He Claimed God Sent Hitler to Create Israel. Now He’s Speaking at the Pro-Israel Rally. What? (www.motherjones.com)
Statue of Liberty Shut Down by Protesters Calling for Gaza Cease-fire (nymag.com)
Dressed uniformly in black, the protesters with Jewish Voice for Peace gathered on the pedestal shortly before 1 p.m. when they dropped massive banners with calls for a cease-fire and other slogans, such as “The Whole World Is Watching” and “Never Again for Anyone.” The group sang “Cease-fire now” and occupied the...
Tyson is recalling nearly 30,000 pounds of its dinosaur-shaped nuggets (www.nbcnews.com)
Ex-cop who fired into Breonna Taylor’s apartment in flawed, fatal raid goes on trial again (apnews.com)
NY Judge Who Bragged About Aiming Loaded Gun at Black Defendant in Court is in Big Trouble (www.theroot.com)
Highlights: In 2015, upstate New York judge Robert J. Putorti was overseeing a court hearing involving a Black defendant. Nothing out of the ordinary for a judge to do right? Except, when a Black man approached the stand “too quickly,” Judge Putorti pulled a loaded gun on him in court....
Americans' net worth surged by a record 37% from 2019-2022 (www.cnn.com)
Family of 8-year-old girl killed by police reach $11 million settlement (www.nbcnews.com)
The family of an 8-year-old girl who was shot and killed by police outside of a Pennsylvania high school football game reached an $11 million settlement....
Ohio high school coach resigns after team's 'Nazi' playcall (www.espn.com)
BROOKLYN, Ohio – An Ohio high school football coach resigned Monday after his team used racist and antisemitic language to call out plays during a game last week....
A man bought a metal detector to get off the couch. He just made the "gold find of the century" in Norway. (www.cbsnews.com)
At first, the Norwegian man thought his metal detector reacted to chocolate money buried in the soil. It turned out to be nine pendants, three rings and 10 gold pearls in what was described as the country’s gold find of the century....
New York police will use drones to monitor backyard parties this weekend, spurring privacy concerns (apnews.com)
Former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell surrender in election subversion case (www.cnn.com)
Two of Donald Trump’s key election lawyers, Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, surrendered Wednesday on charges in the Georgia election subversion case.
An elementary student died and 23 others injured after their Ohio school bus was hit on first day of class (www.cnn.com)
An elementary student was killed and 23 other students were injured – including one with life-threatening injuries – after their school bus was hit by a minivan and overturned on the first day of school....
Are forced-reset triggers illegal machine guns? ATF and gun rights advocates at odds in court fights (apnews.com)
WHO declares ‘Eris’ Covid strain a variant of interest as cases rise globally (www.theguardian.com)
Health risk of EG.5, which is related to Omicron subvariant, judged to be low but may drive larger wave of infections
Pope Francis restates Catholic Church is for everyone, including LGBTQ+ people (abcnews.go.com)
In one of the most iconic moments coming out of World Youth Day, Pope Francis called on the hundreds of thousands gathered before him to yell back at him that the Catholic Church is for “todos, todos, todos” – everyone, everyone, everyone.
16-year-old Chick-Fil-A worker sent home over ‘unnatural’ hair color (www.qcnews.com)
Sixteen-year-old Autumn Williams is still trying to understand how the blonde hair color in her braids was deemed unnatural at her Chick-Fil-A job.
For the Love of God, Stop Microwaving Plastic (www.wired.com)
In a study published in June in Environmental Science & Technology, Hussain and his colleagues reported that, when microwaved, these containers released millions of bits of plastic, called microplastics, and even tinier nanoplastics....
Black fisherman repeatedly confronted by white neighbors, who ask what he’s doing there (www.nbcnews.com)
Elon Musk says Twitter logo to change, birds to be gradually abandoned (www.cnn.com)
Missouri AG stops release of longest-serving wrongfully convicted woman (www.independent.co.uk)
Two 80-something journalists tried ChatGPT. Then, they sued to protect the 'written word' (apnews.com)
Veteran journalists Nicholas Gage, 84, and Nicholas Basbanes, 81, who live near each other in the same Massachusetts town, each devoted decades to reporting, writing and book authorship....
Federal appeals court rules cops who handcuffed 10-year-old girl for drawing offensive picture must face excessive force lawsuit (lawandcrime.com)
Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers (arstechnica.com)
In an open letter to publishers, more than 30,000 readers, researchers, and authors begged for access to the books to be restored in the open library, claiming the takedowns dealt “a serious blow to lower-income families, people with disabilities, rural communities, and LGBTQ+ people, among many others,” who may not have...
Supreme Court overturns Chevron decision, curtailing federal agencies' power in major shift (www.cbsnews.com)
The Supreme Court on Friday overturned a landmark 40-year-old decision that gave federal agencies broad regulatory power, upending their authority to issue regulations unless Congress has spoken clearly.
Progressives on AIPAC’s Defeat of Bowman: “Now We Know How Much It Costs to Buy an Election” (theintercept.com)
REP. JAMAAL BOWMAN’S Tuesday upset defeat by Westchester County Executive George Latimer generated many perspectives on what exactly precipitated his downfall....
