VOL. I · NO. 8584TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 20265¢

THE EDITION

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

131 stories filed by the Buffoon Desk.

WORLD Putin canceled meeting with CIA chief after reading his message · via NV

WORLD U.S. to take over Venezuelan oilfields previously run by Chinese, Russian firms · via NV

WORLD U.S. moves to sharply boost Patriot and THAAD missile production · via NV

TARIFFS Best Internet Providers In Fort Collins, CO · via Forbes

WORLD Fire Point warns Russia of fresh Flamingo strikes - video · via NV

WORLD Georgia’s only refinery switches entirely to non-Russian crude · via NV

WORLD Twelve killed, including Indian national, in Russian missile and drone blitz - Zelenskyy · via NV

CULTURE BBC axes Ski Sunday after almost 50 years · via The Telegraph

WORLD Logging operations uncovered at Cambodian senator’s dam in the Cardamoms · via Mongabay

CULTURE Ukrainian football star Mudryk set to join Tottenham from Chelsea on loan · via NV

COURTS Alanis Morissette accuses former tour manager of extortion in new lawsuit · via Courthouse News

WORLD European allies slam Russia's return at Asheville G20 summit · via NV

COURTS Lil Durk’s former assistant testifies on rapper’s reaction to 2022 murder · via Courthouse News

WORLD Major fire erupts near St. Petersbur · via NV

COURTS Racketeering claims survive against former defense contractor’s wife · via Courthouse News

COURTS Hoopers get second shot at suit over assaults by coach’s husband · via Courthouse News

COURTS Tribes fight at Ninth Circuit for land development rights · via Courthouse News

COURTS Women say celebrity hairstylist groomed Epstein victims to make them look ‘as young as possible’ · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE 9 justices on the Supreme Court or 13? Numbers battle revived in Congress · via Michigan Advance

WHITE HOUSE Markwayne Mullin Keeps Using This Slur To Describe Dems, And Experts Say It's 'Beyond A Dog Whistle' · via HuffPost

WHITE HOUSE Legal aid for immigrant kids remains in question after Trump administration pulls contract · via Michigan Advance

WORLD Inside Ontario’s Regulated Online Casino Boom | The Walrus · via The Walrus

WORLD Russian jet-powered drone rips into 16-story Kyiv apartment building – photo · via NV

WORLD Rescuers Saved Some 80 People In Grand Canyon Floods That Left 2 Dead And 1 Missing, Officials Say · via HuffPost

COURTS Ex-Google engineer who stole trade secrets sentenced to nearly 12 months · via Courthouse News

COURTS Fifth Circuit might inject new life into Texas’ Covid-19 vaccine lawsuit · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE Three candidates now face a criminal probe over public campaign funding fraud allegations · via Arizona Mirror

WORLD Togo cosponsors proposal to review commercial whaling ban · via Mongabay

COURTS Judge upholds $6.6M verdict over LAPD detention of Los Angeles veteran · via Courthouse News

WORLD Online marketplace Ozon offers sellers space in Kazakhstan warehouses after Ukrainian drone strikes hit its Russian logistics centers · via Meduza

WHITE HOUSE FSU shooting victim alleges school was negligent in keeping campus safe · via Florida Phoenix

WORLD Why doesn’t Russia kill Ukraine’s leaders? Putin says he needs ‘some kind of negotiators’ left in Kyiv — in case they decide to settle. · via Meduza

FACT CHECK Rising Measles Cases Driven by Falling Vaccination, Not Illegal Immigration · via FactCheck.org

WORLD Putin says Zelensky’s warning to civilian airlines operating in Russian airspace is a ‘bid for state terrorism’ · via Meduza

WHITE HOUSE Monique Worrell responds to rumors she’s about to be suspended again · via Florida Phoenix

WORLD Why Russia’s jet-powered ‘Geran’ drones are so hard to shoot down, and what Kyiv’s falling interception rate means for the future of the war · via Meduza

WHITE HOUSE USPS whistleblower predicts ‘catastrophic’ effect on elections under Trump vote-by-mail order · via Florida Phoenix

WORLD Russia’s finance minister walked into a G20 summit for the first time since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. But what did he walk out with? · via Meduza

WORLD Rooting tree seed production in local knowledge boosts forest restoration outcomes (commentary) · via Mongabay

COURTS The universe is making fewer stars, but it isn’t running out of fuel · via Courthouse News

CULTURE Before the infinity nets, there was ‘The Pacific Ocean’ – what origin stories focusing on Yayoi Kusama’s mental illness miss about her art · via The Conversation

COURTS Tropical Storm Edouard nears landfall · via Courthouse News

COURTS DC Circuit rules soldier’s desertion court-martial was wrongfully revoked · via Courthouse News

