Proud Boys leader predicts Trump will pardon him as he bemoans prison food (www.newsweek.com)
In the wake of his 17-year jail sentence, Joseph Bigg said: "Oh, I know he'll pardon. I believe that with all my heart."
Rudy Giuliani "sealed his own fate" in legal loss: Constitutional lawyer (www.newsweek.com)
Wealthy Family Seeks to Reopen Plant That Spewed Pollution in Black Communities (truthout.org)
Owned by the family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, the plant closed in 2021 after years of environmental violations....
One of Louisiana’s only pediatric cardiologists has left the state over anti-LGBTQ legislation (www.cnn.com)
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Disney wants to narrow the scope of its lawsuit against DeSantis to free speech claim (apnews.com)
Disney wants to narrow the scope of its federal lawsuit against Gov. Ron DeSantis to just a free speech claim that the Florida governor retaliated against the company because of its public opposition to a state law banning classroom lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity in early grades....
Minnesota prison reaches resolution with inmates who refused to return to their cells in heat wave (apnews.com)
A Minnesota prison has “resolved without incident” a situation involving about 100 inmates in one housing unit who would not return to their cells Sunday in what one former inmate there called an act of “self-preservation” amid dangerously high temperatures in the region....
Minnesota jail in lockdown as 100 inmates refuse to return to cells (www.bbc.co.uk)
Prisoners are reportedly protesting conditions at the facility amid hot conditions.
For 30 years, a memorial to Nazi collaborators sat largely unnoticed just outside Philadelphia. Now it’s drawing outrage. (www.inquirer.com)
First renderings show new California city that tech billionaires want to build (www.sfchronicle.com)
San Francisco Fire Dept.: Person Dies After Robotaxi Blocked Ambulance (sfstandard.com)
A stalled Cruise robotaxi blocked a San Francisco ambulance from getting a pedestrian hit by a vehicle to the hospital in an Aug. 14 incident, according to first responder accounts. The patient later died of their injuries....
Fauci defends masking as COVID cases rise: ‘I would hope’ people abide by recommendations (thehill.com)
Push To Strip Fox’s Broadcast License Over Election Lies Gains New Momentum (abovethelaw.com)
Last July, we noted how media reform activists had petitioned the FCC to revoke Fox News’ local broadcast license in Philadelphia. More specifically, the group argued that Fox News’ rampant election fraud propaganda technically violated the “character clause” embedded in the Communications Act the FCC is supposed to use...
Students criticize the University of North Carolina’s response to an active shooter emergency (www.politico.com)
Students say their teachers appeared unprepared and many grew more panicked in the absence of detailed information.
France to ban disposable e-cigarettes, PM says (www.reuters.com)
So-called “puff” devices generate habits among young people that can lead to tobacco addiction, she added....
Netanyahu rues his foreign minister's disclosure of meeting with Libyan counterpart (www.reuters.com)
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen’s office on Aug. 26 went public with his having met Najla Mangoush, his Libyan counterpart, in Italy earlier in the month. The statement came on the heels of an Israeli media report about the meeting....
The Biden administration wants to know if Saudi Arabia used American weapons to kill 'hundreds' of migrants (www.businessinsider.com)
The United States is investigating a report that Saudi Arabia killed “hundreds” of migrants....
NSA Orders Employees to Spy on the World “With Dignity and Respect” (theintercept.com)
Fatal police shooting of pregnant Ohio woman raises concerns over firing at moving vehicles (apnews.com)
Body camera video of the fatal police shooting of Ta’Kiya Young, a 21-year-old pregnant mother in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, has raised questions about how an allegation of shoplifting led to a bullet being fired through her windshield....
Berlin Wall relic gets a 'second life' on US-Mexico border as Biden adds barriers (apnews.com)
As the U.S. government built its latest stretch of border wall, Mexico made a statement of its own by laying remains of the Berlin Wall a few steps away....
Tribe getting piece of Minnesota back more than a century after ancestors died there (apnews.com)
Golden prairies and winding rivers of a Minnesota state park also hold the secret burial sites of Dakota people who died as the United States failed to fulfill treaties with Native Americans more than a century ago. Now their descendants are getting the land back....
Fauci on masks: people should take risks into account (www.cnn.com)
“The CDC does not mandate anything,” says Dr. Anthony Fauci. But if a Covid surge leads to a recommendation that people wear masks, “I hope they would abide by the recommendation and take into account the risks to themselves and to their families. We are not talking about forcing anybody to do anything.”
Facebook and Instagram may offer paid, ad-free plans in Europe to sate EU privacy concerns (www.engadget.com)
Among other recent penalties, the EU fined Meta €1.2 billion in May for moving EU citizens’ data to US-based servers....
Bill Richardson, former statesman and hostage negotiator, dies aged 75 (www.theguardian.com)
Bill Richardson, a 2008 presidential candidate, former New Mexico governor, congressman, secretary of energy and UN ambassador under the Clinton administration who later found a role as an international hostage negotiator, has died. He was 75 years old.
Law enforcement seeks help to identify barns in BTK serial killer cold case investigations (www.cnn.com)
A law enforcement team in northeast Oklahoma believes the prolific serial killer known as “BTK” may be responsible for several additional unsolved missing person and homicide cases. Now they’re hoping the public can help them identify barns and silos in Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri that the self-proclaimed BTK killer...
Nursing homes in New Jersey battle COVID-19 surge as hospitalizations and deaths caused by new variants jump across the US (www.insider.com)
New Jersey’s nursing homes are battling COVID-19 once again as new variants spread through the US....
