User:Araesmojo/News Stories Redacted

News Stories Redacted (Personal Reference)
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 * United States Federal Budget
 * The United States Congress avoided a government shutdown after both chambers swiftly passed a short-term, two month spending bill that holds spending static except for $6.3 billion to resettle Afghan allies and $29 billion to aid communities recovering from major disasters. The House passed the bill in a 254-175 vote, just a few hours after the Senate approved the bill 65-35.  The bill does nothing to address the $28 trillion national debt ceiling default expected to hit in less than 20 days. (Politico) (removed by user:Alsoriano97
 * Business and economy
 * Twitter Inc. has agreed to pay $809.5 million to settle a shareholder class action lawsuit that accused the social media company of painting an overly rosy picture of its future. The suit was originally filed in federal court in San Francisco in 2016 by Doris Shenwick and Twitter intends to use cash on hand to pay the settlement amount in the fourth quarter.  (Bloomberg) (removed by user:Alsoriano97
 * Attorney Generals from Alabama, Florida, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, South Carolina and Texas submit a federal court appeal in support of Florida Senate Bill 7072 that allows state residents to sue the country’s largest technology companies over their content moderation policies. U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle issued an injunction against the bill in June arguing it required social media sites to host speech they otherwise would not and interfered with their editorial judgment.  The judge also argued the law targets large technology companies and not smaller companies that operate in similar ways, effectively targeting companies that are "too large and too liberal." (Fox Business News) (removed by user:Alsoriano97
 * Sotheby's announces it will be auctioning a first edition printing of the United States Constitution that was last owned by S. Howard Goldman, one only 11 ever printed and the only copy not held for institutional display, in November of this year. (Reuters) (removed by user:Alsoriano97
 * China-United States relations
 * A new book reveals that United States Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley made two phone calls to the Chief of the CMC Joint Staff Department in China General Li Zuocheng promising to warn him if the United States initiated a military strike against China during the closing days of the Trump presidency. (Washington Post)(CNN)(Atlantic) (removed by user:Alsoriano97
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 * Colorado Governor Jared Polis becomes the first sitting governor to marry a same-sex partner in the United States. (Fox News) (removed by user:Alsoriano97
 * Flash flooding occurs in the Gard département of France after heavy rains in multiple areas with Saint-Dionizy recording the maximum of 244mm of rain. (Local.fr) (removed by user:Alsoriano97
 * Hurricane Nicholas makes landfall just after midnight as a Category 1 hurricane, the second hurricane to make landfall in the United States this season Nicholas wind gusts were reported as high as 95 mph near where it made landfall with sustained winds of 75 mph. As the day progressed, Nicholas skirted to the northeast, moving toward communities recently hit by Hurricane Ida.  (Accuweather) (removed by user:Alsoriano97
 * The head of Russia's EMERCOM (Ministry of Emergency Situations) Yevgeny Zinichev and screenwriter Aleksandr Melnik both die by falling from a cliff in Norilsk, Russia while choosing a location for filming a new documentary film dedicated to the development of the Arctic and the Northern Sea Route. Yevgeny Zinichev was believed to be in line to become the head of Russia's FSO the successor to the USSR's Ninth Chief Directorate of the KGB and similar to the Secret Service.  The death of Zinichev may lead to an intra-elite struggle for control over the Ministry of Emergencies.  It is also being reported that Sergei Shoigu, the head of the Ministry of Defense may request to have the Ministry of Emergencies merged with Defense. (Pravda.ru)(URA.ru) removed by user:NewsJunky12
 * Abortion in the United States
 * A Texas law that bans abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy took effect at midnight on Wednesday after the Supreme Court failed to act on emergency requests from abortion providers. Senate Bill 8, signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in May, bars abortions once a doctor can detect fetal cardiac activity, which is often before many people know they are pregnant. The ban would prevent at least 85% of abortions sought in Texas, according to abortion rights advocates and providers. It is now the most restrictive abortion law in the nation.  Abortion rights groups are viewing the law as "effectively overturned Roe v. Wade." (Time) removed by user:NewsJunky12
 * Protesters in Faizabad, the capital of Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan have called for the resignation of the governor after five protesters were killed and over 41 wounded in a clash with security forces. The protesters were demonstrating against the lack of regional security, the lack of electricity, and the lack of running water in their homes. The protesters claim the demonstration was non-violent until the arrival of security forces, while the government claims they attacked the governor's compound and the tax office. (TOLO News)
 * Afghan truck drivers, faced with roads that have not been repaired by the Ministry of Public Works, are enacting the repairs themselves by collecting 500 Afs from each driver to pay for the road repair. Current efforts are focused on the Kabul-Kandahar and Salang highways. (TOLO News) (removed by user:Poydoo) Challenged the redaction (removed by user:Alsoriano97 in <1 minute)
