Scorching heat caused deaths to double at busiest US-Mexico border route (www.theguardian.com)
More than 100 of 148 recorded deaths in El Paso sector were recorded between May and September when heat topped 100F
Grimes sues Elon Musk over parental rights (www.nbcnews.com)
Grimes, whose legal name is Claire Boucher, filed a petition to establish a parental relationship in San Francisco Superior Court on Friday....
Kevin McCarthy is ousted as House speaker in a historic vote pushed by conservatives (www.nbcnews.com)
New York judge issues limited gag order after Trump makes disparaging post about court clerk (apnews.com)
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge quickly imposed a limited gag order in Donald Trump’s civil business fraud trial Tuesday after the former president disparaged a key court staffer....
The Black Cat in Silver Lake becomes California's first LGBTQ+ historical landmark (abc7.com)
Traffic comes to a stalk on Hwy. 400 as crews clean up celery following rollover (toronto.ctvnews.ca)
No injuries have been reported....
Netflix is planning to raise prices... again (www.theverge.com)
Invasive ants are a huge problem in Australia, but a classic computer game could help solve it (www.abc.net.au)
Australia’s national science agency CSIRO and the University of Western Australia have used Age of Empires to simulate ant warfare, to figure out how to help native ant species fight their invasive counterparts....
Man crashes car into police station while blasting Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle" (consequence.net)
Sorry the website is kind of shitty, but that’s pretty damn funny.
The UAW Decided to Use a Novel Strike Strategy. It’s Working. (jacobin.com)
Drug dealer tried hiding cocaine by dumping it in a police car, Nebraska authorities say (www.klkntv.com)
Physicists Who Explored Tiny Glimpses of Time Win Nobel Prize (www.quantamagazine.org)
The development of attosecond pulses of light allowed researchers to explore the frame-by-frame movement of electrons....
Idaho Banned Abortion. Then It Turned Down Supports for Pregnancies and Births. (www.propublica.org)
Reposting from local post on SDF instance:...
Man accidentally shot child while officiating wedding near Lincoln, deputy says (www.klkntv.com)
A Texas man accidentally shot a child while officiating a wedding in Lancaster County on Saturday, the sheriff’s office says....
Pope Says There Could Be Ways to Bless Same-Sex Unions (time.com)
Pope Says There Could Be Ways to Bless Same-Sex Unions...
14 year old kills at least 3 in mass shooting in downtown bangkok (www.theguardian.com)
India tells Canada to withdraw 41 diplomats, report says (www.ctvnews.ca)
India has told Canada that it must repatriate 41 diplomats by Oct. 10, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday....
Shouting at children can be as damaging as physical or sexual abuse, study says (www.theguardian.com)
Parents who shout at their children or call them “stupid” are leaving their offspring at greater risk of self-harm, drug use and ending up in jail, new research claims....
Whistleblowers beg leaders to 'stop the chaos' as more than 900,000 Texans are kicked off Medicaid (www.keranews.org)
Since pandemic-era protections for health care coverage ended in March, more than 900,000 Texans have lost Medicaid coverage....
Armenia ratifies ICC Rome Statute in show of defiance against Russ (www.euronews.com)
Ahead of the vote, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov said that Moscow would view any move to join the international court as “extremely hostile” towards Russia....
Physics Nobel awarded for experiments capturing shortest moments (www.euronews.com)
The three newly-minted Nobel Laureates have “demonstrated a way to create extremely short pulses of light that can be used to measure the rapid processes in which electrons move or change energy,” the Academy said....
Where are the homes? Glaring need for housing construction underlined by Century 21 CEO (apnews.com)
The highest mortgage rates in more than two decades are keeping many prospective homebuyers out of the market and discouraging homeowners who locked in ultra-low rates from listing their home for sale....
GM, Ford furlough another 500 workers due to UAW strike (www.cnbc.com)
General Motors and Ford Motor on Monday said they are indefinitely laying off another 500 workers at four Midwestern plants because of the impact on some of the facilities of the United Auto Workers strike in its 18th day....
Kansas police chief who led raid on small weekly newspaper has resigned, official says (apnews.com)
The police chief who led an August raid on a small weekly newspaper in central Kansas resigned Monday, just days after he was suspended from his post and following the release of body camera video of the raid showing an officer searching the desk of a reporter investigating the chief’s past....
'They're just meat': Russia deploys punishment battalions in echo of Stalin (www.reuters.com)
