T-Mobile Walks Back Forced Plan Migration, Won't Make People Switch Plans After All (www.cnet.com)
California Gov. Newsom has surprise meeting with China’s leader Xi amid warm welcome in Beijing (apnews.com)
California Gov. Gavin Newsom had a surprise meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing on Wednesday after being warmly welcomed by other senior leaders in a display of friendliness that stands in sharp contrast to the dialogue between the United States and China in recent years....
California sidelines GM Cruise's driverless cars, cites safety risk (www.reuters.com)
US orders immediate halt to some AI chip exports to China, says Nvidia (www.theguardian.com)
Fellow tech company Intel ‘reviewing regulations’ as timing of move brought forward...
Tech breathes new life into endangered Native American languages (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Of the more than 6,000 Indigenous languages recognized globally, nearly half of them are at risk of disappearing.
Teacher fatally stabbed in school attack in northern France (www.reuters.com)
A knifeman fatally stabbed a teacher and wounded two other people in an attack at a school in the northern France city of Arras on Friday and the investigation was handed to the anti-terrorism prosecutor's office.
Israel-Palestine escalation live: Strikes hit Gaza after Hamas offensive (www.aljazeera.com)
Israeli air raids have hit the Gaza Strip after Hamas announced the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against Israel....
Scorching heat caused deaths to double at busiest US-Mexico border route (www.theguardian.com)
More than 100 of 148 recorded deaths in El Paso sector were recorded between May and September when heat topped 100F
Israeli leader Netanyahu asks Elon Musk to condemn antisemitism on X (www.washingtonpost.com)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday pressed tech billionaire Elon Musk to condemn antisemitism and find a way to combat it on his social media platform X as the pair met at a Tesla factory in Fremont., Calif....
UK election watchdog issues damning verdict on voter ID impact (www.theguardian.com)
Electoral Commission says policy could exclude hundreds of thousands of voters in a general election
Colorado Lawsuit Seeks to Keep Trump Off Ballots Under 14th Amendment (www.nytimes.com)
Chinese EVs are now seen posing a ‘real threat’ to Europe’s auto industry (www.cnbc.com)
Chinese electric vehicles pose “a real threat” to the European car industry, according to Christian Kames, managing director at financial advisory firm Lazard....
After outrage over Taylor Swift tickets, reform has been slow across the US (hosted.ap.org)
When thousands of fans couldn’t get tickets for megastar Taylor Swift’s summer stadium tour, some diehards paid upwards of 70 times face value to see their favorite artist in person — an outrage that prompted congressional hearings and bills in state legislatures to better protect consumers....
Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars (www.npr.org)
Self-driving cars have flooded San Francisco's streets, and not everyone is happy. Street activists have been using a low-tech solution to incapacitate the vehicles.
In deadly Maui fires, many had no warning and no way out. Those who dodged barricades survived (apnews.com)
And car after car was turned back toward the rapidly spreading wildfire by a barricade blocking access to Highway 30....
EV battery imports face scrutiny under US law on Chinese forced labor (www.reuters.com)
Mercedes-Benz USA (MBGn.DE), Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE), Denso (6902.T), Continental AG (CONG.DE) and ZF Friedrichshafen AG (ZFF.UL) - said they had not had products detained under UFLPA....
The Guardian: Record-breaking mountaineer denies climbing over dying porter on K2 (www.theguardian.com)
Six Former Mississippi Officers Face Civil Rights Charges in Assault on 2 Black Men (www.nytimes.com)
Six white former law enforcement officers from Mississippi have been charged with federal civil rights offenses several months after they raided a home where prosecutors said two Black men were stripped naked, beaten and shocked with Tasers....
China using families as 'hostages' to quash dissent abroad (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/863209...
‘Immensely Invisible:’ Women Fighting ICE’s Inaction on Sexual Abuses (futuroinvestigates.org)
Top companies' lobbying undermines their climate pledges, study finds (www.reuters.com)
[Illinois] Mayor resigns, hired weeks later [by village] in new job making 6x more (fox2now.com)
MARISSA, Ill. – An Illinois mayor who unexpectedly resigned from his elected post earlier this summer has been hired by the same village, making tens of thousands of dollars more in a part-time position.
Companies are demanding employees spend more days in the office, yet they’re also reducing their office space. Here’s why that isn’t paradoxical (fortune.com)
Return-to-office mandates are increasingly common, but companies are rapidly downsizing their offices and worried about whether they’ll be able to keep their current ones....
Audio reveals new clues after Tarzana man arrested in connection with body part found near dumpster (abc7.com)
The search continued Friday for a missing Tarzana woman and her parents after her husband was arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with a dismembered female torso discovered near a dumpster in Encino earlier this week....
