For more than a century, corporations have controlled Maui's water. That could be changing. (www.motherjones.com)
EMI has been the source of long-running legal battles on Maui, as farmers and environmental groups seek to stop it from sucking up fresh water from the island’s streams. “For more than two decades, Native Hawaiians and the environmental community have been using legal avenues to try to restore at least some flow to these...
Aurora PD confirms additional arrests of confirmed, suspected Venezuelan gang members in July 28 shooting (www.denver7.com)
You aren’t likely to lose a job in the US but may find it harder to land one (apnews.com)
As Arias and other jobseekers can attest, the American labor market, red-hot for the past few years, has cooled. The job market is now in an unusual place: Jobholders are mostly secure, with layoffs low, historically speaking. Yet the pace of hiring has slowed, and landing a job has become harder. On Friday, the government will...
Record measles outbreak in Oregon blamed on vaccine exemptions (arstechnica.com)
FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist (arstechnica.com)
If he had been less greedy, he might have got away with it.
Putin claims support for Kamala Harris, jokes about "infectious laugh" (www.newsweek.com)
Alleged Russian Propagandist Tim Pool Screams That ‘Ukraine is the Enemy of the US’ (www.mediaite.com)
Judge in Brazil orders slaughterhouses to pay for Amazon reforestation (apnews.com)
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A judge in the Brazilian state of Rondonia has found two beef slaughterhouses guilty of buying cattle from a protected area of former rainforest in the Amazon and ordered them, along with three cattle ranchers, to pay a total of $764,000 for causing environmental damage, according to the decision issued...
Harris raised over $300 million in August, extending cash windfall (www.nbcnews.com)
Popular Israeli podcasters call to ‘erase every living being’ in Gaza and West Bank (www.middleeasteye.net)
In an episode of Two Nice Jewish Boys, which aired three weeks ago, host Weinstein said: “If you gave me a button to just erase Gaza, every single living being in Gaza would no longer be living tomorrow. I would press it in a second.”...
‘1,000 killed from friendly fire is the price of war,’ agree Hamas and Islamic Jihad officials (www.jpost.com)
Truth Social Hits All-Time Low as CEO Sells His Crashing Stock (futurism.com)
Unfortunately, Trump will still likely come out much richer than he was before. It’s still nice to see.
‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine (www.404media.co)
8-year-old Utah boy dies after shooting himself in car while mother was inside store (www.cbsnews.com)
An 8-year-old boy has died after accidentally shooting himself with a loaded gun left in a car while his mother was inside an Utah convenience store, police said....
President Biden Visits Westby, Wisconsin, Announces $7.3 Billion for Clean, Affordable, Reliable Electricity for Rural America; The Largest Investment in Rural Electrification Since the New Deal. (www.whitehouse.gov)
White House Says Putin Should 'Stop Interfering' After Backing Harris. (www.rferl.org)
‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine (www.404media.co)
Ban cell phones in California schools? Georgia shooting raises questions (www.ocregister.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/19461671...
Missouri judge says abortion-rights measure summary penned by GOP official is misleading (apnews.com)
A Missouri judge ruled Thursday that an anti-abortion GOP official used misleading language to summarize a ballot question designed to restore abortion rights in the state....
Largest City in Maine Becomes Fourth in US to Adopt Israel Divestment Resolution (truthout.org)
Sponsored by the Maine Coalition for Palestine and the Maine chapter of Jewish Voices for Peace (JVP), the newly approved resolution contains a “divestment list” of more than 85 companies, from U.S.-based Chevron, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing to Israel-based Elbit Systems. The list also includes public entities such as Israel...
Trump pleads not guilty to charges in revised 2020 election subversion indictment – live (www.theguardian.com)
Trump’s attorney John Lauro has confirmed that Trump is entering a plea of not guilty to the superseding indictment....
US food insecurity rate rose to 13.5% in 2023 as government benefits declined and food prices soared (theconversation.com)
Parenting nightmare: Kiss on the cheek causes child’s incurable infection (arstechnica.com)
14-year-old student suspect in Georgia school shooting that left 4 dead will be booked tonight, officials say (www.cnn.com)
The 14-year-old suspect in the fatal mass shooting at a Winder, Georgia, high school will be booked Wednesday night, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said at an evening news conference....
