French woman hit by apparent meteorite while relaxing on her terrace (gizmodo.com)
AT&T stock fell to 29-year low on Friday after reports that telcoms will need to cleanup the lead pollution they made (arstechnica.com)
Poor Ma Bell. /s
A warden tried to fix an abusive federal prison. He faced death threats. (www.npr.org)
Archived at ghostarchive.org/archive/nDPXm?wr=true
U.S. Investigating Whether Adams Received Illegal Donations From Turkey (www.nytimes.com)
Federal prosecutors and the F.B.I. are conducting a broad public corruption investigation into whether Mayor Eric Adams’s 2021 election campaign conspired with the Turkish government to receive illegal foreign donations, according to a search warrant obtained by The New York Times....
The death toll in Gaza surpasses 10,000 as the conflict enters a second month (www.npr.org)
Israeli forces have reached the coast of Gaza, splitting the besieged area in half and essentially cutting off the north from the south.
Realtor must pay $1.8B for inflating commissions (www.cbsnews.com)
Maybe high realtor commissions will come down now. Would you really care if your U.S. realtor shows up in a Civic instead of a Cadillac?
Cats have 276 different facial expressions, study finds (www.cnn.com)
Ears flattened, constricted pupils, a lick of the lips. If you’ve ever wondered if your feline friends’ furry faces were saying something whenever they got together, chances are they were....
Palestinian said shot dead by settler while harvesting olives in West Bank (www.timesofisrael.com)
Bilal Muhammed Saleh, 40, was reportedly part of a group working outside their village near Nablus; IDF says combat soldier on leave was involved in incident, it is investigating
Disabled man drags himself off plane after Air Canada fails to offer wheelchair (www.theguardian.com)
Airline was forced to apologize to Rodney Hodgins who flew to Las Vegas with his wife to celebrate their anniversary in August
US expands probe into Ford engine failures to include two motors and nearly 709,000 vehicles (apnews.com)
U.S. auto safety investigators have expanded a probe into Ford Motor Co. engine failures to include nearly 709,000 vehicles....
Missing kayaker faked his own death ahead of court date: Sheriff (abcnews.go.com)
A missing kayaker from Louisiana has been arrested for faking his own death by drowning in an apparent bid to dodge rape charges, according to the St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office....
Powerful earthquake in Morocco kills more than 600 people (www.reuters.com)
The magnitude 7.2 quake struck in Morocco’s High Atlas mountains late on Friday night. A local official said most deaths were in mountain areas that were hard to reach. State media said 632 people had been killed and another 329 injured, citing an updated initial toll from the Interior Ministry....
Oklahoma State Dept. of Education announces partnership with PragerU (kfor.com)
The Oklahoma State Department of Education announced an ongoing partnership with PragerU on Tuesday....
A judge has blocked, for now, a Texas law drag show performers fear will shut them down (apnews.com)
A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked a new Texas law that drag show artists fear will be used to shut them down or put them in jail....
A Christian Crowdfunding Site Has a White-Power Problem (www.rollingstone.com)
The crowdfunding platform preferred by Trump’s alleged co-conspirators is also a hit with neo-Nazis
Salman Rushdie makes rare appearance for ‘Lifetime Disturbing the Peace Award’ (www.independent.co.uk)
‘I don’t feel at all mysterious. But it made life a little simple,’ Rushdie says about his mystery appearance
Big Insurance Met Its Match When It Turned Down a Top Trial Lawyer’s Request for Cancer Treatment (www.propublica.org)
Israel air strike reportedly kills dozens at Gaza camp - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Maine resident: People knew to 'stay away' from Robert Card (www.nbcnews.com)
Robert Card is now officially a suspect....
Scientists discover hidden landscape ‘frozen in time’ under Antarctic ice (www.theguardian.com)
Hills and valleys carved by ancient rivers in area the size of Belgium has remained untouched for more than 34m years...
5,000 autoworkers walk out at Texas GM's largest plant, as UAW expands strike for second day in a row (thehill.com)
Just five western oil firms, including BP and Shell, set to spend $15 million every hour until 2030 producing oil and gas | Global Witness (www.globalwitness.org)
UN Global Stocktake shows countries failing Paris Agreement climate goals 2023, London – Just five of the world’s biggest fossil fuel firms, BP, Chevron, Exxon, Shell and TotalEnergies, are set to spend $15 million every single hour between now and 2030 producing more oil and gas, according to new analysis of Rystad Energy...
White House estimates 3.5M federal workers will go without pay in government shutdown (abcnews.go.com)
The White House estimates that 3.5 million federal workers will have to go without pay if the government shuts down. Roughly 2 million of them will be military....
Lawmakers say government shutdown appears inevitable (thehill.com)
A government shutdown increasingly looks inevitable as GOP opponents of a stopgap in the Senate seek to drag out the process ahead of a midnight Sunday deadline....
Worm that jumps from rats to slugs to human brains has invaded Southeast US (arstechnica.com)
Multiple rats in Atlanta test positive for calamitous, rapidly spreading parasite.
