Ukraine-Russia war latest: Ukrainian intelligence shows Moscow is plotting 'terror attack' on nuclear plant, Volodymyr Zelenskyy claims ( news.sky.com )
Pentagon dismisses WSJ report on China spy station in Cuba ( www.reuters.com )
[Texas] Gov. Greg Abbott vetoes bill that would give people with disabilities new option to vote by mail ( www.texastribune.org )
Gov. Greg Abbott on Saturday vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have expanded vote-by-mail access for people with disabilities — specifically people who are blind or paralyzed and need assistance marking their ballot.
A 988 operator, faced with a flood of calls, turns to AI to boost counselor skills ( www.statnews.com )
TW: Some discussion of suicide...
Musk-owned Twitter stiffed employees on promised bonuses, class action says ( arstechnica.com )
The first cultivated meat is approved for sale in the US ( upsidefoods.com )
German energy prices are so high they're driving companies to relocate, industry body says ( www.cnbc.com )
Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court ( www.propublica.org )
In early July 2008, Samuel Alito stood on a riverbank in a remote corner of Alaska. The Supreme Court justice was on vacation at a luxury fishing lodge that charged more than $1,000 a day, and after catching a king salmon nearly the size of his leg, Alito posed for a picture. To his left, a man stood beaming: Paul Singer, a...
The Guardian view on danger at sea: The contrast between the frantic hunt for a missing submersible and the failure to save migrants drowning in the Mediterranean is illuminating ( www.theguardian.com )
A massive operation is under way to find and save a stricken vessel and its passengers. As time passes, anxious families and friends wait with growing fear. The US coastguard, Canadian armed forces and commercial vessels are all hunting for the Titan submersible, which has gone missing with five aboard on a dive to the wreck of...
Tesla hacker discovers secret ‘Elon Mode’ for hands-free Full Self-Driving ( www.theverge.com )
A Tesla software hacker has found an ‘Elon Mode’ driving feature that seems to allow Tesla vehicles with Full Self-Driving to operate without any driver monitoring....
Phoenix is emerging as the city of the future ( www.axios.com )
"The broad attention is showing the world what local leaders have spent the past half-century trying to prove: This desert city can be a major player in global tech and manufacturing."...
Ex-CNN producer sentenced to more than 19 years for luring 9-year-old into sex acts ( abcnews.go.com )
Musk Overruled Tesla Engineers, And Now They Are In Serious Trouble ( medium.com )
Federal judge knocks down Florida's Medicaid ban on gender-affirming treatment ( www.politico.com )
A whistleblower raised safety concerns about OceanGate’s submersible in 2018. Then he was fired. ( techcrunch.com )
How Russia's National Space Corporation 'Roscosmos' helps pro-Kremlin bikers kill Ukrainians ( web.archive.org )
Rather than focusing on the advancement of astronautics, which is facing difficulties, organizations like Roscosmos are currently providing support to the motorcycle group known as the Night Wolves, who are engaged in the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin found the nationalist macho values of the Wolves, combined with their...
This WWII battle wasn't against Nazis. It was between Black and white GIs in England ( www.npr.org )
This story is well known in the UK. Apparently less so in the US.
Parts of Broward County under quarantine due to giant African land snails ( www.nbcmiami.com )
The snail can grow up to eight inches long, and can potentially carry the parasite rat lungworm, which may cause meningitis in humans and animals. The snail should not be handled without gloves because of the meningitis risk....
Scientists Find Cannabis Compound Inside a Totally Different Plant ( www.sciencealert.com )
'Hope': Banging sounds heard in missing OceanGate Titan submersible search at Titanic site ( www.youtube.com )
Ukraine is winning — and it is changing ( www.politico.eu )
‘Continued genocide’: First Nations leaders disturbed by effort to dig up unmarked graves in B.C. ( globalnews.ca )
First Nations leaders in British Columbia are “very disappointed” by a recent report that residential school deniers tried to dig up suspected unmarked grave sites at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School....
Chinese PM hits back at EU call for de-risking ( www.politico.eu )
