Dominion, whose election equipment is used in most Michigan counties, is suing Byrne for defamation after he spread conspiracy theories about Dominion's technology.

—The Detroit News

An attempt to ban all “forever chemicals” in Colorado failed. What will it take to finally get rid of PFAS?

First, Lisa Cutter removed the carpet from her downstairs level. As she learned more about PFAS — also known as forever chemicals — she replaced her nonstick pans. Then she started buying dental floss that was free of the harmful chemicals that have become pervasive in modern life.

“The problem is that we can’t keep track of all these things as people,” said Cutter, a state senator from Jefferson County. “It’s too hard. They’re in too many things.”

Cutter and two fellow Democratic lawmakers are running a bill in the state legislature to ban the sale of some consumer products containing PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — including cookware, outdoor apparel, ski wax and artificial turf. Senate Bill 81’s first draft had also included a full ban on the chemicals beginning in 2032, but the full ban faced enough opposition that it was written out of the bill at its first committee hearing on Tuesday.

The challenges against the bill illustrate the difficulty of regulating PFAS, which have been used for decades to make commercial products waterproof, nonstick or stain resistant. The harmful chemicals are difficult to regulate because they are everywhere, lawmakers and experts said.

—The Denver Post

‘We are hungry’: Cubans take to the streets in the second-largest city to protest

Hundreds of people in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba’s second-largest city, protested on the streets on Sunday, chanting “electricity and food” and “Patria y Vida,” homeland and life, in what appeared the largest demonstration on the island since the July 2021 uprising.

A video live stream on Facebook by an anonymous user at 3:38 p.m. on Sunday showed a large crowd protesting along Santiago’s Carretera del Morro Avenue.

Activist Yasmany Labrada, a former Santiago dissident who currently lives in Washington, D.C., published other videos of the protest, where Santiago residents can be heard chanting “we are hungry” and the presence of military forces at the scene.

As Cubans reported a cut in internet service, videos started to appear on Sunday evening, also showing protests in Bayamo, one of Cuba’s oldest cities in the eastern province of Granma, in Cacocún, in the eastern province of Holguín, and in Santa Marta, a town in Matanzas close to the sea resort of Varadero.

—Miami Herald