'They're clearing out the homeless people': San Francisco gets ready for arrival of world leaders (www.yahoo.com)
Anish Kapoor’s Controversial Vantablack Works Finally Make Their U.S. Debut. See Them Here (news.artnet.com)
The first headlines came way back in 2014. British Indian artist Anish Kapoor was experimenting with Vantablack, a newly invented material said to be the blackest black ever made....
Brad Raffensperger: USPS Intercepted Fentanyl-Laced Envelopes Addressed To Election Officials (www.mediaite.com)
US childhood vaccination exemptions reach their highest level ever (apnews.com)
The proportion of U.S. kindergartners exempted from school vaccination requirements has hit its highest level ever, 3%, U.S. health officials said Thursday....
Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages (therecord.media)
A Seattle-based appellate judge ruled that the practice does not meet the threshold for an illegal privacy violation under state law, handing a big win to automakers Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and General Motors.
One of the exonerated 'Central Park Five' wins New York City Council seat (www.reuters.com)
Salaam was chosen as the Democratic candidate in June’s primary election and ran unopposed in Tuesday’s race to represent a central district in Manhattan’s Harlem neighborhood....
Elizabeth Hirschhorn moves out of Brentwood Airbnb after 570 rent-free days. She said she had a right to stay (news.yahoo.com)
Elizabeth Hirschhorn, the Brentwood tenant who did not pay rent for her luxury Airbnb rental for 570 days, moved out of the unit on Friday.
USA Today hires a Taylor Swift reporter. Who is he? (www.nbcnews.com)
Anti-Defamation League director: 388 percent increase in antisemitism (www.politico.com)
Hamas tried to send fighters to Egypt in ambulances for wounded Gazans — US official (www.timesofisrael.com)
Australian woman charged with murder over suspected death cap mushroom poisonings (www.cnn.com)
Australian police have brought murder charges against a woman who served a lunch earlier this year that led to the deaths of three people from suspected death cap mushroom poisoning.
Sam Bankman-Fried Trial: Fallen Crypto Mogul Convicted in Collapse That Cost Users Billions (www.nytimes.com)
Health misinformation and lack of confidence in vaccines continue to grow, years after the Covid-19 pandemic, survey shows | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Vaccine misinformation, which first began spiraling during the Covid-19 pandemic, has grown in the United States in the years since, according to a new survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
Man charged with killing Tupac Shakur in Vegas faces murder arraignment without hiring an attorney (www.nbcnews.com)
FDA moves closer to sickle cell cure that uses gene editing (www.nbcnews.com)
The Food and Drug Administration may be one step closer to what could be the first approval of a drug that uses the groundbreaking gene-editing tool CRISPR....
Wildfires erupt in southern Lebanon, civil defense blames Israeli shells (www.reuters.com)
The fires started around 1700 GMT and were caused by Israeli shells containing white phosphorous being launched across the border, Abdalla Mousawae, head of the Tyre Regional Center of Lebanese civil defense, told Reuters....
How Black Moms in Temecula Are Fighting the School Board’s Right-Wing Takeover (www.thenation.com)
The board has banned “critical race theory” and decried ethnic studies, but a local group of Black mothers has a plan. “We’re going to use what’s available to us—the right we have as citizens to recall."
Education Department penalizes Missouri lender for error that made 800,000 student loan borrowers delinquent (www.cnbc.com)
The U.S. Department of Education will penalize student loan servicer Mohela, or the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, for its failure to send timely billing statements to 2.5 million borrowers....
Former deputy claims sheriff's office covered up molestation allegation against sergeant (www.pleasantonweekly.com)
A former guard at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin is alleging that internal affairs for the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office refused to investigate when he reported a colleague for sexually abusing two minors, according to a new lawsuit against the Sheriff’s Office.
Netanyahu declares a ‘second war of independence’ as fears for Gazans grow (www.theguardian.com)
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Voters in at Least 10 States Are Trying to Protect Abortion Rights. GOP Officials Are Throwing Up Roadblocks. (www.propublica.org)
Republican officials are undermining citizen-led ballot initiatives that seek to protect the procedure. Ohio is the latest state to get protections on the November ballot....
US halts exports of most civilian firearms for 90 days (www.reuters.com)
Export licences for Ukraine and Israel, as well as some other close allies, will be exempted from the temporary halt in exports
Abercrombie & Fitch slapped with lawsuit alleging sexual abuse of its male models under former CEO (apnews.com)
A former model for Abercrombie & Fitch on Friday sued the fashion retailer, alleging it allowed its former CEO Mike Jeffries to run a sex-trafficking organization during his 22-year tenure....
Ivanka Trump must testify in fraud case, judge rules (www.bbc.co.uk)
***UPDATE – The New York Attorney General’s Office said the former president will testify on 6 November and his three children will take the stand before him....