From Jenna Orkin Hamas says it accepts cease-fire proposal; US reviewing announcement: Live updates How ancient Amazonians transformed a toxic crop into a diet staple Democrats bracing for massive protests at party’s August convention Fascinating and Intriguing Facts About US Geography We Never Learned Until Now New Orleans teens who made 'impossible' Pythagorean Theorem discovery featured on 60 Minutes Anti-Israel protesters vandalize WWI memorial, burn American flag after cops block group from reaching star-studded Met Gala in NYC 'Folks, it's bad': Merced sheriff warns of public safety crisis as deputy vacancies mount Death of Self-Checkout, Walmart Charges for it in Some Locations ‘He had a remorseless drive to punish others’: the man who duped Hollywood Teens who discovered new way to prove Pythagoras’s theorem uncover even more proofs

From Jenna Orkin Does the American Diabetes Association work for patients or companies? A lawsuit dared to ask Venomous snakes likely to migrate en masse amid global heating, says study The defense made the former Trump communications director cry. The prosecution seems to have gotten what it wanted. University endowments show few signs of direct Israel, defense holdings ‘You’re going to call me a Holocaust denier now, are you?’: George Monbiot comes face to face with his local conspiracy theorist Bumblebee nests are overheating to fatal levels, study finds ‘Inside an oven’: sweltering heat ravages crops and takes lives in south-east Asia Minouche Shafik: the UK peer facing choppy waters over Gaza protests at Columbia Why Silicon Valley is betting on a Goldman prodigy to build a glorious city of the future Proposed power grid upgrades driven by Va. data centers could cost Marylanders $500M

From Jenna Orkin Johnson & Johnson proposes $6.5bn settlement of talc cancer lawsuits A whistleblower who accused a Boeing supplier of turning a blind eye to defects has died after a sudden illness: reports Stunning image shows atoms transforming into quantum waves — just as Schrödinger predicted Orangutan observed treating wound using medicinal plant in world first How Much Aid Is Actually Reaching Gazans? Is Hunterbrook Media a News Outlet or a Hedge Fund? Columbia’s Campus in Crisis Scenes of dissent and defiance at Columbia University, where scores of students have been arrested for participating in pro-Palestine protests. 8 Nuclear Energy Terms that Don’t Mean What You Think Brazil: 37 killed and dozens missing in worst floods in 80 years California man charged with threatening to kill Fani Willis

From Jenna Orkin Once Unthinkable Nuclear Plant Revival Is a Reality in US Shift Live Updates: Protesters Take Over Building on Columbia Campus The wild-looking Russian 'turtle tanks' that keep showing up may not be as crazy as they seem The Revolution Has Begun in the UK 75,000 UK parents have come together to give their kids a smartphone-free childhood Where Seas Are Rising at Alarming Speed The implications of applying ecmo to organ transplantation could be profound. If organs could be reliably kept alive outside of the body, they could be sent to a centralized organ bank. Transport time would no longer be a factor. Organs could be perfectly matched to recipients, and marginal organs could be tuned up outside the body with medications. Wait lists could disappear. “Transplant would not be an emergency surgery anymore,” Rojas-Peña said. It could be planned, like any other operation. In Toronto, a group has already begun doing this with human lungs, and that has allowed them to utilize about seventy per cent of donor lungs for transplantation, compared with an average in the United States of about twenty per cent. The findings “help to reveal the origin of 99 percent of the visible mass in our universe,” write Deur, Brodsky and their co-author Craig D. Roberts. This mass comes from atoms, and most of their mass is in their protons and neutrons. But the quarks that make up protons and neutrons have relatively little mass. Most of the missing mass, it turns out, comes from the binding energy of the strong force itself. Over 1,000 sea lions descend on San Francisco's Pier 39 White House considers welcoming some Palestinians from war-torn Gaza as refugees UK students begin new wave of protests against Gaza war after US arrests

From Jenna Orkin Revealed: how companies made $100m clearing California homeless camps Here are 11 states with guaranteed basic-income programs that give residents hundreds of dollars a month, no strings attached Why AI might make it harder to pull off a 4-day workweek UK Public Majority Does Not Back Rwanda Plan As Ukraine runs low on ammo, civilians build troops DIY drones at home Mint Butterfield rescued: Tech billionaire’s 16-year-old child found in San Francisco Donald Trump’s Sleepy, Sleazy Criminal Trial Talk to Me Can artificial intelligence allow us to speak to another species? Rain gardens and bathwater reuse becoming trends, RHS says Chelsea flower show to focus on water reuse as gardeners prepare for shortages caused by climate crisis Elliott Abrams and the Contradictions of U.S. Human-Rights Policy

