Trump Suggests Feeding Migrants to Alligators at Overrun Border in Apparent Joke: ‘New Border Security, Will Work for Food’ (www.msn.com)
Downtowns are dead, dying or on life support, says expert with over 50 years of researching urban policy (fortune.com)
Tyson Foods and Perdue Farms face federal probe over possible child labor violations (www.cbsnews.com)
A blood test for long Covid is possible, new research suggests (www.nbcnews.com)
SEC collects Wall Street's private messages as WhatsApp probe escalates (www.reuters.com)
The two-year crackdown into potential breaches of record-keeping rules initially targeted broker dealers, netting regulators over $2 billion in fines....
Antarctic winter sea ice hits 'extreme' record low (www.reuters.com)
Researchers warn the shift can have dire consequences for animals like penguins who breed and rear their young on the sea ice, while also hastening global warming by reducing how much sunlight is reflected by white ice back into space....
GOP congressman calls for execution of “sodomy-promoting” US Army general (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Trump Floats the Idea of Executing Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley (www.theatlantic.com)
Gen Z can’t work alongside people with different views because they ‘haven’t got the skills to disagree’ says British TV boss (finance.yahoo.com)
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Court rejects Utah’s request to block EPA smog rule (thehill.com)
A federal appeals court on Monday sided with the Biden administration against the state of Utah in a lawsuit over the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “good neighbor” rule, which regulates the flow of air pollution across state lines....
‘Monster Fracks’ Are Getting Far Bigger. And Far Thirstier. (Paywall) (www.nytimes.com)
A Times analysis shows that increasingly complex oil and gas wells now require astonishing volumes of water to fracture the bedrock and release fossil fuels, threatening America’s fragile aquifers....
Texas Walmart shooter agrees to pay more than $5M to families over 2019 racist attack (apnews.com)
Genuinely curious and ignorant about restitution from inmates who spend the read of their lives in prison....
Free at-home COVID tests are back. Here’s how to order (www.seattletimes.com)
Starting Monday, [people in the US] can once again order free at-home COVID-19 tests to be delivered straight to their homes....
Scientists want to rename the Hitler beetle — but not for the reason you think (Paywall) (www.washingtonpost.com)
The A. hitleri beetle has been collected to near-extinction by neo-Nazis, sparking a fierce debate among taxonomists over whether to change offensive species names....
Queen's Brian May helped NASA return its first asteroid sample | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Jim's West Steaks: Philadelphia cheesesteak shop hires armed agents to protect customers outside. (6abc.com)
Black plaintiffs file lawsuits for wrongful arrests or jailing due to facial recognition technology (www.nbcnews.com)
Randal Quran Reid is among at least five Black plaintiffs who say they were misidentified by facial recognition technology and then wrongly arrested....
More schools are adopting 4-day weeks. For parents, the challenge is day 5 (apnews.com)
It’s a Monday in September, but with schools closed, the three children in the Pruente household have nowhere to be. Callahan, 13, contorts herself into a backbend as 7-year-old Hudson fiddles with a balloon and 10-year-old Keegan plays the piano....
Biden administration allocates more than $1 billion to support railway safety, boost capacity (www.pbs.org)
The Biden administration announced Monday that it has awarded more than $1.4 billion to projects that improve railway safety and boost capacity, with much of the money coming from the 2021 infrastructure law....
Japan pharma startup developing world-first drug to grow new teeth (www.japantimes.co.jp)
A team of scientists led by a Japanese pharmaceutical startup has been working on a drug to stimulate the growth of new teeth in what would be a world-first, aiming to put it on the market by around 2030....
First Abrams Tanks Arrive in Ukraine, Zelensky Says (www.nytimes.com)
Gen Z can’t work alongside people with different views because they ‘haven’t got the skills to disagree’ says British TV boss (apple.news)
Russian Black Sea Fleet commander killed in strike, Ukraine says (www.nbcnews.com)
Ride passengers rescued after dangling upside down, 75 feet up, for half an hour (www.npr.org)
The oscillating Lumberjack ride at Canada's Wonderland theme park stopped suddenly, in mid-air, on Sunday. Videos posted to social media captured the sounds of passengers crying for help.