Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Reading archive 2024-07-16

His family sought answers for 3 years. Now police think he was killed.: Zack Freeling was found shot to death in his D.C. home in 2021. Now the medical examiner has ruled the case a homicide.

Tortured by rat infestation, they’re fighting rodents — and their landlords: Residents at a pricey Washington, D.C., building say the rodent invasion has left them exhausted, scared and demanding answers from building management.

This butterfly went extinct. That’s not the end of the story.: The Xerces blue butterfly vanished from San Francisco in the 1940s. Scientists just released dozens of butterflies from a related species to take its place. - "While the group that bears the butterfly’s name did not oppose the project, 'we do not see it as a priority when there is so little funding for insect conservation,' said Scott Black, [Xerces] executive director. 

"'We should invest limited funding in the protection of and habitat restoration for the butterfly species that are currently facing extinction rather than introducing a common species into new areas,' Black added."

Call it what you want. Iowa's climate reckoning is here.: The extreme effects of climate change don’t have a political party. Heat waves, powerful storms, or devastating floods don’t care who you vote for or whether you live in a red or blue state.

Housing, once the ticket to wealth in China, is now draining fortunes: Communist Party officials are meeting this week to try to stabilize the slowing Chinese economy. But they’re not tackling the biggest problem: the property crisis.

Dismissal draws new scrutiny to Judge Cannon’s handling of Trump case: Trump-appointed federal judge tossed what many legal scholars considered the strongest criminal case against the former president.

Fact-checking Day 1 of the 2024 Republican National Convention: Speakers made false or misleading claims about border crossings, gas prices, tax cuts, the relative wealth of young Americans and Easter Sunday.

Jan. 6 marchers at Republican convention complicate efforts to avoid subject: Several delegates were in the mob outside the Capitol or involved in organizing alternate electors falsely claiming Donald Trump won in 2020.

Democrats clash over timing of formally nominating Biden: DNC leaders demand a quick virtual nomination ahead of late August convention, sparking pushback. [ed. note: it's Donna Brazile, Howard Dean, and Terry McAuliffe. That's Al Gore's campaign manager, the Scream Heard 'Round the World, and the guy who lost to Glenn Youngkin]

DeSantis-stacked panel approves ‘dirty trick’ language for abortion referendum: The language states that Florida’s abortion referendum will “negatively impact the state budget” if passed.

Biden, addressing NAACP, bashes Trump in bid to move beyond age questions: President seizes on recent news about Trump in an effort to return to his original plan: make the election a referendum on his opponent.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changes: Plans include proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code.

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