Biden administration canceling student loans for another 160,000 borrowers (apnews.com)
The Biden administration is canceling student loans for another 160,000 borrowers through a combination of existing programs....
Alabama calls nitrogen execution method 'painless' and 'humane,' but critics raise doubts (apnews.com)
Alabama, unless stopped by the courts, intends to strap Kenneth Eugene Smith to a gurney Thursday and use a gas mask to replace breathable air with nitrogen, depriving him of oxygen, in the nation’s first execution attempt with the method....
Climate activists target jets, yachts and golf in a string of global protests against luxury (apnews.com)
New California law aims to force people with mental illness or addiction to get help (apnews.com)
Pronouns and tribal affiliations are now forbidden in South Dakota public university employee emails (apnews.com)
A new South Dakota policy to stop the use of gender pronouns by public university faculty and staff in official correspondence is also keeping Native American employees from listing their tribal affiliations in a state with a long and violent history of conflict with tribes....
Florida fines high school for allowing transgender student to play girls volleyball (apnews.com)
Florida’s state athletic board fined a high school and put it on probation Tuesday after a transgender student played on the girls volleyball team, a violation of a controversial law enacted by Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Legislature....
New York police will use drones to monitor backyard parties this weekend, spurring privacy concerns (apnews.com)
The New York City police department plans to pilot the unmanned aircrafts in response to complaints about large gatherings, including private events, over Labor Day weekend, officials announced Thursday....
What happened at the nation's first nitrogen gas execution: An AP eyewitness account (apnews.com)
College swimmers, volleyball players sue NCAA over transgender policies (apnews.com)
Former Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines was among more than a dozen college athletes who filed a lawsuit against the NCAA on Thursday, accusing it of violating their Title IX rights by allowing transgender woman Lia Thomas to compete at the national championships in 2022....
US Olympic and other teams will bring their own AC units to Paris, undercutting environmental plan (apnews.com)
The U.S. Olympic team is one of a handful that will supply air conditioners for their athletes at the Paris Games in a move that undercuts organizers’ plans to cut carbon emissions....
Maldives will ban Israelis from entering the country over the war in Gaza (apnews.com)
US homelessness up 12% to highest reported level as rents soar and coronavirus pandemic aid lapses (apnews.com)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returns to Australia a free man after US legal battle ends (apnews.com)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned to his homeland Australia aboard a charter jet on Wednesday, hours after pleading guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that concludes a drawn-out legal saga....
Prospect of low-priced Chinese EVs reaching US from Mexico poses threat to automakers (apnews.com)
Black Ohio woman criminally charged after miscarriage underscores the perils of pregnancy post-Roe (apnews.com)
The 33-year-old Watts, who had not shared the news of her pregnancy even with her family, made her first prenatal visit to a doctor’s office behind Mercy Health-St. Joseph’s Hospital in Warren, a working-class city about 60 miles (100 kilometers) southeast of Cleveland....
A Batman researcher said 'gay' in a talk to schoolkids. When asked to censor himself, he quit (apnews.com)
Teen who ate spicy tortilla chip died of high chile consumption and had a heart defect, autopsy says (apnews.com)
'I will not feed a demon': YouTuber Ruby Franke's child abuse case rooted in religious extremism (apnews.com)
The malnourished and badly bruised son of a parenting advice YouTuber politely asks a neighbor to take him to the nearest police station in newly released video from the day his mother and her business partner were arrested on child abuse charges in southern Utah....
Nebraska governor signs order narrowly defining sex as that assigned at birth (apnews.com)
Nebraska’s Republican Gov. Jim Pillen on Wednesday signed an executive order strictly defining a person’s sex....
Homeless woman was living inside Michigan rooftop store sign with computer, coffee maker (apnews.com)
After 2-year-old girl shoots self, man becomes first person charged under Michigan's gun storage law (apnews.com)
A Michigan man whose 2-year-old daughter shot herself in the head with his revolver last week pleaded not guilty after becoming the first person charged under the state’s new law requiring safe storage of guns....
2% of kids and 7% of adults have gotten the new COVID shots, US data show (apnews.com)
A month after federal officials recommended new versions of COVID-19 vaccines, 7% of U.S. adults and 2% of children have gotten a shot....
UN assembly approves resolution granting Palestine new rights and reviving its UN membership bid (apnews.com)
Ohio voters enshrine abortion access in constitution in latest statewide win for reproductive rights (apnews.com)
Right turn on red? With pedestrian deaths rising, US cities are considering bans (apnews.com)
