska in straight sets. Gauff, the tournament’s No. 2 seed, was coming off her second Grand Slam singles title with a win in the French Open last month.

SMU's former president discusses what bothers him about Dallas, the changing landscape of higher education and more with High Profile writer Sarah Hepola.

“The Democratic establishment, I see them take a lot from progressives but they don’t give a lot back,” said @jamaalbowmanny.bsky.social . “That’s why we have Donald Trump in the White House and that’s how we keep recycling people like Andrew Cuomo.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/n...

This year’s festival is June 26-29 and features a lineup of genres that includes comedy, thriller, documentaries, LGBTQ, foreign and a selection of short films.

To supply the world with cherries, growers rely on a roving migrant workforce that follows the ripening season from the Southwest, to California, to Washington. It’s a carefully timed migration, and any delay can be costly for farmers. (Monica Nickelsburg / KUOW)

Sixteen venomous species—including cobras, rattlesnakes and mambas—sank their teeth into Tim Friede. The goal? To immunize himself against the world’s deadliest snakes. Now, his blood has been used to create a prototype for a universal antivenom. 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/45ABKNB

Great story by @peterslevin.bsky.social tracing how agricultural research in Africa helps U.S. farmers. Starts with aphid-resistant sorghum in Kansas, then other reasons we created these programs in the first place; features Tim Dalton (my first PhD student!), Dave Tschirley & other #FoodEcon folks

TSA urges people to stop trying to use a Costco card as a sufficient REAL ID

If you're going, please find me at the @ire.org conference in New Orleans next week where I'll be leading a resilience workshop with the incomparable Parul Somani!

via @alaskapublic.org Whale Pass has the unlikely distinction of being the nation’s first and only school offering Songahm Taekwondo as a school sport. And as the first ATA Martial Arts certified taekwondo dojo in Alaska, the students have literally put Alaska on the taekwondo world’s map.

19 Black patients who died at at a New Orleans hospital in the 1870s, and whose heads were removed by a doctor to be sent to Germany for racist/pseudoscientific ‘research,’ were laid to rest in a jazz funeral rooted in New Orleans tradition. www.npr.org/2025/05/31/n...

(AP) — President Donald Trump suffered “mental anguish” from CBS News' editing of a “60 Minutes” interview with Democratic opponent Kamala Harris last fall, his lawyers are arguing in court papers. @apnews.com www.audacy.com/1010wins/new...

🚨 BREAKING: Court says Trump doesn't have the authority to set tariffs

NEW — “The TRiiBE has finally reached the point where we are embracing a future that we always knew was ours.” Our publisher Morgan Elise Johnson pens this piece about our exciting new chapter. thetriibe.com/2025/05/the-...

“When violence aimed at Jews—or those seen as aligned with them—is dismissed, excused, or rationalized, it undermines the civic norms that hold our society together,” write Reihan Salam and Jesse Arm:

BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.

Earlier this month, Capital B reporter and Clarksdale native @aallyahpatrice.bsky.social reported that Clarksdale, where ‘Sinners’ is set, doesn't have a movie theater. Now, multiple free screenings will be held from May 29 to May 31. capitalbnews.org/clarksdale-s...

🔗: on.wsj.com/3YVUWBg Donald Trump’s private clubs have emerged as a moneymaking venture for the president’s second term, and a hub for donors and favor-seekers alike. It now costs a record $1 million to join Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida resort, up from about $500,000 during his first term.

Breaking news: The US has been stripped of its top-notch triple-a credit rating by Moody’s on concerns about rising levels of government debt www.ft.com/content/e456...

Vancouver’s west side is now provincially represented by an MLA who openly mocked residential school survivors and by a federal MP who grew up on the Musqueam reserve. It’s an indication of how pushback against Indigenous rights have become a right-wing political theme — and communities' reactions.

When President Trump announced on Saturday that India and Pakistan had agreed to a ceasefire, the news caught many top officials in New Delhi off guard. Read the Big Take for more on the timeline of the crisis, and what could happen next.

Best Chicago controversy of the new Pope is the Cubs trying to lay claim to him and his brother having to speak up to clear up that he's a Sox fan. blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/08/p...

What is the price of cancer remission? Basically, the cost of a Nissan Versa every single month. Such a powerful read by @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social

White smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling that a pope has been elected to lead the Catholic Church.

Evidence of Trump's impact is everywhere — except, for the most part, in economic data itself. So forecasters are scouring earnings calls, sifting through obscure indicators and collecting anecdotes to try to suss out where the economy is headed. #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/b...

Breaking: India says it launched military strikes on Pakistan, intensifying a confrontation between the nuclear-armed neighbors

Exclusive: The Trump administration’s latest threat to colleges and universities: Get your former students to pay back their loans or future students might not get any.

The Faces of Gun Violence exhibit at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) headquarters showed the portraits of 120 people killed in gun violence in the U.S.

In 2023, a program connecting Utah farmers and ranchers to free therapy vouchers was so successful, the federal money ran out in four months. “I want you to know,” the program director recalled one recipient telling him, “that this saved my life.” With @sltrib.com