 * Byron Allen, the owner of Entertainment Studios Networks and The Weather Channel, has sued McDonald's for $10 billion for refusing to advertise on his networks. The complaint alleges that because Blacks already comprise 40% of McDonald's customers, McDonald's should spend more on Black owned media.  McDonald's United States ad budget in 2019 was $1.6 billion.  Allen has previously sued Comcast for $20 billion in 2015 over its refusal to carry his channels and took out full page ads accusing General Motors Corporation's CEO of being racist for not taking meetings with Black owned media. (Fox Business) (removed by user:Alsoriano97)
 * Manhattan has broken ground on a $1.45 billion project to install 2.4 miles (3.9 km) of flood walls, flood gates and other barriers along the East River and raise the height of the entire park by 8 to 10 feet (2.4 to 3 meters). A second Little Island park that floats on pylons was just completed over the Hudson River. (AM New York on MSN)(Reuters)(FOX Business) (removed by user:Alsoriano97)
 * A Toshiba European subsidiary has revealed that it has also been affected by a cyberattack in its division for self-checkout technology and point-of-sale systems. They said the attack seems to have been carried out using the same DarkSide ransomware.  A ransom was demanded, but nothing was paid and a “minimal” amount of work data was stolen. (CNBC) (removed by user:Alsoriano97)
 * Darksupp, the operator of the Darkside ransomware, announced that the group itself has lost access to the public part of their infrastructure including blogging, payment, CDN servers. Cryptocurrency funds were also withdrawn from the payment server and transferred to an unknown wallet.  (The Record) (removed by user:Alsoriano97)
 * A team of scientists in Chemistry and Materials Engineering in Japan publish a method to prepare tough and stretchable hydrogels and tune polymerization conditions without introducing a special structure. The method has applications in artificial joints, flexible contact lens, biosensors, drug delivery and soft robotics. (phys.org) (Nature > NPG Asia Materials) (removed by user:Alsoriano97)
 * Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the meat industry in the United States
 * Due to production declines and increased fast food demand, United States prices for chicken breasts have doubled and prices for chicken wings tripled since the start of 2021. Major chains like KFC, Wingstop, and Buffalo Wild Wings, have begun running out of or limiting sales of tenders, filets, and wings while independent eateries and bars have reported a lack of supply of wings for weeks.  (Taiwan News)(Newsweek) (removed by user:Alsoriano97)
 * Mass shootings in the United States
 * Three U.S. Army soldiers are accused of conspiring to buy firearms in Tennessee and Kentucky, then illegally sell them in Chicago, where the weapons were traced to at least one mass shooting on March 26, 2021, a February 2 homicide, and a March 11 shooting. Federal agents determined that the three soldiers bought about 91 firearms in Tennessee and Kentucky between September and April and sold them in Chicago. (Military.com) (removed by user:Alsoriano97)
 * Veterans Affairs nursing aide Reta Mays is sentenced to 7 life sentences and 20 years for systematically administering lethal insulin overdoses to elderly veterans under her care in Clarksburg, West Virginia. (USA Today)(Military.com) (removed by user:Alsoriano97)
 * The Australian publishes a story insinuating that the COVID-19 pandemic may have resulted from an inadvertent leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The paper references a Chinese publication in 2015 titled “The Unnatural Origin of SARS and New Species of Man-Made Viruses as Genetic Bioweapons” that refers to SARS coronaviruses as heralding a “new era of genetic weapons” that could be “artificially manipulated into an emerging human-disease virus, then weaponized and unleashed in a way never seen before”. (Australian)(The Week)(SCMP) (removed by user:Alsoriano97)
 * The United States Marine Corps reports that it is experimenting with shifting from brass to polymer ammunition. Marines are beginning testing with the M2 .50-caliber machine gun.  The Army is also investigating replacing M2 .50-cal ammo, as well as brass-cased 7.62mm ammo.  The evaluations will start later this year and run into 2022, with the schools of infantry on both coasts, Advanced Machine Gunners Course, and 1st and 2nd Amphibious Assault Battalions likely the first to try out the new round.  (Military.com) (removed by user:Love of Corey)
 * Researchers at Brigham Young University with the team of Dan Smalley demonstrate the capability to produce holographic objects that can be projected in a three dimensional space without the need for a display screen and interacted with by physical participants. They demonstrated the interaction between their virtual images and humans by having a student place a finger in the middle of the volumetric display and then film the same stick finger walking along and jumping off that finger. (phys.org) (removed by user:Love of Corey)
 * Mustafa Qadiri of California is accused by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California of fraudulently obtaining $5,000,000 through the Paycheck Protection Program by falsifying statements, providing altered records, and inflating his number of employees. (Fox Business News) (removed by user:SuperKirbyPudding)
 * China has "indefinitely" suspended all activity under a China–Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue, its state economic planner said. This has occurred after China imposed sanctions on Australian wine and coal while failing to renew Australian hay import permits, and Australia states cancelled participation in China's Belt and Road Initiative and are reviewing Chinese company Landbridge Group's lease on the Port of Darwin previously provided for 99 years at A$506 million. (Al Jazeera – Suspension) (9News) (Al Jazeera – Port Darwin) (removed by user:Wakari07) Should have been moved to May 6th