Maui tourism, an economic mainstay, sparks anger amid fire ruin (www.reuters.com)
Deadlier Atlantic storms excessively killing US people of color – study (www.theguardian.com)
Named tropical storms and hurricanes, which have become more intense, have caused about 20,000 more deaths from 1988 to 2019
Federal student loan pause ends next month, some borrowers expect budgets to take a major hit (wtop.com)
Bomb threats and 'swatting' campaign hits dozens of synagogues (forward.com)
The synagogue bomb threats and swatting have hit more than 20 synagogues over the past month, according to security experts.
The Clean Energy Future is Roiling both Friends and Foes (www.nytimes.com)
I hate NIMBY environmentalist hypocrites
Appeals Court Upholds Legality of Abortion Pill but With Significant Restrictions (www.msn.com)
A California Wine Company Had to Destroy 2,000 Bottles of Wine After Illegally Aging Them at the Bottom of the Ocean (www.foodandwine.com)
The problem — and this is a significant one — was that the company’s owners never received the proper permits from the California Coastal Commission or the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which turned that “perfect environment” into an illegal one....
Emergency room doctors beg for help treating children with mental health illnesses (www.nbcnews.com)
Faced with bottlenecks and backlogs of patients in need of emergency care, doctors say they are unequipped to handle the growing pediatric mental health crisis.
Maui's displaced grow anxious as wildfire recovery drags on (www.reuters.com)
106 people dead, 86% of the destroyed/damaged buildings are residential, and only 27% of Lahaina’s disaster area has been searched. This will only get worse.
Giuliani struggling under massive legal bills after defending Trump (www.cnn.com)
Rudy Giuliani is staring down hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal bills and sanctions amid numerous lawsuits in addition to the new criminal charges – related to his work for Donald Trump after the 2020 election.
Government's own experts found 'barbaric' and 'negligent' conditions in ICE detention (www.npr.org)
These findings are all part of a trove of more than 1,600 pages of previously secret inspection reports written by experts hired by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. In examining more than two dozen facilities across 16 states from 2017 to 2019, these expert inspectors found...
After Years of Spreading Lies, Election Deniers Face Consequences (www.nytimes.com)
Legal repercussions have arrived for the leaders of the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential contest, in what could serve as a warning to those who meddle in future elections.
From ‘America’s Mayor’ to Criminal Defendant: Giuliani’s Long Tumble (www.nytimes.com)
An indictment in the Georgia election conspiracy case marked perhaps the lowest point in the career of Rudolph W. Giuliani, who had staked his legacy on blind allegiance to the Trump administration.
New Zealand jury finds mom guilty of killing her 3 young daughters (www.nbcnews.com)
Lauren Dickason had admitted to the killings but then pleaded not guilty to murder, arguing she was mentally disturbed at the time and didn’t know that what she was doing was wrong.
San Francisco staff told to work from home as crime wave makes office unsafe (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Ex-FBI counterintelligence official pleads guilty to conspiracy charge for helping Russian oligarch (apnews.com)
A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to violate sanctions on Russia by going to work, after he retired, for an oligarch he once investigated.
X, formerly Twitter, slowed down access to Threads, The New York Times, Bluesky and more (techcrunch.com)
X, formerly known as Twitter, was throttling traffic to websites that the social network’s owner Elon Musk publicly dislikes. The platform slowed down the speed it takes when accessing links to a handful of websites, including The New York Times, Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, Threads, Reuters and Substack. The platform appears...
And that's a wrap: Edmonton restaurant chain wins auction for government donair costume (www.cbc.ca)
According to the provincial government website, there were more than 1,700 bids for the suit
Pacific Northwest heat wave could break temperature records through Thursday (www.npr.org)
Travis King: North Korea says US soldier fled because of racism in army (www.bbc.com)
North Korea has said US soldier Travis King crossed into its territory last month because of “inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination” in the army.
Videos put scrutiny on downed power lines as possible cause of deadly Maui wildfires (apnews.com)
Awakened by howling winds that tore through his Maui neighborhood, Shane Treu went out at dawn and saw a wooden power pole suddenly snap with a flash, its sparking, popping line falling to the dry grass below and quickly igniting a row of flames....
Man who set fire to Planned Parenthood sentenced to 10 years in prison (thehill.com)
The man who pleaded guilty to setting a Planned Parenthood location on fire in Peoria, Ill., was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday. Tyler Massengill pleaded guilty to burning the office in Fe…
School district uses ChatGPT to help ban library books (www.popsci.com)
Faced with new legislation, Iowa's Mason City Community School District asked ChatGPT if certain books 'contain a description or depiction of a sex act.'
Wildfire threat to Yellowknife deemed serious as parts of city on evacuation alert (www.cbc.ca)
The news briefing came on the heels of Yellowknife declaring an evacuation alert for parts of the city’s west end and Thompson declaring a territorial state of emergency due to wildfires and evacuations in many parts of the territory....