Ocean heat around Florida is ‘unprecedented,’ and scientists are warning of major impacts (www.cnn.com)
Heat wave scorches millions as relief efforts strive to keep up (www.nbcnews.com)
Across a wide swath of the U.S. from Texas to Nevada, a major heat wave that is threatening to break temperature records continued to bake parts of the South and Southwest on Wednesday, sending people scrambling for relief and adding to what has become a series of weather extremes that researchers say fit the pattern of a...
Chinese Hackers Spied on State and Commerce Departments (www.wsj.com)
Driver kills pedestrian after fleeing Secret Service near National Mall in D.C., and is still at large (www.nbcnews.com)
Redbox And TikTok Set Deal For Videos To Stream On 3,000 Kiosks (deadline.com)
Tax preparers that shared private data with Meta, Google could be fined billions (arstechnica.com)
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Records reveal 75 years of government downplaying, ignoring risks of St. Louis radioactive waste • Missouri Independent (missouriindependent.com)
Biden FCC nominee advances to Senate floor despite Ted Cruz’s protests (arstechnica.com)
Data broker loophole threatens journalists and whistleblowers (freedom.press)
Global hunger shows no sign of reversing (www.politico.eu)
UK’s Sunak tries to smooth things out after defense sec urges Ukrainian ‘gratitude’ (www.politico.eu)
Finnish PM: Deputy’s apology for racist slurs is enough (www.politico.eu)
Germany loosens arms export restrictions to Saudi Arabia — but not on fighter jets (www.politico.eu)
Vilnius cheers on Ukraine at NATO summit: ‘They’re fighting for our freedom’ (www.politico.eu)
Lawyers with supreme court business paid Clarence Thomas aide via Venmo (www.theguardian.com)
[Houston Chronicle] Houston just started enforcing a decade-old ban on feeding the homeless. Volunteers are fighting back. (www.houstonchronicle.com)
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Inflation rose just 0.2% in June, less than expected as consumers get a break from price increases (www.cnbc.com)
Inflation fell to its lowest annual rate in more than two years during June, the product both of some deceleration in costs and easy comparisons against a time when price increases were running at a more than 40-year high.
3 tax prep firms shared 'extraordinarily sensitive' data about taxpayers with Meta, lawmakers say (www.kob.com)
Problems With Abuse, Neglect and Cover-Ups at Choate Extend to Other Developmental Centers in Illinois (www.propublica.org)
Prompted by an outcry over abuse, Illinois proposed moving residents from Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center to similar facilities in the state. New reporting shows the problems at Choate are common throughout the statewide system.
Lawsuit accuses L.A. jailers of firing 58 tear gas canisters into correctional facility dorm, "allegedly because two of them were... uncooperative when staff ordered them to get off the phone...* (www.latimes.com)
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Two brothers, aged 3 and 6, are among 4 people wounded by a shooter on a scooter at a crowded New York park, police say by (www.cnn.com)
California man paralyzed from run-in with police gets $20 million settlement (apnews.com)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California man who was left paralyzed after he was slammed to the ground during a traffic stop won a $20 million settlement, one of the largest in the state’s history, officials announced Tuesday.
New Arkansas law removes work permit requirement for children under 16 (katv.com)
Beginning on August 1, children in Arkansas under the age of 16 will no longer need employment certificates to work, thanks to a law passed in the last legislative session.
Florida is now America’s inflation hotspot (www.cnn.com)
Florida is America’s inflation hotspot because of a persistent problem with sky-high housing costs.
More than a third of Americans have a "sleep divorce," survey finds (www.cbsnews.com)
