Latest US climate assessment shows the extreme toll taken by climate change (www.theverge.com)
5 killed after [US] military aircraft crashes into eastern Mediterranean Sea (thehill.com)
CDC reports salmonella outbreak linked to dry dog food (www.cnn.com)
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Thursday of a salmonella outbreak in humans that’s linked to dry dog food....
Woman arrested for threatening to kill Texas federal judge in abortion pill case (www.reuters.com)
A woman was arrested in Florida on Wednesday on charges that she threatened to kill a Texas federal judge who earlier this year suspended approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, according to court records....
Ukrainian spies with deep ties to CIA wage shadow war against Russia (www.washingtonpost.com)
Israel thought Trump decision to assassinate Soleimani was ‘dangerous and destabilising’, ex-officials say (www.the-independent.com)
$6B in frozen Iranian funds remain unspent in wake of Hamas attack, Blinken says (thehill.com)
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday the $6 billion in Iranian funds expected to be unfrozen in the U.S. prisoner swap with Iran have remained unspent, pushing back against suggestions that the Biden administration’s deal may have contributed to Hamas’s recent attacks on Israel....
US health officials propose using a cheap antibiotic as a ‘morning-after pill’ against STDs (apnews.com)
U.S. health officials plan to endorse a common antibiotic as a morning-after pill that gay and bisexual men can use to try to avoid some increasingly common sexually transmitted diseases....
It’s Definitive – The Gulf Stream Is Weakening (lemm.ee)
FCC closing loophole that gave robocallers easy access to US phone numbers (arstechnica.com)
In one of its many attempts to curb robocalls, the Federal Communications Commission said it is making it harder for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers to obtain direct access to US telephone numbers....
Falsified public comments loom over Ohio state parks drilling (energynews.us)
The state’s public land leasing commission is still on track to approve drilling under parks and wildlife before year’s end, despite claims that more than 150 people’s identities were fraudulently attached to pro-fracking public comments.
Federal Judge Again Rules DACA Is Illegal (www.nytimes.com)
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Stolen Van Gogh handed to Dutch art sleuth in Ikea bag (www.bbc.co.uk)
A Van Gogh painting stolen from a Dutch museum in March 2020 is back in safe hands after a three-and-a-half-year quest to recover it....
Justice Department asks Supreme Court to end abortion pill legal challenge that threatens widespread access (www.nbcnews.com)
Parenting advice YouTuber Ruby Franke and business partner to remain jailed on child abuse charges (apnews.com)
West Virginia University crisis looms as GOP leaders focus on economic development, jobs (apnews.com)
On the same day that dejected students pleaded with the board of West Virginia’s flagship university not to eliminate its entire foreign languages department and dozens of other programs, Gov. Jim Justice said he was feeling hopeful about the future of education in the state....
First renderings show new California city that tech billionaires want to build (www.sfchronicle.com)
Fans flock to Jimmy Buffett's eateries to toast the Mayor of Margaritaville (www.nbcnews.com)
Following the death of the purveyor of laid-back, beachside rock, his fans, known as Parrotheads, paid tribute by lifting their glasses at locations of his Margaritaville empire.
Maui Water Is Unsafe Even With Filters, One of the Lessons Learned From Fires in California (www.usnews.com)
Maui Water Is Unsafe Even With Filters, One of the Lessons Learned From Fires in California
UK says a supersonic Russian bomber likely to have been destroyed in drone attack (www.reuters.com)
Aug 22 (Reuters) - British military intelligence said on Tuesday that a weekend drone attack on an airfield deep inside Russia which Moscow blamed on Ukraine is highly likely to have destroyed a nuclear-capable TU-22M3 supersonic long-range bomber....
Both Parents Agree: The Child Is Being Harmed. Which One Will the Court Believe? (www.propublica.org)
A child said he was being sexually and physically abused by his father. The father alleged the mother was brainwashing the child against him. One reporter dug into years of case files to understand how courts decided to interpret the facts.
Judges halt Biden rule offering student debt relief for those alleging colleges misled them (www.nbcnews.com)
Deadly floods hit China's major grain-producing region, fueling food security concerns (www.cnn.com)
Days of heavy rain have caused severe flooding in China’s leading grain-producing region in the northeast, killing 14 people and raising concerns about food security as floodwater inundated farmlands.
Russian ship hit in Novorossiysk, Black Sea drone attack, Ukraine sources say (www.bbc.com)
[AP News] Woman’s escape from cinder block cell likely spared others from similar nightmare, FBI says (lemmy.world)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A woman who escaped her kidnapper by punching her way out of a homemade cinder block cell at a home in southern Oregon likely saved other women from a similar fate, authorities said, by alerting them to a man they now suspect in sexual assaults in at least four more states....
