Flooding from the remnants of Debby leads to high water rescues in New York, Pennsylvania (apnews.com)
Developers Halt Louisiana Grain Elevator Project That Would Disrupt Black Historic Sites (www.propublica.org)
The Supreme Court’s Trump immunity muddle (www.politico.com)
When the Supreme Court set out to decide Donald Trump’s bid for presidential immunity, the justices were aiming to establish “a rule for the ages.”...
Judge declines to dismiss excessive force case against city of Burlington VT for 2021 use of handcuffs, spit hood, and ketamine on disabled 14 year old accused of stealing vape pens (vtdigger.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/excessive-force-case-against-ci…
Woman who first shared fake Southport suspect rumour that sparked riots arrested (metro.co.uk)
The woman accused of being first to spread the fake rumours about the Southport killer which sparked nationwide riots has been arrested....
Laura Ingraham claims Milwaukee is in Minnesota and is roasted online for the gaffe (www.independent.co.uk)
Ad industry initiative abruptly shuts down after lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X (arstechnica.com)
The SLAPP seems to working as intended....
What I Learned at the Police Academy: Officers are trained to see the world as a violent place—and then to act accordingly. (www.theatlantic.com)
Trump and Harris agree to debate on ABC on September 10, network says (amp.cnn.com)
Man accused of poisoning child with eyedrops after allegedly killing wife same way (abcnews.go.com)
A North Carolina man accused of fatally poisoning his wife with eyedrops is now being accused of attempting to poison their 11-year-old daughter with the same substance, resulting in her hospitalization, according to court documents....
In the 3 days before killing Dexter Reed, Chicago cops made 50 traffic stops but issued no tickets (chicago.suntimes.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/gunfight-dexter-reed-chicago-po…
Amid backlash, school district says black-outfit ban shared 'prematurely' (www.bbc.com)
A Texas school district, facing backlash after one of its middle schools banned black clothes, has said the dress code change was “prematurely communicated”....
Rikers guard charged with rape while off duty has a string of accusations from detainees (gothamist.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/rikers-guard-charged-with-rape-…
Palestine demands ICC arrest warrant for Israel’s Smotrich over call to starve Gazans (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
Smotrich said Monday that letting two million people in Gaza die from hunger is “justified and moral” but “nobody will let us cause two million civilians to die of hunger.”...
Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX ordered by US court to pay customers $12.7bn (www.theguardian.com)
A US court has ordered the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX to shell out $12.7bn (£9.9bn) to compensate customers and fraud victims, five months after its founder was jailed for his role in the collapse of the company....
German tourists shoot paintballs all over Joshua Tree national park (www.independent.co.uk)
Oregon city at heart of Supreme Court homelessness ruling votes to ban camping except in some areas (apnews.com)
The small Oregon city at the heart of a recent landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows cities to enforce outdoor sleeping bans has voted to prohibit camping but establish certain areas where homeless people can go....
Ferguson marks 10 years since Michael Brown's death. While there's some progress, challenges persist (apnews.com)
Michael Brown once told his father the “world is going to know my name,” words Michael Brown Sr. still takes to heart....
3rd person in custody over foiled plot targeting now-canceled Taylor Swift shows in Vienna (apnews.com)
A third teenager has been arrested in connection with a foiled attack on now-canceled Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna, Austria’s interior minister said Friday....
Republican activist, facing nine felony charges for fake electors scheme, accepts plea deal offer of unsupervised probation (apnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/arizona-fake-electors-2020-pres…
Snake hunters will wrangle invasive Burmese pythons in Everglades during Florida's 10-day challenge (apnews.com)
Friday marked the start of the annual Florida Python Challenge, where hunters head into the Everglades to track down invasive Burmese pythons in hopes of grabbing a share of $30,000 in prizes....
31% of Republicans say vaccines are more dangerous than diseases they prevent (arstechnica.com)
Crew of Titan sub knew they were going to die before implosion, according to more than $50M lawsuit (apnews.com)
The family of a French explorer who died in a submersible implosion has filed a more than $50 million lawsuit, saying the crew experienced “terror and mental anguish” before the disaster and accusing the sub’s operator of gross negligence....
Vance runs a Swift Boat attack against Walz’s military service (www.politico.com)
Ohio Sen. JD Vance slammed the timing of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s retirement from a more-than-two-decades-long military career as a means of avoiding a deployment to Iraq on Wednesday, calling it “stolen valor garbage” and testing a new line of attack on the newly minted Democratic vice presidential contender....