Maui fire lawsuit parties reach $4B global settlement, court filings say. (www.voanews.com)
Bookmaker to plead guilty in gambling case tied to baseball star Shohei Ohtani’s ex-interpreter (apnews.com)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California bookmaker who took thousands of sports bets from the ex-interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani has agreed to plead guilty to running an illegal gambling business, U.S. authorities announced Thursday....
US recognizes opposition candidate González as the winner of Venezuela's presidential election (apnews.com)
Paywall removed: archive.is/oqvGw
Venezuela: An Attempted Coup By Any Other Name (www.counterpunch.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/18217536...
Venezuela says US 'at the forefront of coup attempt' (www.reuters.com)
CARACAS, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Yvan Gil said on Friday that the United States is “at the forefront of a coup attempt” against the South American country amid a dispute over presidential election results that sparked protests.
Two small towns rejoice over release of Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan (www.usatoday.com)
How the EU elections pushed Germany’s far right to new extremes (www.semafor.com)
Senate unanimously approves bill adding dozens of new federal judgeships (www.courthousenews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/senate-unanimously-approves-bil…
TIL the US Department of Defense maintained their own Linux LiveCD distro until 2021 (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Chocolate maker Mondelez hides earnings of its Russian business as sales soar in the country despite pledge to reduce operations (euromaidanpress.com)
Archived link...
Intel class action lawsuit investigation begins for the company's CPU crashing and instability issues (www.tomshardware.com)
Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday to be celebrated with musical gala at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre (apnews.com)
ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter will be honored next month, ahead of his 100th birthday, with a musical gala at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, The Carter Center announced Thursday....
O of what now (sh.itjust.works)
"My maternity leave was supposed to start next Monday and I got laid off today," former Bungie employee says (www.videogamer.com)
That Bethesda Union looking even better now.
Putin greeted children of freed sleeper agents in Spanish as they had only discovered they were Russian on the flight to Moscow, Kremlin says (www.businessinsider.com)
Putin greeted the children of Russian sleeper agents in Spanish as they landed in Moscow as part of a prisoner exchange....
US warns a famine in Sudan is on pace to be the deadliest in decades as the world looks elsewhere (apnews.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The newly confirmed famine at one of the sprawling camps for war-displaced people in Sudan’s Darfur region is growing uncontrolled as the country’s combatants block aid, and it threatens to grow bigger and deadlier than the world’s last major famine 13 years ago, U.S. officials warned on Friday....
Children of spies only discovered they were Russian on the plane to Moscow, Kremlin says (www.nbcnews.com)
Their parents posed as Argentinian citizens, and Vladimir Putin greeted the children in Spanish. According to the Kremlin, they did not speak Russian nor did they know who Putin was....
Gloria Johnson, ‘Tennessee Three’ Democrat, wins primary, will face Blackburn (www.politico.com)
DNC chair says majority of delegates have voted to give Harris the Democratic nomination (www.nbcnews.com)
The vice president’s campaign says she has won the nomination, but the results will not be official until Monday....
Profits fall at McDonald's as it redoubles value push (www.france24.com)
McDonald’s vowed Monday to win back consumers with better value offerings after it reported a rare sales decline that the company partly attributed to an exodus of inflation-weary low-income consumers....
Google Drive video uploads now have auto-generated captions (9to5google.com)
Google Drive is adding support for automatically generated captions to videos you upload....
Explosion and gunfire rock hotel at popular beach in Somalia's capital, witnesses say (abcnews.go.com)
Bungie veterans Luke Smith and Mark Noseworthy have reportedly left [VGC] (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Eight Indians killed while fighting against Ukraine in Russian army (euromaidanpress.com)
