Justice Alito accepted a luxury vacation as a gift, along with a right-wing billionaire who was pushing legal cases to give additional legal rights to billionaires (and less to the rest of us).

He did not report it.

Iceland has suspended its whale hunt and may stop the practice permanently.

Fanatical Israelis, from the camp that generally aims for ethnic cleansing, held a pogrom in an Arab town in Palestine and burned 30 houses.

Organized volunteers in Jersey are trying to eradicate the Asian hornets that have gained a foothold there.

In most of Western Europe these hornets are so established that there is little hope of getting rid of them with today's methods. Perhaps some day we will be able to eradicate them with an innovative genetic attack.

Business web sites are filling up with text written by chatbots to appeal to Google Search. This text is uninteresting for humans so humans generally don't read it.

It occurs to me that this could be profitable for Google. It will probably charge for the perverse service of writing the SEO text that will appeal to its search engine.

And it may be hard for other search engines to make sense of these pages enough to know when to show them to users.

Here's an idea: a chatbot-generated page could have a button saying "FOR HUMANS" that would take you to the version that humans would like to read.