Oklahoma closer to passing a law that creates a database of everyone who has an abortion - International Monitor (intlmonitor.com)
Estonia thwarts ‘shadow war’ attack, Prime Minister Kaja Kallas tells CNN | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret (www.nature.com)
one assessment suggests that ChatGPT, the chatbot created by OpenAI in San Francisco, California, is already consuming the energy of 33,000 homes. It’s estimated that a search driven by generative AI uses four to five times the energy of a conventional web search. Within years, large AI systems are likely to need as much...
US unions target the housing affordability crisis as their ‘biggest issue’ (www.theguardian.com)
Organized labor across the country is now setting its sights on housing costs as rents and mortgages continue to soar...
Infamous mommy vlogger Ruby Franke sentenced to up to 60 years for child abuse (www.msnbc.com)
Ruby Franke, a once-popular online mom influencer with millions of followers, has been sentenced to four one- to 15-year terms in prison for child abuse....
CNN reporter: Biden camp focusing on ‘crazy shit that Trump says’ (thehill.com)
A CNN reporter used profane language during a live report Tuesday about President Biden’s campaign strategy as his campaign looks ahead to a potential general election showdown with former President Trump....
Yemen’s Houthis claim attacks on Israeli, US ships | AlJazeera (www.aljazeera.com)
Polish farmers block Ukraine’s border in protest against grain imports | AlJazeera (www.aljazeera.com)
Biden-Harris Administration Announces Over $56M for Kansas Drinking Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater Infrastructure Upgrades, as Part of President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda (www.epa.gov)
Unprecedented funding from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is transforming communities across the state...
Biden administration announces $5.8B in funding to clean up drinking water, upgrade infrastructure (abc7chicago.com)
The Civil Engineering Society gave the country’s drinking water infrastructure a C- rating in 2021...
Oklahoma banned trans students from bathrooms. Now a bullied student is dead (www.independent.co.uk)
Ruby Franke sentenced in child abuse case (www.nbcnews.com)
Vanderbilt guarantees full-tuition scholarships to all students with family incomes below $150,000 (vanderbilthustler.com)
FBI investigates after letter with white powder sent to House Speaker Johnson's Louisiana church (apnews.com)
Federal and state authorities are investigating suspicious mail containing a white powder that was received by a north Louisiana church attended by House Speaker Mike Johnson....
Lockbit cybercrime gang faces global takedown with indictments and arrests (www.reuters.com)
Russia adds Republican senator Lindsey Graham to ‘terrorists and extremists’ list (www.theguardian.com)
South Carolina lawmaker is one of more than 12,000 individuals on list kept by Russia’s state financial monitoring agency...
Donald Trump ranked as worst US president in history, with Joe Biden 14th (www.theguardian.com)
Survey of 154 scholars places 45th president behind even ‘historically calamitous chief executives’ linked to civil war...
Welcome to the 'Hotel California' case: The trial over handwritten lyrics to an Eagles classic (apnews.com)
On a lined yellow pad, Don Henley, with input from band co-founder Glenn Frey, jotted thoughts about “a dark desert highway” and “a lovely place” with a luxurious surface and ominous undertones. And something on ice, perhaps caviar or Taittinger — or pink Champagne?...
First federal gender-based hate crime trial starts in South Carolina over trans woman's killing (apnews.com)
The first federal trial over a hate crime based on gender identity is set to begin Tuesday in South Carolina, where a man faces charges that he killed a Black transgender woman and then fled to New York....
More than half the world faces high measles risk, WHO says (www.reuters.com)
More than half the world’s countries will be at high or very high risk of measles outbreaks by the end of the year unless urgent preventative measures are taken, the World Health Organization warned on Tuesday....
Report finds most Americans do not support partisan violence (phys.org)
Lockbit cybercrime gang faces global takedown with indictments and arrests (www.reuters.com)
Britain’s National Crime Agency Cyber Division, with the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies seized control of websites used by Lockbit the gang and U.S. and British authorities said. The agencies also took the extraordinary step of using Lockbit’s own website to release internal data about...
Capital One-Discover merger may face stiff antitrust review in Washington (wapo.st)
Russia Arrests U.S. Citizen, Accusing Her of Treason by Aiding Ukraine (www.nytimes.com)
Russia’s main security agency said on Tuesday that it had arrested a dual citizen of Russia and the United States on accusations of committing state treason by raising funds for Ukraine....
Supreme Court rejects appeal from Trump-allied lawyers over 2020 election lawsuit in Michigan (www.seattletimes.com)
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from Sidney Powell and other lawyers allied with former President Donald Trump over $150,000 in sanctions they were ordered to pay for abusing the court system with a sham lawsuit challenging the 2020 election results in Michigan....