COURTS TikTok’s US entity faces class action over AI homework helper · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE Former Michigan Strategic Fund board member blasts decision to fund UP’s Copperwood Mine · via Michigan Advance

WORLD Aeroflot stock falls 5.11% after Zelensky warns that Russian airspace is becoming ‘completely unsafe’ · via Meduza

COURTS ASU professor takes DEI fight to Arizona Supreme Court · via Courthouse News

CULTURE What to do if your vote is challenged: Practical advice for midterm elections · via The Conversation

COURTS Texas asks Fifth Circuit to force J&J to pay for Tylenol court shuffle · via Courthouse News

COURTS Nearly 25 years after the attacks, Supreme Court asked to bring closure to 9/11 case · via Courthouse News

COURTS Feds fight to detain man convicted, then acquitted of killing Jam Master Jay · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE US House clears spending stopgap backed by Trump that averts government shutdown · via Michigan Advance

WORLD ‘Drone-infested skies are no place for civilian aviation’: Zelensky tells airlines still flying into Moscow to get out, days after ordering 1,000 drone attacks a day · via Meduza

WORLD South Africa’s new gold rush: Spekboom restoration speeds up, but it’s a bumpy road, insiders report · via Mongabay

COURTS Virginia governor beefs with Trump over meat subsidy scheme · via Courthouse News

COURTS Minnesota high court wrestles with trans employee rights at Catholic schools · via Courthouse News

WORLD Russian car-sales platform CarPrice limits payouts after investor branded ‘extremist’ for aiding Ukraine · via Meduza

WHITE HOUSE Nurses strike at Henry Ford Genesys reaches milestone this week · via Michigan Advance

WHITE HOUSE States move to fortify elections against Trump · via Florida Phoenix

WORLD Russian rapper Morgenshtern says he was offered a way back to Russia: visit the occupied Donbas, apologize, or fork over $1 million · via Meduza

WORLD Tiago Karaí and Laudiceia Benites helped reclaim Guarani land. They died with their children in an accident last month. · via Mongabay

COURTS Institute in Basic Life Principles wins discovery challenge · via Courthouse News

COURTS India’s top court drops criminal cases against protesters · via Courthouse News

COURTS South Korea cop closed missing persons cases to avoid work: Police · via Courthouse News

COURTS French prison overcrowding reaches new record high · via Courthouse News

WORLD In Indonesia, 20 Indigenous subtribes seek common ground amid mining divisions · via Mongabay

COURTS Vanuatu turns to world court in Pacific islands ownership fight with France · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE Judge blocks New York’s ‘climate Superfund’ law as other states watch closely · via Stateline

WORLD Germany blames Russia for Leipzig plane sabotage attempt, expels diplomats, and restricts visas · via Meduza

WORLD Biomass cooking fuels raise toxic metal exposure risks in Bangladesh, study finds · via Mongabay

COURTS Health risks soaring in Gaza as rainy season nears: WHO · via Courthouse News

COURTS European judges slam ‘paper witness’ in Irishmen’s conviction for grisly killing · via Courthouse News

WORLD Drones helped find people after Nepal floods but the search inside hydropower tunnels is a challenge · via Mongabay

COURTS Super Bowl assault · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE Florida to execute 14th person on death row this year Tuesday night · via Florida Phoenix

WHITE HOUSE Inside immigration camps, trans women are forced off medications. The effects can be deadly. · via Arizona Mirror

WHITE HOUSE Transgender student drops lawsuit challenging SC’s school bathroom law · via Florida Phoenix

WORLD Scientists use mining data to build malaria alert system in the Amazon · via Mongabay

COURTS Former PM Starmer resigns from UK Parliament · via Courthouse News

COURTS Hawaii’s age-21 gun law survives Second Amendment challenge · via Courthouse News

CULTURE Online mental healthcare is here to stay: Here’s how to navigate your options and find the right clinician · via The Conversation

FACT CHECK High School Aviation Maintenance Programs: FAA Should Assess Expanding Access to the Mechanic Knowledge Test · via GAO

WORLD As British Columbia mulls continued wolf-killing to save caribou, critics say habitat loss is the real threat · via Mongabay

COURTS Pew: Latinos split on whether American dream is achievable · via Courthouse News

WORLD Seen and silenced: How Russian surveillance software suppresses Georgian civilians rights · via Global Voices

CULTURE Many space missions are searching for life beyond Earth – but are we prepared for the fallout if they succeed? · via The Conversation

CULTURE What is public interest technology? An expert on data and policy explains how it helps people in need · via The Conversation

