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Missouri high school teacher put on leave after district officials discover her OnlyFans account (www.usatoday.com)

Where are the homes? Glaring need for housing construction underlined by Century 21 CEO (apnews.com)

The highest mortgage rates in more than two decades are keeping many prospective homebuyers out of the market and discouraging homeowners who locked in ultra-low rates from listing their home for sale....

California governor rejects bill to give unemployment checks to striking workers (thehill.com)

Elon Musk attacked German support for migrants and promoted a call to support a far-right extremist political party (www.businessinsider.com)

Neo-Nazi Fight Clubs Are Growing Rapidly, New Research Shows (www.vice.com)

A new report shared with VICE News outlines the massive growth so-called Active Clubs, neo-Nazi fitness and fight clubs, have experienced in both the United States and internationally.

Georgia school district is banning books, citing sexual content, after firing a teacher (apnews.com)

Georgia’s second-largest school district says that it has removed two books from 20 school libraries, saying the books had “highly inappropriate, sexually explicit content.”...

British nurse refuses to appear to be sentenced for murdering seven babies (www.cnn.com)

A British nurse refused to appear in court on Monday to be sentenced for the murders of seven babies and attempted murders of six others at the UK hospital where she worked....

Olive oil is in trouble as extreme heat and drought push the industry into crisis | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)

Looming auto workers strike could cost $5 billion in just 10 days, new analysis says (www.cnbc.com)

Report on Anti-Gay Slur Could Put Local News Site Out of Business (www.nytimes.com)

The county board meeting in Wausau, Wis., on Aug. 12, 2021, got contentious fast. Nobody disputes that....

Elon Musk's Twitter was fined $350,000 for snubbing the special counsel investigating Donald Trump (fortune.com)

Special counsel Jack Smith’s team obtained a search warrant in January for records related to former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, and a judge levied a $350,000 fine on the company for missing the deadline to comply, according to court documents released Wednesday.

US judge blocks new Illinois law allowing state to penalize anti-abortion counseling centers (apnews.com)

A federal judge has blocked a new Illinois law that allows the state to penalize anti-abortion counseling centers if they use deception to interfere with patients seeking the procedure.

Ocean heat record broken, with grim implications for the planet (www.bbc.com)

The average daily global sea surface temperature beat a 2016 record this week, according to the EU’s climate change service Copernicus....

Fulton County D.A. receives racist threats as charging decision against Trump looms (www.cbsnews.com)

District Attorney Fani Willis warned Fulton County commissioners this weekend they should “stay alert” over the next month, according to emails obtained by CBS News.

Black man who says he was elected mayor of Alabama town alleges that White leaders are keeping him from position (www.cbsnews.com)

A Black man who says he was elected mayor of a rural Alabama town but has been kept from taking office by White leaders of the town has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.

Rep. Adam Schiff calls on Biden to withdraw from the presidential race (www.nbcnews.com)

The Only Kind of “Political Violence” All U.S. Politicians Oppose (theintercept.com)

A BIPARTISAN SAMPLING of the world’s greatest perpetrators and enablers of political violence has rushed to condemn political violence following the shooting attempt on former President Donald Trump on Saturday....

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution" (www.mediamatters.org)

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Outrage as China hospital charges patient fee for sitting down on a chair while receiving an intravenous infusion as health authority says fee is in line with regulations (www.scmp.com)

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'Jack him up on Mountain Dew!' GOP lawmaker floats wildest Biden debate conspiracy yet (www.rawstory.com)

New Colorado law will ban sales of dental floss, clothes, & other household products containing toxic "forever chemicals" (www.cbsnews.com)

Your favorite clothes, cookware, and even dental floss may contain toxic chemicals that are harmful to human health. Now, a new Colorado law is aiming to make those products safer....

Alex Jones’ personal assets to be sold to help pay Sandy Hook debt as judge decides Infowars’ fate (apnews.com)

A federal judge on Friday ordered the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ′ personal assets and was still deciding on his company’s separate bankruptcy case. The decision could determine the future of his Infowars media platform, as Jones owes $1.5 billion for his false claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School...

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