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Nashville shooting families ask for gun reform
Families from The Covenant School in Nashville, where a shooting occurred in March, prayed for Tennessee lawmakers and urged them to pass gun control policies in an upcoming special session.…
LA store sells winning Powerball jackpot ticket
A tiny neighborhood store in downtown Los Angeles sold the winning ticket for the Powerball jackpot worth an estimated $1.08 billion, the sixth largest in U.S. history and the third…
Deep sea surprise: Taiwanese divers encounter rare giant oarfish
A group of divers encountered a rare giant oarfish off the coast of Taiwan recently. The viral video, originally published by diving instructor Wang Cheng-Ru in June, shows the group…
Some states resuming capital punishment after ‘the year of the botched execution’
Alabama inmate James Barber is scheduled to be put to death Thursday night, in the first execution scheduled in the state after a months-long pause following a series of botched…
Actors and writers hold strike rally in Chicago
Striking screenwriters and actors held a rally in Chicago Thursday as the labor dispute that has halted Hollywood spreads to more cities. (July 20)
U.K. Voters Hand Sunak’s Party Two Defeats and a Win in By-elections
Britain’s Conservative Party suffered crushing defeats in the race for what had previously been two safe seats in Parliament, but narrowly avoided losing a third contest, in election results Friday…
U.S. Investigating Why Delta Passengers Were Kept on Plane in Extreme Heat
The U.S. Department of Transportation said Thursday that it was investigating why passengers on a Delta Air Lines flight had been left to swelter for hours in triple-digit temperatures while…
If MRSA Is Airborne, then CDC Guidance on “Enhanced Barrier Precautions” in Nursing Homes Is Wrong (and Lethal) | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. I put this article from Kevin Kavanaugh, “Pandemic Strategies Are Inadequate To Assure Public Safety,” in Links yesterday, and in what I will struggle to…
Kevin Mitnick, Hacker Who Once Eluded Authorities, Is Dead at 59
Kevin Mitnick, a reformed hacker who was once one of the most wanted computer criminals in the United States, died on Sunday, according to a statement shared Wednesday by a…