Florida malaria outbreak still going with local cases now at 7 (arstechnica.com)
Local officials are still working to apply insecticide by air, trucks, and crews.
FTC rewrites rules on Big Tech mergers with aim to ease monopoly-busting (arstechnica.com)
Muslim legislator attacked outside Eid-al Adha prayer in Connecticut says incident should be looked into as a hate crime (www.nbcnews.com)
Kevin Spacey accusers came forward to tell the truth, prosecutors tell London trial (www.reuters.com)
At least 18 wounded in Russian strike on Ukraine's Mykolaiv -governor (www.reuters.com)
Taco Bell Went to Court Over the Right to Use 'Taco Tuesday.' The Taco John's Response Was Brilliant (www.inc.com)
Taco Bell started it, but Taco John’s ended it–with emotional intelligence.
Kremlin accuses West of turning blind eye to Ukrainian 'terrorist attacks' against Russia (www.reuters.com)
Migrant girl death in US custody was 'preventable' (www.bbc.co.uk)
Singapore: City-state rocked by rare political scandals (www.bbc.co.uk)
I lost my job to ChatGPT and was made obsolete. I was out of work for 3 months before taking a new job passing out samples at grocery stores. (www.businessinsider.com)
Over 20,000 Wagner troops killed, 40,000 wounded in Ukraine: Prigozhin-linked channel (www.politico.eu)
Russia's Prigozhin: no more fighting in Ukraine but prepare for Africa - video (www.reuters.com)
Xi Jinping meets Henry Kissinger as US seeks to defrost China ties (www.bbc.co.uk)
Police search for suspected lion roaming Berlin area (www.bbc.co.uk)
Does The Kentucky Attorney General Go To Work? An Investigation. (www.huffpost.com)
An open records request shows Daniel Cameron hasn’t used his key fob to get into the state Capitol for the last three years. His office won’t say why.
Unhoused Coloradans turn to methamphetamine as a form of protection (coloradosun.com)
In Colorado Springs, meth accounts for the majority of drug overdose deaths. Many of the deceased were living outside, using the drug to stay awake.
133 Degrees and No Ac: Kids at Angola Prison Kept in Potentially Deadly Heat (theappeal.org)
Colorado teen accused of trying to go to Iraq to fight for the Islamic State group (apnews.com)
An 18-year-old from suburban Denver who allegedly planned to go to Iraq to fight for the Islamic State group was arrested last week as he tried to board a flight to Turkey.
TikTok allows Europe to access research software, with eye on EU online content rules (www.reuters.com)
Texas city strictly limits water consumption as thousands across state face water shortages (www.cbsnews.com)
A small Texas city west of Austin remains under tight water restrictions amid a significant drought. After days of being at the highest emergency level for water conservation, officials said Monday that those restrictions have only slightly been loosened, limiting water consumption to “indoor use only” until further notice.
A 16-year-old has died at a Mississippi poultry processing plant, county coroner says (www.cnn.com)
Egypt president pardons rights activist Patrick Zaki and lawyer Mohammed al-Baqer (www.bbc.co.uk)
An 11-year-old boy caught a piranha-like fish in his backyard pond in Oklahoma (www.npr.org)
Address by the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev at the First Summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council and Central Asian countries (www.eureporter.co)
2 Women Attacked by Bison While Visiting National Parks (www.nytimes.com)
At Yellowstone, a bison gored a Phoenix woman, causing injuries to her chest and abdomen. A Minnesota woman was hurt in her abdomen and foot at Theodore Roosevelt National Park....
