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Ballroom opponents ask Supreme Court to keep Trump project on hold - The Washington Post
The National Trust for Historic Preservation urged the high court to let a pause take effect. An appeals court ordered that the administration halt construction by Friday.…
Trump seeks to open millions of acres of national forests to roads - The Washington Post
The Trump administration proposed a repeal of the 2001 “roadless rule,” raising concerns among environmentalists that already-threatened woodlands could be further fragmented.…
Google makes it official: Googlebook launch event set for September in NYC - Chrome Unboxed
For months, we’ve tracked code commits in the Chromium Gerrit, analyzed hardware benchmark leaks, and pieced together Google’s ambitious plans to bridge the worlds of ChromeOS and …
Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods Confirmed: See Them in Action - MacRumors
Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7...…
Ticks carrying Lyme disease are gaining ground in North Carolina, study finds - WRAL
New UNC-led research shows Lyme disease is gaining ground in western North Carolina, with about 40% of adult blacklegged ticks tested carrying the bacteria that causes the disease.…
Penn State cocaine bust nets 14 arrests over alleged pledge coke-cutting ‘indoctrination' rituals - Fox News
More than a dozen Penn Staters face charges after students allegedly cut and packaged cocaine inside Delta Upsilon and Sigma Chi frat houses.…
Jeanie Buss contesting family's sale of stake in Lakers - ESPN
Jeanie Buss is contesting a claim from the rest of the Buss family that they are selling the family's remaining stake in the Lakers to new owners Josh Kushner and Bob Iger.…
Judge delays Luigi Mangione’s state murder trial after double jeopardy claim - NBC News
The judge overseeing Luigi Mangione’s state murder trial in New York put the proceedings on hold to allow prosecutors time to respond to Mangione’s efforts to have the case thrown …
A trail camera in British Columbia recorded a wild wolf swimming out to a buoy and hauling a fully submerged crab trap up the beach by its rope, then working the bait cup open — three minutes of footage no wild canid had ever been filmed doing - Space Daily
Wolves have long been portrayed as apex hunters of land and sea, but this is the first evidence of one deliberately harvesting human fishing gear—suggesting these predators are far…
I’m hooked on Peak Design’s new City bags - The Verge
Peak Design’s City Crescent and City Backpack both feature new BagLev hooks. They’re so useful that I now want all my bags to have tabletop hooks.…