Kevin Spacey cleared of sexually assaulting four men (www.theguardian.com)
Jury at Southwark crown court finds Oscar-winning actor, 64, not guilty after four-week trial
Kai Cenat: Police plan to charge Twitch streamer after PS5 giveaway mayhem (www.bbc.com)
Police say they plan to charge US YouTuber Kai Cenat after a video games console giveaway event he organised sparked mayhem in New York....
Hong Kong judge defies government’s bid to ban pro-democracy protest song, saying it could undermine freedom of expression (www.theguardian.com)
The government had sought the injunction banning online publication or distribution of the song, arguing it insulted China’s national anthem and could give people the impression that Hong Kong was an independent country.
The pork industry’s forced cannibalism, explained (www.vox.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2879916...
WikiLeaks publishes "The Intolerance Network", over 17,000 documents from right-wing campaigning organisations globally (wikileaks.org)
The data covers the work of organisations HazteOir and CitizenGO, comprising documents which date from 2001 to 2017 like spreadsheets of donors and members, strategy and planning documents, letters, financial charts and legal and training documents. HazteOir was first founded in 2001 in Spain to campaign for right wing values,...
How Hollywood appeases China, explained by the Barbie movie (www.vox.com)
Canada launches warning labels on each cigarette (www.bbc.com)
Canada will be the first nation to start printing warnings directly onto individual cigarettes in a bid to deter young people from starting smoking and encourage others to quit....
UK: Police hunt for thief who stole 14 beehives in Welsh town (news.sky.com)
Seems pretty unbeelievable. If you’ve seen an apiarist behiving suspiciously, consider giving the police a buzz. If it leads to the missing hives, maybe you’ll hornet a reward.
Florida races to rescue coral bleached by record ocean heat (www.theguardian.com)
Richard Hanania, Rising Right-Wing Star, Wrote For White Supremacist Sites Under Pseudonym (www.huffpost.com)
Right wing tech moguls and a US Senator embraced now unmasked white supremacist. Obviously he’s been on Tucker Carlson.
Brazil police raids leave at least 43 people dead (www.bbc.co.uk)
Russian court hands jailed Alexey Navalny new 19-year prison sentence (www.aljazeera.com)
Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been sentenced to 19 more years in jail on extremism charges which he has dismissed as an attempt to silence him....
‘Era of global boiling has arrived,’ says UN chief as July set to be hottest month on record (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine says Russia planning 'false flag' attack at Belarus refinery (www.reuters.com)
The Security Service of Ukraine accused Russia on Friday of preparing to stage a “false flag” attack at the Mozyr oil refinery in Belarus in order to blame Ukrainian saboteurs as part of an effort to draw Minsk into the war in Ukraine....
Ukrainian official says drones hit naval ship in Russian port. It's the latest attack inside Russia (apnews.com)
Myanmar poet turned rebel leader seeks new territory; worries about 'ephemeral revolutionaries' (www.reuters.com)
Dozens injured after protesters storm Eritrean festival in Stockholm (www.theguardian.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/ALGwq...
Donald Trump has been indicted in special counsel’s 2020 election interference probe (www.cnn.com)
Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal grand jury on four criminal counts in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election leading up to the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol....
Why did the US credit rating just get dinged? (www.vox.com)
On August 1, the Fitch Ratings agency downgraded the United States’ long-term credit rating from AAA to AA+ for only the second time in the nation’s history, in what’s generally seen as a signal of concern about the US’s creditworthiness....
Switched at Birth, Two Canadians Discover Their Roots at 67 (www.nytimes.com)
NYT gift article expires in 30 days....
A Desperate Push to Save Florida’s Coral: Get It Out of the Sea (www.nytimes.com)
The extreme heat has devastated corals.This is a truly heartbreaking read:...
5 things to know about the latest charges against Donald Trump (www.npr.org)
Former President Donald Trump was indicted Tuesday on charges he participated in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results — an effort that reached a bloody crescendo as his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021....
Bizarre giant viruses with tubular tentacles and star-like shells discovered in New England forest (www.livescience.com)
War coming to Russia - Zelensky after Moscow drone attack - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned war is coming back to Russia after a drone attack on the capital Moscow....
