Macron: Ukraine must be allowed to strike bases on Russian territory from which missiles are fired (kyivindependent.com)
Ukraine should be allowed to strike military bases on Russian territory from which Moscow carries out missile attacks against Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron said on May 28, Le Monde reported....
1 million customers are without power in Texas as Dallas and Houston get slammed with destructive storms | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
More than a million customers in Texas were without power Tuesday as powerful storms delivered another round of violent weather to the state still reeling from an almost unrelenting parade of destructive and deadly storms in recent weeks....
Finally an alternative to Big Tech, your new open-source mobile ecosystem (f-droid.org)
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to engage in a mobile ecosystem outside of the watchful eye of the Big Tech giants and gatekeepers? A system that includes everything from operating systems, to app stores, to cloud services, messaging apps, email servers and more? A system that puts your privacy first, believes in a...
UK Woman Mistaken As Shoplifter By Facewatch, Now She's Banned From All Stores With Facial Recognition Tech (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
A big biometric security company in the UK, Facewatch, is in hot water after their facial recognition system caused a major snafu - the system wrongly identified a 19-year-old girl as a shoplifter.
Trying to buy a house is 'playing a game you can't win' (www.bbc.com)
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At least 40 killed in Rafah after Israeli missiles hit camp for displaced (www.aljazeera.com)
Gaza officials say the death toll from Israeli air strikes on a camp housing displaced Palestinians near Rafah in southern part of the strip has risen to 40....
At Least 27 People Killed in Horrific Amusement Park Fire (www.thedailybeast.com)
Shots fired at Toronto Jewish girls school, police investigating (www.cbc.ca)
Toronto police say they’re looking for multiple suspects who allegedly shot at an elementary school in North York early Saturday morning....
New tests confirm milk from flu-infected cows can make other animals sick — and raise questions about flash pasteurization (www.cnn.com)
All 9 South Dakota tribes endorse Gov. Kristi Noem's banishment (www.usatoday.com)
On Friday, the second-term governor spent part of a 51-minute press conference in Pierre lamenting the seven prior banishment measures and continued to emphasize her claim that Mexican cartels are using South Dakota’s Indian lands as “safe havens” to distribute drugs in the state.
New Details on Valve's New Game 'Deadlock' (insider-gaming.com)
Bump stock ruling could trigger booming rapid-fire marketplace [Clayton Vickers | 05/21/24 | The Hill] (thehill.com)
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One dead as London-Singapore flight hit by turbulence (www.bbc.com)
One person has been killed and several others injured on a Singapore Airlines flight from London that was hit by severe turbulence....
Biden slams ICC prosecutor’s ‘outrageous’ request for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders (thehill.com)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange facing pivotal moment in long fight to stay out of US court [ BRIAN MELLEY | May 18, 2024 | Associated Press] (apnews.com)
“Julian has been indicted for receiving, possessing and communicating information to the public of evidence of war crimes committed by the U.S. government,” his wife, Stella Assange, said. “Reporting a crime is never a crime.”
Iranian President Raisi missing after helicopter goes down (www.politico.eu)
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi — often seen as a potential successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei— is missing after his helicopter went down in the northwest of the country on Sunday, officials said....
You Can Now Jailbreak A PS4 With An LG TV (hackaday.com)
Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress (www.wired.com)
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5 Israeli soldiers killed by friendly fire in northern Gaza (www.nbcnews.com)
The Israeli military said Thursday that five soldiers were killed and seven injured in a friendly fire incident in northern Gaza, amid renewed battles in the area against regrouped Hamas militants....
Former Far-Right Hard-Liner Says Billionaires Are Using School Board Races to Sow Distrust in Public Education (www.propublica.org)
NYC's 'Portal' to Dublin to temporarily close after incidents of joy, mischief, occasional nudity (www.fox5ny.com)
Parishioners stopped teen with a rifle from entering church with 60 children inside (www.nbcnews.com)
Children were inside St. Mary Magdalen in Abbeville, Louisiana, waiting to take their first Holy Communion, the church said....
Thousands protest in Israel amid anger at Netanyahu over hostages held in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
How Zionism became a synonym for violence and oppression (www.theguardian.com)
For decades, Joe Biden has proudly declared that he is a Zionist, and he has repeated that claim since Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel. But for the student anti-war protests gripping the US, the words “Zionist” and “Zionism” have become a watchword – pejorative and emblematic of the violent state policies driving...