Germantown tap water unsafe to drink after diesel fuel leak, city officials say (www.actionnews5.com)
Severe thunderstorm on Tuesday caused a diesel leak that made its way into the city water supply.
Federal study finds nearly half of US tap water contains PFAS (kstp.com)
Europe has fallen behind America and the gap is growing (archive.is)
Student Loan Forgiveness: Supreme Court Rejects Biden’s Debt Forgiveness Plan (www.nytimes.com)
U.S. Navy Heard What It Believed Was Titan Implosion Days Ago (archive.ph)
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Musk Overruled Tesla Engineers, And Now They Are In Serious Trouble (medium.com)
Senate Republicans introduce plan to tackle student loan debt (thehill.com)
The GOP package, called the “Lowering Education Costs and Debt Act,” consists of five bills that the senators say will address the root causes of the student debt issue such as the increasing price of college and students taking out loans they can’t afford.
Jury decides conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay nearly $1 billion in damages to Sandy Hook families for his lies about the school massacre (www.cnn.com)
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Kim Jong Un wants Trump back, former North Korean diplomat says (www.bbc.com)
Donald Trump returning to the White House would be “a once-in-a-thousand-year opportunity” for North Korea, according to Ri Il Kyu, the highest-ranking defector to escape North Korea since 2016 and has been face to face with Kim Jong Un on seven separate occasions....
Israeli protesters storm military bases after soldiers detained for alleged abuse of Palestinian prisoners (www.nbcnews.com)
Another fracture appeared in Israeli society this week, with at least one far-right member of the government joining a crowd to storm military bases to stop soldiers from being detained on suspicion of abusing a Palestinian prisoner....
Russian anger builds as Greece prepares a military deal with Ukraine (www.aljazeera.com)
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Canada said to have mapped out secret Chinese police operations within its borders, Canadian police raises awareness campaign seeking public assistance (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
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US and Germany foiled Russian plot to assassinate CEO of German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall (edition.cnn.com)
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Judge dismisses all charges in Panama Papers, Operation Car Wash cases (www.upi.com)
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Inside the Chinese-funded and staffed marijuana farms springing up across the U.S. (www.npr.org)
Investigations by nonprofit news outlet ProPublica have found links between Chinese diplomats, Chinese Communist Party-affiliated organizations, local Chinese criminal syndicates and some marijuana operations in the United States....
China Changes Hundreds of Uyghur Village Names as Part of Broader Government Effort to Erase Uyghur Culture in Xinjiang (www.hrw.org)
Chinese authorities in Xinjiang have been systematically changing hundreds of village names with religious, historical, or cultural meaning for Uyghurs into names reflecting recent Chinese Communist Party ideology, Human Rights Watch said....
Cruelty-based intervention: Russia is set to reintroduce antipsychotic drug as autism treatment (theins.press)
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Misinformation poses a bigger threat to democracy than you might think (www.nature.com)
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He Made a PowerPoint on Mothers Starving in Gaza. Then He Lost His Government Job. (theintercept.com)
Biden details a 3-phase hostage deal aimed at winding down the Israel-Hamas war (apnews.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday detailed a three-phase deal proposed by Israel to Hamas militants that he says would lead to the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza and could end the grinding, nearly 8-month-old Mideast war....
China launches 'punishment' war games around Taiwan (www.reuters.com)
A furious China launched “punishment” drills around Taiwan on Thursday in what it said was a response to “separatist acts”, sending up heavily armed warplanes and staging mock attacks as state media denounced newly inaugurated President Lai Ching-te....
"Weaponising threat of mass migration": Putin aims to "make life really impossible in Ukraine so that there would be migration pressure to Europe", Estonian PM says (www.theguardian.com)
‘Adversaries know migration is our vulnerability,’ says Kaja Kallas, spelling out negative consequences to Europe of Ukrainian defeat...
Apple pulls WhatsApp, Threads from China app store after Beijing order (www.reuters.com)
Some experts on China’s tech industry said the government order on WhatsApp and Threads could be related to a new rule last August that requires all apps available in China to register with the government or risk being removed....
High risk of animal-to-human diseases developing in some China fur farms, animal protection group says (www.reuters.com)
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China prevents exposure of human rights violations in Tibet and Xinjiang in foreign media (greekcitytimes.com)
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