Beryl bears down on Texas, where it’s expected to hit Monday and regain hurricane strength (apnews.com)
Tokyo Governors Race Has 56 Candidates (www.nytimes.com)
A ridiculous number of candidates contended to be governor of Tokyo and its surrounding prefecture. Many were not even trying to win.
What the 3.2 Million-Year-Old Lucy Fossil Reveals About Nudity and Shame - Ms. Magazine (msmagazine.com)
Popular renderings dress her in thick, reddish-brown fur, with her face, hands, feet and breasts peeking out of denser thickets.This hairy picture of Lucy, it turns out, might be wrong.Technological advancements in genetic analysis suggest that Lucy may have been naked, or at least much more thinly veiled.
Wildlife Protections Take a Back Seat to SpaceX’s Ambitions (www.nytimes.com)
Paywalled, but link is a gift article from me
In Ukraine, Killings of Surrendering Russians Divide an American-Led Unit (www.nytimes.com)
Hours after a battle in eastern Ukraine in August, a wounded and unarmed Russian soldier crawled through a nearly destroyed trench, seeking help from his captors, a unit of international volunteers led by an American....
Inside a violent gang’s ruthless crypto-stealing home invasion spree (arstechnica.com)
More than a dozen men threatened, assaulted, tortured, or kidnapped 11 victims.
Secret Meetings, Private Threats and a Massive Arms Race: How the World is Preparing for Trump (www.politico.com)
In Brussels, NATO officials have devised a plan to lock in long-term military support for Ukraine so that a possible Trump administration can’t get in the way....
Hawaii governor says Biden could decide within days whether to remain in the presidential race (apnews.com)
President Joe Biden could make a decision within days whether to remain a candidate for reelection, said Hawaii’s governor who participated in a recent meeting with Biden and other Democratic governors and whose family has known the president for years....
The Presbyterian Church Votes to Divest from Israeli Bonds (www.theipmn.org)
Former head of the EU Chamber of Commerce in Beijing: "The playing field for China is getting narrower and narrower" (themarket.ch)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/535012...
Students Target Teachers in Group TikTok Attack, Shaking Their School (www.nytimes.com)
A scrap of cloth found in Goodwill turns out to be part of American history (whyy.org)
Police pulled over a Waymo car for driving in the oncoming lane (www.theverge.com)
Volunteers who lived in NASA’s Mars simulation for over a year will finally emerge today (www.engadget.com)
Hamas accepts US proposal on talks over Israeli hostages, Hamas source says (www.usatoday.com)
Mirta Díaz-Balart, wife of Fidel Castro before Cuban revolution, dies at 95 (www.washingtonpost.com)
Four killed in Kentucky mass shooting before suspect turned gun on himself (www.independent.co.uk)
Swing state's [PA] Capitol building reportedly evacuated over bomb threat mentioning Biden (www.rawstory.com)
QAnon Memes, F-Bombs, and Tribunals: As Biden Faltered, Trump Amped Up the Crazy (www.rollingstone.com)
Americans can no longer afford a summer vacation (www.newsweek.com)
Trump's Camp Says It Has Nothing to Do With Project 2025 Manifesto -- Aside From Writing It (theintercept.com)
The Trump campaign attempted to distance itself from the conservative Project 2025 playbook on Friday. Despite significant overlap between Project 2025 personnel and staffers from former president Donald Trump’s administration and campaign, Trump issued a statement saying he had “no idea who is behind” the project....
Papal arch enemy Archbishop Vigano found guilty of schism and excommunicated (www.reuters.com)
Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a fierce ultra-conservative critic of Pope Francis, has been found guilty of schism and excommunicated, the Vatican’s doctrinal office said on Friday. Vigano, the papal envoy in Washington from 2011-2016, went into hiding in 2018 after alleging that the pope knew for years about sexual...
UT-Austin spares pro-Palestinian protesters from suspension, offers them probation instead (feeds.texastribune.org)
In letters sent out to students this week, first reported by KUT, university officials said it would be appropriate to suspend them for their actions during the protests but would give them the option to take “deferred suspension” instead, a form of probation that would allow students to remain in class and keep the...
Crews battle South Hill fertilizer warehouse fire in sweltering heat (www.wral.com)
Reformist Pezeshkian elected president of Iran in runoff vote, defeating hard-liner Jalili (www.pbs.org)
Supporters of Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon and longtime lawmaker, entered the streets of Tehran and other cities before dawn to celebrate as his lead grew over Jalili, a hard-line former nuclear negotiator....
