New U.A.W. Chief Has a Nonnegotiable Demand: Eat the Rich (www.nytimes.com)
Burger King must face lawsuit claiming its Whoppers are too small (www.reuters.com)
A U.S. judge has rejected Burger King’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that it cheated hungry customers by making its Whopper sandwich appear larger than it actually is....
Trump says he won’t sign RNC loyalty pledge ahead of first debate (www.politico.com)
RNC chair Ronna McDaniel has made signing the pledge a requirement for participation in the first debate Aug. 23.
Texas AG appeals judge’s order that allows women with complicated pregnancies to get abortions (www.texastribune.org)
State District Court Judge Jessica Mangrum on Friday issued a temporary exemption to Texas’ abortion ban. Hours later, the attorney general’s office filed an appeal, which blocked the order.
Vaccine data shows rates for latest COVID-19 booster is 'abysmal', only 7 percent of U.S. adults with shot (www.pbs.org)
Anti-Semitic incidents in US up about 400% since Israel-Hamas war began: Report (www.straitstimes.com)
Antisemitic incidents in the United States rose by about 400% in slightly over two weeks since war broke out in the Middle East after Palestinian Islamist group Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, advocacy group Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said Wednesday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
A doctors group calls its 'excited delirium' paper outdated and withdraws its approval (apnews.com)
A leading doctors group on Thursday formally withdrew its approval of a 2009 paper on “excited delirium,” a document that critics say has been used to justify excessive force by police....
Man accused of raping, waterboarding girlfriend in her university dorm room for days until she escaped (www.cbsnews.com)
Families say inmates who protested over drinking water at Stillwater prison are being retaliated against (www.minnpost.com)
College students are still struggling with basic math. Professors blame the pandemic (apnews.com)
Colleges across the country are grappling with the same problem as academic setbacks from the pandemic follow students to campus. At many universities, engineering and biology majors are struggling to grasp fractions and exponents. More students are being placed into pre-college math, starting a semester or more behind for their...
Sweden raises its terror threat level to high for fear of attacks following recent Qur'an burnings (www.ctvnews.ca)
Millions of older workers are nearing retirement with nothing saved (www.msn.com)
'A complete failure': Senate Republicans on a punishing election night (abcnews.go.com)
Senate Republicans on Wednesday took a hard look at Tuesday night’s punishing election results in some key battleground states, and they’re not pleased with what they’re seeing....
Black Mom Becomes A Better Detective in Her Son's Death Than Cops (www.theroot.com)
Highlights: In the wee hours of July 8, 2020, 37-year-old Freddie Lee McKee was found dead in Columbia, Mo. Authorities say two 911 calls went out before his body was found. Earlier, around 2:45 a.m., a neighbor called reporting a shirtless man in her trash who told her he was looking for his phone, per the police report. Then,...
A Lab Test That Experts Liken to a Witch Trial Is Helping Send Women to Prison for Murder in Multiple U.S. States (www.propublica.org)
The “lung float” test claims to help determine if a baby was born alive or dead, but many medical examiners say it’s too unreliable. Yet the test is still being used to bring murder charges — and get convictions....
Court Rules That Trump $250M Civil Fraud Trial Will Go Forward Monday (abcnews.go.com)
Judge warns Trump not to threaten witnesses in 2020 election subversion case (www.reuters.com)
Officials bust illegal lab containing 20 infectious agents, hundreds of lab mice (arstechnica.com)
Vatican says it's permissible for transgender Catholics to be baptized (apnews.com)
GOP’s Jim Jordan fails again on vote for House speaker as frustrated Republicans search for options (apnews.com)
Republican Rep. Jim Jordan failed again Wednesday on a crucial second ballot to become House speaker, but the hard-fighting ally of Donald Trump showed no signs of dropping out despite losing support from even more of his GOP colleagues....
Proud Boy Joe Biggs faces decades in prison in Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy case (www.nbcnews.com)
A Proud Boys leader convicted of seditious conspiracy who the government says “served as an instigator and leader” during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol could face decades in federal prison at his sentencing Thursday....
Federal judge won't block Medicare from negotiating drug prices (www.cnn.com)
A federal court judge in Ohio denied Friday an attempt by the US Chamber of Commerce to immediately stop the Biden administration’s implementation of Medicare’s new drug price negotiation program....
Mexico’s Moment: The Biggest US Trading Partner Is No Longer China (www.bloomberg.com)
The new Cold War is a business opportunity, and Mexico looks better placed than almost any other country to seize it....
Fan ejected from US Open match after German player said the man used language from Hitler's regime (apnews.com)
A fan was ejected from a U.S. Open tennis match early Tuesday morning after German player Alexander Zverev complained the man used language from Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime....
US supreme court to hear case on domestic abuser’s right to own guns (www.theguardian.com)
The US supreme court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in a case which gun and domestic violence prevention groups are warning could be a matter of life and death for thousands of abuse victims and their families....
