Two-thirds of North America could face power shortages this winter -NERC (www.reuters.com)
Why Wisconsin didn’t issue an Amber Alert for missing 5-year-old later found dead (www.nbcnews.com)
State Sen. LaTonya Johnson wants to overhaul the state’s Amber Alert system after Prince McCree’s death.
Inside an OnlyFans empire: Sex, influence and the new American Dream (www.washingtonpost.com)
A $10 billion battle is brewing over ownership rights to a 300-year-old sunken warship believed to hold the biggest maritime treasure ever (www.businessinsider.com)
A US salvage company is suing Colombia for half of a shipwreck’s estimated $20 billion treasure....
Trump fraud trial live updates: Ivanka Trump to take the stand next after Donald Trump's testimony (www.nbcnews.com)
Latest news and live updates on Trump’s civil fraud trial in New York as Ivanka Trump takes the stand. The former president appeared Monday, and his sons spoke last week....
Trump fraud trial live updates: Ivanka testifies at New York court - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Live reporting on Ivanka Trump’s testimony from the BBC
Warner Bros. Discovery Sheds 700,000 Direct-to-Consumer Subscribers in Q3 (www.thewrap.com)
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3 are charged with running sex ring that catered to politicians, military and others (www.npr.org)
DOJ says possibly hundreds of clients include government contractors with security clearances, doctors, lawyers, elected officials, military officers, professors and executives at tech companies.
Librarians turn to civil rights agency to oppose book bans and their firings (apnews.com)
She refused to ban books, many of them about racism and the experiences of LGBTQ+ people. And for that, Suzette Baker was fired as a library director in a rural county in central Texas....
California unveils Native American monument at Capitol, replacing missionary statue toppled in 2020 (apnews.com)
An eight-foot-tall bronze statue of a late Native American leader known for preserving cultural dances now stands surrounded by trees in a historic park outside of California’s state Capitol building, replacing a statue of a Spanish missionary that protesters toppled it in 2020....
Homer has stopped strangling Bart in The Simpsons and it’s about time (www.theguardian.com)
Nothing lasts forever. In time, the continents will crash into each other once more, the sun will swallow the planet and, at some point long after that, The Simpsons will end. But that isn’t to say that it’s incapable of moving with the times before then. Because, in yet another nod to shifting tastes, Homer Simpson has...
Adidas says it may write off remaining unsold Yeezy shoes after breakup with Ye (apnews.com)
Adidas said it might have to write off the remaining 300 million euros ($320 million) worth of Yeezy shoes left unsold after it cut ties with rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West. The company will decide in the coming weeks whether or not to do a third release of the shoes next year to generate more donations to groups...
US health officials alarmed by ‘dire’ rise in dangerous, preventable syphilis infections in babies (edition.cnn.com)
Governments plan more fossil fuel production despite climate pledges, report says (apnews.com)
Dengue is spreading. Can new vaccines and antivirals halt its rise? (www.nature.com)
Drug that can halve breast cancer risk offered to 289,000 women in England (www.theguardian.com)
US natgas output and demand to hit record highs in 2023 -EIA (www.reuters.com)
European Commission backs talks on Ukraine and Moldova EU membership (www.theguardian.com)
The European Commission has recommended that formal EU membership negotiations should begin with Ukraine and Moldova in a move its president, Ursula von der Leyen, described as a response to “the call of history”....
Australian man survives crocodile attack by biting reptile’s eyelid (www.independent.co.uk)
An Australian farmer bit a saltwater crocodile on the eyelid to save himself from being killed by the reptile....
Kenya's Ogiek people being evicted for carbon credits - lawyers (www.bbc.com)
Ogiek leader Daniel Kobei said armed forest rangers were “pulling down the houses with axes and hammers”....
Elizabeth Hirschhorn moves out of Brentwood Airbnb after 570 rent-free days. She said she had a right to stay (news.yahoo.com)
Elizabeth Hirschhorn, the Brentwood tenant who did not pay rent for her luxury Airbnb rental for 570 days, moved out of the unit on Friday.
Workers for fast fashion brands fear starvation as they fight for higher wages (www.theguardian.com)
Garment workers making clothes in Bangladesh for UK high-street brands say they are facing starvation and are having to steal and scavenge food from fields and bins to feed their children, as protests continue over a new minimum wage for the garment workforce of 4 million people....
Ivanka Trump to testify in father’s New York fraud trial (www.theguardian.com)
Ivanka Trump is set to appear on the witness stand today at her father’s New York $250m fraud trial. She will be the last family member and the last witness to testify before the prosecution rests its case....
4 men charged in theft of satirical golden toilet titled ‘America,’ at Churchill’s birthplace (apnews.com)
LONDON (AP) — Four men were charged Monday over the theft of an 18-carat gold toilet from Blenheim Palace, the sprawling English country mansion where British wartime leader Winston Churchill was born.
House Censures Rashida Tlaib, Citing ‘River to the Sea’ Slogan - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)
