Chuck Schumer’s ambitious plan to take the Supreme Court down a peg (www.vox.com)
US judge throws out $4.7 bln verdict against NFL in 'Sunday Ticket' lawsuit (www.reuters.com)
Aug 1 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge in California on Thursday threw out a $4.7 billion verdict against the National Football League in a lawsuit claiming it overcharged subscribers to its Sunday Ticket game telecasts for more than a decade....
US recognizes opposition candidate González as the winner of Venezuela's presidential election (apnews.com)
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'Unacceptable': Court Blocks Net Neutrality Rules During Legal Battle. (www.commondreams.org)
The TERF propaganda machine has already superspreaded the boxer's Imane Khelif's Olympics row is about trans identification. In fact she appears to be born woman with DSDs (thepinknews.com)
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif’s participation at the Paris 2024 Olympics is “not a transgender issue”, a spokesperson for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said. Khelif beat Italy’s Angela Carini on Thursday (1 August), in a fight that has reignited an online storm about her participation in the Games, despite...
Chuck Schumer’s ambitious plan to take the Supreme Court down a peg (www.vox.com)
Vance calls reaction to Trump’s attacks on Harris’s heritage ‘hysterical’ (thehill.com)
That word was not an accident. Because he used it more than once to hammer it in:...
Biden Slams Trump When Asked About Ex-President’s Claim He Could Have Saved Russian Hostages (www.mediaite.com)
Texas attorney general says Biden must continue border wall construction after court deadline passes. (www.texastribune.org)
Crash Victims' Families Ask Judge to Toss 'Morally Reprehensible' Boeing Deal . (www.commondreams.org)
Despite tariffs, Chinese EV makers still make inroads. (www.voanews.com)
14 arrested in human trafficking sting at comic convention in US. (www.voanews.com)
Schumer Introduces 'No Kings Act' to Undo Supreme Court's Presidential Immunity Ruling. (www.commondreams.org)
A bigger child tax credit isn't coming. The Senate just voted against it. (19thnews.org)
Dow closes nearly 500 points lower Thursday as investors’ recession fears awaken (www.cnbc.com)
No plan for US House to take up KOSA despite Senate passage (www.carolinajournal.com)
I really hate that I have to give Republicans credit for killing this regardless of whatever stupid reason they’ll give for it beyond “concerns.”
Strict rules about flying with dogs start Thursday, after months of confusion (www.usatoday.com)
What do the new rules say?...
Golf Course Atop Ancient Native American Earthworks to Be Removed (www.nytimes.com)
Mother finds blood in Burger King meal after daughter takes bite thinking it’s ketchup (www.nbcnews.com)
“I look in her bag and there is blood all over her bag, her toys, her fries, everything,” says New York resident Tiffany Floyd....
Reddit CEO says Microsoft needs to pay to search the site (www.theverge.com)
After striking deals with Google and OpenAI, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is calling on Microsoft and others to pay if they want to continue scraping the site’s data....
Teen brother of Air Force airman who was killed by Florida deputy is shot to death near Atlanta (apnews.com)
The teenage brother of a U.S. Air Force airman who was shot and killed in his home by a Florida sheriff’s deputy in May has been killed in a shooting in the Atlanta area, authorities said....
Donald Trump's gag order remains in effect after hush money conviction, New York appeals court rules (apnews.com)
A New York appeals court on Thursday denied Donald Trump’s bid to end a gag order in his hush money criminal case, rejecting the Republican president’s argument that his May conviction “constitutes a change in circumstances” that warrants lifting the restrictions....
Millennials and Gen Xers face higher risk of 17 cancers than previous generations, study suggests (www.cnn.com)
As cancer cases rise among young adults in the United States, a new study has identified 17 cancer types that appear to be more common in Generation X and millennials than older age groups....
NHTSA decides 50 million air bag inflators are dangerous, moving closer to huge recall (www.pbs.org)
U.S. auto safety regulators say they stand by a conclusion that more than 50 million air bag inflators are dangerous and should not be in use, taking another step toward a massive recall....
‘What are the odds?’ California family lost one home to wildfire in 2018 — and a second in 2024 (lemmy.world)
It was frightening, and all too familiar. The family had previously been forced to flee as a wildfire bore down on another mountain town they called home: Paradise....
