Condo owners in Surfside building were facing assessments for $15 million worth of repairs. Payments were set to begin a week after the building's deadly fall.
Gas stations are running out of gas ahead of the holiday weekend. It's the shortage of tank truck drivers coupled with rising demand that is causing supply chain bottlenecks and shortages. Experts say a growing number of stations are reporting that they are simply not able to get gas delivered- at any price.
Hotter than the human body can handle: Pakistan city broils in world’s highest temperatures (126°F) (Video)
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From Crazytown:
Blame Democrats for the rise in Chipotle burrito prices. (Video)
Out-of-practice Trump forgets to strand rally crowd in parking lot. (Andy Borowitz)
What underlies the G.O.P. commitment to ignorance? Closed-mindedness and ignorance have become core conservative values, and those who reject these values are the enemy, no matter what they may have done to serve the country.
Trump Organization sues New York City for closing golf course after January 6 riots. That could be a big mistake.
Tucker Carlson says 'Biden administration is spying' on him. The television personality offered no additional evidence to support his claim, which drew scrutiny from several users on social media.
Giuliani son gets no votes from Republican leaders in bid for New York governor. Andrew Giuliani, who has traded off his surname, embarrassed by poll that indicates Lee Zeldin will challenge Andrew Cuomo.
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KGB's daily agglomeration of stuff I find interesting:
Among other things, today is
- International Asteroid Day
- National Meteor Day
- National OOTD Day
- National Organization for Women Day
- National Parchment Day
- World Social Media Day
On this date:
- 1892 – Actions culminating in the Homestead Strike began
- 1905 – Albert Einstein sent the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduced special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik
- 1908 – The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, results in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia. (Video)
- 1938 - Superman first appears in DC Comics' Action Comics series issue #1
- 1953 – The first Chevrolet Corvette rolled off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan. (Video)
- 1966 – The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, was founded.
Birthdays
- 1901 - Willie Sutton, American bank robber (d.1980)
- 1917 – Susan Hayward, American actress (d. 1975)
- 1917 – Lena Horne, American actress, singer, and activist (d. 2010) (Video)
- 1930 - Thomas Sowell, American economist, social theorist, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution
- 1934 – Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician and author (d. 1997) (Video)
- 1942 - Robert Ballard, American professor explorer and discoverer (wrecks of the Titanic, Bismarck, and USS Yorktown)
- 1943 – Florence Ballard, American pop/soul singer (The Supremes)(d. 1976)
- 1956 – David Alan Grier, American actor, singer, and comedian
- 1959 – Vincent D'Onofrio, American actor (Video)
- 1966 – Mike Tyson, American boxer and actor (Video)
- 1985 – Michael Phelps, American swimmer
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Miscellany
A record-breaking hailstone fell near San Antonio. A bigger one went into margaritas.
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