Supreme Court rejects Alabama’s bid to use congressional map with just one majority-Black district (www.nbcnews.com)
The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed a defeat to Alabama Republicans for the second time in three months, rejecting their latest attempt to use a congressional map that includes only one majority-Black district....
Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events (www.propublica.org)
Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the Supreme Court.
Revealed: top carbon offset projects may not cut planet-heating emissions (www.theguardian.com)
Majority of offset projects that have sold the most carbon credits are ‘likely junk’, according to analysis by Corporate Accountability and the Guardian...
Driver pleads not guilty in Vermont crash that killed actor Treat Williams (abcnews.go.com)
An investigation of the June 12 crash in Dorset concluded a vehicle pulled in front of Williams, who was riding a motorcycle and was unable to avoid a collision, Vermont State Police said....
We Have a Deal! Writers Strike Poised to End as WGA and Studios Reach a Tentative Agreement (www.vanityfair.com)
Now the guild must finalize the contract and sell the deal to its members....
Free at-home COVID tests are back. Here’s how to order (www.seattletimes.com)
Starting Monday, [people in the US] can once again order free at-home COVID-19 tests to be delivered straight to their homes....
California to fine schools that ban textbooks on race or LGBTQ+ topics (www.axios.com)
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed into law on Monday a bill prohibiting schools from banning books on racial or LGBTQ+ teachings that could result in fines for any authority in the state that defies the legislation.
Russia seeks to rejoin UN's human rights council (www.bbc.com)
It was expelled from the UN’s pre-eminent human rights body last April after its forces invaded Ukraine....
Hunter Biden sues Rudy Giuliani in latest 'laptop' salvo (abcnews.go.com)
Hunter Biden filed a lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday, accusing the former Trump attorney of computer fraud over his role in obtaining and sharing the alleged contents of an infamous laptop purportedly belonging to the son of the sitting president....
Third person charged for infant’s death from fentanyl in New York City daycare (www.theguardian.com)
Prosecutors say Renny Antonio Parra Paredes, 38, played a key role in selling the drugs that were stored at the childcare facility...
Facial recognition technology jailed a man for days. His lawsuit joins others from Black plaintiffs (apnews.com)
Trump argues First Amendment protects him from 'insurrection' cases aimed at keeping him off ballot - The Mainichi (mainichi.jp)
DENVER (AP) -- Attorneys for former President Donald Trump argue that an attempt to bar him from the 2024 ballot under a rarely used "insurrection" clause of the Constitution should be dismissed as a violation of his freedom of speech.
More schools are adopting 4-day weeks. For parents, the challenge is day 5 (apnews.com)
It’s a Monday in September, but with schools closed, the three children in the Pruente household have nowhere to be. Callahan, 13, contorts herself into a backbend as 7-year-old Hudson fiddles with a balloon and 10-year-old Keegan plays the piano....
Gen Z can’t work alongside people with different views because they ‘haven’t got the skills to disagree’ says British TV boss (finance.yahoo.com)
Important quotes from the article:...
24,000 hospital letters lost due to NHS computer glitch (www.theguardian.com)
Healthcare regulator monitoring trust after report that results from scans and blood tests may have gone missing
Lego drops prototype blocks made of recycled plastic bottles as they "didn't reduce carbon emissions" (www.cbsnews.com)
Copenhagen, Denmark — Denmark’s Lego said on Monday that it remains committed to its quest to find sustainable materials to reduce carbon emissions, even after an experiment by the world’s largest toymaker to use recycled bottles did not work. Lego said it has “decided not to progress” with making its trademark...
How El Nino will affect the US this winter (abcnews.go.com)
Republicans launch probe into Biden administration’s response to Maui fires (thehill.com)
A group of Republican lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee announced Friday that they will launch an investigation into the Biden administration’s response to the deadly wildfires in Hawaii....
Ride passengers rescued after dangling upside down, 75 feet up, for half an hour (www.npr.org)
The oscillating Lumberjack ride at Canada's Wonderland theme park stopped suddenly, in mid-air, on Sunday. Videos posted to social media captured the sounds of passengers crying for help.
Mapped: The Sun Belt's summer for the record books (www.axios.com)
Large swaths of the Sun Belt were hit by their hottest meteorological summer — June through August — on record.
Queen's Brian May helped NASA return its first asteroid sample | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Uttar Pradesh Horror: Man Rapes Stepdaughter, Video Records Act in Firozabad; Arrested (www.latestly.com)
Antarctic winter sea ice hits 'extreme' record low (www.reuters.com)
Researchers warn the shift can have dire consequences for animals like penguins who breed and rear their young on the sea ice, while also hastening global warming by reducing how much sunlight is reflected by white ice back into space....