The amount of sugar consumed by children from soft drinks in the UK halved within a year of the sugar tax being introduced, a study has found. (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/22143130
A World War I veteran is first Tulsa Race Massacre victim identified from mass graves (apnews.com)
A World War I veteran is the first person identified from graves filled with more than a hundred victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that devastated the city’s Black community, the mayor said Friday....
'Blitz primary' could open up Democratic race if Biden drops out (news.yahoo.com)
Their idea goes something like this, according to a memo shared with Semafor that has been circulated to Democratic donors and bundlers as well as officials within the Biden campaign and administration:...
Restrictions on Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram lifted (www.bbc.com)
Meta has lifted the final restrictions on Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts in the run up to US presidential elections in November....
Ex-ICE Official Says If Trump Wins, US 'Ain't Seen Sh*t Yet' When It Comes to Deportations (www.commondreams.org)
China's subsidies create, not destroy, value (asiatimes.com)
It’s official: No Nintendo console has lasted as long as Switch without being replaced (www.videogameschronicle.com)
The Supreme Court Is Demolishing Decades of Precedent on Workers’ Rights (truthout.org)
Hate group leader celebrates video showing abuse of nonbinary child (www.lgbtqnation.com)
South Korea to mass produce lasers that can take out drones at $1.50 a hit (www.cnn.com)
South Korea is beginning the mass production of a low-cost laser weapon that has successfully shot down small drones during testing, the country’s key arms agency said Thursday....
Redbox’s disc rentals are over (www.theverge.com)
Libreoffice released an Android version! (www.libreoffice.org)
Currently it is a “viewer” (renderer with usable UI) and editing features are experimental....
Unofficial Reddit API (github.com)
I am making a Unofficial Reddit API, which mimics the official one....
Delta Airlines appears to think Palestinian flag is "terrifying" (www.theguardian.com)
US Gaza aid pier to be permanently dismantled after operating for just 20 days – reports | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Possible Gunshots at Trump rally (www.npr.org)
Elon Musk calls for “criminal prosecution” of Twitter/X ad boycott perpetrators (arstechnica.com)
After the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary released a report accusing the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) of colluding with companies to censor conservative voices online, Elon Musk chimed in. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Musk wrote that X “has no choice but to file suit against the...
How Hamas Is Fighting in Gaza (www.nytimes.com)
Elon Musk's X deceives users and breaches online content rules, EU says (www.cnbc.com)
Richard Simmons, a fitness guru who mixed laughs and sweat, dies at 76 (apnews.com)
Fitness guru Richard Simmons has died. Publicist Tom Estey tells The Associated Press that Simmons died Friday at his home in Los Angeles on Saturday, a day after his 76th birthday.
TIL: There was an animated tv show based on the children's book series Busytown called The Busy World of Richard Scarry (en.wikipedia.org)
Busytown
IOC and Saudi Arabia agree on 12-year deal for video gaming Esports Olympics (apnews.com)
Egypt charges pro-Palestine protesters with 'spreading fake news' (www.middleeasteye.net)
Egyptian security forces on Thursday detained 10 young men who took part in a protest that denounced Egypt’s role in the siege on Gaza. They are facing charges of “collaborating with a terrorist group” and “spreading and publishing fake news”....
Bitter tensions as reporters feel misled by White House over Biden health (www.theguardian.com)
With Joe Biden’s candidacy teetering in the wake of last month’s alarming debate showing, journalists who had covered his presidency full-time for years suddenly asserted that it lacked that most basic political element: credibility....
Russian plot to kill European weapons chief foiled by US and Germany (www.politico.eu)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/24848057
