SHANGHAI ALLOWS MILLIONS OUT OF HOMES AS COVID RULES EASE Shanghai allowed 4 million more people to leave their homes Wednesday as measures that shut down China's biggest city eased, while the International Monetary Fund slashed its forecast of Chinese economic growth and warned the global flow of industrial goods might be disrupted. The ruling Communist Party's "zero COVID" strategy has forced major cities to shut down to isolate every case. [AP]
MICHIGAN STATE SENATOR DELIVERS FIERY REBUKE AFTER BEING ACCUSED OF 'GROOMING' KIDS Mallory McMorrow, a Democratic Michigan state senator, delivered an impassioned response after GOP state Sen. Lana Theis accused her of being "outraged" at not being able to "groom and sexualize kindergarteners," in a fundraising email. "You can't claim that you're targeting marginalized kids in the name of 'parental rights' if another parent is standing up and saying no," McMorrow struck back. [HuffPost]
MAN SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS IN PRISON FOR RAPPER MAC MILLER'S DRUG DEATH A man who admitted supplying the dealer who sold Mac Miller the drugs that killed the rapper in 2018 has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison. Ryan Michael Reavis pleaded guilty last year to a single count of distribution of fentanyl. He supplied counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl to co-defendant Cameron James Pettit, who then sold the pills and other drugs to Miller. Two days later, Miller suffered a fatal overdose, according to prosecutors. [AP]
NEARLY 30% OF AMERICANS AREN'T WORRIED ABOUT CLIMATE CRISIS In an international survey of people's responses to the climate crisis and other pressing issues, the country with the highest percentage of people who say they're not worried about climate change "at all" turned out to be the United States. Meanwhile, the climate crisis, which is very much real, is still ravaging the U.S. and other nations, bringing deadly — and worsening — droughts, fires, extreme heat, storms and floods. [HuffPost]
OUTRAGE AFTER POLICE DETAIN CRYING BLACK CHILD OVER STOLEN DORITOS A viral video of white police officers in Syracuse, New York, forcing a crying Black 8-year-old boy into the back of their vehicle over a bag of stolen chips has spurred outrage. Police later said officers were taking the boy home after he was accused of stealing from a store. The incident was "being reviewed." [HuffPost]
