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California Police Stumped After Stopping Waymo For Illegal U-Turn (Maria) 

The author writes, “If a driver makes an illegal U-turn, but no one is behind the wheel, does the car still get a ticket? A police department in California grappled with this existential question last week…A post by the San Bruno police department on Saturday shows an officer looking into a Waymo – the leading autonomous ride-hailing vehicle in the San Francisco Bay Area – after stopping the signature white car. ‘Since there was no human driver, a ticket couldn’t be issued,’ reads the post. The department said that it had alerted Waymo about the glitch.”

Arizona Lawmaker Calls for WA Congresswoman To Be Executed for Urging Trump Protests (Sean) 

From the Washington State Standard: “Rep. John Gillette, R-Kingman, wrote on the social media site X that US Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., was calling for the government to be overthrown and should be hanged. ‘Until people like this, that advocate for the overthrow of the American government are tried convicted and hanged.. it will continue,’ Gillette said in response to a video of Jayapal…[which] was focused on ‘non-violent resistance’ to Trump and advising people on how to do that. In contrast, Gillette has expressed support for the Trump supporters who stormed the US Capitol in January 2021, who violently assaulted police officers and broke down doors and windows in order to access the building so they could stop Congress from certifying the 2020 election.”

California, Other States Again Sue Trump Administration for Tying Aid to Immigration Laws (Reader Steve) 

From the Los Angeles Times: “California and other Democratic-led states sued the Trump administration on Monday for allegedly stripping them of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal security and disaster relief funding based on their unwillingness to aid in federal immigration enforcement. The lawsuit comes just days after a federal judge in a separate case barred the administration from conditioning similar federal grant funding on states rescinding their so-called ‘sanctuary’ policies protecting immigrants.”

A Dog Helped an Injured Wild Crow. Now They’re Best Friends (Dana) 

The author writes, “She prayed the crow would survive. It did, partly because of its new friend and guardian, Meeko, 5, who chased stray cats from the yard and stayed by Russell’s side. Despite their size differences — Meeko weighs roughly 35 pounds; Russell is about 12 ounces — they became inseparable. ‘Russ thought Meeko was his mother,’ Buck said. Soon, every time Buck looked outside while working her remote marketing job, she saw them hanging out. Russell sat on Meeko’s tail as they lounged in the backyard or they rested on the front porch.”

How Rupert Murdoch Took Over the World (Laryn) 

From Vox: “At 94 years old, he’s never been more powerful. Which is why a succession battle among his four oldest children had all the trappings of a Succession episode but with higher stakes, such as: Who gets a direct line into the Trump White House? Earlier this month we learned the answer to that question. Rupert’s son Lachlan, a man philosophically aligned with his father’s conservative ideals, will run the empire after Rupert’s death. But how was the empire created?”