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Maryland lands new FBI headquarters, leaving Virginia officials bitter (www.politico.com)

The FBI will relocate from its Washington headquarters to a proposed site in suburban Maryland, the General Services Administration confirmed on Wednesday, capping an acrimonious process in which officials from two states competed for the lucrative project....

The ‘new elites’ of X: Identifying the most influential accounts engaged in Hamas/Israel discourse (www.cip.uw.edu)

Since the first news of the attack on Israel by Hamas, we have seen anecdotal reports from users of X (formerly Twitter) that the platform has become less useful for surfacing verified news and more generally disorienting. Through a novel data collection process we identify highly influential accounts in the Hamas/Israel...

US has seen increase in domestic threats since Hamas attacks in Israel, FBI says (www.theguardian.com)

FBI director Christopher Wray has reiterated part of an FBI statement that the US domestic security agency does not have “specific and credible intelligence indicating a threat to the United States stemming from the Hamas attacks in Israel”....

Rural hospital maternity wards closing as people seek to give birth closer to home (abcnews.go.com)

A growing number of rural hospitals have been shuttering their labor and delivery units, forcing pregnant women to travel longer distances for care or face giving birth in an emergency room. Fewer than half of rural hospitals now have maternity units, prompting government officials and families to scramble for answers. One...

What a record-breaking hurricane looks like (www.bbc.com)

The hurricane, which reached 160mph (258km/h) winds on Friday (8 September), was a category one storm on Thursday but intensified to a category five, increasing by 85mph (137km/h) in just 24 hours. The increase made the hurricane, which meteorologists dubbed “rare”, the third-fastest rapid intensification in the Atlantic....

More than 750 new Texas laws go into effect Friday. Here’s a quick breakdown of the highlights (www.kut.org)

Every odd-numbered year, state lawmakers convene in Austin and debate hundreds of proposed bills with potential to affect tens of millions of Texans who call the Lone Star State home. More than 750 new laws take effect Friday. That’s on top of 321 passed this year that took effect immediately after being signed by Gov. Greg...

Exclusive: Smuggler with ties to ISIS helped migrants enter US from Mexico, raising alarm bells across government (www.cnn.com)

The FBI is investigating more than a dozen Uzbek nationals allowed into the US after they sought asylum at the southern border with Mexico earlier this year, a scramble set off when US intelligence officials found that the migrants traveled with the help of a smuggler with ties to ISIS, according to multiple US officials....

US military may put armed troops on commercial ships in Strait of Hormuz to stop Iran seizures (apnews.com)

The U.S. military is considering putting armed personnel on commercial ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz, in what would be an unheard of action aimed at stopping Iran from seizing and harassing civilian vessels, five American officials told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Does Texas A&M’s botched hire spell doom for classroom diversity? Some say yes (apnews.com)

Just days later, McElroy’s tenure offer unraveled after the university buckled under backlash from Texas Scorecard, a conservative website, and an unspecified group of individuals close to the university who opposed her previous diversity initiatives. A new state law will limit that and the discussion of race and inclusion on...

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