CULTURE The greenest building is the one still standing after a disaster · via The Conversation

CULTURE Data center projects in Pennsylvania face stronger local scrutiny after Shapiro’s executive order · via The Conversation

CULTURE How students at Colorado State helped teach their community to stop talking past each other and manage complex problems · via The Conversation

WORLD Ukrainian ombudsman alleges corrupt draft officials charge up to $70,000 to smuggle men out of the country to evade mobilization · via Meduza

WORLD In Ecuador’s Intag Valley, communities build their own micro-hydropower plant · via Mongabay

CULTURE White House ballroom cleared for now, but question remains: Can president legally use donations to build it? · via The Conversation

WORLD Despite Ukrainian strikes, Russian online marketplaces Ozon and Wildberries are still selling supplies for Russia’s military. Here’s what we found. · via Meduza

WORLD Namibia greenlights controversial project to dredge phosphate from seabed · via Mongabay

CULTURE Commentary: Private Equity is Coming for America’s Rural Hospitals · via Daily Yonder

WORLD When plastic companies write the lesson plans · via Grist

WHITE HOUSE SNAP cuts could lead to kids losing free school breakfast and lunch · via Stateline

WORLD Russia strikes Kyiv and surrounding region, killing more than 10 people · via Meduza

WHITE HOUSE Public defenders accuse two Detroit judges of attempting to break their strike · via Michigan Advance

WORLD US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells Russia’s finance minister Russia won’t get economic relief until Ukraine war ends · via Meduza

WHITE HOUSE Army Secretary Dan Driscoll Steps Down In Latest Military Departure · via HuffPost

WORLD Drone attack sparks fire across Ust-Luga port zone in Leningrad Oblast - video · via NV

CULTURE A GOP Mayor Broke With Trump On Dolly Parton's Flags — And Learned What She Means To People · via HuffPost

WORLD Grim Milestone: Death Toll From Flooding In Nepal, China Tops 1,000 · via HuffPost

WORLD Photos reveal devastating aftermath of massive Russian airstrike on Kyiv · via NV

WORLD UN fund for sharing biodiversity benefits struggles for attention — and money · via Mongabay

WORLD Erdogan to offer Putin Turkiye as Ukraine talks mediator · via NV

WORLD The world’s reefs are disappearing. Coral trafficking is booming · via Mongabay

CULTURE Best Internet Providers In San Diego, CA · via Forbes

CULTURE We're Nannies. Here Are 7 Red Flags We Can Spot When We Start A Job. · via HuffPost

WORLD FAB-500 damages 32 apartment buildings, hotel and kindergarten in Sloviansk · via NV

WORLD Climate change parches Puerto Rico and Jamaica in rare early wet season drought · via Mongabay

COURTS California lawmakers rush to pass bills on final day of session · via Courthouse News

WORLD When the lights go out in Libya’s Cyrenaica · via Global Voices

WORLD Kim Jong Un reshuffles military leadership as North Korea deepens Russia ties · via NV

WHITE HOUSE Iran Dismisses Trump's Post Of Attack On Key Energy Hub Of Kharg · via HuffPost

WORLD Ukraine suppresses Russian drones before sweeping Kupyansk forest lines — ISW · via NV

WHITE HOUSE Oil Prices Surge After U.S. Strike On Iranian Rocket Launchers · via HuffPost

WORLD Russian economic boom over as GDP growth expected to plummet through 2032 · via NV

WHITE HOUSE Republican Takes On Trump In Brutal C-SPAN Call: ‘America Needs To Wake Up’ · via HuffPost

WORLD Musk told Fedorov he did not oppose Starlink strikes inside Russia · via NV

COURTS Hawaii lawsuit over fuel contamination continues, as does cleanup · via Courthouse News

CULTURE The Way I Treated My Sister Growing Up Still Haunts Me. Years Later, She Sparked A Realization That Changed My Life. · via HuffPost

WORLD Drone violates Moldova's airspace amid Russian attack on Ukraine · via NV

WHITE HOUSE GOP secretary of state hopeful Alex Kolodin won’t say Arizona elections are secure · via Arizona Mirror

CULTURE 30 Decor Finds If You’re *So Over* Summer And Want To Get A Head Start On The Spooky Season · via HuffPost

WHITE HOUSE Trump’s ‘Lake America’ Trolling Is Getting Even More Bizarre · via HuffPost

WORLD NABU, SAPO expand Poltava road kickback case to nine suspects · via NV

COURTS ‘Durk told us to’: key witness takes stand in rapper’s murder-for-hire trial · via Courthouse News

CULTURE The Best Hiking Shoes That Are Worth Every Penny · via HuffPost

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