SpaceX test-fires Super Heavy Starship booster ahead of 5th flight (video)

SpaceX ignited the engines on the Super Heavy first stage booster of its Starship rocket, completing a critical test ahead of the megarocket’s next flight. Source

New study finds household appliance tied to nearly 20,000 premature deaths: ‘We should focus on solutions’

Policymakers are beginning to act on this invisible threat. Source

Dear Abby: I want to kick out my dad and his soon-to-be wife

Dear Abby weighs in on a man who wants to kick out his father and the ‘equally nonworking’ woman his dad is with, and advises a woman with a dismissive partner who wants to get back together. Source

Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric plays a prominent role in first night of RNC

Some high-profile speakers on the first night of the Republican National Convention leaned into anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, doubling down on the party’s 2024 platform, which calls for keeping “men out of women’s sports” and ending “left-wing...

North Korea warns of ‘devastating consequences’ over leaflets from South

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea will face “devastating consequences” for dropping anti-Pyongyang leaflets over North Korea, state media KCNA said on Tuesday, citing Kim Yo Jong, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister. At least 29 large...

Five arrested for kidnapping, beating, and shooting teen in Williamson County

Five people were arrested and charged after luring a 17-year-old boy outside the city limits, then later beat and shot him, the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office said. Source