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Hawaii fires: 'Tourists swim in the waters we died in' (www.bbc.com)
The jarring contrast between those holidaying and those hurting is hard to bear for many in Hawaii.
Georgia prosecutors have messages showing Trump's team is behind voting system breach (www.cnn.com)
Atlanta-area prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia are in possession of text messages and emails directly connecting members of Donald Trump’s legal team to the early January 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County, sources tell CNN.
Hawaii death toll tops 93 as it becomes deadliest wildfire in US modern history (www.independent.co.uk)
The blazes on the island are now the country’s worst in terms of casualties for over a century, while authorities have warned that the effort to find and identify the dead is still in its early stages, as crews with cadaver dogs have covered just 3 per cent of the search area.
Playing football may increase risk of Parkinson’s disease, study suggests (www.cnn.com)
Using data from a large online survey sponsored by the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, researchers found that participants who had a history of playing organized tackle football were 61% more likely to report a Parkinson’s disease diagnosis or parkinsonism, an umbrella term for symptoms like tremors and...
China vows ‘vigorous’ response to US visit by Taiwan vice president (www.theguardian.com)
China’s foreign ministry has criticised a brief US visit by Taiwan vice president William Lai, saying he was a separatist and “troublemaker through and through” and Beijing would take strong steps to protect its sovereignty.
U.S., Japan to develop hypersonic missile interceptor (www.reuters.com)
Japan and the U.S. will agree this week to jointly develop an interceptor missile to counter hypersonic warheads being developed by China, Russia and North Korea, Japan’s Yomiuri newspaper said on Sunday.
Fiction writers fear the rise of AI, but also see it as a story to tell (apnews.com)
As present in the imagination as politics, the pandemic or climate change, AI has become part of the narrative for a growing number of novelists and short story writers who only need to follow the news to imagine a world upended.
Alabama riverfront brawl videos spark a cultural moment about race, solidarity and justice (apnews.com)
As bystanders trained their smartphone cameras on the riverfront dock while several white boaters pummeled a Black riverboat co-captain, they couldn’t have known the footage would elicit a national conversation about racial solidarity....
EU blindsided by ‘spectacular’ solar rollout (www.politico.eu)
Large majority of EU countries will hit 2030 solar targets ahead of schedule, according to new data.
King of Jordan approves a bill to criminalize online speech. Human rights groups call it draconian (apnews.com)
King of Jordan approves a bill to criminalize online speech. Human rights groups call it draconian
Video of a flash mob of thieves ransacking a Nordstrom department store in southern California (ktla.com)
Video captured a mob of thieves swarming a Nordstrom in Canoga Park as they cleared out the store during a destructive robbery on Saturday....
U.S. unveils plans for large facilities to capture carbon directly from air (www.science.org)
Mark Zuckerberg says he is ‘ready to fight’ Elon Musk (nypost.com)
Hunter Biden drama assured to hang over Joe Biden's 2024 campaign with special counsel (www.usatoday.com)
Death toll from Maui wildfire reaches 89, making it the deadliest in the US in more than 100 years (apnews.com)
Kansas Newspaper Says Its Co-Owner Has Died After Being Traumatized by Police Raid (www.thedailybeast.com)
The Marion County Record said its co-owner died Saturday after a police raid left her “stressed beyond her limits.”
US returns huge haul of stolen artefacts to Italy (www.bbc.com)
The United States has returned more than 250 ancient artifacts to Italy after police discovered that they had been stolen.
High ocean temperatures are harming the Florida coral reef. Rescue crews are racing to help (apnews.com)
Up and down the chain of islands that form the Florida Keys, coral rescue groups and government and academic institutions have mobilized to save the coral from a historic bleaching event that experts say threatens the viability of the third-largest reef tract in the world. They’ve been working long days and weekends in...
Unrelenting Hurricane Dora makes history by becoming a typhoon (www.washingtonpost.com)
Hurricane Dora has made headlines this week for having partially contributed to the winds that whipped up a ferocious firestorm in Hawaii. Now Dora, already having set a record for longevity in the Pacific Ocean, has made more history, more than three weeks after being born in a different ocean more than 10,000 miles away....
‘Unluckiest generation’ falters in boomer-dominated market for homes (www.washingtonpost.com)
After only a few months, Chris Swanson is sick of shopping for houses in what the 39-year-old calls a “dumpster fire” of a market for first-time buyers like himself....
Greg Abbott faces more backlash as migrant child dies on bus: "Barbaric" (www.newsweek.com)
People are having sex in self-driving cars, apparently (mashable.com)
Death toll on Maui climbs to 80, as questions over island's emergency response grow (www.npr.org)
Rescue teams continue to search for survivors in Maui as the death toll from the devastating wildfires has risen to 80 and officials begin to assess the emergency response. Meanwhile, firefighters are still working to contain three separate wildfires on the Hawaiian island.