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A police department in Texas that arrested a local resident for complaining on social media about their city’s contaminated water supply
💥 has been ordered closed after failing to prove it provided any benefit to the community.
State officials stepped in to investigate after Jennifer Combs spent a night in jail in May
after a post appeared on her Facebook page suggesting people were hospitalized by bacteria in the water pipes of Trinidad,
a municipality in Henderson co…

Texas police department ordered closed for failing to provide any benefit to community
Disbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply

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Bats decouple sonar gaze from steering to resolve sensory conflict https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.08.743555v1 "We induced auditory-visual conflict in free-flying echolocating Egyptian fruit bats", "animals could efficiently employ active sen…

Bats decouple sonar gaze from steering to resolve sensory conflict
When sensory modalities yield conflicting information, animals must rapidly reassess stimuli to select their actions. We induced auditory-visual conflict in free-flying echolocating Egyptian fruit bats by fitting animals with prisms that shifted the perceived visual location of a landing perch while echoes returned from its veridical location. Bats that course-corrected within a single goal-directed flight did so by decoupling sonar gaze from steering, to enable rapid reweighting of visual and …

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"Sovereignty comes with responsibility, and the responsibility to prevent a foreseeable disaster from crossing into another country's airspace has not been met"
Reacting to a social media post about the air quality in Cleveland, Moreno wrote: "I’ll be introducing a bill next week to sanction Canada and the responsible Canadian government officials for this atrocity."

4 Republicans in U.S. Congress accuse Canada of failing to do enough to prevent wildfires | CBC News
Republican members of U.S. Congress are slamming Canada's federal and provincial governments over what they claim is inaction in preventing the wildfires currently spreading smoke and poor air quality across much of the northeastern U.S., in addition to Central Canada.

Brits were left shocked after millions across England and Wales were sent a blaring Government emergency alert tonight with a stark warning.
Phones sounded with the siren-like warning at around 7pm on Friday 14,
with British residents, and visitors urged not to do anything that could spark a blaze.
It was the first time a national alert to phones had ever been used by the government, following tests in the past and regional warnings sent to devices.

Millions startled by blaring emergency alert warning of 'very high' wildfire risk
The unexpected siren-like warning sounded on phones at 7pm, prompting startled reactions online as people were urged to avoid anything that could spark a wildfire

'I spent the night coughing': Wildfire smoke leaves Bordeaux residents struggling to breathe
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260727-i-spent-the-night-coughing-wildfire-smoke-leaves-bordeaux-resi…

'I spent the night coughing': Wildfire smoke leaves Bordeaux residents struggling to breathe
A dense blanket of smoke has hung over Bordeaux since last Friday as a massive wildfire burns its way through southwestern France. As the flames creep closer to the city, FRANCE 24 met residents stunned by the scale of the disaster and fearful of what comes next.

40 years ago this weekend, jerry garcia falls into a diabetic coma & nearly dies. in the hospital, his heart stops following an allergic reaction when doctors give him valium. the dead will cancel 30 dates through fall. he relearns to play guitar & is performing again by october.

Nexstar appeals a district court judge's injunction blocking its Tegna acquisition while an antitrust lawsuit proceeds and calls the injunction "overbroad" (Dominic Patten/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/nexstar-reactions-tegna-merger-i…

Nexstar Rails Against $6.2B Tegna Merger Injunction: Calls Out DirecTV & State AGs “Cynical Attempt To Advance Their Own Commercial & Political Interests”
Months after a federal judge put a freeze on Nexstar & Tegna's $6.2B merger, the local TV giant trashed State AGs & DirecTV in a hardcore court filing

Cowboys hiring youngest DC in franchise history caught ex-Eagles 6-Time Pro Bowler off guard https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/christian-parker-darius-slay-cowboys-eagles-reaction/be0b48d59d…

Videos show ICE’s pursuit of immigrant’s van before Houston shooting
Videos that capture the minutes leading up to and immediately after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot an undocumented Mexican immigrant in Houston early Tuesday morning
show agents aggressively following a white work van and then approaching the vehicle on foot.

Security camera footage from nearby businesses and residences, obtained and analyzed by The Washington Post, provides a n…

What videos show about ICE’s pursuit of immigrant’s van before Houston shooting
Surveillance footage captures ICE agents in unmarked vehicles pursuing the van Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving.