Portuguese PM quits over lithium, hydrogen corruption probe (www.reuters.com)
Israel finds body of Ruth Peretz, disabled teen missing since October 7 (m.jpost.com)
P.E.I. photographer handcuffed, fined after taking pictures of Quebec City's iconic Château Frontenac (www.cbc.ca)
Cornell University police investigating online threats against Jewish students, president says (www.cnn.com)
Cornell University police are investigating a series of antisemitic threats made against the school’s Jewish community in online posts over the weekend, its president announced....
RSF video investigation into the death of Reuters reporter Issam Abdallah in Lebanon: the journalists' vehicle was explicitly targeted (rsf.org)
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has released a video reconstruction of the tragedy that resulted in the death of one journalist and the injury of several others. The initial findings of the investigation show that the reporters were not collateral victims of the shooting. One of their vehicles, marked "press", was targeted, and...
Man who was living in New Hampshire woods found guilty of murder in deaths of retired couple (www.nbcnews.com)
After deliberating for a day and a half, the jury found Logan Clegg, 27, guilty of second-degree murder in the deaths of Stephen and Djeswende Reid in April 2022
First emergency convoy reaches Gaza after overnight Israeli air strikes (www.reuters.com)
Out of 200 trucks waiting to cross into Gaza through the Rafah border, Israel is allowing up to 20 … with fuel being banned. So hospitals and water stations can’t run their generators.
Netflix plans to open brick and mortar locations (www.npr.org)
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Ferrari to accept crypto as payment for its cars in the US (www.channelnewsasia.com)
Kaiser Permanente reaches a tentative deal with health care worker unions after a recent strike (apnews.com)
Unions representing 85,000 health care workers have reached a tentative agreement with industry giant Kaiser Permanente following a strike over wages and staffing levels, the parties announced Friday....
New York governor backs suspension of 'right to shelter' as migrant influx strains city (apnews.com)
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is supporting the city’s effort to suspend a unique legal agreement that requires it to provide emergency housing to homeless people, as a large influx of migrants overwhelms the city’s shelter system....
The US government seems ready to order a recall of millions of air bag inflators for safety concerns (apnews.com)
The U.S. government appears poised to order a recall of millions of air bag inflators due to a manufacturing flaw that could send metal shrapnel rocketing through a car’s interior....
The all-important 10-year yield has spiked — and that’s got Wall Street, banks and borrowers really nervous (www.cnbc.com)
Armenia ratifies ICC Rome Statute in show of defiance against Russ (www.euronews.com)
Ahead of the vote, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov said that Moscow would view any move to join the international court as “extremely hostile” towards Russia....
Three more vessels with agricultural products and iron ore leave Ukrainian ports (www.pravda.com.ua)
Three more vessels with agricultural products and iron ore leave Ukrainian ports “ECONOMICHNA PRAVDA” — SUNDAY, 1 OCTOBER 2023...
Hollywood studios can train AI models on writers' work under tentative deal (news.yahoo.com)
Third person charged for infant’s death from fentanyl in New York City daycare (www.theguardian.com)
Prosecutors say Renny Antonio Parra Paredes, 38, played a key role in selling the drugs that were stored at the childcare facility...
Google: Political adverts must disclose use of AI (www.bbc.com)
The announcement follows fears AI-generated images and audio are already infiltrating ads.
Pennsylvania inmate escaped by crab-walking up a prison wall, video shows (www.npr.org)
A murderer made a brazen escape from a suburban Philadelphia jail yard by scaling a wall, climbing over razor wire and jumping from a roof in a breakout that wasn’t detected by guards for a full hour, authorities said Wednesday as the killer eluded a widening manhunt for a seventh day....
A Flesh-Eating Bacterium Is Creeping North as Oceans Warm (www.wired.com)
The Vibrio vulnificus pathogen thrives in hot coastal waters, and beachgoers can contract it via a small cut or scrape. It can also kill them in two days....
Two plead guilty to threatening government officials over elections (www.nbcnews.com)
Two people pleaded guilty Thursday in separate cases that involved calling for the deaths of public officials on election days following the 2020 presidential contest, federal prosecutors said....
Justice Amy Coney Barrett says she welcomes public scrutiny of Supreme Court (www.politico.com)
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett told attendees at a judicial conference in Wisconsin on Monday that she welcomed public scrutiny of the court. But she stopped short of commenting on whether she thinks the court should change how it operates in the face of recent criticism....
Fukushima nuclear plant will start releasing treated radioactive water to sea as early as Thursday (apnews.com)
Japan will start releasing treated and diluted radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean as early as Thursday — a controversial step that the government says is essential for the decades of work needed to shut down the facility that had reactor meltdowns 12 years ago.
The German AfD's Constant Drift Toward Extremism (www.spiegel.de)
Maui wildfires: Extra logistical challenges hinder government's initial response when disasters strike islands (theconversation.com)
An expert on Puerto Rico’s recovery from Hurricane Maria explains why it’s hard for the US to deliver disaster aid in places like Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
