Mom fights back in grizzly bear attack: ‘I’m not ready to leave my daughter’ (www.today.com)
“You feel like a rag doll and there’s nothing you can do,” Vanessa Chaput said, adding, “I remember being thrown around.”...
After Nike Leaders Promised Climate Action, Their Corporate Jets Kept Flying — and Polluting (www.propublica.org)
Rachael Lillis, 'Pokémon' actor who voiced Misty and Jessie, dies at 46 (www.nbcnews.com)
Scientology is on the brink of killing an entire medical industry (www.thedailybeast.com)
By systematically targeting electroconvulsive therapy as part of its war on psychiatry, experts say Scientology could decimate a treatment that is “saving so many lives.”...
UN envoy doubles down on criticism that Canada’s foreign worker program is a ‘breeding ground’ for slavery (www.thestar.com)
Why journalists shouldn’t be neutral on climate change | Calls to keep politics out of science reporting ignore a core responsibility: minimize harm (www.sfchronicle.com)
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Newly Approved Missouri Referendum Could Reverse State Abortion Ban (www.commondreams.org)
Millionaire Realtor Bro Takes a Leave From His Firm Over Gang Rape Lawsuit. (www.thedailybeast.com)
The silence on Gaza from countries with feminist foreign policies ‘is deafening and deeply troubling’ (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Alsalem, says countries who advocate women’s rights must ‘walk the talk’, applying their principles consistently and without selective advocacy by avoiding arms transfers that facilitate the killing of Palestinian women by Israel....
Hot Summer Threatens Efficacy of Mail-Order Medications | Temperatures inside delivery trucks can reach twice the recommended threshold, but federal rules on drug storage conditions do not apply (www.nytimes.com)
Locking up items to deter shoplifting is pushing shoppers online (www.axios.com)
With over 577,000 signatures verified, Arizona will put abortion rights on the ballot (www.seattletimes.com)
Arizona voters will get to decide in November whether to add the right to an abortion to the state constitution....
Texas judge steps aside in Elon Musk's X case against advertisers (www.npr.org)
A U.S. District Judge in Texas has recused himself from a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X https://www.npr.org/2024/08/09/g-s1-16087/elon-musk-lawsuits-texas-same-judge-hears-them-tesla-stock NPR drew scrutiny to the judge’s investment in Tesla and questions about Musk using the court to engage in “forum-shopping.”...
Amazon says US labor watchdog that filed labor charges violates constitution (www.theguardian.com)
‘Our voices are only going to get louder’, workers warn tech giant after Atlanta warehouse writes up employees...
Former Democratic leader Steny Hoyer suffers stroke, has 'responded well' to care (www.usatoday.com)
UAW files charges against Trump, Musk for trying to intimidate workers (www.reuters.com)
Former Colorado clerk Tina Peters, one-time hero to election deniers, convicted in computer breach (apnews.com)
Former Colorado clerk Tina Peters, the first local election official to be charged with a security breach after the 2020 election as unfounded conspiracy theories swirled, was found guilty by a jury on most charges Monday....
Mars water: Liquid water reservoirs found under Martian crust (www.bbc.com)
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Nearly 36 officials who refused to certify 2020 election result still in office – report (www.theguardian.com)
Watchdog group’s finding underscores concerns Trump and allies will attack in election certification in swing states...
Trump campaign office near DC burglarized, police say (thehill.com)
An ex-Kansas police chief who led a raid on a newspaper is charged with obstruction of justice (apnews.com)
A former Kansas police chief who led a raid last year on a weekly newspaper has been charged with felony obstruction of justice and is accused of persuading a potential witness to withhold information from authorities when they later investigated his conduct....
Horses Can Plan And Strategize, New Study Finds (plantbasednews.org)
Historic Gun Suit Survives Serious Legal Threat Engineered by Indiana Republicans (www.propublica.org)
Republicans in Indiana’s legislature passed a bill this year intended as the final blow to a long-running lawsuit filed by the city of Gary against gun manufacturers seeking to hold them accountable for local illegal gun sales....
WA health department sues over denied entry to Tacoma ICE facility (www.seattletimes.com)
The Washington State Department of Health says it has not been able to investigate what could be a “full-blown public health crisis” at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Tacoma....
How X owner Elon Musk uses his 'free speech' platform to amplify his views worldwide (apnews.com)
As X’s owner and most followed user, Elon Musk has increasingly used the social media platform as a microphone to amplify his political views and, lately, those of right-wing figures he’s aligned with. There are few modern parallels to his antics, but then again there are few modern parallels to Elon Musk himself....
