Fulton County Georgia Grand Jury returns 10 out of 10 charged indictments against Former President Donald Trump credit: @[email protected]
Travis King: North Korea says US soldier fled because of racism in army (www.bbc.com)
North Korea has said US soldier Travis King crossed into its territory last month because of “inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination” in the army.
Maui tourism, an economic mainstay, sparks anger amid fire ruin (www.reuters.com)
Deadlier Atlantic storms excessively killing US people of color – study (www.theguardian.com)
Named tropical storms and hurricanes, which have become more intense, have caused about 20,000 more deaths from 1988 to 2019
Appeals Court Upholds Legality of Abortion Pill but With Significant Restrictions (www.msn.com)
The Clean Energy Future is Roiling both Friends and Foes (www.nytimes.com)
I hate NIMBY environmentalist hypocrites
Pacific Northwest heat wave could break temperature records through Thursday (www.npr.org)
Superconductor claims spark investor frenzy, but scientists are skeptical (www.reuters.com)
Last week, two papers by South Korean scientists made an extraordinary claim that sparked a social media frenzy and pushed up prices of some stocks in China and South Korea: the discovery of a practical superconductor....
Ex-FBI counterintelligence official pleads guilty to conspiracy charge for helping Russian oligarch (apnews.com)
A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to violate sanctions on Russia by going to work, after he retired, for an oligarch he once investigated.
Ron DeSantis Says He Has “Moved On” And Disney Should Drop Its Lawsuit Against Him (deadline.com)
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis urged The Walt Disney Co. to drop its lawsuit against him, while telling CNBC that he has “moved on” from his battle with the company and that it should drop t…
MTG eyes Trump VP or cabinet slot (www.axios.com)
San Francisco staff told to work from home as crime wave makes office unsafe (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Federal judge tosses suit against Biden student loan forgiveness plan for long-term borrowers (thehill.com)
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by two conservative groups intended to halt the Biden administration’s plan to cancel $39 billion in student loans for more than 800,000 borrowers.
Vice blocked news stories that could offend Saudi Arabia, insiders say (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: Hawaii official refused to release water for Maui fires until it was too late (www.rawstory.com)
The fight over water is nothing new on Maui. But the impact on the county’s ability to battle fires is coming clear....
Some abortion drug restrictions are upheld by an appeals court in a case bound for the Supreme Court (apnews.com)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New restrictions on access to a drug used in the most common form of abortion in the U.S. would be imposed under a federal appeals court ruling issued Wednesday, but the Supreme Court will have the final say....
Bomb threats and 'swatting' campaign hits dozens of synagogues (forward.com)
The synagogue bomb threats and swatting have hit more than 20 synagogues over the past month, according to security experts.
FBI agent says Biden transition team, Secret Service were tipped off on 2020 plans to interview Hunter Biden (www.yahoo.com)
Arkansas Education Department won’t allow credit for AP African American Studies course (www.nbcnews.com)
The Arkansas Education Department abruptly removed course credit for an Advanced Placement African American Studies course, just months after Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed bills limiting what educators can teach in public schools.
A California Wine Company Had to Destroy 2,000 Bottles of Wine After Illegally Aging Them at the Bottom of the Ocean (www.foodandwine.com)
The problem — and this is a significant one — was that the company’s owners never received the proper permits from the California Coastal Commission or the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which turned that “perfect environment” into an illegal one....
(Wisconsin) Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley has been quietly editing her own Wikipedia page (www.jsonline.com)
Last week, a person with the Twitter handle @arizonasunblock from Tampa, Florida, noticed that Bradley, who has been on the high court since 2015, appeared to make major changes to her Wikipedia biography earlier this year.
Trump criticizes judge after he’s warned against ‘inflammatory statements’ (thehill.com)
Former President Trump criticized the judge presiding over his 2020 election case, just days after she warned him against making any “inflammatory statements” that could intimidate witnesses or prejudice the jury pool....
Government's own experts found 'barbaric' and 'negligent' conditions in ICE detention (www.npr.org)
These findings are all part of a trove of more than 1,600 pages of previously secret inspection reports written by experts hired by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. In examining more than two dozen facilities across 16 states from 2017 to 2019, these expert inspectors found...
From ‘America’s Mayor’ to Criminal Defendant: Giuliani’s Long Tumble (www.nytimes.com)
An indictment in the Georgia election conspiracy case marked perhaps the lowest point in the career of Rudolph W. Giuliani, who had staked his legacy on blind allegiance to the Trump administration.
Wildfire threat to Yellowknife deemed serious as parts of city on evacuation alert (www.cbc.ca)
The news briefing came on the heels of Yellowknife declaring an evacuation alert for parts of the city’s west end and Thompson declaring a territorial state of emergency due to wildfires and evacuations in many parts of the territory....