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No shooter, no injuries reported at US Capitol after 'bad call,' police say (www.reuters.com)
WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Police found no shooter and no one injured after reports of a possible active shooter in the U.S. Capitol complex on Wednesday after a possible “bad call,” Washington Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Hugh Carew said....
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Google Street View car leads Indiana police on 100 mph chase, crashes into creek...
Facebook removed COVID-19 posts, bowing to White House pressure: report (nypost.com)
Facebook files that looks to shows the Biden administration’s efforts to censor COVID information online. Documents appear to show the administration pressured Facebook to remove posts about COVID vaccines and the possibility it originated in a Chinese lab.
Fitch highlighted Jan. 6 insurrection in talks with Treasury ahead of US downgrade (www.reuters.com)
In a move that took investors by surprise, Fitch downgraded the United States to AA+ from AAA on Tuesday, citing fiscal deterioration over the next three years and repeated down-to-the-wire debt ceiling negotiations that threaten the government’s ability to pay its bills.
IRS vows to digitize all taxpayer documents by 2025 (arstechnica.com)
We’re now finding out the damaging results of the mandated return to the office–and it’s worse than we thought (fortune.com)
Surprising no one but the mgmt teams…...
Brazil police raids leave at least 43 people dead (www.bbc.co.uk)
Australians are so mad about the return to office, they’re taking companies to court to stop it (apple.news)
It does not surprise me companies are making people go back to the office. Not just in Australia but around the world. There are a lot of people abusing the situation. It sucks but I saw this was going to happen when work from home first started getting rolled out back at the beginning of Covid....
FBI finds 200 sex trafficking victims, 59 missing children in two-week sweep (www.nbcnews.com)
The nationwide operation also identified or arrested 126 suspects of child sexual exploitation and human trafficking and 68 suspected traffickers.
Giving birth in America continues to get deadlier (www.axios.com)
Utah law requiring age verification for porn sites remains in effect after judge tosses lawsuit (abcnews.go.com)
A Utah law requiring adult websites to verify the age of their users will remain in effect after a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging its constitutionality
Meta to end news access in Canada over publisher payment law (www.theguardian.com)
Move comes in response to Canadian legislation requiring internet giants to pay news publishers
Fitch downgrades US credit rating, citing mounting debt and political divisions (apnews.com)
The rating was cut Tuesday one notch to AA+ from AAA, the highest possible rating. The new rating is still well into investment grade.
'Cancer-killing pill' that appears to 'annihilate' solid tumours is now being tested on humans (news.sky.com)
While initial results are promising, the research so far has only concluded that AOH1996 can suppress tumour growth in cell and animal models - with the first phase of a clinical trial in humans now under way.
North Korea calls US human rights envoy a 'political housemaid' in protest of criticisms (abcnews.go.com)
North Korea hurled misogynistic insults Wednesday at a newly confirmed United States special envoy to monitor the country’s human rights issues and warned of unspecified security consequences if Washington continues to criticize its human rights conditions....
Iran's Revolutionary Guard runs drill on disputed islands as US military presence in region grows (abcnews.go.com)
The drill comes as thousands of Marines and sailors on both the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan and the USS Carter Hall, a landing ship, are on their way to the Persian Gulf. Already, the U.S. has sent A-10 Thunderbolt II warplanes, F-16 and F-35 fighters, as well as the destroyer USS Thomas Hudner, to the region.
Striking writers and studios will meet this week to discuss restarting negotiations (apnews.com)
Union leaders told striking Hollywood writers Tuesday night that they plan to meet with representatives for studios to discuss restarting negotiations after the first official communication between the two sides since the strike began three months ago.
As Joshua trees burn, massive wildfire threatens to forever alter Mojave Desert (www.latimes.com)
“We’ve lost a huge area of native vegetation,” said Debra Hughson, deputy superintendent for the Mojave National Preserve. “A lot of pinyon [pines], junipers gone forever, and a lot of the Joshua trees, likely.”...
Ưu điểm tem 7 màu chống hàng giả tổ ong (lemm.ee)
Tem 7 màu chống hàng giả tổ ong là loại tem dán lên sản phẩm, được in ấn thiết kế đặt biệt để chống hàng giả, hàng nhái hiệu quả cho sản phẩm của các công ty sản xuất. In tem 7 màu chống hàng giả tổ ong là 01 trong những chiến lược xây dựng thương...
Poland says two Belarusian helicopters violated its airspace, adding to tensions (abcnews.go.com)
Poland’s government said that two Belarusian helicopters entered Poland’s airspace on Tuesday, an incident that comes amid rising tensions along the NATO member’s border with the Russian ally.
China denies reports it obstructed G20 climate discussions (www.reuters.com)
The charges facing Trump in the Jan. 6 investigation, explained (www.npr.org)
The criminal charges against former President Donald Trump related to efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election are some of the most serious allegations facing him, one law professor told NPR.
Authorities Raid Unlicensed Lab Full of Infectious Diseases (futurism.com)
A secret lab was found with 1,000 lab mice, alongside vials of human blood and diseases like malaria and HIV.