'My ex took my children': Hope for divorced parents as Japan to allow joint child custody (www.bbc.com)
The Japanese parliament has approved a change to a decades-old law, which will allow divorced couples to share custody of their children from 2026....
Israel Resists Grand Bargain as U.S. and Saudis Work on Security Pact (www.nytimes.com)
Two years into President Biden’s term, his aides began negotiating with Saudi leaders to have the kingdom establish diplomatic relations with Israel. But when the Israel-Hamas war began last October, the talks withered....
Donald Trump wants to control the Justice Department and FBI. His allies have a plan (www.reuters.com)
Some of Donald Trump’s allies are assembling proposals to curtail the Justice Department’s independence and turn the nation’s top law enforcement body into an attack dog for conservative causes, nine people involved in the effort told Reuters....
First sodium-ion battery storage station at grid level opens with cells that can be charged in 12 minutes (www.notebookcheck.net)
The Central Bank of China will use $42 billion to buy back unsold new buildings, which will then be converted into affordable housing. (www.caixinglobal.com)
4 Tools to Share Large Files Over the Internet Securely (itsfoss.com)
How to port any N64 game to the PC in record time (arstechnica.com)
Mayoral candidate and five others killed in shooting at campaign rally in Mexico (www.theguardian.com)
Young girl was among six people killed in gunfire in an area of Chiapas where shootings have become common and widespread...
Linus Torvalds is funlord of LKML (yarchive.net)
The thing that has always disturbed me about O_DIRECT is that the whole interface is just stupid, and was probably designed by a deranged monkey on some serious mind-controlling substances [*]....
Dobbs had the opposite effect conservatives intended (www.motherjones.com)
UK to get at least 25 new warships due to defence spending rise (news.sky.com)
The defence secretary said 22 ships are “already in the system” and committed to three new ships for the Royal Marines, with the possibility of three more....
Family of Air Force airman, 23, fatally shot by Florida sheriff's deputy demands release of bodycam video (www.nbcnews.com)
Ocalan calls for Kurdish action on Isis (morningstaronline.co.uk)
The imprisoned PKK leader has urged for resistance against Isis militants in Syria....
Taiwan is selling more to the US than China in major shift away from Beijing (apnews.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Whether it’s tapioca balls or computer chips, Taiwan is stretching toward the United States and away from China — the world’s No. 2 economy that threatens to take the democratically ruled island by force if necessary....
Israeli Reporter Amira Hass on Palestine & the Role of Journalism to Fight “Normalization of Evil” (www.democracynow.org)
Our guest is the Haaretz correspondent Amira Hass, the only Israeli Jewish journalist to have spent 30 years living in and reporting from Gaza and the West Bank. She is the recipient of the 2024 Columbia Journalism Award, and on Wednesday she addressed the graduating class of the Columbia Journalism School in New York City. Hass...