Israel-Gaza war: World Food Programme stops deliveries to northern Gaza - BBC (www.bbc.com)
Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret (www.nature.com)
one assessment suggests that ChatGPT, the chatbot created by OpenAI in San Francisco, California, is already consuming the energy of 33,000 homes. It’s estimated that a search driven by generative AI uses four to five times the energy of a conventional web search. Within years, large AI systems are likely to need as much...
Infamous mommy vlogger Ruby Franke sentenced to up to 60 years for child abuse (www.msnbc.com)
Ruby Franke, a once-popular online mom influencer with millions of followers, has been sentenced to four one- to 15-year terms in prison for child abuse....
CNN reporter: Biden camp focusing on ‘crazy shit that Trump says’ (thehill.com)
A CNN reporter used profane language during a live report Tuesday about President Biden’s campaign strategy as his campaign looks ahead to a potential general election showdown with former President Trump....
Biden administration announces $5.8B in funding to clean up drinking water, upgrade infrastructure (abc7chicago.com)
The Civil Engineering Society gave the country’s drinking water infrastructure a C- rating in 2021...
Oklahoma banned trans students from bathrooms. Now a bullied student is dead (www.independent.co.uk)
Vanderbilt guarantees full-tuition scholarships to all students with family incomes below $150,000 (vanderbilthustler.com)
Donald Trump ranked as worst US president in history, with Joe Biden 14th (www.theguardian.com)
Survey of 154 scholars places 45th president behind even ‘historically calamitous chief executives’ linked to civil war...
Four police officers arrested in Kenya for human trafficking - International Monitor (intlmonitor.com)
Republican DA asks Wisconsin Supreme Court to decide abortion lawsuit without lower court ruling (apnews.com)
A Republican prosecutor asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday to decide whether a 174-year-old state law bans abortion in the state without waiting for a ruling from a lower appellate court....
Oklahoma closer to passing a law that creates a database of everyone who has an abortion - International Monitor (intlmonitor.com)
Capital One-Discover merger may face stiff antitrust review in Washington (wapo.st)
Supreme Court turns down rent control challenge (www.latimes.com)
The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down a major property-rights challenge to rent control laws in New York City and elsewhere that give tenants a right to stay for many years in an apartment with a below-market cost....
Supreme Court rejects appeal from 3 GOP House members over $500 mask fines (www.seattletimes.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected appeals from three Republican U.S. House members who challenged fines for not wearing face coverings on the House floor in 2021....
Election officials in the US face daunting challenges in 2024. And Congress isn't coming to help (apnews.com)
With election season already underway, some state election officials are expressing frustration that Congress has yet to allocate federal money they have come to rely on to help cover the costs of securing their systems from attacks, updating equipment and training staff....
US man sues Powerball lottery after being told $340m win is an error (www.bbc.com)
The US vetoes an Arab-backed UN resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza (apnews.com)
The United States vetoed an Arab-backed U.N. resolution Tuesday demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in the embattled Gaza Strip....
White House promises 'major sanctions' on Russia in response to Alexei Navalny's death (apnews.com)
Even more major than the current major sanctions…
First federal trial for a hate crime based on gender identity starts over trans woman's killing (apnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/hate-crime-south-carolina-trans…...
Cougar attacks five mountain bikers on a trail in Washington state (www.npr.org)
A group of five cyclists were riding on a trail in Fall City, Wash., when they were attacked by at least one cougar this past weekend.
US unions target the housing affordability crisis as their ‘biggest issue’ (www.theguardian.com)
Organized labor across the country is now setting its sights on housing costs as rents and mortgages continue to soar...
Russia adds Republican senator Lindsey Graham to ‘terrorists and extremists’ list (www.theguardian.com)
South Carolina lawmaker is one of more than 12,000 individuals on list kept by Russia’s state financial monitoring agency...
Death and Redemption in an American Prison (kffhealthnews.org)
Steven Garner doesn’t like to talk about the day that changed his life. A New Orleans barroom altercation in 1990 escalated to the point where Garner, then 18, and his younger brother Glenn shot and killed another man. The Garners claimed self-defense, but a jury found them guilty of second-degree murder. They were sentenced...
Julian Assange: Wikileaks founder in last-ditch bid to avoid US extradition (www.bbc.com)
Exclusive: ADL pushed BMG to drop Roger Waters by threatening to weaponize company’s Nazi past - The Grayzone (thegrayzone.com)
The Grayzone has obtained a private letter authored by ADL director Jonathan Greenblatt threatening to weaponize the Nazi past of the BMG music company unless executives terminated a major deal with Roger Waters. BMG has publicly denied Israel lobby influence on its decision to nix Waters’ contract.
