Police say there has been a shooting with multiple victims at a New Hampshire psychiatric hospital (apnews.com)
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) —...
The Guardian Deletes Bin Laden Letter After It Goes Viral on TikTok (www.thewrap.com)
The Guardian removed a 21-year-old letter from Osama Bin Laden after a TikToker urged followers to read the al Qaeda leader's missive.
Baby Boomers Are Buying Up All The Houses (www.sfgate.com)
‘Acts of terrorism’ across Washington as 4 election offices get white powder in mail (www.kiro7.com)
The powder sent to both King and Spokane counties tested positive for traces of fentanyl.
White House under growing pressure as Democrats demand Gaza ceasefire (scrippsnews.com)
‘They’re throwing us out’: Boston begins clearing encampment at Mass. and Cass (www.wgbh.org)
Boston city workers began to clear tents Monday morning near the troubled intersection of Melnea Cass Boulevard and Massachusetts Avenue as part of an effort to enforce a new encampment ban across the city.
Fight over Texas anti-abortion transport bans reaches biggest battlegrounds yet (www.reuters.com)
Two Texas jurisdictions will consider measures this week to outlaw the act of transporting another person along their roads for an abortion, part of a strategy by conservative activists to further restrict abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade....
Schools Report Bomb Threats Following Libs of Tiktok Anti-LGBTQ Posts (www.vice.com)
At least eleven schools or school districts that were targeted by the account “Libs of TikTok” over anti-LGBTQ grooming conspiracies last month received bomb threats just days later....
China Is Suffering a Brain Drain. The U.S. Isn’t Exploiting It. (www.nytimes.com)
They went to the best universities in China and in the West. They lived middle-class lives in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen and worked for technology companies at the center of China’s tech rivalry with the United States....
Kansas police chief who led raid on small weekly newspaper has resigned, official says (apnews.com)
The police chief who led an August raid on a small weekly newspaper in central Kansas resigned Monday, just days after he was suspended from his post and following the release of body camera video of the raid showing an officer searching the desk of a reporter investigating the chief’s past....
Tesla misses estimates for quarterly deliveries; shares fall (www.reuters.com)
Tesla missed market estimates for third-quarter deliveries on Monday as planned upgrades at its factories forced production halts, sending its shares down 2.4% in early trading....
Donald Trump committed fraud for years by inflating his worth to banks and insurers, a New York judge finds (www.businessinsider.com)
Jim's West Steaks: Philadelphia cheesesteak shop hires armed agents to protect customers outside. (6abc.com)
DEI Jobs Have Dried Up Post George Floyd Protests But The Ones Left Are Filled Mostly By White People (www.theroot.com)
Even though diversity, equity and inclusion jobs increased by 55% following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, a recent study has showed that the vast majority of them have dried up. Across the country, DEI layoffs have been fast and unrelenting....
Rolling Stone Founder: Women, Black Musicians Not ‘Articulate Enough’ on ‘Intellectual Level’ to Feature in New Book (www.nationalreview.com)
Video shows school employee hitting 3-year-old nonverbal autistic child in the head and knocking him to the floor, attorney alleges (www.cnn.com)
Video from an Ohio school’s hallway camera shows a school employee chasing a 3-year-old down the hall and hitting him in the head from behind, knocking him to the ground, an attorney for the boy’s family alleges....
Mexico’s Moment: The Biggest US Trading Partner Is No Longer China (www.bloomberg.com)
The new Cold War is a business opportunity, and Mexico looks better placed than almost any other country to seize it....
Fox Corp Hit With Yet Another Lawsuit Over ‘Longstanding Practice of Allowing Conspiracy Theories’ (www.mediaite.com)
US sets new record for billion-dollar climate disasters in single year (www.theguardian.com)
Country has experienced 23 extreme weather events costing $1bn or more already this year, passing previous mark of 22 in 2020...
The GDP gap between Europe and the United States is now 80% (www.lemonde.fr)
It was early this summer, before Americans started crossing the Atlantic to savor the sweetness of European life. Prices are very much affordable for them there, and the Wall Street Journal gave the reason as being Europe’s inexorable impoverishment: “Europeans are facing a new economic reality, one they haven’t...
Carlos Santana apologizes for anti-trans comments he made during a recent concert (www.cnn.com)
Carlos Santana faced criticism on Thursday when a video of the musician making anti-transgender comments during a concert in New Jersey in July resurfaced on social media....
With lawsuit dismissed, student loan debt forgiveness begins for 800,000 borrowers (www.usatoday.com)
Democrats aren’t the only ones voting for abortion rights, Ohio shows (www.nbcnews.com)
More than 20 Ohio counties rejected Issue 1 on Tuesday and most of them were suburban and exurban counties that voted for Donald Trump in 2020.
Two LGBTQ films were slapped with R and NC-17 ratings. Critics say queer sex scenes are treated differently (www.cbc.ca)
When adapting the 2019 LGBTQ romantic novel Red, White & Royal Blue for the screen, Matthew Lopez was careful to circumvent an R-rating. The film has a handful of sex scenes that stop short of full-frontal nudity — there’s some bare butts and, naturally, shirtless men....
Ian Watkins, singer jailed for child sex offences, ‘stabbed in prison’ (www.theguardian.com)
Former Lostprophets frontman reportedly taken to hospital after being held hostage by other inmates at HMP Wakefield
