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A text message sent by Tucker Carlson that set off a panic at the highest levels of Fox on the eve of its billion-dollar defamation trial showed its most popular host sharing his private, inflammatory views about violence and race. The discovery of the message contributed to a chain of events that ultimately led to Mr. Carlson’s firing. In the message, sent to one of his producers in the hours after violent Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Mr. Carlson described how he had recently watched a video of a group of men — Trump supporters, he said — violently attacking “an Antifa kid.” READ MORE https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/business/media/tucker-carlson-text-message-white-men.html No Paywall Archive Link

Medicinal cannabis helps relieve cancer pain and can complement other painkilling drugs, research has suggested. A study of 358 adults with cancer found that an equal balance of active ingredients tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), significantly helped pain intensity and the interference of pain in daily life. Researchers from the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, and the Medical Cannabis Programme in Oncology at Cedars Cancer Centre in Canada, concluded that medicinal cannabis is "a safe and effective complementary treatment for pain relief in patients with cancer". READ MORE https://news.sky.com/story/medicinal-cannabis-safe-and-effective-pain-relief-method-for-cancer-patients-study-suggests-12871756

The man accused of fatally shooting five neighbors, including a mother and her 9-year-old son, in a Texas home has been taken into custody after a dayslong manhunt, two law enforcement sources told CNN. The arrest was made in the town of Cut and Shoot, Texas, according to a federal law enforcement source. Cut and Shoot is roughly 17 miles west of Cleveland, Texas, where the killings took place. Francisco Oropesa, 38, is accused of carrying out the massacre Friday night after neighbors asked him to stop firing his rifle so close to their home, officials have said. Investigators had initially started tracking Oropesa using his cellphone but said that trail went cold Saturday evening. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/02/us/cleveland-texas-neighbor-shooting-fugitive-tuesday/index.html

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A Queens woman who plowed her car into Black Lives Matter protestors in Midtown was berated by demonstrators outside Manhattan court Monday after she cut a sweetheart plea deal with prosecutors, dodging jail time. Kathleen Casillo, 53, faced seven years in prison if convicted in the December 2020 incident that left six people injured — but was instead sentenced to five hours of community service as part of the agreement with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Under the deal, Casillo pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment, a misdemeanor, but that will get knocked down to a mere disorderly conduct violation if she fulfills her sentence and stays out of trouble for six months, prosecutors and her lawyer said. https://nypost.com/2023/05/01/nyc-woman-who-plowed-into-mlb-protestors-berated-outside-court-after-sweetheart-plea-deal/

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The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will reconsider one of its modern foundational decisions, Chevron v. National Resources Defense Council (1984), which for decades defined the balance of power between the federal judiciary and the executive branch of government. Chevron established that courts ordinarily should defer to policymaking decisions made by federal agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency or the Department of Labor, for two reasons: Agencies typically have far greater expertise in the areas they regulate than judges, and thus are more likely to make wise policy decisions. And, while federal judges are largely immune from democratic accountability, federal agencies typically are run by officials who serve at the pleasure of an elected president — and thus have far more democratic legitimacy to make policy choices. READ MORE https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/5/2/23706535/supreme-court-chevron-deference-loper-bright-raimondo

Jesse L. McFadden, a registered sex offender who was thought to be traveling with two missing Oklahoma teens, is believed to be among the seven people found dead at a home on Monday, just hours after he missed a scheduled court appearance, records show. The teens, 14-year old Ivy Webster and 16-year old Brittany Brewer, were also believed to be among the bodies found at the home in Henryetta, about 90 miles from Oklahoma City, Okmulgee County Sheriff Eddy Rice said, noting the medical examiner would provide a final confirmation of their identities. Webster and Brewer had been the subject of an endangered/missing advisory issued by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, which said they were last seen early Monday morning in Henryetta and could have been traveling with McFadden, 39. READ MORE https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/02/us/henryetta-oklahoma-seven-bodies-found-tuesday/index.html

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Lawmakers are introducing Japan's first laws against taking sexually exploitative photos or videos of others without consent. The bill against "photo voyeurism" would prohibit acts such as upskirting and secret filming of sexual acts. Until now, such criminal cases had to be prosecuted under local prefecture laws, which greatly vary in scope. The bill is part of a wider overhaul of Japan's laws on sex crimes, which will also expand the definition of rape. READ MORE https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-65453384

