A 20-year-old who doesn't drink is touring 40 campuses to crown America's top party school, scoring frats and tailgates on a 1-to-10 scale. So far the University of South Carolina leads at 8.2, thanks to a parking lot packed with 15 frat tents.

— via NY Post, Angela Barbuti

A federal judge refuses to toss threats-of-violence charges over Gab posts vowing to "go postal" on a synagogue and kill lawmakers, ruling their menace isn't for a court to decide alone. The defendant called it hyperbole; the judge says a jury gets to weigh that.

— via Volokh Conspiracy (Reason), Eugene Volokh

Fresno raid nets 2,500 pounds of meth, 500 gallons of liquid product and 15 arrests, but investigators say the liquid alone could have yielded 2,000 more pounds of crystal meth. The years-long, eight-agency operation targeted conversion labs feeding the Central Valley's drug supply.

— via Hoodline, Michelle Johnson

France snapped Félix Auger-Aliassime's 13-match Davis Cup winning streak in doubles, but Canada still leads its tie 2-1. Auger-Aliassime gets another shot Saturday against Arthur Rinderknech, with a spot in the Bologna Final 8 on the line.

— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author

A collapsed sewer line has been dumping raw human waste into Clove Lakes Park's lake for decades, and it took a week after The Post exposed it for the city to even shut down boating and fishing. Staten Island's borough president says the neglect wouldn't fly in Central Park, and now wants answers on who knew what and when.

— via NY Post, David Spector

Only 15.9% of San Diego's used cars come in a color other than white, black, gray or silver, ranking the region second-to-last nationally, just ahead of Los Angeles. Turns out white, the local favorite, also loses the most resale value while rare colors like yellow hold onto theirs.

— via Hoodline, Roma Chang

Canada's Gen. Jennie Carignan lost her bid to chair NATO's military committee, with German Gen. Carsten Breuer elected instead in Copenhagen. A win would have made her the first woman in the role but forced her out as Canada's top military commander.

— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author

A pet living quietly at a Bolivian sanctuary turned out to be a wild cat species science had never named, the first in more than a century. DNA from over 30 cats and museum specimens untangled it from lookalike tiger cats scientists had long lumped together.

— via PBS NewsHour, Paola Flores, Associated Press

A Queens man is facing charges nearly two months after allegedly hurling a glass bottle at a cop's head during a chaotic NYCHA housing complex melee, leaving the officer hospitalized with a gash.

— via NY Post, Daniel Cody

A Sept. 4 fire shut down Puerto Rican Street Cuisine's block, and Oeste says nine years of rising costs will close it in October. Daruma Sushi has new owners, but Berkeley diners will have to wait to find out when it reopens.

— via The Oaklandside, Momo Chang

Ottawa skipped a joint statement from Germany, France and four other countries condemning Turkey's roundup of roughly 300 LGBTQ+ activists this week, issuing only a vague statement that never mentions Turkey. Canada is currently negotiating a free-trade deal with Ankara.

— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author

Ronny Mauricio is back with the Mets for the fourth time this season, with just eight games left to prove he belongs. His minor league numbers are solid, but a fractured thumb, a torn ACL and years of inconsistency have left his future murky heading into a decisive offseason.

— via NY Post, Mark W. Sanchez

Young lawyers are quitting over culture, not pay, says psychologist Cheryl Donaldson. Her fix: three non-negotiables firms keep skipping, plus why hybrid work is quietly costing talent.

— via Above the Law, Steve Fretzin

Berkeley's Daruma Sushi shut its doors at the end of August, but a new couple is taking over the space. Meanwhile, a nine-year-old Oakland bar plans to close in October citing costs, and a fire down the block from Puerto Rican Street Cuisine has forced a temporary shutdown there.

— via Berkeleyside, Momo Chang

A jeweller's mountainside sanctuary on North Pender Island is for sale for $1.7 million, complete with kilns, a tea house and a guest cottage. Built in homage to Frank Lloyd Wright, it was designer Karl Stiggen's home for the last 30 years of his life.

— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author

Jason Sanders survived a rough camp and a badly missed 54-yarder to nail two 50-plus field goals against the Titans: and it was enough to keep his job. Aaron Glenn also previews rookie corner D'Angelo Ponds' expected debut and updates injuries ahead of Sunday's game against Green Bay.

— via NY Post, Dan Martin

A lucha libre Christmas party, a last-minute Smiths request and one viral video turned into a mariachi group's biggest crossover yet. Now they're bringing "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" to The Ford.

— via LAist

A Civil War-era congressman once tried to prove a murder victim shot himself by accident: by reenacting it with a gun he thought was empty. It wasn't, and he died from the wound, though his client walked free.

— via Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino

A federal judge just voided the Education Department's mass cancellation of teacher-training grants, ruling the $600 million cut broke federal law. The February 2025 directive wiped out 90% of two major K-12 programs over vague DEI criteria, and the case already survived a Supreme Court detour.

— via Hoodline, Priya Choudhury

More than 280 authors are set for the Texas Book Festival's November 14-15 return to Austin, including Pulitzer winners Colson Whitehead and Hernan Diaz. The July preview showed under seven percent of the lineup, and nearly every event is free.

— via CultureMap Austin, Arden Ward

Canada is one win from the Davis Cup Final 8 after Félix Auger-Aliassime beat Quentin Halys in three sets in his Quebec City homecoming, extending his singles win streak to nine. Earlier, Liam Draxl, ranked outside the top 200, upset world No. 31 Arthur Rinderknech to put Canada 2-0 up on France.

— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author

A week in the Colorado backcountry with the iPhone 18 Pro turns up a real surprise buried under the variable aperture headline: manual focus, decoupled from exposure, with working focus peaking. The camera's new f/1.48 lens also throws a genuine optical starburst, not a software trick.

— via Daring Fireball, John Gruber

Four ex-Ravens followed John Harbaugh to the Giants, and their fingerprints were all over Week 1: eight catches, two touchdowns and a fullback pancaking a Cowboys linebacker to spring the game's first score.

— via NY Post, Jared Schwartz

Aquarium of the Pacific biologists just released their largest batch yet of endangered mountain yellow-legged frogs, pushing the program's five-year total past 1,000: over five times the entire wild population last counted in 2019.

— via LAist

BART could shutter up to 15 stations without a rescue: a $14 billion regional sales-tax measure now heading to a November vote. Backers rallied across the Bay Area today, while a rival committee says agencies should cut overtime and overhead before asking taxpayers for more.

— via The Oaklandside, Jose Fermoso