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I’m moving off kbin to lemmy, so I won’t be posting from here (unless kbin social gets it together).
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Rudy Giuliani, who pioneered the use of RICO when he was a US attorney, just got indicted on RICO charges (www.businessinsider.com)
Giuliani went from RICO charge prosecutor to a defendant in Fulton County DA Fani Willis' RICO case over Trump's alleged 2020 election interference.
Ron DeSantis Says He Has “Moved On” And Disney Should Drop Its Lawsuit Against Him (deadline.com)
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis urged The Walt Disney Co. to drop its lawsuit against him, while telling CNBC that he has “moved on” from his battle with the company and that it should drop t…
Girl, 13, gives birth after she was raped and denied abortion in Mississippi (www.theguardian.com)
The nearest abortion clinic – in Chicago – was too far away and too expensive for her mother to provide her with the procedure
Canadian couple win damages from Italian ruling party (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1463406...
She Just Had a Baby. Soon, She'll Start 7th Grade. (time.com)
After the fall of Roe v. Wade, some travel hundreds of miles to get abortions. This is the story of a girl who couldn't
'Blind Side' subject Oher alleges adoption was lie (www.espn.com)
In a 14-page court petition, the former NFL star alleges that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy never adopted him, instead tricking him into signing a document that gave them legal authority to make business deals in his name.
Why Baldur’s Gate III is an accidental PS5 console exclusive (www.engadget.com) Japanese
Larian is having trouble fitting Baldur’s Gate III on the Xbox Series S, the lower-priced and lower-powered console in Microsoft’s ninth-generation lineup....
HTA: Visitors urged to forego travel plans to West Maui (mauinow.com)
The Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority reports that vacation travel to West Maui is strongly discouraged for the near future. Visitors in West Maui have largely heeded the call to leave the island. About 46,000 people have flown out of Kahului Airport since Wednesday.
Nearly 4m fewer UK working days in past year due to strike action, study says (www.theguardian.com)
Resolution Foundation report says much of industrial action ‘fuelled’ by public sector workers’ anger over falls in real-terms pay
Chrome extension maker tells of pressure to sell out (www.theregister.com)
Anyone with sizable audience in this surveillance economy is invited to stuff their add-ons with tracking and ads
Why Some Wisconsin Lawmakers and Local Officials Have Changed Their Minds About Letting Undocumented Immigrants Drive (www.propublica.org)
“If we suddenly kicked out all of the people here, the undocumented, our dairy farms would collapse,” one lawmaker said. “We have to come up with a solution.”
Raid of Small Kansas Newspaper Raises Free Press Concerns (www.nytimes.com)
A small town in Kansas has become a battleground over the First Amendment, after the local police force and county sheriff’s deputies raided the office of The Marion County Record....
San Francisco's North Beach streets clogged as long line of Cruise robotaxis come to a standstill (finance.yahoo.com)
Just one day after state officials approved massive robotaxi expansion in San Francisco, a long line of the driverless cars come to a standstill and clog traffic in North Beach neighborhood.
San Francisco's North Beach streets clogged as long line of Cruise robotaxis come to a standstill (finance.yahoo.com)
Just one day after state officials approved massive robotaxi expansion in San Francisco, a long line of the driverless cars come to a standstill and clog traffic in North Beach neighborhood.
Arkansas education department nixes AP African American Studies course at last minute (arktimes.com)
Documentation confirming the course would not be recognized by the state arrived roughly 48 hours before the first bell of the school year was set to ring.
Idaho’s Teacher of the Year flees state after being attacked for LGBTQ+ allyship (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Karen Lauritzen said it has been the hardest year in her 20 years of teaching...
Lahaina residents worry a rebuilt Maui town could slip into the hands of affluent outsiders (apnews.com)
The cost to live in Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui keeps rising thanks to a chronic housing shortage and an influx of second-home buyers and wealthy transplants snatching up properties.
Record-breaking mountaineer denies climbing over dying porter on K2 (www.theguardian.com)
Fellow climbers say video footage shows Kristin Harila’s team walking over body of frostbitten man during record ascent
Microsoft’s Xbox Series S Parity Demands Are Now Handing Sony Free Wins (www.forbes.com)
Larian has delayed the release of Baldur’s Gate 3, currently on pace to possibly be 2023’s Game of the Year, until they can figure out how to make split-screen work on Series S.
Microsoft’s Xbox Series S Parity Demands Are Now Handing Sony Free Wins (www.forbes.com)
Larian has delayed the release of Baldur’s Gate 3, currently on pace to possibly be 2023’s Game of the Year, until they can figure out how to make split-screen work on Series S.
Hawaii fires: 'Tourists swim in the waters we died in' (www.bbc.com)
The jarring contrast between those holidaying and those hurting is hard to bear for many in Hawaii.
AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble (futurism.com)
As the AI market continues to balloon, experts are warning that its VC-driven rise is eerily similar to that of the dot com bubble.
Fiction writers fear the rise of AI, but also see it as a story to tell (apnews.com)
For many book writers, AI is a threat to their livelihood and the very idea of creativity. More than 10,000 of them endorsed an open letter from the Authors Guild this summer urging AI companies not to use copyrighted work without permission or compensation.
Death toll from Maui wildfire reaches 89, making it the deadliest in the US in more than 100 years (apnews.com)
Let's Just Calm Down About The Nudity In Baldur's Gate 3 (www.dualshockers.com)
Looking at you, streamers and angry defenders of Japanese ‘fanservice’ games.
Let's Just Calm Down About The Nudity In Baldur's Gate 3 (www.dualshockers.com)
Looking at you, streamers and angry defenders of Japanese ‘fanservice’ games.
Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnings on X (www.japantimes.co.jp)
A growing number of prefectures have stopped posting disaster warnings on the platform due to limits on the number of free posts allowed.