Monday, August 22, 2022

Reading archive 2022-08-22

In new election, Big Tech uses old strategies to fight 'big lie’: How well companies enforce their rules will be critical in fight against 2020 election-rigging claims, according to experts

Officials: Woman posing as stranded motorist kills student in Alabama forest; officers find encampment, 5-year-old with shotgun: While investigating the shooting, officials discovered an encampment in the woods and were confronted by a 5-year-old boy armed with a loaded shotgun, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office said

“An Unusual $1.6 Billion Donation Bolsters Conservatives”

The casualties of California legalizing pot: Growers who went legal: A blue state’s taxes and regulation have boosted corporate producers, leading to the near-death of the small cannabis farmer

The TVA is dumping a mountain of coal ash in Black south Memphis: A convoy is trucking the contaminant through a community already burdened with pollution to dump it in a landfill

These puffy helmet caps are the next big thing in NFL player safety

Deshaun Watson is the star the NFL deserves: A cynical, empty narcissist

‘It’s a rip-off’: GOP spending under fire as Senate hopefuls seek rescue: A cash crunch at campaigns and the NRSC set off a panic as GOP candidates emerged from bruising primaries playing catch-up in polls and advertising

Walker, criticizing climate law, asks, ‘Don’t we have enough trees around here?’

Chinese leader asked Biden to prevent Pelosi from visiting Taiwan: The trip exposed tensions between the House Speaker and administration officials, who had warned of China’s potential response. Pelosi felt the trip was an important statement to make. - "Yet Biden himself has at times made comments on Taiwan that have put Chinese officials on edge. He has not always struck the delicate balance that the United States’ 'strategic ambiguity' requires when it comes to the question of Taiwan’s defense. In May, while making his first presidential trip to Asia, Biden told reporters the United States would defend Taiwan militarily if China attacked."

A Republican who says Trump lost looks to put Colorado’s Senate race in play: Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet faces a tougher-than-expected reelection race after Republicans nominate businessman Joe O’Dea over an election denier

Scientists debunk myth that Yellowstone wolves changed entire ecosystem, flow of rivers

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