US man arrested for allegedly throwing pipe bomb at Satanic Temple (www.theguardian.com)
Sean Patrick Palmer, of Oklahoma, arrested after explosive device found last week near porch of Satanic Temple in Massachusetts...
Parents offered class photo version with no 'complex needs' pupils (www.bbc.com)
A council has apologised after parents were offered a choice of class photos with or without children with complex needs in them....
Trial starts for Arizona border rancher charged with killing migrant on his property (apnews.com)
An Arizona rancher went on trial Friday in the fatal shooting of a migrant on his property near Mexico, with his defense attorney maintaining his innocence as the national debate over border security heats up ahead of this year’s presidential election....
Kentucky: New bill eliminating work break rights rings alarm bells (www.newsweek.com)
Say goodbye to breaks and lunch when working > 6 hours a day! Kentucky says just let the feds set the rules.
Florida scrambles to get retired teachers to return to combat shortage (www.newsweek.com)
Legislators in Florida are considering a bill that would help retired teachers return to the workforce....
Chief enforcer of US gun laws fears Americans may become numb to violence with each mass shooting (apnews.com)
The head of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says he fears that a drumbeat of mass shootings and other gun violence across the United States could make Americans numb to the bloodshed, fostering apathy to finding solutions rather than galvanizing communities to act....
West Virginia House OKs bill to allow teachers with training to carry guns, other weapons in schools (apnews.com)
West Virginia’s Republican-controlled House of Delegates voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to allow teachers and other school staff who undergo training to carry guns in K-12 public schools....
Death of baby decapitated in metro Atlanta hospital ruled homicide, ME confirms (www.wsbtv.com)
According to a lawsuit filed by the parents, the baby became stuck during labor and the doctor began pulling.
A portrait of America's young adults: More debt burdened and financially dependent on their parents (www.cbsnews.com)
Young adults in the U.S. are experiencing a very different trajectory than their parents, with more of them hitting key milestones later in life and also taking on more debt, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center....
IDF fails to confirm Gaza hostages' cause of death, mother claims poison (www.jpost.com)
The mother of slain hostage Ron Sherman accused the IDF of 'poisoning' her son to death inside a Jabaliya tunnel.
Why can’t today’s young adults leave the nest? Blame high housing costs (www.cnbc.com)
These days, housing affordability is a struggle for nearly everyone....
Massachusetts cop with body-cam searches middle school for LGBTQ-themed book: report (www.rawstory.com)
A cop’s decision to sport a body camera and search a Massachusetts middle school for a book has raised serious concerns among civil liberties experts, a new report shows....
The Tesla Cybertruck is already being towed and isn't on sale yet (www.autoblog.com)
DeSantis won't condemn Musk for endorsing an antisemitic post. 'I did not see the comment,' he says (apnews.com)
Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is refusing to condemn Elon Musk ‘s post endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory, maintaining Sunday that he wasn’t familiar with the post despite it prompting major companies to pull advertising from the billionaire’s X social media platform....
Transgender rights are under attack. But trans people 'just want to thrive and survive.' (www.usatoday.com)
What's behind the increase in homeschooling (www.axios.com)
Neo-Nazis and the Far-Right Are Trying to Hijack Pro-Palestine Protests (www.vice.com)
Neo-Nazis are showing up at protests in an attempt to push anti-Jewish conspiracy theories and tropes into the mainstream.
How Biden is continuing to cancel student loan debt despite Supreme Court ruling (www.cnn.com)
Although the Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s signature student loan forgiveness program in late June, his administration has found ways to cancel more than $48 billion in debt since then....
Texas inmates soaking bedsheets in toilet water to cool off in unairconditioned prisons (www.sacurrent.com)
At least 41 people have died in the Lone Star State’s unairconditioned prisons due to heat-related or unknown conditions this summer, according to the Texas Tribune....
Pro-China influence campaign pushed talking points across more than 50 websites (www.nbcnews.com)
Facebook said Tuesday it has identified a sprawling online propaganda effort: a pro-China campaign that had a presence on more than 50 websites....
K-9s will be used in random classroom screenings, Florida school district officials announce (www.clickorlando.com)
Taliban official says women lose value if their faces are visible to men in public (abcnews.go.com)
A Taliban official says women lose value if their faces are visible to men in public, and that the only way to wear the hijab, or the Islamic headscarf, is if the face is hidden
Ukraine adds Bacardi to its list of international war sponsors (thehill.com)
Ukraine’s national anti-corruption agency added Bacardi Limited to its list of international war sponsors, citing the company’s continued business and tax payments in Russia.
Judge: West Virginia can't require incarcerated atheist to participate in religious programming (apnews.com)
A federal judge in West Virginia has ruled that the state corrections agency can’t force an incarcerated atheist and secular humanist to participate in religiously-affiliated programming to be eligible for parole.
First-known TikTok mob attack led by middle schoolers tormenting teachers (arstechnica.com)
A bunch of eighth graders in a “wealthy Philadelphia suburb” recently targeted teachers with an extreme online harassment campaign that The New York Times reported was “the first known group TikTok attack of its kind by middle schoolers on their teachers in the United States.”...
