2 American hostages held since Hamas attack on Israel released: IDF (abcnews.go.com)
The long nightmare in captivity for two of the hostages taken by Hamas during its deadly surprise attack on Israel has ended, Israeli authorities said....
First emergency convoy reaches Gaza after overnight Israeli air strikes (www.reuters.com)
Out of 200 trucks waiting to cross into Gaza through the Rafah border, Israel is allowing up to 20 … with fuel being banned. So hospitals and water stations can’t run their generators.
Kenneth Chesebro, Trump co-defendant in Georgia 2020 election case, pleads guilty (www.cbsnews.com)
Kenneth Chesebro, a Trump co-defendant in the Fulton County criminal election interference case, has entered a guilty plea a day after another co-defendant, Sidney Powell, an attorney aligned with former President Donald Trump, also reached a plea agreement with prosecutors in the Fulton County case....
Billions of crabs went missing around Alaska. Scientists now know what happened to them | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Billions of snow crabs have disappeared from the ocean around Alaska in recent years, and scientists now say they know why: Warmer ocean temperatures likely caused them to starve to death.
Black Mom Becomes A Better Detective in Her Son's Death Than Cops (www.theroot.com)
Highlights: In the wee hours of July 8, 2020, 37-year-old Freddie Lee McKee was found dead in Columbia, Mo. Authorities say two 911 calls went out before his body was found. Earlier, around 2:45 a.m., a neighbor called reporting a shirtless man in her trash who told her he was looking for his phone, per the police report. Then,...
Inside the psychiatric hospitals where foster kids are a "gold mine" (www.motherjones.com)
Battle against hate: Violence, bigotry toward Palestinian Americans spiking across US (www.usatoday.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/web/…/71211197007/
White Supremacist Killer Testifies He Was Radicalized by Conspiratorial Content Like Infowars (www.vice.com)
British Museum Will Digitize Entire Collection at a Cost of $12.1 M. in Response to Thefts (www.artnews.com)
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Man imprisoned 16 years for wrongful conviction fatally shot by Georgia deputy (www.cbsnews.com)
A man who spent more than 16 years in prison in Florida on a wrongful conviction was shot and killed Monday by a sheriff’s deputy in Georgia during a traffic stop, authorities and representatives said....
Biden makes prime-time case for US assistance to Israel and Ukraine, links Putin and Hamas (abcnews.go.com)
Speaking from the Oval Office starting at 8 p.m. ET, Biden made the case to Americans that it’s vital to both global and U.S. national security to assist Israel as it responds to terror attacks by Hamas as well as to continue help for Ukraine as it fends off Russian invaders....
Jim Jordan loses even more support on third House speaker vote (www.axios.com)
Judge in New York fraud trial threatens to jail Trump for violating gag order (www.nbcnews.com)
X fined $610,500 in Australia first for failing to crack down on child sexual abuse material (www.theguardian.com)
X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has become the first online platform to be issued with a $610,500 fine under Australia’s Online Safety Act for its failure to meet basic online safety expectations....
Police close road for 31 hours after sex doll mistaken for dead body dumped in woods (www.independent.co.uk)
Warwickshire Police said it was with ‘great relief’ when they discovered the life-size doll
Pfizer plans to charge nearly $1,400 for Paxlovid (www.axios.com)
Pfizer will list its COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid at a price of $1,390 per five-day course when it soon hits the commercial market, the drugmaker confirmed to Axios....
USPS warns of scam involving texts requesting information for package delivery (www.13abc.com)
The United States Postal Service is warning of a scam involving text messages that ask for information in order for a package to be delivered.
Sister of Denver man and her mother released by Hamas after being held hostage for nearly 2 weeks, ABC News reports (www.denverpost.com)
Alec Baldwin may be recharged with Rust gun death because of 'additional facts' (www.bbc.com)
New Mexico prosecutors plan to recharge Alec Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter over a fatal on-set shooting in October 2021....
DJ Mark the 45 King, Producer for Eminem, Jay-Z, Queen Latifah, Dies at 62 (variety.com)
DJ Mark the 45 King, who produced or co-produced such hip-hop classics as Eminem’s “Stan,” Jay-Z’s “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)” and early Queen Latifah hits like “Wrath of My Madness” and “Ladies First,” has died, a rep confirms to Variety. No cause of death was cited; he was 62.
Giant Aztec snakehead beneath Mexico City university (www.yahoo.com)
“The sculpted snake is 5.9 feet (1.8 meters) long, 2.8 feet (0.85 m) wide and 3.3 feet (1 m) high, and it weighs about 1.3 tons (1.2 metric tons), the INAH said. Several colors — including red, blue, black and white — are preserved on the sculpture.”
Maryland authorities are investigating the fatal shooting of Circuit Court Judge Andrew Wilkinson | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Judge Andrew Wilkinson was killed in an apparent shooting in the northern Maryland city of Hagerstown, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said....
New initiative aims to sequence half a million genomes of people with African ancestry for health studies (www.science.org)
An industry-academic initiative announced today aims to create the largest ever database of genomes exclusively from people with African ancestry. Four biopharma companies contributing $80 million have teamed up with Meharry Medical College to launch the effort, which hopes to recruit up to 500,000 African Americans and people...
He was beaten to death in Men’s Central Jail. It took staff nearly 4 hours to notice (www.latimes.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/los-angeles-mens-central-jail-h…
Federal agents investigate sugar exporter over allegations of forced labor (www.motherjones.com)
