Starbucks is reeling as customers go elsewhere, sales decline (www.nbcnews.com)
Trump tells Christian supporters: “You won’t have to vote anymore.” (www.motherjones.com)
Reddit CEO says Microsoft needs to pay to search the site (www.theverge.com)
After striking deals with Google and OpenAI, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is calling on Microsoft and others to pay if they want to continue scraping the site’s data....
Despite tariffs, Chinese EV makers still make inroads. (www.voanews.com)
Crash Victims' Families Ask Judge to Toss 'Morally Reprehensible' Boeing Deal . (www.commondreams.org)
Colorado HOA calls cops on kids’ lemonade stand to get ‘illegal’ operation shut down (www.independent.co.uk)
Trump doubles down on "rude and nasty" label for Black journalists, after tense NABJ interview (www.salon.com)
Golf Course Atop Ancient Native American Earthworks to Be Removed (www.nytimes.com)
Project 2025 to end policy work after Democratic attacks angered Trump (wapo.st)
Harris says Trump's false claims about race same old show' of divisiveness, disrespect. (www.voanews.com)
FBI: Trump agrees to be interviewed for investigation into assassination attempt. (www.voanews.com)
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh killed in Iran, sparking fears of wider war (www.washingtonpost.com)
Families face food insecurity in Republican-led states that turned down federal aid this summer (apnews.com)
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US veteran arrested for role in failed Venezuelan coup. (www.voanews.com)
US stands by decision that 50 million air bag inflators are dangerous, steps closer to huge recall (apnews.com)
U.S. auto safety regulators say they stand by a conclusion that more than 50 million air bag inflators are dangerous and should not be in use, taking another step toward a massive recall....
Arizona official who defended state's 2020 elections loses GOP primary (www.nbcnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/maricopa-county-recorder-stephe…
US Forest Service failing to protect old growth trees from logging, critics say (www.theguardian.com)
They are the ancient giants of America – towering trunks of sequoias or beech or ash that started to sprout in some cases before the age of the Roman empire, with the few survivors of a frenzy of settler logging now appreciated as crucial allies in an era of climate and biodiversity crises....
Bodycam video shows fatal police shooting of 4-year-old Illinois boy and man holding him hostage (www.nbcnews.com)
This reminds me of the times the cops shot and killed other hostages like that delivery driver (UPS or Fedex, can’t remember) or that girl who was kidnapped, ordered to run towards the cops, and the cops shot her for running towards them.
Unregulated oilfield power lines are suspected of sparking Texas wildfires. (www.texastribune.org)
Kamala Harris Wipes Out Trump’s Swing-State Lead in Election Dead Heat (www.bloomberg.com)
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Outrage as Senate Panel Advances Manchin-Barrasso Permitting Bill. (www.commondreams.org)
US withholds $95 million in assistance from Georgian government. (www.voanews.com)
Doctors told Pelosi of concern for Trump’s mental health, ex-speaker says in book (www.theguardian.com)
In early 2019, at a memorial service for a prominent psychiatrist, a succession of “doctors and other mental health professionals” told Nancy Pelosi they were “deeply concerned that there was something seriously wrong” with Donald Trump, “and that his mental and psychological health was in decline”....
Families seek answers after inmates' bodies returned without internal organs (www.ctvnews.ca)
Agolia Moore was shocked to get a call telling her that her son was found dead in an Alabama prison of a suspected drug overdose. She had spoken to him to earlier that evening and he was doing fine, talking about his hope to move into the prison’s honor dorm, Moore said....
These Private Youth Care Centers Lack Oversight. Cuyahoga County Ohio Judges Send Kids Anyway. (www.themarshallproject.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/juvenile-justice-detention-pris…
