Today’s News Briefs include French trains attacked; Are boneless wings boneless?; and House vote to investigate Secret Service actions.
French trains attacked ahead of Olympics
France‘s train system was attacked overnight in what authorities call “malicious acts” just hours ahead of the Olympics. National rail operator SNCF on Friday said destruction of components of the country’s high-speed TGV rail network included arson that has stranded up to one million passengers. French intelligence services are mobilized, with the attacks appearing to have been coordinated by individuals with a knowledge of the system. French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal characterized the vandalism as “acts of sabotage,” which were “prepared and coordinated.” Europen news outlets say Russia is a prime suspect.
Bi-partisan vote to investigate Secret Service
The U.S. House us moving forward after it voted this week to form a task force to investigate the security failures surrounding the July 13 assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump. The vote underscores the bipartisan outrage over the shooting at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. One Trump supporter was killed. Lawmakers have responded quickly with hearings and widespread calls for accountability. The legislation passed by a vote of 416-0. “We need to know what happened. We need to get to the truth. We need to prevent this from ever, ever happening again,” Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Jim McGovern told the AP.
Court rules on “boneless” wings
In a controversial decision, the Ohio Supreme court has ruled that the name “boneless wings” doesn’t actually mean boneless. The 4-3 decision came after a restaurant guest sued after a bone from a boneless wing tore his esophagus. Michael Berkheimer said the restaurant failed to warn him that “boneless wings” could contain bones, despite the understanding the items are nuggets of chicken meat free of bones, or “boneless.” In the court’s Thursday decision, which is being mocked, it ruled that “boneless wings” refers to a cooking style not the absence of bones. The decision split the court. “The question must be asked: Does anyone really believe that the parents in this country who feed their young children boneless wings or chicken tenders, or chicken nuggets or chicken fingers expect bones to be in the chicken? Of course they don’t,” Justice Michael P. Donnelly wrote in dissent. “When they read the word ‘boneless,’ they think that it means ‘without bones,’ as do all sensible people.”
–Dwight Widaman and wire services