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Elon Musk Offered Horse To Flight Attendant In Exchange For Sex: Report (www.ndtv.com)

Tennessee sheriff faces 22 charges in 2 counties, accused of profiting from inmate labor (www.tennessean.com)

A Tennessee sheriff is facing 22 charges in two counties after a state investigation found he allegedly participated in a scheme to profit from inmate labor....

Anti-LGBTQ+ student thought he'd get away with urinating on a family's Pride flag. He got busted. (www.lgbtqnation.com)

American Airlines passenger sued by FAA after being duct taped to seat (www.independent.co.uk)

DeSantis Declares Emergency Over Floods After Cutting Stormwater Funds (www.commondreams.org)

China's government launched additional "local communication centers" to increase propaganda efforts worldwide (chinamediaproject.org)

The addition of external propaganda bases in Zhejiang and Tianjin over the past two weeks brings the total number at the provincial level to 23. These International Communication Centers (ICCs), also being launched at the city level, are meant to remake China’s approach to delivering its message externally....

Harlan Crow Provided Clarence Thomas at Least 3 Previously Undisclosed Private Jet Trips, Senate Probe Finds (www.propublica.org)

Drenched South Florida faces fresh flood threats from more heavy rains (www.axios.com)

Heavy to excessive rainfall may bring “considerable to locally catastrophic urban flooding” across South Florida through Friday, the National Weather Service warns.

Elon Musk claims Optimus robots could make Tesla a $25 trillion company — more than half the value of the S&P 500 today (www.cnbc.com)

Cruelty-based intervention: Russia is set to reintroduce antipsychotic drug as autism treatment (theins.press)

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Elon Musk wins back his $44.9 billion Tesla pay package in shareholder vote (apnews.com)

Tesla shareholders voted Thursday to restore CEO Elon Musk’s record $44.9 billion pay package that was thrown out by a Delaware judge earlier this year, sending a strong vote of confidence in his leadership of the electric vehicle maker....

Clarence Thomas took additional trips funded by Harlan Crow, senator reveals (www.theguardian.com)

Democrat Dick Durbin announces failure of supreme court justice to disclose travel paid for by billionaire benefactor...

Disney Buries the Hatchet With Ron DeSantis in Huge New Land Deal (gizmodo.com)

White Dad Apologized to the Black Superintendent He Pushed On Stage, But It Didn't Go As He Expected (www.theroot.com)

“The outreach was really to indicate that he, Matthew, understands his mishap in terms of what he did, what he’s caused. He’s remorseful,” Briggs continued. “I took that as some form of apology, but that’s not something I think at this time amounts to a solid apology, from my perspective....

Tesla in self-drive mode slams into police car in Orange County (ktla.com)

A Tesla was in its self-driving mode when it crashed into a parked patrol vehicle responding to a fatal crash in Orange County Thursday morning, police said....

Sandy Hook families want to seize Alex Jones' social media accounts (www.reuters.com)

He gunned down a gay journalist & left him to die. Now he's paying the price. (www.lgbtqnation.com)

Senate Republicans block bill that establishes right to IVF across the US (www.theguardian.com)

Vietnam War veteran comes out as gay in his obituary, reveals he will be buried next to "the love of my life" (www.cbsnews.com)

How the IRS went soft on billionaires and corporate tax cheats - ICIJ (www.icij.org)

The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled. (www.platformer.news)

No, a Remote Amazon Tribe Did Not Get Addicted to Porn (www.nytimes.com)

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Arizona man planned a mass shooting targeting African Americans at an Atlanta concert to incite a race war, feds say (www.nbcnews.com)

U.N. official says he saw Israeli troops kill 2 Palestinians fishing off Gaza coast (www.cbsnews.com)

Two men fishing in the waters off the coast of the Gaza Strip were killed Wednesday by Israeli troops firing at them with automatic weapons, James Elder, the global spokesperson for the United Nations' children's agency UNICEF, told CBS News....

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