Heat-related Texas deaths climb after Beryl left millions without power for days or longer. (www.voanews.com)
Barcelona to up tourist tax as Mallorca seeks visitor cap (www.dw.com)
Locals in Spain’s tourism hotspots are increasingly frustrated about mass tourism. Authorities are clamping down....
Salt Lake City wildfire prompts mandatory evacuations. (www.voanews.com)
'Twisters' whips up $80.5M at box office, while 'Deadpool & Wolverine' looms. (www.voanews.com)
"The Grindr Super Bowl": Gay dating app saw influx of users during Republican National Convention | Salon.com (www.salon.com)
Horse (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
FlatOut 1, 2 and Ultimate Carnage all get Steam Workshop support, Steam Deck verification in new updates (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Georgia presses on with 'Russia-style' laws (apnews.com)
Campus Protests Led to More Than 3,100 Arrests, but Many Charges Have Been Dropped (www.nytimes.com)
How bodies of frozen climbers were finally recovered from Everest 'death zone' (www.bbc.com)
Tensions rise in Guyana as Maduro uses border dispute to build support ahead of Venezuela poll (www.theguardian.com)
Conspiracy Theorists Say Global Outage Was an Attack on Trump (gizmodo.com)
Biden drops out of the 2024 presidential race, endorses Vice President Kamala Harris for nomination (www.cbsnews.com)
CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft (www.theverge.com)
Tesla Sales Drop 17% in California (cleantechnica.com)
Treasury warns that anti-woke banking laws like Florida's are a national security risk (apnews.com)
The Treasury Department is warning that state laws that restrict banks from considering environmental, social and governance factors could harm efforts to address money laundering and terrorism financing....
Genetic test could eradicate a type of inherited blindness in dogs (www.theguardian.com)
A mountain rescue dog whose duties ended after her eyesight failed has helped scientists create a test that could eradicate the genetic eye condition in her breed for good....
Doing unit test generation better with LLMs and mutation testing (github.com)
Dazzling Carvings of Egyptian Pharaohs Found in the River Nile (gizmodo.com)
With prices soaring, 86.8% of Nicaraguans cannot afford to buy essentials (english.elpais.com)
In a country dominated by authoritarianism and poor economic prospects, the population can only cover half a basket of basic goods, according to a report by Hagamos Democracia...
Slowly but surely, Israel tightens its grip on Gaza’s lifeline to Egypt | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Bangladesh’s top court cuts job quotas that led to deadly student-led protests (www.theguardian.com)
Cuba admits to massive emigration wave: a million people left in two years amid crisis (www.miamiherald.com)
A stunning 10% of Cuba’s population — more than a million people — left the island between 2022 and 2023, the head of the country’s national statistics office said during a National Assembly session Friday, the largest migration wave in Cuban history....