Girl, 13, gives birth after she was raped and denied abortion in Mississippi (www.theguardian.com)
The nearest abortion clinic – in Chicago – was too far away and too expensive for her mother to provide her with the procedure
Generative AI Is Scraping Your Data. So, Now What? (www.darkreading.com)
This goes over how AI is scraping public data online, what that means and a few options to prevent it.
127,000 New York Workers Have Been Victims of Wage Theft (www.propublica.org)
An analysis of federal and state databases sheds new light on the prevalence and scale of wage theft in New York restaurants and other industries, placing the total wages stolen in one five-year period at more than $203 million.
Goodbye Bathtub and Living Room. America’s Homes Are Shrinking (www.wsj.com)
Faced with high mortgage rates, cost-constrained Americans are embracing smaller homes
Abortion bans are fueling a rise in high-risk patients heading to Illinois hospitals (www.npr.org)
Illinois hospitals are seeing a surge of out-of-state patients who need abortion care at a hospital due to medical complications. But hospital-based abortions are more costly and harder to arrange.
Georgia sheriff pleads guilty to groping TV Judge Hatchett (abcnews.go.com)
A Georgia sheriff pleaded guilty Monday to groping TV Judge Glenda Hatchett, who recalled being so stunned that she froze when the lawman grabbed and squeezed her breast at a hotel bar last year during a law enforcement conference.
Three years after a foiled plot to kidnap Michigan's governor, the final trial is set to begin (abcnews.go.com)
Nearly three years after authorities foiled a bizarre plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, the last defendants accused of taking part go on trial Monday....
How Did That Flagrantly Illegal Raid on a Kansas Newspaper Happen? The Editor Has an Idea. (slate.com)
A federal lawsuit is now planned.
Nickelback, Chris Brown, and other stars scored $200 million in taxpayer funds meant to keep arts groups afloat during the pandemic. They won't say what they did with the money. (www.insider.com)
The SBA's SVOG grants were intended for struggling small artists. But big stars like Post Malone and Chris Brown got $200M in pandemic relief funds.
The US approves Revolution Wind, its fourth major offshore wind farm (electrek.co)
U.S. Justice Department argues for removal of Texas’ floating border barrier in federal court (www.texastribune.org)
In a court hearing over the barrier near Eagle Pass, the U.S. Justice Department argued it was installed without federal authorization, while lawyers for the state said it notified the proper authorities.
WGA Slams Studios’ Latest Offer & Meeting As Attempt To Make Guild “Cave”; “Not To Bargain, But To Jam Us” (deadline.com)
Just hours after the studios and streamers made public their latest “comprehensive package” towards a deal with the striking WGA, the guild has responded – and its seems the AMPTP and top CEOs may …
FDA Approves Vaccine for Pregnant Individuals to Prevent RSV in Infants (www.pharmacytimes.com)
Hotter climate means a never-ending fire season for the National Guard (www.npr.org)
California has set up a permanent task force of National Guard members to do what used to be occasional work fighting and preventing wildfires.
A key part of the White House's strategy for the U.S.-Mexico border goes on trial (www.npr.org)
The U.S. has admitted hundreds of thousands of migrants under a legal authority known as parole. Critics say it stretches the law too far. Now a federal judge in Texas is set to hold a trial.
Biden faces brutal backlash for ‘poor taste’ jokes while visiting Maui wildfires site: ‘Comic relief tour’ (nypost.com)
ARPA-H invests $24M in researching mRNA to fight cancer (www.axios.com)
The Biden administration's new biomedical research agency is providing $24 million for research leveraging an mRNA platform to train the immune system to fight cancer and other diseases, officials told Axios first.
Special counsel investigating false statements made by Trump employees in classified documents case (www.cnn.com)
Special counsel Jack Smith’s office is continuing to investigate whether two employees of Donald Trump gave false testimony to a grand jury as part of the criminal probe into the former president’s retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, prosecutors revealed in a court filing Tuesday.
UK says a supersonic Russian bomber likely to have been destroyed in drone attack (www.reuters.com)
Aug 22 (Reuters) - British military intelligence said on Tuesday that a weekend drone attack on an airfield deep inside Russia which Moscow blamed on Ukraine is highly likely to have destroyed a nuclear-capable TU-22M3 supersonic long-range bomber....
'This Is B.S.': GOP Candidates Slam RNC After Failing To Make Debate (news.yahoo.com)
Four Republican backbencher candidates who failed to qualify for the first 2024 GOP presidential debate this week slammed the Republican National Committee over its rules, with multiple contenders calling them “rigged.”
Maui Water Is Unsafe Even With Filters, One of the Lessons Learned From Fires in California (www.usnews.com)
Maui Water Is Unsafe Even With Filters, One of the Lessons Learned From Fires in California
World chess federation bars transgender women from competing in women's events (apnews.com)
The world’s top chess federation has ruled that transgender women cannot compete in its official events for females until an assessment of gender change is made by its officials.
Meta rolls out web version of Threads (www.nbcnews.com)
A failed lunar mission dents Russian pride and reflects deeper problems with Moscow's space industry (apnews.com)
In session reacting to school shooting, Tennessee GOP lawmaker orders removal of public from hearing (apnews.com)
Families close to a Nashville fatal school shooting broke down in tears Tuesday after a Tennessee Republican leader ordered state troopers to remove them and others from a legislative hearing room while they waited to testify in favor of gun control measures....
