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NASA's UFO study team to announce results Sept. 14 (www.space.com)
Police called to yoga class mistaken for mass killing. (www.theguardian.com)
Oakland man’s Instagram posts come back to haunt him in federal court (www.mercurynews.com)
Defendant has been major target by gang investigators...
Houston police leave felony standoff after crowd defending man becomes unruly (www.fox26houston.com)
Facing mounting challenges, schools embrace the 4-day week (thehill.com)
Second US tropical storm in a week drenches Texas (www.bbc.com)
American dad and son flooded with ketchup chips after Niagara Falls hunt now donating the crunchy snacks (www.cbc.ca)
There were 40 bags of ketchup chips in the back of Rich Lieberman’s vintage army jeep when he left Niagara Falls, Ont., with his son Jacob in July....
Pentagon review calls for reforms to reverse spike in sexual misconduct at military academies (www.news4jax.com)
Biden will use Camp David backdrop hoping to broker a breakthrough in Japan-South Korea relations (apnews.com)
Camp David, the rustic presidential retreat in the mountains of Maryland, has been a backdrop for signal moments in U.S. foreign policy, perhaps none more notable than the peace accord President Jimmy Carter brokered between Egypt and Israel in 1978....
Former Mississippi officers expected to plead guilty to state charges for racist assault (apnews.com)
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.
NOAA forecasters increase Atlantic hurricane season prediction to ‘above normal’ (www.noaa.gov)
American nurse and child kidnapped in Haiti (www.cnn.com)
Alix Dorsainvil, wife of El Roi Haiti Director Sandro Dorsainvil, and their child were reportedly abducted Thursday morning, according to a statement on El Roi Haiti’s website.
Anatomy of a sellout: UPS tentative agreement includes two-tier wages for part-timers, freezes to pension contributions for some (www.wsws.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2232404...
2 Women Attacked by Bison While Visiting National Parks (www.nytimes.com)
At Yellowstone, a bison gored a Phoenix woman, causing injuries to her chest and abdomen. A Minnesota woman was hurt in her abdomen and foot at Theodore Roosevelt National Park....
EU set to approve military sanctions against Belarus (www.politico.eu)
Iowa judge temporarily halts 6-week abortion law (abcnews.go.com)
Polk County District Court Judge Joseph Seidlin on Monday temporarily blocked Iowa’s six-week abortion ban bill that ceased nearly all abortions in the state for 72 hours. The legislation was signed on Friday by Gov. Kim Reynolds after state lawmakers held a special session Tuesday with the “sole purpose” of passing the...
Microplastics found in clouds could affect weather and global temperatures (www.theguardian.com)
Bits of plastic particles were recently discovered above eastern China, with new research showing that these microplastics could influence cloud formation and the weather....
Apple Warns Top Indian Opposition Leaders, Journalists About ‘State-Sponsored’ Attack on Phone (m.thewire.in)
In Pittsburgh Region, Criminal Justice Reformers Face Off Against Old Guard (boltsmag.org)
After coasting to reelection for decades with barely any opposition, District Attorney Stephen Zappala lost the May Democratic primary against Matt Dugan, the county’s chief public defender. But Zappala is now running as a Republican in a rematch against Dugan....
Migrant’s drowning in Mediterranean prompts criticism of Malta's rescue policies (www.reuters.com)
The craft was about 70 nautical miles off the coast of Malta, within the small island country’s search and rescue zone, according to position data recorded by Alarm Phone, the hotline operator. Within these zones, countries are obligated under international law to coordinate search and rescue operations....
Check out the giant ship critical to building the world's biggest offshore wind farm (www.cnbc.com)
A project to build a facility described as “the world’s largest offshore wind farm” took a big step forward this month by producing its first power....
Liberty University broke safety laws for years, government asserts (ghostarchive.org)
Liberty failed to warn the campus community about gas leaks, bomb threats and people credibly accused of repeated acts of sexual violence — including a senior administrator and an athlete — according to the report, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Post. Two people familiar with the conclusions, who spoke on the...
An ex-investigative journalist is sentenced to 6 years in a child sexual abuse materials case (apnews.com)
A former investigative journalist for ABC News was sentenced Friday to six years in federal prison for possessing and transporting child sexual abuse images....
