Hope everyone enjoyed their weekend and took a moment to appreciate the meaning of Memorial Day.

Here’s this week’s reading list, and yes, Jenn is catching up after a very busy few weeks.

Happy reading and here’s to a good week.

The Washington Post: What’s to become of the mementos left at Arlington Cemetery?

The New York Times: Big sky, big growth: How Montana’s newcomers are shaping its Senate duel

The Economist: How close is America’s H5N1 outbreak to becoming the next pandemic?

The Washington Post: Long before Key Bridge collapse, Baltimore mariners warned of ‘ship strikes’

The New York Times: Younger adults are missing early warning signs of colon cancer

The Washington Post: Grocers are finally lowering prices as consumers pull back

The New York Times: NYC traffic and parking: is congestion pricing the answer?

The New Yorker: The Texas school district that provided the blueprint for an attack on public education

Associated Press: Red Lobster closes dozens of locations across the US just months after ‘endless shrimp’ losses

ProPublica: How 3M execs convinced a scientist the forever chemicals she found in blood were safe

Associated Press: The first Mexican taco stand to get a Michelin star is a tiny business where the heat makes the meat

The Virginian-Pilot: Colonial Williamsburg archaeologists discover site of Revolutionary War barracks

The New York Times: She landed one of music’s great gigs, but first came boot camp

Associated Press: Howler monkeys are dropping dead from the trees in Mexico in brutal heat wave

The New York Times: Voice actors sue company whose AI sounds like them

Associated Press: Google unleashes artificial intelligence in search, favoring responses by AI over links

Reuters: Insight: As solar capacity grows, some of America’s most productive farmland is at risk

Los Angeles Times: Summer of 2023 was hottest in 2,000 years, study finds

The Washington Post: Companies made millions charging veterans for help applying for benefits

The Wall Street Journal: They entered college in isolation and leave among protests: the class that missed out on fun

Stateline: ‘Transformative’: More college programs are slowly coming into prisons

The Economist: Rural white voters in Wisconsin could decide America’s election

The New York Times: ‘Chelsea’ asked for nude photos. Then the extortion began.

Politico: President Biden announces moves to relax weed restrictions

Route Fifty: Why so many election officials are leaving

StateScoop: Russian hacking group claims responsibility for cyberattack on Indiana wastewater plant

ProPublica: Oregon leaders hampered drug decriminalization effort

Foreign Affairs: China’s alternative order

The New York Times: Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX founder, transferred from Brooklyn jail

The Economist: Why paying women to have more babies won’t work

Detroit Free Press: Flint residents to Biden: Pay up for decade-old water crisis failures

Denver Post: Denver’s Roads to Recovery initiative prioritizes treatment over jail

The Washington Post: U.S. cities see more improvement after pandemic population loss, census shows

Associated Press: LateNighter, a digital news site about late-night TV, hopes to buck media trends

The Atlantic: The internet was better when it was terrible

Los Angeles Times: Los Angeles’ restaurant industry is in crisis

The Washington Post: Photos of mining in Canada

Cardinal News: Why three Colonial-era newspapers in Williamsburg called themselves The Virginia Gazette — and even published at the same time

The Economist: The world’s economic order is breaking down

The Athletic: Hot dogs with parachutes? How the Mariners’ flying frankfurter promotion came to life