The race to become the world’s first document-free airport | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
US abortion numbers have risen slightly since Roe was overturned, study finds (apnews.com)
Google Search Promotes “Nudify” Apps (www.404media.co)
Searching for “undress apps,” “best deepfake nudes,” and similar terms on Google turns up “promoted” results for apps that use AI to produce nonconsensual nude images, despite a recent update to Google’s ad policies against this exact type of content and a recent effort to derank results for apps that produce...
Far Fewer in U.S. Regard Childhood Vaccinations as Important (news.gallup.com)
Biden’s Middle East Moonshot (www.foreignaffairs.com)
First Tesla Cybertruck Crash Kills Driver In Baytown Area, Electric Pick-up Bursts Into Flames (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
A Tesla Cybertruck driver was killed in what appears to be the first reported fatal crash involving the electric pickup truck, which has yet to undergo third-party crash testing.
New Yorkers are warned from the skies about impending danger from storms as city deploys drones (apnews.com)
Gone is the bullhorn. Instead, New York City emergency management officials have turned high-tech, using drones to warn residents about potential threatening weather....
High schoolers' mental health shows small improvement in a US government survey (apnews.com)
There are small signs of improvement in the mental health of U.S. teenagers, a government survey released Tuesday said, but the share of students — particularly girls — feeling sad and hopeless remained high....
Republicans worry Trump is having a ‘public nervous breakdown’ (www.independent.co.uk)
‘Donald Trump is losing his marbles,’ former Congressman and Republican Adam Kinzinger said...
Personal Data of 3 Billion People Stolen in Hack, Suit Says (news.bloomberglaw.com)
Cori Bush Loses Reelection Bid to Democrat Backed by $8.5 Million From AIPAC (www.commondreams.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/web/…/cori-bush-aipac
56 days and counting: Two NASA astronauts are still in space as tests on Boeing capsule continue (www.nbcnews.com)
The first crewed voyage of Boeing’s Starliner was supposed to last around a week, but the high-stakes mission is still in limbo eight weeks after launch....
Microsoft Encourages Employee Donations to Illegal West Bank Settlements, While Barring UNRWA (www.dropsitenews.com)
Microsoft includes a number organizations based in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, including at least one that fundraises to support the Israeli military, in its employee charitable giving platform. Yet the company has delisted the UN agency providing relief in Gaza, according to Microsoft employees petitioning the...
Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From (www.404media.co)
Abhishek has 115,000 YouTube subscribers, dozens of instructional videos, and is part of a community of influencers selling classes and making YouTube content about how to go viral on Facebook with AI-generated images and other types of spam. These influencers act much like financial influencers in the United States, teaching...
For college students arrested protesting the war in Gaza, the fallout was only beginning (apnews.com)
Pakistani man charged with murder-for-hire plot against U.S. politicians, potentially including Trump (www.nbcnews.com)
Asif Merchant, 46, faces a single count of murder for hire after, prosecutors say, he paid $5,000 to an undercover FBI agent he believed was a hit man....
JD Vance pleads sarcasm in latest effort to clean up ‘childless cat ladies’ remark (www.theguardian.com)
Republican vice-presidential nominee continues to face questions about comment as campaign speeds up...
New Georgia rules let local boards withhold election certification (www.theguardian.com)
Georgia’s state board of elections adopted new rules for local election boards that permit them to withhold the certification of a vote in the face of unspecified discrepancies – a Republican-led move that could cause uncertainty and confusion after future election days....
Darryl George: Judge dismisses racial discrimination claim in civil rights lawsuit and allows sex discrimination claim to proceed (www.cnn.com)
Chinese American man convicted in US of spying on dissidents for China (www.theguardian.com)
Shujun Wang helped found a pro-democracy group and used it to gain information on dissidents, prosecutors say...
This Startup’s Carbon Tracking Project Fell Short. Nevada Kept Giving It Government Contracts Anyway. (www.propublica.org)
Tim Walz calls Viktor Orbán a dictator. For JD Vance, he’s a role model. (www.politico.eu)
Why are US ‘pro-Israel’ groups boosting a far-right, anti-Muslim UK extremist? (www.timesofisrael.com)
WASHINGTON — Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, aka “Tommy Robinson,” is one of the most prominent anti-Muslim activists in the world. A political adviser to a right-wing British party, he is the founder and former chair of a far-right Islamophobic group....
New bans on panhandling in medians spark debate over free speech rights. (stateline.org)
