Republicans united on Trump, divided on abortion. (www.voanews.com)
In response to Supreme Court ruling, U.S. begins dropping Jan. 6 obstruction charges for some Proud Boys, others (www.washingtonpost.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/jan-6-defendants-obstruction-ch…
Democrats warn JD Vance will enable Trump’s ‘extreme Maga agenda’ (www.theguardian.com)
Elizabeth Warren calls Vance faux populist while party says he will ‘take women back decades’ on abortion...
Dirty diaper resold on Amazon ruined a family business, report says (arstechnica.com)
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Free drink refills could be banned in Wales under Welsh government consultation (www.bbc.co.uk)
Vance agrees that raising grandchildren is ‘whole purpose of postmenopausal female’ (www.independent.co.uk)
Vance also seemed to agree when a podcast host suggested that having grandparents help raise children was a ‘weird, unadvertised feature of marrying an Indian woman’...
Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls (www.bbc.com)
Baby twins killed in Gaza as father registered births (www.bbc.com)
Georgia lawmaker charged with driving under influence after hitting bicycle in bike lane (www.nbcnews.com)
Georgia state Rep. Devan Seabaugh is accused of driving under the influence after authorities say he ran into a bicyclist who was riding in the bike lane of an Atlanta street....
'Original sin': Torture of 9/11 suspects means even without plea deal, they may never face a verdict (apnews.com)
A Defense Department disagreement over how to bring to justice the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and two others has thrown the cases into disarray and surfaced tension between the desire of some victims’ families to see a final legal reckoning and the significant obstacles that may make that impossible....
Kansas Democratic lawmaker who voted against transgender people loses primary election (www.advocate.com)
Trump lashes out at Harris and falsely claims no one was killed on January 6 (www.theguardian.com)
Ad industry initiative abruptly shuts down after lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X (arstechnica.com)
The SLAPP seems to working as intended....
Journal still can't confirm January story about UN agency for Palestinians (www.semafor.com)
In January, The Wall Street Journal made an explosive claim: Quoting “intelligence reports,” the paper reported that not only had 12 members of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA, taken part in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, but 10% of the relief agency’s 12,000...
Evangelical pastor who condemned "wicked" & "evil" queers arrested in sex sting operation (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Tech CEOs are backtracking on their RTO mandates—now, just 3% of firms asking workers to go into the office full-time (fortune.com)
Many tech firms have spent the last two years summoning workers back into the office—all the while threatening them with layoffs. Even Zoom reverted to in-person working last year....
Who Are the Far-Right Groups Behind the U.K. Riots? (www.nytimes.com)
The violence has been driven by online disinformation and extremist right-wing groups intent on creating disorder after a deadly knife attack on a children’s event in northwestern England, experts said.A range of far-right factions and individuals, including neo-Nazis, violent soccer fans and anti-Muslim campaigners, have...
US bolsters military presence in Middle East as threat of regional escalation intensifies (www.theguardian.com)
The US military will deploy additional fighter jets and navy warships to the Middle East, the Pentagon said on Friday, as Washington braces for Iran and its regional allies to make good on a promise to respond to the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran....
A little-known law has forced over 120,000 veterans to return the money they got to leave the military, new data shows (www.nbcnews.com)
Harris campaign says it raised $310 million in July, doubling Trump’s haul (www.cnn.com)
Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign said it raked in a whopping $310 million in its July fundraising efforts – more than double the amount raised by her Republican rival last month – and has $377 million cash on hand, marking the latest sign of how transformative and energizing the change to the top of the...
A bigger child tax credit isn't coming. The Senate just voted against it. (19thnews.org)
Reddit CEO says Microsoft needs to pay to search the site (www.theverge.com)
After striking deals with Google and OpenAI, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is calling on Microsoft and others to pay if they want to continue scraping the site’s data....
U.S. Park Police Officers who killed Bijan Ghaisar in 2017 have been on paid administrative leave for six years. They're now suing the Interior Department. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/park-police-lawsuit-ghaisar-kil…
There’s too much E. coli in the Seine for athletes to swim in it (www.theverge.com)
Biden, Lula press Venezuela to publish election tallies (www.reuters.com)
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday they agreed the Venezuelan government must quickly publish the vote tallies of Sunday’s contested election to end the crisis in the oil-producing country....