Hollywood strikes to cost US economy $5 billion-plus amid lost wages, film delays (finance.yahoo.com)
Maine's puffin colonies recovering in the face of climate change (apnews.com)
On remote islands off the Maine coast, a unique bird held its own this year in the face of climate change....
Muslim call to prayer can now be broadcast publicly in New York City without a permit (apnews.com)
The Muslim call to prayer will ring out more freely in New York City under guidelines announced Tuesday by Mayor Eric Adams, which he said should foster a spirit of inclusivity....
A B.C. study gave 50 homeless people $7,500 each. Here's what they spent it on. (bc.ctvnews.ca)
Zhao says having data on how people who did get the money actually spent it is something she thinks will help counteract stereotypes, increase empathy and potentially get skeptics and the public on board with the idea of providing cash transfers....
Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio will be sentenced for seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack (apnews.com)
Former Proud Boys national leader Enrique Tarrio is set to be sentenced on Wednesday for a failed plot to keep Donald Trump in power after the Republican lost the 2020 presidential election, capping one of the most significant prosecutions in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol....
Category 4 Hurricane Idalia projected to hit Florida with 'catastrophic' storm surge (apnews.com)
Hurricane Idalia strengthened to a dangerous Category 4 storm Wednesday morning as it steamed toward Florida’s Big Bend region and threatened to unleash life-threatening storm surges and rainfall....
A judge told Kansas authorities to destroy electronic copies of newspaper's files taken during raid (apnews.com)
Kansas authorities must destroy all electronic copies they made of a small newspaper’s files when police raided its office this month, a judge ordered Tuesday, nearly two weeks after computers and cellphones seized in the search were returned....
A new Titanic expedition is planned. The US is fighting it, says wreck is a grave site (apnews.com)
The U.S. government is trying to stop a planned expedition to recover items of historical interest from the sunken Titanic, citing a federal law and an international agreement that treat the shipwreck as a hallowed gravesite....
Ex-Proud Boys leaders face sentencing for Jan. 6 attack on U.S. Capitol (www.reuters.com)
Prosecutors are asking U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly to sentence Enrique Tarrio, the group’s former chairman, to 33 years in prison and to sentence his co-defendant Ethan Nordean, another former leader, to 27 years....
Biden administration adds insulin to drug price negotiation list in major blow to big pharma (theintercept.com)
“This was an unexpected victory in a long fight against an illegal cartel of three corporations who have raised their insulin prices in lockstep.”...
The 10 drugs up for Medicare price negotiation have seen steep price hikes (arstechnica.com)
Army officers say they are taking power in Gabon (www.bbc.co.uk)
French special forces soldier killed in anti-terror operation in Iraq (www.france24.com)
Sergeant Nicolas Mazier, an air force paratrooper, “fell in combat while carrying out his mission”, during a firefight lasting 5 hours.
A new lawsuit accuses Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl multiple times, including in a cabin on a yacht (www.8newsnow.com)
Burger King must face lawsuit claiming its Whoppers are too small (www.reuters.com)
A U.S. judge has rejected Burger King’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that it cheated hungry customers by making its Whopper sandwich appear larger than it actually is....
Canada warns travelers of U.S. LGBTQ+ laws (www.axios.com)
Canada, citing potential dangers, warns LGBTQ travelers of US risks (www.reuters.com)
Canada warns travelers to US about anti-LGBTQ laws (thehill.com)
Chicago TV news crew robbed at gunpoint while reporting on a string of robberies (abcnews.go.com)
A Chicago television news crew reporting on a string of robberies ended up robbed themselves after they were accosted at gunpoint by three armed men wearing ski masks....
Exclusive: Smuggler with ties to ISIS helped migrants enter US from Mexico, raising alarm bells across government (www.cnn.com)
The FBI is investigating more than a dozen Uzbek nationals allowed into the US after they sought asylum at the southern border with Mexico earlier this year, a scramble set off when US intelligence officials found that the migrants traveled with the help of a smuggler with ties to ISIS, according to multiple US officials....
Drag shows are protected by 1st Amendment, performers tell federal judge (www.texastribune.org)
Putin won’t attend Prigozhin funeral, officials say (thehill.com)
Russian President Vladimir Putin does not plan to attend the funeral of former Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, who died in a plane crash last week after leading a short-lived rebellion…...
FBI announces it has dismantled global network of hacked computers used in major fraud scheme (www.cnn.com)
More dog owners are questioning vaccines like rabies after COVID (www.pressherald.com)
More than half of U.S. dog owners expressed concerns about vaccinating their dogs, including against rabies, according to a new study published Saturday in the journal Vaccine. The study comes as anti-vaccine sentiments among humans have exploded in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic....
Chinese scientists look to 6G to hunt submarines, testing device small enough to fit on drone (www.scmp.com)
Defence researchers say sensors can identify extremely small surface vibrations produced by a low-frequency sound source in the open sea...
