US lawmaker calls Chinese sanctions 'badge of honor'. (www.voanews.com)
Two small towns rejoice over release of Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan (www.usatoday.com)
Gloria Johnson, ‘Tennessee Three’ Democrat, wins primary, will face Blackburn (www.politico.com)
Fox News host Jesse Watters thinks men who vote for women ‘transition’ to women (www.advocate.com)
Everybody Is Mad at Bloomberg for Its Embargo-Breaking Gershkovich Scoop (nymag.com)
Pentagon chief revokes plea deals with three Sept. 11 suspects. (www.voanews.com)
Flavor Flav helps Olympic discus thrower Veronica Fraley who said she struggles to pay the rent (apnews.com)
Vanderbilt’s discus thrower and Olympian Veronica Fraley lamented on social media that she needed help paying the rent....
The lagged effects of COVID-19 supply chain disruptions on inflation (www.brookings.edu)
US job growth misses expectations in July; unemployment rate rises to 4.3%. (www.voanews.com)
Senate unanimously approves bill adding dozens of new federal judgeships (www.courthousenews.com)
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Justice Department sues TikTok, accusing the company of illegally collecting children's data (abcnews.go.com)
The Justice Department sued TikTok on Friday, accusing the company of violating children’s online privacy law and running afoul of a settlement it had reached with another federal agency....
Rudy Giuliani agrees to deal to end his bankruptcy case, pay creditors' financial adviser $400k (apnews.com)
Rudy Giuliani has agreed to a last-minute deal to end his personal bankruptcy case and pay about $400,000 to a financial adviser hired by his creditors, avoiding a potential deep-dive into the former New York City mayor’s finances that was threatened by a federal judge....
US recognizes opposition candidate González as the winner of Venezuela's presidential election (apnews.com)
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'Unacceptable': Court Blocks Net Neutrality Rules During Legal Battle. (www.commondreams.org)
The TERF propaganda machine has already superspreaded the boxer's Imane Khelif's Olympics row is about trans identification. In fact she appears to be born woman with DSDs (thepinknews.com)
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif’s participation at the Paris 2024 Olympics is “not a transgender issue”, a spokesperson for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said. Khelif beat Italy’s Angela Carini on Thursday (1 August), in a fight that has reignited an online storm about her participation in the Games, despite...
Chuck Schumer’s ambitious plan to take the Supreme Court down a peg (www.vox.com)
US judge throws out $4.7 bln verdict against NFL in 'Sunday Ticket' lawsuit (www.reuters.com)
Aug 1 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge in California on Thursday threw out a $4.7 billion verdict against the National Football League in a lawsuit claiming it overcharged subscribers to its Sunday Ticket game telecasts for more than a decade....
Despite Missouri AG’s Best Efforts, Man Condemned to Die Will Get Hearing On His Innocence Claim (theintercept.com)
DURING HIS SHORT tenure as Missouri’s attorney general, Andrew Bailey has spent a considerable amount of time fighting to cement dubious convictions — and, so far, he has been losing the battle....
Vance calls reaction to Trump’s attacks on Harris’s heritage ‘hysterical’ (thehill.com)
That word was not an accident. Because he used it more than once to hammer it in:...
San Francisco supervisors approve ban targeting RealPage software for setting rents (www.cbsnews.com)
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday have approved a first-in-the-nation ordinance banning landlords from using certain software and algorithms to set rents....
Panel recommends Trump ally Jeffrey Clark’s law license be suspended over his role in efforts to overturn 2020 election (www.cnn.com)
Jeffrey Clark, the Trump-era Justice Department official who advocated for the department to contact Georgia and cast doubt on Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss, should face a two-year suspension from practicing law, a disciplinary committee in Washington, DC, said Thursday....
Venezuela says US 'at the forefront of coup attempt' (www.reuters.com)
CARACAS, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Yvan Gil said on Friday that the United States is “at the forefront of a coup attempt” against the South American country amid a dispute over presidential election results that sparked protests.
14 arrested in human trafficking sting at comic convention in US. (www.voanews.com)
Schumer Introduces 'No Kings Act' to Undo Supreme Court's Presidential Immunity Ruling. (www.commondreams.org)
Vance’s links to the Project 2025 leader complicate Trump’s attempts at distance (www.nytimes.com)
Donald Trump disavowed the set of conservative plans after it became a popular target for Democrats, but his running mate, JD Vance, wrote a foreword for a forthcoming book by its principal architect....
