ALERT: Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) asks Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to provide a health update to him and to all Kentuckians

NEW from me: the US is about to deport a retired pastor, Edward Nalwamba, back to Uganda. Not only is Uganda in the midst of an Ebola outbreak, but Nalwamba says he was the target of the country's security forces before coming to the US. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-us...

🧵NEW: For more than a decade, police in South West England have been quietly experimenting with algorithms to score thousands of people. Most of them didn't know anything about it. Over two years, me and Mark Wilding investigated the messy setup, multiple parts have now been scrapped

Via AP: "Confirmed cases in the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo have reached 1,003, including 254 deaths, officials said in a statement late Sunday." abcnews.com/Internationa...

"I saw a piece of this loose end of this blue coating ... I reached out and touched the end of that piece that was loose but still attached to the bottom. ...I did not remove, I did not damage, I did not rip, tear, break, destroy or harm any part of the Reflecting Pool." abcnews.com/Politics/oly...

President Trump is trying to downsize the U.S Forest Service and eliminate wildfire and smoke research as the American West is facing a potentially epic summer fire season. n.pr/4us6kSh

A farmer in Texas donated his land to a town to be turned into a public park. After he died, the city took the land and sold it for $10 million to a company building a data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

This is unreal. The New School Student Senate voted to cut ties with their campus Hillel group because it literally sponsored students to materially participate in the BOMBING OF GAZA... and so The New School admin is investigating the student senators. prismreports.org/2026/06/04/n...

"I won't discuss any conversations that I had or did not have with the president of the United States," Bondi said, according to a transcript of her May 29 testimony, released by the committee on Thursday. abcnews.com/Politics/bon...

Thinking a lot about this 2016 Marty Baron speech today "Holding the most powerful to account is what we are supposed to do. If we do not do that, then what exactly is the purpose of journalism?"

"The IRC said Ebola may have been spreading undetected since before March and potentially as long as three months before the epidemic was confirmed in mid-May." abcnews.com/Health/ebola...

"Cases and contacts are now spreading into larger regional hubs, the IRC warned, including the major city of Goma in the DRC's eastern province of North Kivu and also Uganda's capital, Kampala, with fears of much wider transmission." abcnews.com/Internationa...

Ebola outbreak kills 65 people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Concerns about spread given "the urban context of Bunia and Rwampara, intense population movement, mining-related mobility in Mongwalu, insecurity in affected areas, gaps in contact listing, infection prevention and control challenges, and the proximity of affected areas to Uganda and South Sudan"

"NYU Langone Hospitals and “several institutions” received the subpoena on May 7 requesting “information pertaining to patients under the age of 18 who received gender affirming care” between 2020 and 2026...." news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...

Alabama jailed a woman for endangering her fetus. Then jail staff forced her to give birth in a cell with only other incarcerated women coming to aid her and her baby, according to a lawsuit.

President Trump’s administration is quietly pushing national park, refuge and wilderness area managers to dramatically scale back hunting restrictions, raising questions about visitor safety and the impact on wildlife.

The CEO of PocketOS said the coding agent even admitted to its error later, saying, "NEVER F------ GUESS!' -- and that's exactly what I did." abcnews.com/GMA/News/rog...

"...The Court effectively constitutionalized a 'colorblindness' principle that forbids race-conscious solutions--even when addressing proven racial discrimination in voting." abcnews.com/Politics/5-t... via @jamessample.bsky.social

With very ominous language, Justice Elena Kagan says that today’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais ends the Supreme Court’s “now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act.” 6-to-3 vote in favor of white voters who challenged a Black-majority district in La. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Aid agencies warn that time is running out to avoid an 'irreversible humanitarian catastrophe'.

Trump has claimed the post, which showed seashells arranged to read "8647," constituted an "assassination" threat. abcnews.com/US/grand-jur... via @kfaulders.bsky.social, Charalambous, Mallin

"This was the first correspondents' dinner that Trump attended as a sitting president. He was scheduled to speak." abcnews.com/Politics/tru... via @ivanper4.bsky.social

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

“‘I think the vast majority of people who are angry at AI are regular consumers,’ Hanna said. ‘People who were promised one thing, especially online, and they’re just getting a completely different experience.’”

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch asked the administration’s lawyer whether Native Americans are considered birthright citizens under the Trump administration’s test. trib.al/SlPOfh4 “Ah, I think so, if they were lawfully domiciled here,” Sauer replied. “I’m not sure—I have to think that through.”

🔔Exclusive: CDC just posted a tranche of genomic data from measles. 1,000 genomes have been sequenced, so researchers expect an answer to the elimination question within the month. "That we're even talking about this is nuts," said @kgandersen.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

An image from the launch. 🔭 🧪

My favorite moment from the Artemis II launch

I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch: This is Victor. We are going for our families. This is Christina. We are going for our teammates. This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.

"LGBTQ groups, who have hailed conversion therapy bans as critical to the mental health of minors figuring out their identities during adolescence, say the decision will mean more kids are 'traumatized' going forward." abcnews.com/Politics/sup...

"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

CNN reports that the US/Israel bombed an Iranian ORPHANAGE, killing at least two people. edition.cnn.com/2026/03/30/w...

Medical schools will no longer be required to teach about health inequities. The change comes as political pressure about diversity, equity and inclusion grows. Experts say removing DEI from the guidelines will affect patient care. www.healthday.com/health-news/...

“They say they want people to talk... I spoke up and got fired.” After 18 years, a Detroit Tigers employee thought he was helping make the workplace culture better by reporting a “toxic culture” and “lack of professionalism.” Instead, he was forced to resign.

‘There’s no ceasefire’: Gaza paramedic and father of two killed as civilian death toll since October passes 650

A US-operated Patriot air defense battery likely fired the interceptor missile involved in an explosion that injured dozens of civilians and tore through homes in Bahrain 10 days into the war on Iran, according to an analysis by academic researchers reut.rs/40Q3ryd

For families of the missing, systemic obstacles to identifying remains and locating people in Israeli detention has created a kind of social and legal purgatory. www.wired.com/story/what-h...

thinking about the hero of this game for Team Venezuela, Eugenio Suárez, and his comments about ICE’s effect on Latino baseball players just last week

"The FDA has asked that I voluntarily stop taking a big ole bite out of every block of cheese in the grocery store, but I have declined"

"just like they make in Tipperary" - my husband

"FDA has recommended that RAW FARM, LLC voluntarily remove their raw cheese products from the market, and the firm has declined." what www.fda.gov/food/outbrea...

"'Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,' Kent, who served as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, wrote in his resignation letter." abcnews.com/Politics/top...

They've fired at every GCC member except Oman now

We obtained the first publicly released satellite image of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's compound in Tehran, after it was struck by Israel/US. There are several destroyed buildings. Current whereabouts of Iran's supreme leader are unknown; compound used as his official residence. 🛰️📸: @airbus.com

This is from Hegseth's post. I'm no expert in this authority but am I understanding correctly this would mean that any company which has ANY contract with the U.S. military (Google, Microsoft, etc...) is now required to immediately cancel their Claude subscriptions and must divest from Anthropic?

BREAKING: Federal judge blocks new DHS policy that would allow arrest of thousands of legal refugees. "The new policy turns the refugees’ American Dream into a dystopian nightmare," Judge Tunheim wrote. Tonight, at Law Dork:

False. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

BREAKING: Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been convicted of insurrection for declaring martial law in December 2024, and has been sentenced to life in prison.