United States picked to host 2025 Club World Cup, an expanded soccer tournament with 32 teams (apnews.com)
UN aid enters Syrian rebel enclave from government territory in first such crossing since earthquake (apnews.com)
South African authorities say 31 illegal miners killed in explosion in May, only now coming to light (apnews.com)
Lawyers submitted bogus case law created by ChatGPT. A judge fined them $5,000 (apnews.com)
A federal judge has imposed $5,000 fines on a group of lawyers after ChatGPT was blamed for their submission of fictitious legal research to support an aviation injury claim. Judge P. Kevin Castel said the lawyers acted in bad faith but credited their apologies in a written ruling Thursday. The lawyers testified earlier this...
Modi flexes India’s cultural reach on Yoga Day with backbends and corpse poses on the UN lawn (apnews.com)
Gang slaughtered 46 women at Honduran prison with machetes, guns and flammable liquid, official says (apnews.com)
AP News: A search is underway for missing submarine that takes people to see Titanic (apnews.com)
Electric vehicle maker Rivian to join Tesla charging network as automakers consider company's plug (apnews.com)
Thai activists sue government agencies for allegedly using Pegasus spyware against them (apnews.com)
2 men who helped run popular pirating website Megaupload sentenced to prison in New Zealand (apnews.com)
Man this chaps my hide
UN steps up criticism of IMF and World Bank, the other pillars of the post-World War II global order (apnews.com)
No more rides to Hel on bus 666 in Poland (apnews.com)
UN chief says fossil fuels ‘incompatible with human survival,’ calls for credible exit strategy (apnews.com)
US's Blinken says no to any Ukraine peace deal that doesn't include total Russian withdrawal (apnews.com)
“We believe the prerequisite for meaningful diplomacy and real peace is a stronger Ukraine, capable of deterring and defending against any future aggression,” Blinken said in a speech in Finland, which recently became NATO’s newest member and shares a long border with Russia.
Thousands protest in Poland against strict abortion law after pregnant woman died of sepsis (apnews.com)
Putin says Russian tactical nuclear weapons to be deployed to Belarus next month (apnews.com)
Donald Trump says he’s been indicted on charges of mishandling classified documents (apnews.com)
Big things are happening apparently!
NATO to send 700 more occupation troops to Kosovo to crack down on the protests (apnews.com)
Revealing US crimes is considered a crime under the US-led Rules Based Reich (apnews.com)
Russia: Putin announces military operation in Ukraine - claiming it's intended to protect civilians. (apnews.com)
Venezuela upholds long jail sentences for US oil executives (apnews.com)
The men known as the Citgo 6 — for the Houston oil company where they worked — were lured to Caracas around Thanksgiving in 2017 to attend a meeting at the headquarters of Citgo’s parent, state-run oil giant PDVSA. Once there, heavily armed masked security officers stormed the conference room where they were gathered and...
