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....
Israel vows to press on in Gaza after UN Security Council approves ceasefire proposal (www.cnn.com)
Bangkok Post - Thousands of pets die in fire at Chatuchak market (www.bangkokpost.com)
Photo of a black chicken (lemmy.world)
Union: 4 Florida police officers indicted for 2019 shootout that left UPS driver and passerby dead (apnews.com)
Suicide Squad Promises It Won't Go Full Anthem And Abandon Its First Full Year Of Content (kotaku.com)
Former Foster Youth Are Eligible for Federal Housing Aid. Georgia Isn’t Helping Them Get It. (www.propublica.org)
Malik Johnson thought he was doing well after he turned 21 and left foster care, working two jobs to afford his apartment south of Atlanta....
Thailand: Chatuchak market fire kills 1,000 animals (www.bbc.com)
Around 1,000 animals were killed in a fire in Bangkok’s famous open-air Chatuchak market early Tuesday, gutting nearly 100 shops....
Samsung Galaxy A55 Price In Indonesia June 2024 (indonesia.gsm.mobi)
Samsung Galaxy A55 Indonesia Price Last updated on June 2, 2024. Full specification of Samsung Galaxy A55 with id Official Price, Rating, Compare & etc.
India summer: Eight more die as country faces 'longest' heatwave (www.bbc.com)
Biden considering separate hostage deal with Hamas, potentially bypassing Israel (www.salon.com)
Israel says Hamas weaponised rape. Does the evidence add up? (www.thetimes.com)
The Israeli government insists that Hamas formally sanctioned sexual assault on October 7, 2023. But investigators say the evidence does not stand up to scrutiny. Catherine Philp and Gabrielle Weiniger report on eight months of claim and counter-claim...
Researchers find higher levels of dangerous chemical than expected in southeast Louisiana (apnews.com)
Researchers using high-tech air monitoring equipment rolled through an industrialized stretch of southeast Louisiana in mobile labs and found levels of a carcinogen in concentrations as much as 10 times higher than previously estimated, according to a paper published Tuesday in the journal Environmental Science & Technology....
Malawi's vice president and 9 others have died in a plane crash, the president says (apnews.com)
Malawi’s vice president, Saulos Chilima, was among 10 people killed when a small military plane crashed in a mountainous region in the north of the country, the the president said Tuesday. Chilima was 51....
Russia Releases Female Prison Inmates to Join Ukraine War (www.nytimes.com)
Russia released a group of women from a prison in late May to join the fighting in Ukraine, according to two former inmates who maintain contact with those still there, potentially signaling a new phase in the Kremlin’s use of criminals in its war effort.
US P-8 Poseidon searches for Russian sub 66 miles off Florida (bulgarianmilitary.com)
Millionaire Investment Banker Jonathan Kaye caught punching, and breaking an unarmed woman's nose during Brooklyn Pride Festival (x.com)
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American troops begin withdrawal from Niger | Africanews (www.africanews.com)
This withdrawal follows the departure of the French army from Niger at the end of 2023 and the arrival of Russian military instructors, as Niger seeks to diversify its defense partnerships.
Shop on the Temu app? Why class-action lawsuits in Canada and the U.S. have been proposed over privacy (globalnews.ca)
Temu, a popular marketplace where consumers can buy direct from factories overseas at cheap prices, is drawing concerns from lawyers and privacy experts in North America who allege the shopping app can be “invasive” for unwitting users....
Mast ideas and recommendations
I currently use a ~35’ (~10m) fiberglass telescoping mast, and I love it. It’s great when I hoist my 10m window line j-pole (thank you KB9VBR!) and now that I’m messing around on 20m, it’s just too short. My SWR is a bit higher than it ought to be on account of ground reflection since I can’t get the base of the...
Purism (creator of FOSS friendly phones and hardware) 2023 financial report , income grew by 350% in three years and the company is profitable (puri.sm)
How bad is Microsoft? (www.microsoft.com)
I was curious what the Linux people think about Microsoft and any bad practices that most people should know about already?