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Hidden? Since when does USA even try to hide that they impose forced labour (slavery) to prisoners? Neither the links to big companies aren't hidden.
https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6…

Hidden prison labor web linked to foods from Target, Walmart
In a sweeping two-year investigation, The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour and Coca-Cola. They are on the shelves of most supermarkets, including Kroger, Target and Whole Foods. They’re also exported. The prisoners who help produce these goods are disproportionately people of color. Some are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work – or face punishment – and a…

Russia detains Novaya Gazeta EIC Sergei Sokolov for allegedly discrediting Russian army; he became EIC in 2023 after Dmitry Muratov was named a "foreign agent" (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/russia-media…

Editor of top independent Russian newspaper fined for allegedly discrediting military
The editor-in-chief of the renowned Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta was detained and later fined 30,000 rubles ($329) after being accused of discrediting Russia’s armed forces. The newspaper says Sergei Sokolov was detained Thursday by officers from Russia’s Center for Combating Extremism. It says the charges — which are “administrative” and are usually punishable by a fine or a short prison sentence -– are related to material posted in the outlet’s Telegram channel. S…

Republican states file lawsuit challenging Biden's student loan repayment plan | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/student-loan-cancellation-debt-lawsuit-republicans-biden-b60d13539b2f2aef2869d56e63f33a3b

Republican states file lawsuit challenging Biden's student loan repayment plan
A group of Republican-led states is suing the Biden administration to block a new student loan repayment plan that provides a faster path to cancellation and lower monthly payments for millions of borrowers. In a federal lawsuit filed Thursday, Kansas’ Republican attorney general argues that Biden overstepped his authority in creating the SAVE Plan, which was made available to borrowers last year and has already canceled loans for 150,000. Biden announced the plan in 2022 alongside a separate…

Womp, womp. #Elon loses bigly.
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-tesla-compensation-pay-shareholders-e75687178d1175fba36ca55b…

Elon Musk cannot keep Tesla pay package worth more than $55 billion
A judge says Elon Musk must give up a compensation package awarded by Tesla’s board of directors that is potentially worth more than $55 billion. The ruling in a Delaware court comes five years after a shareholder lawsuit targeted Tesla CEO Musk and the directors. They were accused of breaching their duties to the electric vehicle and solar panel manufacturer, resulting in a waste of corporate assets and unjust enrichment for Musk. Plaintiff’s lawyers argued that the pay package was dictate…

Trump stays on Illinois' ballot as election board declines to ban him over insurrection amendment (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-14th-amendment-insurrection-ballot-illinois-8709a8dbf12f845ed30fc…

Illinois election board keeps Trump on ballot, rejects challenge
Donald Trump is staying on the primary ballot in Illinois. The state’s election board of four Democrats and four Republicans on Tuesday unanimously declined to remove the Republican 2024 front-runner before the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack makes him ineligible for the presidency. Illinois is among several states where Trump critics have pushed to remove him from the ballot for violating a constitutional ban on office-holders who “engag…

Ranking Patriots' 2024 QB options: Jayden Daniels or Drake Maye in NFL Draft among top avenues team can take

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/…

Ranking Patriots' 2024 QB options: Jayden Daniels or Drake Maye in NFL Draft among top avenues team can take
It's time for New England to find its next signal-caller

While Trump administration rolled back protections for for species newly classified as threatened, the Biden Administration is taking steps to restore them. #BidenHarris4More #VoteForClimate

Biden restores threatened species protections dropped by Trump
The Biden administration has restored rules to protect imperiled plants and animals that had been rolled back under former President Donald Trump. Among the changes announced Thursday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will reinstate a decades-old regulation that mandates blanket protections for species newly classified as threatened. The blanket protections regulation was dropped in 2019 as part of a suite of changes to the application of the species law under Trump. Those changes came as ext…

Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e<…

Hidden prison labor web linked to foods from Target, Walmart
In a sweeping two-year investigation, The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour and Coca-Cola. They are on the shelves of most supermarkets, including Kroger, Target and Whole Foods. They’re also exported. The prisoners who help produce these goods are disproportionately people of color. Some are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work – or face punishment – and a…

Israel-Hamas war protesters and police clash on Texas campus, Columbia University begins suspensions (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinian-campus-student-protests-war-19ed919ff6ff9573a8add4ec67e26181
http://www.memeorandum.com/240430/p34#a240430p34

Republicans block Senate bill to protect nationwide access to IVF treatments (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/congress-ivf-access-abortion-alabama-bill-ruling-7f68248f36900d4583d9b181f3b4e380
http://www.memeorandum.com/240228/p109#a240228p109