Starlink quietly lost over $250,000,000 in burned satellites this summer. (tiblur.com)
No one is talking about this. ELON BTFO
Sore throat, then congestion: Common Covid symptoms follow a pattern now, doctors say (www.nbcnews.com)
Doctors who treat Covid describe the ways the illness has gotten milder and shifted over time to mostly affect the upper respiratory tract....
The End of Roe Is Having a Chilling Effect on Pregnancy (www.politico.com)
Polling conducted in August by All In Together, in partnership with polling firm Echelon Insights found that 34 percent of women aged 18-39 said they or someone they know personally has “decided not to get pregnant due to concerns about managing pregnancy-related medical emergencies.” Put another way, poor or unavailable...
House Republicans release short-term bill to avert government shutdown until Oct. 31 (www.nbcnews.com)
Key factions of the House Republican conference reached a tentative agreement Sunday to keep the government funded temporarily and avert a shutdown currently scheduled for the end of this month, pairing it with a conservative border security measure, multiple GOP sources with knowledge told NBC News....
India could be behind killing of Canadian Sikh - Trudeau (www.bbc.co.uk)
Ukraine to sue Poland, Hungary, Slovakia over grain import ban (ptv-news.com.pk)
Colorado officer who placed handcuffed suspect into police vehicle that was hit by a train sentenced to 30 months probation, 100 hours community service (www.cnn.com)
Because nothing says “accident” like leaving a prisoner in the middle of a railroad crossing!
Republican Texas AG Ken Paxton is acquitted of corruption charges at historic impeachment trial (apnews.com)
US military asks for help to find missing F-35 fighter jet after ‘mishap’ sees pilot eject (www.theguardian.com)
Search for F-35B Lightning II fighter jet focused on two lakes after Marine Corps pilot ejected over North Charleston for unknown reason...
AP News: Hundreds of flying taxis to be made in Ohio, home of the Wright brothers and astronaut legends (apnews.com)
UAW justifies wage demands by pointing to CEO pay raises. So how high were they? (apnews.com)
It’s been a central argument for the United Auto Workers union: If Detroit’s three automakers raised CEO pay by 40% over the past four years, workers should get similar raises....
Officials say 5 prisoners sought by the US in a swap with Iran have flown out of Tehran (apnews.com)
Ashton Kutcher Resigns From His Anti-Child Sex Abuse Organization Amid Danny Masterson Support Backlash (www.etonline.com)
How a Yale Student’s Rape Accusation Exposed Her to a Defamation Lawsuit (www.nytimes.com)
In a 2018 disciplinary hearing at Yale University, Saifullah Khan listened as a woman accused him of raping her after a Halloween party....
Early treatment of child obesity is effective (www.sciencedaily.com)
The early treatment of obesity in children is effective in both the short and long term, researchers report.
Red states quit nation’s oldest library group amid culture war over books (www.washingtonpost.com)
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) picked an unusual foil during a Judiciary Committee hearing last week about the historic rise in challenges to school books....
Octopuses used in research could receive same protections as monkeys (www.nature.com)
For the first time in the United States, research with cephalopods might require approval by an ethics committee.
Possible misconduct found in papers from Italian minister of health (www.science.org)
An Italian newspaper has found duplicated images in eight cancer papers co-authored by the country’s minister of health, Orazio Schillaci. Schillaci, a physician with a Ph.D. in nuclear medicine, published the papers between 2018 and 2022 while working in the faculty of medicine of the University of Rome Tor Vergata....
The EU needs a coherent strategy on Russian sanctions (www.spectator.co.uk)
“This week, the European Union opted to extend sanctions on some 1,800 Russian companies and individuals for another six months, but it also lifted sanctions on three wealthy individuals. Alongside this, a recodification of the rights of member states which means that, in the name of preventing ‘exports’, individual...
Jann Wenner Removed from Rock & Roll HOF Board After Remarks on Black, Female Artists (www.tmz.com)
Rolling Stone's founder is out from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's board of directors.
National security adviser, China’s top diplomat take fresh stab at cooling U.S.-China tensions (www.politico.com)
A senior aide to President Joe Biden quietly held meetings with China’s top diplomat this weekend in Malta, the latest effort to ease tensions between Washington and Beijing....
Ex-Proud Boys leader sentenced to 22 years for role in US Capitol attack (www.reuters.com)
2 pilots were killed in a collision at a Reno air show (www.cnn.com)
Two pilots were killed when their planes collided Sunday during the National Championship Air Races and Air Show in Reno, Nevada, organizers of the event said....
China appears to have suspended spy balloon program after February shootdown, US intel believes (www.cnn.com)
China appears to have suspended its surveillance balloon program following a major diplomatic incident earlier this year, when one of the country’s high-altitude spy balloons transited the United States, multiple sources familiar with US intelligence assessments told CNN....
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The 2023 60 Minutes Interview transcript (www.cbsnews.com)
Zelenskyy warns Putin could cause World War III if not stopped in Ukraine, says Putin counting on U.S. instability during the 2024 election and says drone strikes will continue if Russia keeps attacking infrastructure....
