LAWSUIT SEEKING REPARATIONS FROM 1921 TULSA MASSACRE CAN MOVE FORWARD, JUDGE SAYS An Oklahoma judge has ruled that a public nuisance lawsuit filed on behalf of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre survivors can move forward in court. The ruling allows the three remaining survivors — the youngest of whom is 101 years old — to make their case for reparations against the city and other government entities for their roles in the two-day attack that wiped out the city's once-prosperous district commonly known as Black Wall Street. [HuffPost]
J.D. VANCE HAS NONCHALANT RESPONSE TO TRUMP NOT REMEMBERING HIS NAME AT RALLY Ohio GOP Senate candidate J.D. Vance claims he's not bothered that former president Donald Trump couldn't seem to remember his name during a rally in Nebraska. Although Trump officially endorsed Vance, he seemed to confuse the "Hillbilly Elegy" author with opponent Josh Mandel during a rally for Nebraska gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster, who is accused of groping women. [HuffPost]
AMAZON UNION LOSES ELECTION AT STATEN ISLAND WAREHOUSE
After recently forming the first union at an Amazon warehouse in the U.S., the new Amazon Labor Union suffered a setback by losing an election at a different facility on New York City's Staten Island by a count of 618-380. The labor board has not yet certified the results to make them official, and the union may challenge them. [HuffPost]
DECADES-OLD HUMAN REMAINS FOUND IN BARREL AS LAKE MEAD RECEDES Boaters at Lake Mead stumbled across a barrel containing human remains that, based on the decayed nature of the metal drum, appear to have been there for several decades. Las Vegas Metro Police Homicide Lt. Ray Spencer said the victim was likely killed in the 1980s, adding that he fully expects to find more bodies as the lake level drops. [HuffPost]
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE TRIES TO SQUIRM OUT OF JEWISH SPACE LASER CONSPIRACY THEORY Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) struggled to back away from one of her most widely derided conspiracy theories suggesting that the Rothschilds, a Jewish banking family, were connected to the wildfires in California in 2018. [HuffPost]
JARED KUSHNER'S WHITE HOUSE MEMOIR SLATED FOR AUGUST RELEASE Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of former President Donald Trump, is scheduled to release a memoir in August about his time as a senior adviser in the White House — the first member of the family to release a book about working in the Trump administration. People on Twitter were aghast. [HuffPost]
