Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Reading archive 2024-06-04

Woman charged with murder, kidnapping after carjacked vehicle crashed: Police said the woman stole an occupied SUV at the hospital entrance after the victim’s daughter stepped out to bring her mother a wheelchair.

Yellowstone bison gores 83-year-old while ‘defending its space,’ park says: The woman was lifted a foot into the air by the bison’s horns and was seriously injured, the park said. Officials have long warned tourists to stay away from bison.

Never wait in the school car line again. Here’s how.: For the first time in decades, a small but critical mass of children are riding their bikes safely to school again.

Former U.S. soldier extradited from Ukraine over ‘international crime spree’: U.S. authorities said Craig Lang and another man robbed and killed a Florida couple in 2018 while trying to fund travel to Venezuela to fight the regime there.

Netanyahu strains to keep government together amid spreading rebellions: A string of standoffs, schisms and ultimatums have brought Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s emergency war cabinet to the brink of collapse.

Indian election delivers stunning setback to Modi and his party: The BJP is still poised to form a government in coalition with allies. But this is the first time Modi has failed to win a majority over a 23-year political career.

Former Trump aides charged in Wisconsin over 2020 elector plot: Attorney Kenneth Chesebro is among three aides charged in Wisconsin. Separate cases related to Trump’s 2020 efforts have been filed in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada and Georgia.

In a first, noncitizens are voting in D.C. Here’s what it means to them.: More than 500 noncitizen District residents have registered to vote, according to the D.C. Board of Elections.

Lawmakers expensed millions in 2023 under new program that doesn’t require receipts: Critics say the program’s lack of transparency and record-keeping opens it up to abuse. - "'I wish members would give themselves a raise that they probably deserve and then we’d all move on,' said a staffer involved with congressional accounting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the program publicly. 'But they don’t have the backbone to do that, so [they gave] members a raise through this backdoor way that allows for abuse because there is no record keeping and there’s no receipts.'"

Opinion The Pentagon is learning how to change at the speed of war: The dynamic Ukraine battlespace has provided a needed jolt to a system that has long been too slow to change.

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