Swimsuit wars heat up in an Olympic year (apnews.com)
Rwanda: President Kagame reelected with 99% — early results (www.dw.com)
Projected results from the election commission after polls closed in Rwanda put incumbent Paul Kagame on 99.15%. Turnout was said to be 98%. Only two opposition candidates with no real profile were allowed to run....
All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It's So Much Older Than We Thought. (www.popularmechanics.com)
Largest UK public sector trial of four-day week sees huge benefits, research finds (www.theguardian.com)
“In the largest public sector trial of the four-day week in Britain, fewer refuse collectors quit,” reports the Guardian, “and there were faster planning decisions, more rapid benefits processing and quicker call answering, independent research has found.” South Cambridgeshire district council’s controversial...
Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop lid (github.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/17528189
Democratic billboards stress Trump link to rightwing Project 2025 manifesto (www.theguardian.com)
Billboards will go up in seven swing states as campaign seeks to publicize manifesto and tie it to ex-president...
Trump claims not to know who is behind Project 2025. A CNN review found at least 140 people who worked for him are involved (www.cnn.com)
Donald Trump has lately made clear he wants little to do with Project 2025, the conservative blueprint for the next Republican president that has attracted considerable blowback in his race for the White House....
Biden backs Starmer’s bid to renegotiate Brexit and bring UK closer to EU (www.independent.co.uk)
3rd hiker dies in Grand Canyon in last 3 weeks (abcnews.go.com)
A man hiking in the Grand Canyon has died after being found unresponsive over the weekend, marking the third death in the national park within the last three weeks....
More People Make 'No-Buy Year' Pledges as Overspending or Climate Worries Catch Up With Them (www.kqed.org)
China and Belarus conduct joint military exercises right next to NATO and EU’s border (www.cnn.com)
China and Belarus announced they were holding joint military training exercises just miles from the border of Poland – a NATO and European Union member....
French election: exit poll shows shock win for left-green alliance as far right falls to third (www.theguardian.com)
Kansas Supreme Court Affirms Abortion Rights, Strikes Down Restrictions (www.commondreams.org)
Trump asks judge to gut classified documents case after immunity ruling (www.theguardian.com)
Andrew Tate can leave Romania while awaiting trial, court rules (www.theguardian.com)
The controversial social media influencer Andrew Tate will be allowed to leave Romania while awaiting trial on charges of human trafficking, a court has ruled....
Pentagon says it's impossible to ditch Huawei telecom gear — officials beg Congress for waiver from Chinese sanctions (www.tomshardware.com)
A compound crime: Israeli army hits Gaza family, uses them as human shields, and runs over their mother (euromedmonitor.org)
The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor field team documented a compound and comprehensive crime against a civilian family comprising an elderly woman and her four children, including three young women and a one-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter....
[Bazzite] Important announcement regarding system updates [Action needed] - FYI (universal-blue.discourse.group)
Creating importer: Failed to invoke skopeo proxy method OpenImage: remote error: cryptographic signature verification failed: invalid signature when validating ASN.1 encoded signature ___...
‘You’re gonna need a bigger wrecking ball’: School board member among 1st wave of Capitol rioters won’t step down despite jail sentence (lawandcrime.com)
Supreme Court to weigh whether regulators were heavy handed with flavored e-cigarette products (apnews.com)
Supreme Court will take up case on porn age verification laws in Texas (19thnews.org)
Giuliani disbarred in NY as court finds he repeatedly lied about Trump’s 2020 election loss (apnews.com)
Edited for rule 10: NEW YORK (AP) — Rudolph Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, federal prosecutor and legal adviser to Donald Trump, was disbarred in the state on Tuesday after a court found he repeatedly made false statements about Trump’s 2020 election loss....
Why is Google launching the Pixel 9 so early? (9to5google.com)
US wants Boeing to plead guilty to fraud over fatal crashes, lawyers say (apnews.com)
The U.S. Justice Department is pushing Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud in connection with two deadly plane crashes involving its 737 Max jetliners, according to several people who heard federal prosecutors detail a proposed offer Sunday....