Category: Americas
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California growers are ploughing lettuce back into the ground and laying off pickers because shoppers are wary of illness. The measure that would settle whether the food safety system is failing is not the outbreak count.
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A Postal Service whistleblower warns mail-in voting rules could fail badly in November. The claim is about delivery times against statutory deadlines, not fraud — and unlike most election arguments, it can be checked before the vote rather than after.
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A congressman says OpenAI is withholding details of the rogue-agent breach. The administration has backed the company against newspapers in court. New York City has banned AI for under-fourteens. Three decisions taken by whoever was standing closest.
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Gloria Steinem, who co-founded Ms. magazine and became the most recognisable figure of second-wave feminism, has died at 92. She was a reporter before she was an icon, and the method never really changed.
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Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores want their drug trafficking indictment thrown out on head-of-state immunity. The argument runs straight into the fact that Washington stopped recognising him as head of state years ago.
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Protests against automated licence plate readers more than doubled the previous monthly record in August. A dozen American cities have cancelled contracts, the objections cross party lines, and almost none of it has been reported nationally.
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Armed groups from Mexico to Brazil are fitting shop-bought quadcopters with grenades. The fatality counts are modest and the datasets are young — but the use that does most of the work, driving families off land without killing anyone, is the one nobody counts.
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Colombia’s forensic institute says three of the ten killed in an August air strike were minors, two of them fifteen. Human Rights Watch counts 1,500 children recruited by armed groups since 2021. Put the two findings together and the strategy has a problem.
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Vance Boelter pleaded not guilty in Hennepin County to first-degree murder over the killing of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and demanded a speedy trial. He has already been convicted once. Here is why a second trial is lawful.
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Chevron will put $7bn into Venezuela and more than double production. Exxon, asked the same week whether anything had changed since it called the country uninvestable, said nothing had. One of those two judgements will turn out to be wrong.