3D-printing enthusiast creates ‘Flock Sock’ to blind controversial cameras, shares design — slip-on cover attaches to broom handle to make it easy to put on devices placed on traffic and streetlights

“The very least you can do is help protect these valuable civil servants from getting a bad sunburn.”

Tom’s Hardware

Inside Trump’s Failed Hunt for Noncitizen Voters

According to interviews and internal emails reviewed by ProPublica, career staffers at the Justice Department warned that transferring voter rolls to HSI to enable it to search for noncitizen voters could violate federal privacy laws. Similarly, longtime HSI insiders cautioned that using the agency’s databases and tools to search these lists would yield mismatches and wildly inflated results.

ProPublica

US courts will start publishing how often the government uses spyware

Starting in 2029, U.S. judiciary will publicly disclose precisely how many times judges authorized the use of wiretaps to be carried out with hacking tools and spyware, which fall under the category of what the feds call network investigating techniques, or NITs.

Tech Crunch

DHS wanted to build the largest ICE detention complex in the US. Here’s how the plan just got killed.

Catholic parishes and other community groups in Socorro, Texas, organized against the sprawling $126 million complex. They cited moral objections and warned that the town’s infrastructure couldn’t support it.

Religion News Service

Trump’s Ballroom Was His Dream of Beauty and Space. Now It’s a ‘Military Complex.’

As courts have questioned the president’s authority for the project, he has leaned in to arguments of national security

The Wall Street Journal

Pentagon innovation agency wants faster, more nimble hypersonic cruise missile

“Future U.S. military operations face increasingly significant challenges from the rapid proliferation and advancement of highly capable Integrated Air Defense Systems (IADS) by peer adversaries,” the RFI says.

Stars and Stripes

Democrats’ Progressive Influencer Problem

Rudeness, undue aggression, and even deranged behavior have always been features of depersonalized online environments—on social media platforms, and before that in “flame wars” on message boards. That isn’t new. But much less discussed is how slow and apparently hesitant many left-leaning candidates have been to denounce behavior of this kind from their online supporters—or what it means for candidates like Abdul El-Sayed or James Talarico, current objects of intense online fandoms.

The Bulwark

‘Uncharted territory’: Second-largest reservoir in US plunges to a record low

The reservoir’s levels dropped to 3519.91feet on Saturday, breaking the record low of 3,519.92 feet set in April 2023, according to data from the US Bureau of Reclamation published Sunday. It is now just under 30feet away from the point at which its dam will no longer be able to generate hydropower.

CNN

Trump Vaccine Plan Would Require Millions of Individual Shots Last Used Decades Ago

Monday’s announcement by the Republican president calls for separating combination shots—including the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine—into separate injections. Appointments for that and other vaccinations should be spaced out whenever possible, the order states.

To accomplish that, drugmakers would need to revive a slate of individual vaccines that have not been marketed separately in the U.S. for decades. They would also have to build new manufacturing plants capable of producing millions more vaccine doses than the nation currently uses.

Mississippi Free Press

National Code Talker Day brings 101-year-old veteran to Phoenix

The Marine Corps recruited over 400 Navajos during World War II to communicate confidential information using their then-unwritten language. It was the largest code-talking program in the military at the time.

The Press Democrat

Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing

The fiasco has cost American taxpayers $533 million, according to the Army. But the Army has not held General Dynamics or a key Turkish subcontractor — which provided the factory’s much-hyped but little-proven equipment — publicly accountable for the failures. Nor has it made General Dynamics pay a penny back.

ProPublica

Hurricane Lala weakens to a tropical storm, but flooding persists in Hawaii

The devastating hurricane grazes the Big Island in Hawaii in the US, but avoids making landfall.

AlJazeera

They fought for the U.S. in Afghanistan. Now they worry about losing their green cards

But now, five years after the U.S. left Afghanistan, hundreds of people who came on SIVs and now have green cards have received notices from the federal government warning them that the basis for their visas has been revoked or denied.

NPR

Even as Trump Flounders in the Polls, GOP Candidates Keep Running Further Right

Since Trump’s reelection, the GOP has increasingly embraced overtly white nationalist and conspiracist candidates.

Truthout

A Senate Committee Voted to Hold Fauci in Contempt. Now What?

The precedents set in the pursuit of Fauci could come back to haunt Republicans or possibly tee up even more politically motivated retribution campaigns in the next Congress.

Lawfare

Rescuers dig through rubble and landslides after Indonesia quake kills 51

Rescue teams in eastern Indonesia recovered four more bodies Sunday after a magnitude-7.7 earthquake struck the day before, bringing the death toll to 51, authorities said. Thousands have been displaced.

NPR

Hamas delegation meets Egypt’s intelligence chief in Cairo for Gaza ceasefire talks

A high-level delegation from Palestinian group Hamas arrived in Cairo on Sunday and held talks with Egyptian intelligence chief Hassan Rashad to discuss the implementation of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, according to Egyptian media, Anadolu reports.

Middle East Monitor

Destroyed crops, riverbed cyclists and a ‘Rock of Starvation’: how drought has devastated the Danube

For centuries, the rock was seen as a warning. When it began to emerge from the Danube, beneath Gellért Hill in Budapest, it meant the river had fallen so low that floating mills could no longer operate, crops were probably failing, and hunger would almost certainly follow. That is why, in the Hungarian capital, where over time the boulder became little more than a legend, it was named Ínség-szikla – the Rock of Starvation.

Today, amid record-low water levels on the Danube, the rock has not only emerged from the water, but surfaced almost in its entirety, along with the sandy riverbed on which it rests, astonishing geologists and government scientists sent to examine it. And, much as the rock was said to warn, Hungary is now facing an unprecedented energy crisis that has forced the country to shut down all but one of its Danube-cooled nuclear reactors for the first time in 44 years.

The Guardian

Russian attack sets iconic Kyiv book market on fire, injures 3

Founded in 1997, the Pochaina Book Market was once one of Ukraine’s largest book markets and a well-known destination for Kyiv’s book enthusiasts, according to Chytomo. It housed hundreds of retail stalls and offered books from more than 120 publishers.

The Kyiv Independent

Israel Police Ease Restrictions on Jewish Prayer at Temple Mount/Al-Aqsa

Under the status quo in place since 1967, the Temple Mount/Al-Aqsa compound is a Muslim holy site and place of worship, while non-Muslims may visit it. Police have eased restrictions in recent years, continuing the trend under far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir

Haaretz

Northern Thailand Communities March to Defend the Kok River from Mining Pollution

Hand-painted banners reading “Protect the Kok River” and “Bring Back Clean Water” waved above a crowd of farmers, fishers, scientists, and environmental activists as they walked along northern Thailand’s Kok River. For five days, hundreds of people marched 68 kilometers from Tha Ton in Chiang Mai province to Chiang Rai city, demanding action over toxic contamination flowing downstream from unregulated gold and critical minerals mines across the border in Myanmar (Burma).

Unicorn Riot

Israel clears evidence of Gaza genocide, rights group says

Israel recently removed more than 11 million U.S. tons of debris likely holding human remains and evidence of war crimes, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor says

Prism Reports

The DRC’s Ebola virus outbreak is likely to become the worst in history, the WHO says. Here’s why

“It is already the second-biggest Ebola epidemic on record, and it is moving faster than any previous Ebola outbreak,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday.

ABC News

Yemeni army launches 181 operations against Houthis in 24 hours

The Yemeni army said Sunday it launched 181 military operations in the past 24 hours against Houthi positions and targets in several governorates, killing and injuring dozens of the group’s members, Anadolu reports.

Middle East Monitor

Ukraine launches one of its largest aerial attacks of the war, killing at least 6 people in Russia

Russia’s Ministry of Defense said that it had destroyed 822 Ukrainian drones overnight. Some 600 drones were detected headed toward the Russian capital, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, with a third destroyed over the Moscow region itself.

NPR

Israeli Strikes Kill 11 in Lebanon, Including 3 Children, as Strikes Escalate

“Israel must halt this escalation,” said Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam in a statement.

Truthout