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Tens of thousands at Burning Man told to conserve water and food after heavy rains leave attendees unable to leave Nevada desert (www.cnn.com)

Tens of thousands of people attending the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert are being told to conserve food, water and fuel as they shelter in place in the Black Rock Desert after a heavy rainstorm pummeled the area, festival organizers said....

New York AG’s office alleges Trump inflated his net worth by as much as $2.2 billion in 1 year (www.cnn.com)

Donald Trump inflated his net worth by as much as $2.2 billion in one year, lawyers for the New York attorney general’s office alleged as part of their civil fraud lawsuit against the former president, his adult sons and the Trump Organization....

‘Children were carrying other injured children.’ Witness describes aftermath of Israeli strike on Gaza refugee camp (www.cnn.com)

In-N-Out bans mask wearing for employees in some states (www.cnn.com)

In-N-Out employees in five US states will no longer be allowed to wear masks as part of new company guidelines that “emphasize the importance of customer service,” notably showing their smiles, according to a new policy issued by the fast food chain.

Olive oil is in trouble as extreme heat and drought push the industry into crisis | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)

X illegally fired worker over return to office protest, US labor agency says (www.cnn.com)

Elon Musk’s social media company, X (formerly known as Twitter), broke the law when it fired one of its employees for “exercising their right to protected concerted activity” following X’s return-to-office mandate, according to a complaint from the National Labor Relations Board....

A contract for 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers expired. Historic US health care strike could start Wednesday (www.cnn.com)

A coalition of eight unions representing 75,000 employees of Kaiser Permanente said late Saturday that is has not reached an agreement with the company, setting the stage for the largest healthcare strike in US history on Wednesday....

An elementary student died and 23 others injured after their Ohio school bus was hit on first day of class (www.cnn.com)

An elementary student was killed and 23 other students were injured – including one with life-threatening injuries – after their school bus was hit by a minivan and overturned on the first day of school....

More Baby Boomers are living alone. One reason why: ‘gray divorce’ (www.cnn.com)

The number of older Americans living alone is on the rise. Nearly 16 million people aged 65 and older in the US lived solo in 2022, three times as many who lived alone in that age group in the 1960s. And as Baby Boomers age, that number is expected to grow even more, raising big questions about the country’s future.

Hawaii has a robust emergency siren warning system. It sat silent during the deadly wildfires (www.cnn.com)

Hawaii has a robust emergency siren warning system. It sat silent during the deadly wildfires::Some Maui residents are questioning the effectiveness of the emergency warning system employed as the wildfires spread rapidly across Lahaina and other parts on Tuesday. Hawaii’s attorney general is leading a review of the emergency...

Some workers who rebuild homes after hurricanes are afraid to go to Florida. They blame a law DeSantis championed (www.cnn.com)

Moscow targeted again as Kyiv steps up drone attacks inside Russia (www.cnn.com)

Russia says Ukraine targeted Moscow with drones on Sunday, the latest in a series of attacks that have brought the Ukraine war to Russia’s capital.

A grandmother was fatally shot in her car by an officer. It’s not his force’s only deadly encounter under scrutiny | CNN (www.cnn.com)

Early in their roughly nine-minute encounter, the 45-year-old, who said she’d been visiting someone at the address, told the officer she was looking for her misplaced keys, footage from his body-worn camera shows. Then the woman, Teresa Gomez, and the officer discussed why she and the passenger were parked outside a public...

Elon Musk agrees with X post that claims Jews ‘push hatred’ against White people (www.cnn.com)

Agreeing with an antisemitic post on his social media platform X, Elon Musk concurred that Jewish communities push “hatred against Whites.”

Brett Kavanaugh says justices are working on ‘concrete steps’ on ethics (www.cnn.com)

Justice Brett Kavanaugh said Thursday that the Supreme Court is working on “concrete steps” to address ethics issues at the high court amid an array of recent news stories on justices’ travel and relationships with political donors....

It seems like everyone has Covid-19. Here’s why this wave is probably worse than official data suggests (www.cnn.com)

Rates of severe disease may be staying at relatively low levels, but experts agree that there are probably more infections than the current surveillance systems can capture....

Hawaii has a robust emergency siren warning system. It sat silent during the deadly wildfires | CNN (www.cnn.com)

More than 1,000 birds killed in one night after hitting the same Chicago building (www.cnn.com)

In just one night, more than a thousand migrating birds died after crashing into a single building in Chicago, due to what experts say was a deadly combination of migration season, difficult weather, and a lack of “bird-friendly” building measures....

Climate change has ravaged India’s rice stock. Now its export ban could deepen a global food crisis (www.cnn.com)

Newly planted rice saplings have been underwater since July after torrential rain battered northern India, with landslides and flash floods sweeping through the region....

Ukrainian missiles strike Russian warships in Crimean naval base (www.cnn.com)

Two Russian warships were damaged after Ukraine launched an extensive assault on a Russian ship repair base in Crimea early Wednesday morning, officials said, in what appears to be Kyiv’s most ambitious strike on the port since the war began....

Video shows school employee hitting 3-year-old nonverbal autistic child in the head and knocking him to the floor, attorney alleges (www.cnn.com)

Video from an Ohio school’s hallway camera shows a school employee chasing a 3-year-old down the hall and hitting him in the head from behind, knocking him to the ground, an attorney for the boy’s family alleges....

Ford lays off 700 who were building electric version of F-150 | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)

Ford lays off 700 who were building electric version of F-150 | CNN Business::Ford is laying off about 700 workers who build the F-150 Lightning, the electric version of its best-selling pickup truck, and unlike other recent layoffs this one has nothing to do with the ongoing strike by the United Auto Workers union.

[CNN] Steve Harwell, founding lead singer of Smash Mouth, dead at 56 (www.cnn.com)

RIP to a true All Star....

National Association of Realtors CEO steps down, days after the trade group was found liable for conspiracy to inflate rates (www.cnn.com)

Bob Goldberg, chief executive officer of the National Association of Realtors, the nation’s largest trade association, is stepping down, the organization announced Thursday.