WHO declares ‘Eris’ Covid strain a variant of interest as cases rise globally (www.theguardian.com)
Health risk of EG.5, which is related to Omicron subvariant, judged to be low but may drive larger wave of infections
Disney raises streaming prices as CEO Bob Iger warns of password sharing crackdown (finance.yahoo.com)
Police investigating, lawsuit filed after baby allegedly decapitated during delivery at metro Atlanta hospital (www.fox5atlanta.com)
Police are now investigating after a lawsuit alleging a baby was decapitated during delivery on July 9 was filed in Clayton County against Southern Regional Medical Center and others.
Seeing Robbie Robertson through the lens of his film scores (www.cbc.ca)
Robbie Robertson never intended to get into the film industry, but the music he made was always cinematic in its own way. In a 2019 interview with Vulture, the songwriting force behind the Band explained his music-making process in a way that blurs the line between musician and filmmaker: “When it connects in my imagination...
Virginia prison officials won't divulge complaints about facility where inmate died (apnews.com)
The Virginia Department of Corrections has refused to release records of complaints by inmates at a southwest Virginia prison that's under scrutiny in the 2022 death of an inmate.
Exclusive: A veteran FBI agent told Congress that investigations into Giuliani and other Trump allies were 'suppressed' (www.businessinsider.com)
The FBI agent's bombshell allegations of political bias appeared in a leaked statement made to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
AP: US Navy sailor's mom encouraged him to pass military details to China, prosecutor says (apnews.com)
AP: Utah man suspected of threatening President Joe Biden shot and killed as FBI served warrant (apnews.com)
Canadian musician Robbie Robertson dies at 80: multiple reports (www.ctvnews.ca)
BREAKING NEWS: Robertson, the renowned guitarist and primary songwriter of The Band, died surrounded by his family....
Robbie Robertson, Leader of The Band, Dies at 80 (variety.com)
Guitarist-songwriter-singer Robbie Robertson, who led the Canadian-American group the Band to rock prominence in the 1970s and worked extensively with Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese, has died. He was 80....
She invited four people over for lunch. A week later, three were dead. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Australia is gripped by the mysterious deaths of three people in a suspected poisoning case that reads like a fictional thriller....
3-month-old dies after being left in hot car in Houston, police say (abcnews.go.com)
A baby boy died in Houston on Tuesday after being left in a car amid a dangerous and unrelenting heat wave, police said.
Teen sent 'hobo hunting' text before killing homeless woman with pellet gun: prosecutors (www.rawstory.com)
Prosecutors say that 18-year-old William Innes, who was charged with first-degree murder in the killing of 68-year-old Annette Pershal, sent the text to a group that includes his co-defendant, 19-year-old Ryan Hopkins, reported KNSD-TV.
Americans' credit card debt hits a record $1 trillion (www.cnn.com)
Special counsel obtained search warrant for Donald Trump’s Twitter account (www.cnn.com)
The special counsel investigation into Donald Trump secured a search warrant of the former president’s Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, according to a newly unsealed court filing.
Who is sneaking fentanyl across the southern border? Hint: it's not the migrants (www.npr.org)
Prosecutors and defense lawyers say Haley’s story is typical; the vast majority of illicit fentanyl — close to 90% — is seized at official border crossings. Immigration authorities say nearly all of that is smuggled by people who are legally authorized to cross the border, and more than half by U.S. citizens like Haley....
Banks fined $549M after senior execs found secretly texting on Signal, WhatsApp (arstechnica.com)
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6 year old who shot teacher bragged about it (www.bbc.com)
The six-year-old student who shot his teacher in the US earlier this year, boasted about the incident saying “I shot [her] dead”, unsealed court documents show....
Mules who smuggle fentanyl across the border are often U.S. citizens (www.npr.org)
American woman, child freed after being kidnapped in Haiti last month (abcnews.go.com)
Much of historic Lahaina town believed destroyed as huge wildfire sends people fleeing into water (www.hawaiinewsnow.com)
Voters in Ohio reject GOP-backed proposal that would have made it tougher to protect abortion rights (apnews.com)
Ohio voters on Tuesday resoundingly rejected a Republican-backed measure that would have made it more difficult to change the state’s constitution, setting up a fall campaign that will become the nation’s latest referendum on abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned nationwide protections last year.
Biden to curb U.S. investment in Chinese tech sectors (www.cbsnews.com)
In an executive order expected to be released Wednesday, American companies will be subject to unprecedented new federal oversight that will scrutinize – and potentially prevent – some of their investments in China’s tech industry. The goal is to ensure that U.S. cash does not support China’s military modernization and...
Man loads 12 kilos of dynamite into friend's cars, tells police it was a prank (yle.fi)
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Biden to reinstate labor rule shelved by Reagan, giving construction workers a pay boost (www.usatoday.com)
In a nod to labor unions, President Joe Biden is moving to boost wages for construction workers on projects paid for with federal funding, a step that would appeal to a key constituency ahead of next year’s presidential election and potentially shrink the pay gap between northern and southern states.
