As the custom goes, some personal news: I’ve got a new job at the AP as an assistant news director overseeing video, photo and text coverage. Note the shout out to @aaja and @nlgja. https://t.co/wlIH6ni4DK
Families in Uvalde, Texas, are bracing for a new test of legal protections for the gun industry as they mark one year since the Robb Elementary School shooting. The narrow path for mass shooting victims to bring lawsuits has begun to widen. https://t.co/CLlXspULZT
The NAACP has issued a travel advisory for Florida, joining other civil rights groups in warning potential tourists that recent laws championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis are "openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals." https://t.co/EjqTKGT98U
San Francisco has named the nation’s first drag laureate to represent the city’s famous LGBTQ+ community at a time when rights are under attack. Mayor London Breed named drag performer and nightclub owner D’Arcy Drollinger to the job. https://t.co/GEC3Xjd5qD
Migrants and government officials are still assessing the effect of lifting Title 42 rules and the start of new regulations. A Department of Homeland Security official said it "did not see any substantial increase in immigration" Friday morning. https://t.co/MNB0oPsfCL
The U.S. Postal Service is replacing thousands of antiquated keys used by postal carriers and installing thousands of high-security collection boxes to stop a surge in robberies and mail thefts. https://t.co/iTMEgdGfi7
The eight victims killed in the mall shooting in Allen, Texas, over the weekend included three children: a 3-year-old boy, and two girls who were in elementary school. https://t.co/EACFOgAK9A
Multiple people were shot at an outlet mall in the Dallas suburb of Allen, Texas, sending hundreds fleeing in panic in the latest gun violence to strike the country. “I pray it wasn’t kids, but it looked like kids,” a witness said of victims he saw. https://t.co/2WSPlU3jNK
A Mississippi sheriff says in a new court filing that there's no point in serving a 1955 arrest warrant to a white woman in the kidnapping that led to the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till because a grand jury decided not to indict her last year. https://t.co/GVLbeQwuhx
BREAKING: Judge says Fox and Dominion Voting Systems "resolved their case" over airing of false 2020 presidential election claims. https://t.co/lqxsxUYFKC
Black and Latino Californians who were displaced from a neighborhood in Palm Springs are seeking $2.3 billion in compensation from the city, alleging they were pushed out by hiring contractors to destroy homes in an area that was full of diversity. https://t.co/4L8LmMNKfo
Oklahoma’s governor is seeking the resignation of four county officials after a newspaper apparently recorded some of them saying they knew hit men and where holes were dug while complaining about two McCurtain Gazette-News reporters. https://t.co/q13snGl4tE
Officials say there hasn’t been any significant expansion since the new growth was detected April 2, but they’re monitoring the sinkhole and keeping the public informed. https://t.co/8330Vb6fQj
Residents of Daisetta, Texas, had learned to live with a massive sinkhole after it opened in 2008. Earlier this month, town officials announced that it was growing again after years of being dormant, igniting worries. https://t.co/8330Vb6fQj
The Biden administration and a drug manufacturer asked the Supreme Court to preserve access to an abortion drug free from restrictions imposed by lower court rulings, while a legal fight continues. https://t.co/EMBx5WX2hy
An emotional Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said he lost friends in the shooting in a bank building in downtown Louisville. It’s the second time that Beshear was personally touched by a mass tragedy since becoming governor.
“This is awful,” he said https://t.co/iYVvhCJwGP