From Jenna Orkin The Next US President Will Have Troubling New Surveillance Powers Exotic spiders flourishing in Britain as new jumping species found in Cornwall Global warming and international trade offering increasingly hospitable environment Asia's Next War Could Be Triggered By a Rusting Warship On a Disputed Reef Indian nuclear facilities found to have radioactive influence on Southern Tibetan Plateau Old, unused, and 'twisty' — meet the obscure NY election-conspiracy law that just might get Trump convicted Fulton Bank, N.A. of Lancaster, Pennsylvania Assumes Substantially All Deposits of Republic First Bank, Philadelphia Are low-water crops a realistic way to cut back on Colorado water use? 10 southwestern farmers are trying to find out. A physician, a lawyer, a CEO: the 84 fake electors who allegedly tried to steal the 2020 election “I just couldn’t believe that they had taken her off the waiting list when she didn’t answer. Did anyone look for her? Did anyone check the CCTV cameras to see if she had left?” In war-battered Gaza, residents grow angry with Hamas

From Jenna Orkin Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigns, allowing U.N. force, elections California—the fifth-largest economy in the world—has experienced a record-breaking string of days in which the combined generation of wind, geothermal, hydroelectric and solar electricity has exceeded demand on the main electricity grid for anywhere from 15 minutes to 9.25 hours per day. How Columbia’s Campus Was Torn Apart Over Gaza Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction overturned by New York appeals court Gaza-based militants launched mortar rounds on Wednesday at Israeli forces making preparations for the U.S.-led effort to establish a new maritime aid route for Gaza, according to three U.S. officials. In addition, the Qatar Foundation (QF) TAMU contract extraordinarily stipulates that Qatari state proxies own the intellectual property for the research projects, which is not conventional practice. In addition, according to the agreement, the Qatari Regime, based on the contract with Texas A&M, has access to sensitive student information, which could violate acceptable United States (US) practices. A teen whose dad cofounded Slack and mom cofounded Flickr is missing somewhere around San Francisco Poland ready to help Ukraine to get military-age men back, minister says Zimbabwe's New Currency ‘Privileged access’: pro-plastic lobbyists at UN pollution talks increase by a third

From Jenna Orkin They found that the artificial DNA successfully sorted 18 photographs into categories. The three-judge panel went on to strike down Trump's immunity argument in a unanimous decision, stating they could not accept his assertion that a president has "unbounded authority to commit crimes." Such a stance, they warned, would "collapse our system of separated powers." 11 Sets of Twins to Graduate from Same Pennsylvania High School Together Exclusive: The Boeing whistleblower testified for 12 hours before his suicide. Here’s what he saw at the planemaker that alarmed him Project 2025 Nearly 1,300 stores are closing across the US in 2024. Here's the list. Jamie Dimon warns the world order is being challenged — and bashes crypto once more US Birth Rate Falls to Record Low Iran sentences popular rapper to death for supporting Mahsa Amini protests China Is Leading the Global Nuclear Power Build Out Germany arrests EU Parliament staff member on China espionage charges

From Jenna Orkin Space junk is getting out of control. NASA estimates that low-Earth orbit alone contains 34,000 pieces of debris larger than 10 cm in diameter, 900,000 objects between 1 cm and 10 cm, and more than 128 million fragments between 1 mm and 1 cm. We need to take both passive and active measures before space junk makes Earth's orbital space unusable, write Aneli Bongers and José L. Torres, associate professor and professor, respectively, of macroeconomics at the University of Málaga. Active volcano shocks scientists with $6000 gold eruptions in the biting cold of Antarctica Report: Freedom of Expression in Generative AI – A Snapshot of Content Policies Wind Overtakes Fossil Fuels as the UK’s Largest Power Generation Source Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient Messenger: A battle over playing catch in a Ballwin backyard reaches a fevered pitch Pro-Palestinian protests sweep US college campuses following mass arrests at Columbia Bird flu virus found in grocery milk as officials say supply still safe Meta and Google stand ready to reap a TikTok ban’s rewards US Air Force could rain hellfire with 1,500 new StormBreakers smart bombs

From Jenna Orkin A revolution in helping Africa’s poor: Cash with no strings attached Jonathan Haidt Wants You to Take Away Your Kid’s Phone Louisiana’s flagship university lets oil firms influence research – for a price 6 countries earned top spot for the world's most powerful passport: See where the US ranks Extreme heat wave in East Antarctica driven by record-breaking 'atmospheric river,' analysis finds Hall pass from hunger: School vending machine offers free meals to students all day Pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at Yale as college demonstrations grow Nine practices from Native American culture that could help the environment The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has teamed up with a nonprofit conservation company on a project to cryogenically store tissue from every endangered animal species in the U.S. Ronan Farrow on the Scheme at the Heart of Trump’s New York Trial