There are almost no national safety rules protecting US workers exposed to high heat (www.cnn.com)
[The Conversation] - Blame capitalism? Why hundreds of decades-old yet vital drugs are nearly impossible to find (theconversation.com)
Poultry plant blames staffing company for hiring 16-year-old who was killed in workplace accident (www.nbcnews.com)
“The company is undertaking a thorough audit with the staffing companies to ensure that this kind of error never happens again,” Mar-Jac Poultry said in a statement.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak braced for defeats in key elections (www.reuters.com)
Kremlin accuses West of turning blind eye to Ukrainian 'terrorist attacks' against Russia (www.reuters.com)
White Supremacist Nick Fuentes Calls for “Holy War” Against Jews (newrepublic.com)
The far-right influencer, who once sat down for dinner with Donald Trump, made the comments at an “America First” rally.
Texas troopers told to push children into Rio Grande, deny water to migrants, records say (www.houstonchronicle.com)
Officers working for Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative have been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande, and have been told not to give water to asylum seekers even in extreme heat, according to an email from a Department of Public Safety trooper who described the actions as...
People with alcohol use disorder impaired after heavy drinking, despite claims of higher tolerance (www.uchicagomedicine.org)
IOC awards 2034 Winter Games to Salt Lake City. Utah last hosted the Olympics in 2002. - The Boston Globe (www.bostonglobe.com)
PARIS (AP) — Salt Lake City will be an Olympics host again after the IOC formally awarded the 2034 Winter Games to the United States bid on Wednesday, after a power move by Olympic officials who want to shut down a U.S. federal investigation of suspected doping by Chinese swimmers....
Florida police tell people to stop taking selfies with depressed black bear (www.google.com)
Heavy shooting from the Israeli Forces at a UN convoy heading to Gaza City (www.unrwa.org)
Heavy shooting from the Israeli Forces at a UN convoy heading to Gaza City....
Sandra Hemme freed after 43 years in prison for murder she didn’t commit (www.bbc.com)
A woman who served 43 years for a murder she did not commit has been released after her conviction was overturned....
Student Loan Payments Paused for Millions Amid Court Fight Over Relief Plan. (www.commondreams.org)
Tax filings show Catholic conservative activist Leonard Leo helped fuel Bud Light boycott (www.theguardian.com)
Musk, other pro-Trump billionaires have helped shape shooting narrative (www.washingtonpost.com)
The right-leaning business community on twitter, including Elon Musk and hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman, used their megaphones to endorse Trump and fuel storylines about Saturday’s attack...
‘Forever chemicals’ used in lithium ion batteries threaten environment, research finds (www.theguardian.com)
A subclass of PFAS has been found near manufacturing plants and landfills, and in remote regions of the world...
Nearly all AT&T cell customers’ call and text records exposed in a massive breach (www.cnn.com)
Israel ordered thousands to ‘safe’ areas in Gaza City — then bombed them (www.972mag.com)
On Sunday, July 7, the Israeli army ordered residents of three neighborhoods in eastern Gaza City to immediately evacuate toward the west, ahead of a new ground invasion. Thousands of displaced families abandoned their shelters and searched desperately for a place to stay the night in the city’s western neighborhoods. Within...
New York, other states implementing laws to ban mini plastic shampoo bottles in hotels (www.scrippsnews.com)
She was put in a body bag and sent for embalming while still alive. Her horrified family wants answers (www.independent.co.uk)
NYPD recruit dies during Bronx training exercise in sweltering heat (www.independent.co.uk)
Trump again demonizes migrants for “poisoning our country” (www.motherjones.com)
Disney faces strike threat as thousands of California workers vote on walkout (www.theguardian.com)
Company could endure biggest US strike of 2024 as unions accuse it of intimidation during contract negotiations...
‘I’m bored, so I shoot’: The Israeli army’s approval of free-for-all violence in Gaza (www.972mag.com)
The six sources — all except one of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity — recounted how Israeli soldiers routinely executed Palestinian civilians simply because they entered an area that the military defined as a “no-go zone.” The testimonies paint a picture of a landscape littered with civilian corpses, which are...
Kansas’ top court rejects 2 anti-abortion laws, bolstering a state right to abortion access (apnews.com)
Kansas’ highest court on Friday struck down state laws regulating abortion providers more strictly than other health care professionals and a ban on a common second-trimester procedure, reaffirming its stance that the state constitution protects abortion access....
