There are almost no national safety rules protecting US workers exposed to high heat (www.cnn.com)
Texas city strictly limits water consumption as thousands across state face water shortages (www.cbsnews.com)
A small Texas city west of Austin remains under tight water restrictions amid a significant drought. After days of being at the highest emergency level for water conservation, officials said Monday that those restrictions have only slightly been loosened, limiting water consumption to “indoor use only” until further notice.
Suicide rates in the US are highest among elderly men, and most involve guns, CDC report says (www.cnn.com)
Senior men have higher rates of suicide than average, and firearms were involved in more than three-quarters of those deaths in 2021, according to a CDC report
Israel-Gaza live news: Firing outside Gaza hospitals, with patients and staff trapped inside - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has now weighed in on the hospital situation in northern Gaza....
SAG-AFTRA Approves Deal to End Historic Strike (variety.com)
Judge grants limited gag order in Trump's federal election interference case (abcnews.go.com)
Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton battling pneumonia in intensive care (www.nbcnews.com)
Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton has been battling severe pneumonia in a hospital intensive care unit, daughters of the famed American gymnast said....
FIFA President Gianni Infantino says women should ‘pick the right battles’ to ‘convince us, men, what we have to do’ in fight for equality (www.cnn.com)
FIFA President Gianni Infantino says women should “pick the right battles” to “convince us, men, what we have to do” over equality issues in soccer.
Insight: Conservative think tank emerges as force behind DeSantis campaign (www.reuters.com)
As Joshua trees burn, massive wildfire threatens to forever alter Mojave Desert (www.latimes.com)
“We’ve lost a huge area of native vegetation,” said Debra Hughson, deputy superintendent for the Mojave National Preserve. “A lot of pinyon [pines], junipers gone forever, and a lot of the Joshua trees, likely.”...
For the first time in 51 years, NASA is training astronauts to fly to the Moon hi (arstechnica.com)
Handheld Gaming Consoles Will Soon Require Replaceable Batteries (www.cnet.com)
A new EU law will require portable consoles like the Steam Deck and Nintendo Switch to have batteries you can replace yourself.
Why the Supreme Court’s new ethics code is neither a code nor about ethics (robertreich.substack.com)
One Regulation Could Have Stopped a Nationwide Car Theft Wave. Why Don't We Have It? (www.vice.com)
In 2007, Canada started requiring all vehicles to have a cheap, effective anti-theft device. The U.S. didn't. Now, it is paying the price with a surge in Kia and Hyundai thefts.
China Is Suffering a Brain Drain. The U.S. Isn’t Exploiting It. (www.nytimes.com)
They went to the best universities in China and in the West. They lived middle-class lives in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen and worked for technology companies at the center of China’s tech rivalry with the United States....
‘We are not in the business of ice cream’: Big Oil CEOs defend themselves against climate criticism (www.cnbc.com)
Chief executives of some of the world’s largest energy companies on Monday sought to defend themselves from criticism, saying it is not possible to keep everyone happy amid the planned energy transition....
Apartment rents are on the verge of declining due to massive new supply (www.cnbc.com)
Court Tosses Arkansas Age Verification Law For Violating The 1st Amendment (www.techdirt.com)
Just after a judge granted an injunction against Texas’ adult content age verification law on 1st Amendment grounds, a judge in Arkansas did the same to that state’s social media age verification law. Trade organization NetChoice had challenged the law, and the court basically gave them a complete and total victory....
Category 4 Hurricane Idalia projected to hit Florida with 'catastrophic' storm surge (apnews.com)
Hurricane Idalia strengthened to a dangerous Category 4 storm Wednesday morning as it steamed toward Florida’s Big Bend region and threatened to unleash life-threatening storm surges and rainfall....
How WeWork is nearing failure after a valuation of $47 billion in 2019 (www.foxbusiness.com)
South Korean dog meat farmers push back against growing moves to outlaw their industry (abcnews.go.com)
Dog meat consumption, a centuries-old practice on the Korean Peninsula, isn’t explicitly prohibited or legalized in South Korea
How LA Failed to Stop Landlords From Turning Low-Cost Housing Into Tourist Hotels (www.propublica.org)
Son Of top US Hollywood agent in custody after torso found in dumpster (www.theguardian.com)
The 35-year-old son of a Hollywood talent agent whose clients included Dolly Parton, George Clooney and a British prince, has been taken into custody in Los Angeles after a bloody torso authorities say probably belongs to his wife was discovered in a strip-mall dumpster....
Israeli Arabs arrested over Gaza social media posts (www.bbc.com)
Influencer Dalal Abu Amneh is among those to be held in a crackdown on Gaza-linked content.
Questions linger after Connecticut police officers fatally shoot man in his bed (apnews.com)
The killing Monday angered and saddened Passmore’s family and raised questions about whether officers could have done things differently. It came as many police departments nationwide have changed the way they respond to certain calls, including those involving mentally ill people — in response to outcries over police...
