Ohio teen dubbed 'hell on wheels' after killing her boyfriend and his friend in a crash is sentenced to 15 years to life (www.nbcnews.com)
Tribe getting piece of Minnesota back more than a century after ancestors died there (apnews.com)
Lawmakers finally authorized the transfer this year when Democrats took control of the House, Senate and governor’s office for the first time in nearly a decade, said state Sen. Mary Kunesh, a Democrat and descendant of the Standing Rock Nation....
It seems like everyone has Covid-19. Here’s why this wave is probably worse than official data suggests (www.cnn.com)
Rates of severe disease may be staying at relatively low levels, but experts agree that there are probably more infections than the current surveillance systems can capture....
Fans flock to Jimmy Buffett's eateries to toast the Mayor of Margaritaville (www.nbcnews.com)
Following the death of the purveyor of laid-back, beachside rock, his fans, known as Parrotheads, paid tribute by lifting their glasses at locations of his Margaritaville empire.
Nursing homes in New Jersey battle COVID-19 surge as hospitalizations and deaths caused by new variants jump across the US (www.insider.com)
New Jersey’s nursing homes are battling COVID-19 once again as new variants spread through the US....
O'Hare shuttle bus crash at Terminal 5 kills 80-year-old driver, coroner says (abc7chicago.com)
The driver of a a shuttle bus that crashed at O’Hare Airport Friday morning has died, the Cook County coroner confirmed....
Tribe getting piece of Minnesota back more than a century after ancestors died there (apnews.com)
Golden prairies and winding rivers of a Minnesota state park also hold the secret burial sites of Dakota people who died as the United States failed to fulfill treaties with Native Americans more than a century ago. Now their descendants are getting the land back....
Students criticize the University of North Carolina’s response to an active shooter emergency (www.politico.com)
Students say their teachers appeared unprepared and many grew more panicked in the absence of detailed information.
SAG-AFTRA calls for strike authorization vote against video game companies (www.latimes.com)
SAG-AFTRA members will vote starting next week on whether to authorize union leaders to call a strike against video game companies, in the latest sign of spreading labor unrest in the broader entertainment sector....
Push to expand voting rights gains ground in 2023 (www.axios.com)
Netanyahu rues his foreign minister's disclosure of meeting with Libyan counterpart (www.reuters.com)
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen’s office on Aug. 26 went public with his having met Najla Mangoush, his Libyan counterpart, in Italy earlier in the month. The statement came on the heels of an Israeli media report about the meeting....
Supplier Caught Distributing Fake Parts for World’s Top-Selling Jet Engine (www.thedrive.com)
'Trump isn't funding any of us': Co-defendants in Georgia case are struggling with mounting legal bills (www.cnn.com)
Some of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the sprawling election subversion case in Georgia are trying all sorts of ways to fund their mounting legal bills – yet the costs of the 2020 election fallout may quickly exceed their abilities to pay....
Facebook and Instagram may offer paid, ad-free plans in Europe to sate EU privacy concerns (www.engadget.com)
Among other recent penalties, the EU fined Meta €1.2 billion in May for moving EU citizens’ data to US-based servers....
Bill Richardson, former statesman and hostage negotiator, dies aged 75 (www.theguardian.com)
Bill Richardson, a 2008 presidential candidate, former New Mexico governor, congressman, secretary of energy and UN ambassador under the Clinton administration who later found a role as an international hostage negotiator, has died. He was 75 years old.
You’ve Heard of Quiet Quitting. Now Companies Are Quiet Cutting. (www.wsj.com)
Arizona GOP rejects single-day vote proposal, angering election deniers (www.washingtonpost.com)
A proposal by Republican election deniers in Arizona who want to opt out of the state’s government-run presidential primary election in 2024 and instead hold the party’s own one-day, in-person election, with paper ballots that would be counted by hand, has caused anxiety among top Republicans in Washington, who fear being...
More than 750 new Texas laws go into effect Friday. Here’s a quick breakdown of the highlights (www.kut.org)
Every odd-numbered year, state lawmakers convene in Austin and debate hundreds of proposed bills with potential to affect tens of millions of Texans who call the Lone Star State home. More than 750 new laws take effect Friday. That’s on top of 321 passed this year that took effect immediately after being signed by Gov. Greg...
12 things student loan borrowers should know about the return to repayment (www.npr.org)
October's coming, and we're here to help you get ready.
America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow (www.nytimes.com)
Despite prohibition, would-be buyers trying to snap up land burned in Maui wildfires (www.usatoday.com)
Would-be buyers are making offers to snap up property after deadly wildfires devastated the island of Maui last month, despite a state proclamation warning against such bids last month, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said....
After nearly 30 years, Pennsylvania will end state funding for anti-abortion counseling centers (apnews.com)
After nearly 30 years, Pennsylvania's new governor plans to end a contract with an organization that distributes funds to anti-abortion counseling centers.
A Putin Critic Fell to His Death in Washington. We Still Don’t Know Why. (www.politico.com)
Police don’t suspect foul play killed Dan Rapoport. Some friends aren’t so sure.
Narcan — the opioid overdose medication — will finally be available over the counter (www.vox.com)
In just a few days, drugstores like Walgreens will have it in stock, for everyone. Here’s how to use it, and who it will help.
Officials can’t interfere with local Tennessee Pride festival under anti-drag law, judge rules (apnews.com)
A federal judge ruled Friday that law enforcement officials can’t use a Tennessee law that strictly limits drag shows to interfere with a local Pride festival this weekend, favoring event organizers who sued after a district attorney warned he intends to enforce the new statute even after another federal judge ruled it...
