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Dragon Age The Veilguard Gameplay Reveal Teaser (x.com)

Kitsune Tails is a gay furry Mario-like steeped in Japanese mythology releasing August 1 (www.gamingonlinux.com)

China arrests a man in connection to stabbing of 4 U.S. college instructors (www.npr.org)

Americans Are Leaving Both Parties. This Colorado City Shows Why. (www.politico.com)

America has more independent voters than Democrats or Republicans. Are they changing American politics?

FBI's latest data shows 'historic' drop in crime: Garland (abcnews.go.com)

The first three months of 2024 saw a continued drop in levels of violent crime and murder across the country, according to data released by the FBI on Monday – a trend that Attorney General Merrick Garland called “historic.”...

GameStop Raises $2.14 Billion on Back of Roaring Kitty-Led Rally (www.bloomberg.com)

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UN Human Rights Office Says IDF's Deadly Nuseirat Raid May Amount to War Crime (www.commondreams.org)

Israel vows to press on in Gaza after UN Security Council approves ceasefire proposal (www.cnn.com)

Virginia NAACP files suit against school board that restored names of Confederate leaders (www.nbcnews.com)

The state chapter of the influential civil rights organization argues that restoring the names of the pro-slavery military figures created “an unlawful and discriminatory educational environment for Black students.”...

Apple Matches Worker Donations to IDF and Illegal Settlements, Employees Allege (theintercept.com)

An open letter from Apple employees and shareholders demands the tech giant stop matching employee donations to organizations with ties to the Israeli military assault on the Gaza Strip and ongoing illegal settlement development in the West Bank....

Macron rolls the dice on France’s future - Atlantic Council (www.atlanticcouncil.org)

West Bank midwives are facing a maternal health crisis (www.motherjones.com)

Don’t Call It an ‘Ethnic’ Grocery Store: As Asian groceries like H Mart, Patel Brothers and 99 Ranch expand, they are reshaping American eating habits, and the American grocery market (www.nytimes.com)

Last year, Americans bought half a billion packets of Shin Ramyun, the spicy, beefy Korean instant noodle. The bold red-and-black packaging feels inescapable: It’s a staple of college dorm rooms, bodegas, middle-of-the-country Walmarts and viral TikTok videos....

PlayStation VR2 players can access games on PC with adapter starting on August 7 (blog.playstation.com)

How Much Energy Would It Take to Pull Carbon Dioxide out of the Air? (www.wired.com)

Anchorage Alaska police won't release bodycam video of 3 shootings. It's creating a fight over transparency (apnews.com)

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Hamas accepts UN ceasefire resolution, ready to negotiate over details, official says (www.reuters.com)

CAIRO, June 11 (Reuters) - Hamas accepts a UN Security Council ceasefire resolution and is ready to negotiate over the details, senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters on Tuesday, adding that it was up to Washington to ensure that Israel abides by it....

OpenAI's ChatGPT not working for hours as millions forced to use brain in 'major outage' server status (www.msn.com)

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8 Tajikistanis with suspected ties to ISIS arrested in US, source says (abcnews.go.com)

Eight suspects from Tajikistan with suspected ties to ISIS, who crossed into the United States from the southern border last year and this year, have been arrested in Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New York City, according to a source familiar with the investigation....

Why global GDP might be $7trn bigger than everyone thought (www.economist.com)

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No right wing wave in Finland as Left Alliance take record result in EU elections (yle.fi)

Finland’s results in the European election bucked a continent-wide trend of rising support for parties on the outer fringe of right-wing politics, with the Left Alliance and the National Coalition winning big at the expense of the nationalist Finns Party....