Many Europeans are alarmed by the climate crisis and would willingly take personal steps and back government policies to help combat it, a survey suggests – but the more a measure would change their lifestyle, the less they support it. The seven-country YouGov survey tested backing for state-level climate action, such as banning single-use plastics and scrapping fossil-fuel cars, and individual initiatives including buying only secondhand clothes and giving up meat and dairy products. The responses, from the UK, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Spain and Italy, suggested many people were happy with measures that would not greatly affect the way they lead their lives, but bigger steps that may be necessary were unpopular. READ MORE https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/02/many-europeans-want-climate-action-but-less-so-if-it-changes-their-lifestyle-shows-poll

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Jack Dorsey has openly criticised the leadership of Twitter’s current chief Elon Musk in a new unfiltered response. Commenting on Friday under a discussion on his new social media platform BlueSky, the Twitter co-founder said “it all went south” after the Tesla chief’s purchase of the platform. He said Mr Musk should have “walked away” from the acquisition. READ MORE https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/twitter-musk-dorsey-went-south-b2330037.html

The White House believes that more than 20,000 Russian combatants have died in the battle for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut in the last five months. A further 80,000 have been wounded, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said, citing newly declassified intelligence. Half of the dead are from the Wagner private mercenary company, the US says. READ MORE https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65451487

Donald Trump has decided to consort with the enemy. The ex-president will participate in a town hall event with CNN, a network he called “fake” and whose reporters he routinely chastised while serving in office. The event, which will take place at New Hampshire’s Saint Anselm College next week, will mark a major moment in the intersection of politics and the media in the still nascent 2024 GOP primary. It also is the latest illustration of an aggressive media strategy that Trump’s team is adopting. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/01/trump-to-sit-down-with-cnn-in-implicit-dig-at-fox-00094720

Tiffany Justice, co-founder of the right-wing book-purging organization Moms for Liberty, offered a righteous-sounding answer when asked this past weekend on “CBS Sunday Morning” what sort of book she wants to see remain in schools. “Books that don’t have pornography in them,” she piously declared. “Let’s just put the bar really, really low. Books that don’t have incest, pedophilia, rape.” That’s hard to square with what just happened in Martin County, Fla, the school district there recently decided to yank from its high school library circulation eight novels by Nora Roberts that are not “pornography” at all — largely prompted by objections from a single woman who also happens to be a Moms for Liberty activist. READ MORE https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/28/ron-desantis-book-ban-nora-roberts-florida/ Archive no paywall link

Two hospitals that refused to provide an emergency abortion to a pregnant woman who was experiencing premature labor put her life in jeopardy and violated federal law, a first-of-its-kind investigation by the federal government has found. The findings, revealed in documents obtained by The Associated Press, are a warning to hospitals around the country as they struggle to reconcile dozens of new state laws that ban or severely restrict abortion with a federal mandate for doctors to provide abortions when a woman's health is at risk. The competing edicts have been rolled out since the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion last year. https://news.yahoo.com/feds-hospitals-denied-emergency-abortion-130129216.html

Former US president Donald Trump has declared "it's great to be home" as he touched down in Aberdeen ahead of a visit to his nearby golf course. The 76-year-old arrived at the city's airport at about 11.30am and was met by two pipers, a red carpet and 10-vehicle motorcade. He pumped his fist in trademark fashion as he exited his plane. Trump has revealed he will be going to the Menie estate site near the city to open a "spectacular" second course. https://news.sky.com/story/great-to-be-home-donald-trump-arrives-in-aberdeen-for-first-visit-to-uk-since-2019-12870756

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UPDATE: Father whose wife and child were among 5 shot and killed by a neighbor in Texas recalls how the attack unfolded Wilson Garcia told CNN that he and two others walked over to the suspect’s home in Cleveland, Texas, Friday night to ask that he shoot his gun on the other side of his yard because the earsplitting gunfire was making Garcia’s baby cry. But the suspect, identified by law enforcement as 38-year-old Francisco Oropesa, refused, Garcia said. Police were called five times to report the neighbor’s activities, he said, but by the time police arrived at the scene, it was already too late. Garcia said he fled the home after a woman inside told him his two other children needed him to survive. That woman was also killed by Oropesa, he said. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/01/us/cleveland-texas-neighbor-shooting-monday/index.html

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