Judge rejects Donald Trump's latest demand to step aside from hush money criminal case (apnews.com)
Donald Trump has lost his latest bid for a new judge in his hush money case. Judge Juan M. Merchan declined on Wednesday to step aside.
Break-in reported at Trump campaign office in Virginia (www.politico.com)
Authorities said Monday they are investigating a burglary at a Donald Trump campaign office in suburban Virginia, circulating surveillance video of a man inside the building with what appears to be a full backpack....
Tim Walz Flames JD Vance For Pushing Stolen Valor Claims (www.thedailybeast.com)
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'Worst nightmare of my life': Solitary confinement rises at Houston-area ICE detention center (houstonlanding.org)
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LGBTQ asylum-seekers chase a life of safety and peace after rape and death threats (www.nbcnews.com)
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Yemen’s Houthis seized UN rights office in Sanaa, UN official says (apnews.com)
A Wisconsin Tribe Built a Lending Empire Charging 600% Annual Rates to Borrowers (www.propublica.org)
In bankruptcy filings and consumer complaints, thousands of people across the country make pleas for relief from high-interest loans with punishing annual rates that often exceed 600%....
Former Kansas police chief formally charged over Marion newspaper raid (www.nbcnews.com)
Cancer-Causing Benzene Is Used to Make Store-Brand Cold Relief Medicine (www.bloomberg.com)
Donald Trump says he will flee to Venezuela if he loses election [Newsweek] (www.newsweek.com)
Headline slightly sensationalised compared to article content. But he did say he’d go to Venezuela if he loses.
Starbucks’ CEO is out. Chipotle’s Brian Niccol is taking over (www.cnn.com)
The struggling coffee chain has tapped Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol to be its new chairman and CEO, effective September 9. Starbucks’ stock soared more than 13% in premarket trading, while Chipotle’s dipped 8%....
Mom fights back in grizzly bear attack: ‘I’m not ready to leave my daughter’ (www.today.com)
“You feel like a rag doll and there’s nothing you can do,” Vanessa Chaput said, adding, “I remember being thrown around.”...
After Nike Leaders Promised Climate Action, Their Corporate Jets Kept Flying — and Polluting (www.propublica.org)
Rachael Lillis, 'Pokémon' actor who voiced Misty and Jessie, dies at 46 (www.nbcnews.com)
Scientology is on the brink of killing an entire medical industry (www.thedailybeast.com)
By systematically targeting electroconvulsive therapy as part of its war on psychiatry, experts say Scientology could decimate a treatment that is “saving so many lives.”...
UN envoy doubles down on criticism that Canada’s foreign worker program is a ‘breeding ground’ for slavery (www.thestar.com)
Why journalists shouldn’t be neutral on climate change | Calls to keep politics out of science reporting ignore a core responsibility: minimize harm (www.sfchronicle.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/12346016...
Newly Approved Missouri Referendum Could Reverse State Abortion Ban (www.commondreams.org)
Millionaire Realtor Bro Takes a Leave From His Firm Over Gang Rape Lawsuit. (www.thedailybeast.com)
The silence on Gaza from countries with feminist foreign policies ‘is deafening and deeply troubling’ (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Alsalem, says countries who advocate women’s rights must ‘walk the talk’, applying their principles consistently and without selective advocacy by avoiding arms transfers that facilitate the killing of Palestinian women by Israel....
Hot Summer Threatens Efficacy of Mail-Order Medications | Temperatures inside delivery trucks can reach twice the recommended threshold, but federal rules on drug storage conditions do not apply (www.nytimes.com)
Locking up items to deter shoplifting is pushing shoppers online (www.axios.com)
With over 577,000 signatures verified, Arizona will put abortion rights on the ballot (www.seattletimes.com)
Arizona voters will get to decide in November whether to add the right to an abortion to the state constitution....
Texas judge steps aside in Elon Musk's X case against advertisers (www.npr.org)
A U.S. District Judge in Texas has recused himself from a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X https://www.npr.org/2024/08/09/g-s1-16087/elon-musk-lawsuits-texas-same-judge-hears-them-tesla-stock NPR drew scrutiny to the judge’s investment in Tesla and questions about Musk using the court to engage in “forum-shopping.”...
Amazon says US labor watchdog that filed labor charges violates constitution (www.theguardian.com)
‘Our voices are only going to get louder’, workers warn tech giant after Atlanta warehouse writes up employees...
