Spectrum News 13, by associated press: California could soon force large department stores to display some child products in gender neutral ways after the state Legislature passed a bill on Wednesday aimed at getting rid of traditional pink and blue…

ABC News, by Brittyn Clennett: New Zealand is reeling from a knife-wielding rampage at a busy Auckland supermarket that left six fighting for their lives and the assailant dead. Authorities have called it a terror attack. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern…

ProPublica, by Abrahm Lustgarten: This article is co-published with The New York Times: On a 110-degree day several years ago, surrounded by piles of sand and rock in the desert outside of Las Vegas, I stepped into a yellow cage…

On the occasion of the 16th National Day for the Custody of Creation on the theme “Walking in a new life. The ecological transition for the care of life”, the diocese of Forlì-Bertinoro proposes for tomorrow, Saturday 4 September, an…

USA Today, by Christal Hayes, Carly Q. Romalino, and Dominic Gwinn: Water was coming in fast to Deborah Torres’ first-floor apartment in Queens, New York, late Wednesday. But even in the midst of her panic, she knew there were neighbors…

USA Today, by Abbott Koloff: Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been charged with the alleged sexual assault of a teenage boy in Massachusetts, the first criminal charge to be brought against the prelate since he was accused years ago of…

LifeSite, by Michael Haynes: The Vatican is celebrating an ecumenical movement designed to promote “ecological conversion” and to respond to Pope Francis’s persistent calls to heed the “cry of the Earth.” Starting September 1, the World Day of Prayer for…

NPR: A day after an explosive wildfire emptied a resort city at the southern tip of Lake Tahoe, a huge firefighting force braced for strong winds Tuesday as some residents in neighboring Nevada were ordered to evacuate. The city of…

AP, by Seth Borenstein: In the past two years, hurricanes have been brewing, strengthening and hitting the United States at a record pace, and Ida will likely go down as one of the nastiest of a dangerous bunch. While not…

The Weather Channel, by weather.com meteorologists: In Louisiana, small signs of progress. Lights came on in parts of New Orleans and some stores have opened their doors, but nearly a million people in the state are still in the dark…

The New York Times, by Michael D. Shear and Jim Tankersley: President Biden on Tuesday forcefully rejected criticism of his decision to end America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan, hailing what he called the “extraordinary success” of the evacuation of Kabul…

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