Boston doctor arrested for allegedly masturbating, exposing himself on aircraft while teen sat next to him (www.cbsnews.com)
A Boston doctor has been arrested and charged with allegedly masturbating and exposing himself while sitting next to 14-year-old teenage girl while flying.
The Clean Energy Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think (www.nytimes.com)
Delivery vans in Pittsburgh. Buses in Milwaukee. Cranes loading freight at the Port of Los Angeles. Every municipal building in Houston. All are powered by electricity derived from the sun, wind or other sources of clean energy....
Webb telescope spots cosmic question mark in space | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Mark Zuckerberg says 'time to move on' from Elon Musk cage fight (news.sky.com)
Ecuador: Thousands of soldiers move gang leader Fito (www.bbc.com)
U.S. Steel Rejects Offer From Cleveland-Cliffs (www.wsj.com)
Pastor alarmed after Trump-loving congregants deride Jesus' teachings as 'weak' (www.rawstory.com)
Evangelical Christian leader Russell Moore revealed this week that many evangelical pastors have become alarmed that their Trump-loving congregants have become so militant that they are even rejecting the teachings of Jesus Christ.In an interview with NPR, Moore said that multiple pastors had told h...
Video of a flash mob of thieves ransacking a Nordstrom department store in southern California (ktla.com)
Video captured a mob of thieves swarming a Nordstrom in Canoga Park as they cleared out the store during a destructive robbery on Saturday....
Gay couple from Toronto wins lawsuit in Italy after son's birth photo used in anti-surrogacy campaign (toronto.ctvnews.ca)
In 2014, BJ Barone and Frankie Nelson welcomed their son Milo with the help of a gestational surrogate....
The German AfD's Constant Drift Toward Extremism (www.spiegel.de)
Hawaii death toll tops 93 as it becomes deadliest wildfire in US modern history (www.independent.co.uk)
The blazes on the island are now the country’s worst in terms of casualties for over a century, while authorities have warned that the effort to find and identify the dead is still in its early stages, as crews with cadaver dogs have covered just 3 per cent of the search area.
Illinois Supreme Court finds assault weapons ban constitutional (abcnews.go.com)
The Illinois State Supreme Court found a strict assault weapons ban passed after the Highland Park shooting to be constitutional in a ruling issued Friday.
People are having sex in self-driving cars, apparently (mashable.com)
U.S.-led naval group warns ships to avoid Iranian waters to avoid seizure (www.reuters.com)
Mark Zuckerberg says he is ‘ready to fight’ Elon Musk (nypost.com)
Hyundai and Kia recall nearly 92,000 vehicles and tell owners to park them outside due to fire risk (apnews.com)
Hyundai and Kia are telling the owners of nearly 92,000 vehicles in the U.S. to park them outside because an electronic controller in an oil pump can overheat and cause fires.
Kansas Newspaper Says Its Co-Owner Has Died After Being Traumatized by Police Raid (www.thedailybeast.com)
The Marion County Record said its co-owner died Saturday after a police raid left her “stressed beyond her limits.”
6 people die as migrant boat sinks in the English Channel (www.cnn.com)
Six people died after a boat carrying migrants sank in the English Channel, authorities say, while two people could still be missing....
U.S., Japan to develop hypersonic missile interceptor (www.reuters.com)
Japan and the U.S. will agree this week to jointly develop an interceptor missile to counter hypersonic warheads being developed by China, Russia and North Korea, Japan’s Yomiuri newspaper said on Sunday.
6 year old who shot teacher bragged about it (www.bbc.com)
The six-year-old student who shot his teacher in the US earlier this year, boasted about the incident saying “I shot [her] dead”, unsealed court documents show....
Playing football may increase risk of Parkinson’s disease, study suggests (www.cnn.com)
Using data from a large online survey sponsored by the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, researchers found that participants who had a history of playing organized tackle football were 61% more likely to report a Parkinson’s disease diagnosis or parkinsonism, an umbrella term for symptoms like tremors and...
A prison guard says she was forced to stay at her post during labor pains. Texas is fighting compensation for her stillbirth. (www.texastribune.org)
The seven-months-pregnant officer reported contraction-like pains at work, but said she wasn’t allowed to leave for hours. The anti-abortion state is fighting her lawsuit, in part by saying her fetus didn’t clearly have rights.
Alabama riverfront brawl videos spark a cultural moment about race, solidarity and justice (apnews.com)
As bystanders trained their smartphone cameras on the riverfront dock while several white boaters pummeled a Black riverboat co-captain, they couldn’t have known the footage would elicit a national conversation about racial solidarity....
Fiction writers fear the rise of AI, but also see it as a story to tell (apnews.com)
As present in the imagination as politics, the pandemic or climate change, AI has become part of the narrative for a growing number of novelists and short story writers who only need to follow the news to imagine a world upended.