The Biden administration wants to know if Saudi Arabia used American weapons to kill 'hundreds' of migrants (www.businessinsider.com)
The United States is investigating a report that Saudi Arabia killed “hundreds” of migrants....
NATO-trained Ukraine recruits overpowered by battle-hardened Russians: report (www.businessinsider.com)
Smdh more Kremlin propaganda from Business Insider
Ukraine's counteroffensive in the south has achieved 'some success against that 2nd line of Russian defenses,' top US official says (www.businessinsider.com)
Ukraine has broken the first line of Russian defenses in some places and has had "some success" against the second, US official John Kirby said....
Russian hardliners are fuming that the Kremlin wasn't able to top a string of embarrassing attacks on home soil (www.businessinsider.com)
Russia’s nationalists are fuming over a slew of attacks on Russian territory which exposed gaps in its defenses and put it on the back foot in its invasion of Ukraine....
[News] A Texas judge has declared unconstitutional a law championed by Gov. Greg Abbott that limits the power of Democrat-led cities (www.businessinsider.com)
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, signed a bill into law in June that prohibited cities from passing certain local ordinances. It was widely seen as an effort to curb the power of Democrat-led cities....
Ukraine says its soldiers took out a Russian helicopter with artillery fire (www.businessinsider.com)
Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire's tax last year. Now every public school student is going to get free lunch (www.businessinsider.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/3160934...
Ukraine claims it damaged prized Russian jets using 'cardboard' drones from Australia in a daring raid (www.businessinsider.com)
Australia gifted the Corvo PPDS drone, made of lightweight board and rubber, to Ukraine. Now it's possible they've struck a Russian airfield....
A mystery company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires has purchased tens of thousands of acres of land for more than $800 million to build a new city near San Francisco (www.businessinsider.com)
Extreme heat could make photosynthesis impossible for tropical trees and plants that may all die as a result, a new study found. (www.businessinsider.com)
Extreme heat messes with tropical trees' photosynthesis, causing the plants to die, a study found. Climate change may make this a widespread problem.
Numerous Tesla owners say they've been trapped inside their EVs after they lost power. Here's how to manually open a Tesla door if you get stuck inside. (www.businessinsider.com)
Numerous Tesla owners have said they’ve been stuck inside their EVs after the cars suddenly lost power....
Scientists found more than 1,000 AI spam bots trying to scam people and steal their social media profiles — and regulators can't keep up (www.businessinsider.com)
Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire's tax last year. Now every public school student is going to get free lunch (www.businessinsider.com)
Students in Massachusetts will get free lunch and breakfast at school thanks to a new 4% tax put on people who earn more than $1 million.
Burning Man, tech bros' favorite party, is in jeopardy because of Tropical Storm Hilary (www.businessinsider.com)
Burning Man, the festival beloved by Silicon Valley’s elite, is at risk of quenched by Tropical Storm Hilary....
In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black (www.businessinsider.com)
Was this AI trained on an unbalanced data set? (Only black folks?) Or has it only been used to identify photos of black people? I have so many questions: some technical, some on media sensationalism
TSMC's Arizona plant is delayed over poor management, not a shortage of US skilled labor, the workers building it say (www.businessinsider.com)
TSMC says its Arizona chip factory’s opening has been delayed partly over a skilled-worker shortage....
Elon Musk admits X 'may fail, as so many have predicted' (www.businessinsider.com)
Elon Musk admits X 'may fail, as so many have predicted' (www.businessinsider.com)
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.
Russia got richer even as the war in Ukraine raged on last year, while the West shed trillions of dollars of wealth (www.businessinsider.com)
Mountains are collapsing: A Swiss mountain peak fell apart, sending 3.5 million cubic feet of rock into the valley below. (www.businessinsider.com)
Mt. Fluchthorn’s tallest peak, on the Swiss-Austrian border, collapsed in June....
Russia got richer even as the war in Ukraine raged on last year, while the West shed trillions of dollars of wealth (www.businessinsider.com)
DC Democrats argue ranked choice voting is confusing to voters in predominantly Black areas as they seek to block potential vote on implementing the system (www.businessinsider.com)
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