Air Pollution Is Deadlier Than You Think (www.wired.com)
Breaking: Supreme Court Shoots Down Affirmative Action. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Affirmative Action has now ended in the United States.
Japan Welcomes Ukrainian Refugees Seeking Shelter from War (www.voanews.com)
France will deploy 40,000 police officers to quell violence that followed deadly police shooting (apnews.com)
Based on an initial investigation, Prache said, he concluded that "the conditions for the legal use of the weapon were not met.”...
Why do so many Black women die in pregnancy? One reason: Doctors don't take them seriously (apnews.com)
The nation’s health disparities have had a tragic impact: Over the past two decades, the higher mortality rate among Black Americans resulted in 1.6 million excess deaths compared to white Americans. That higher mortality rate resulted in a cumulative loss of more than 80 million years of life due to people dying young and...
Energy sector CO2 emissions hit record in 2022: study (www.rfi.fr)
TSMC to send hundreds more workers to speed U.S. plant construction (asia.nikkei.com)
National Geographic lays off its last remaining staff writers (www.washingtonpost.com)
I-Team: Settlement reached on police chief’s ‘KKK’ note (fox8.com)
SHEFFIELD LAKE, Ohio (WJW) — The FOX 8 I-Team has learned of a settlement in the complaint filed by a local African-American police officer after his chief left him a note referring to the KKK....
Why Saudi Arabia's "The Line" is not a revolution in urban living - CSH (www.csh.ac.at)
Without paid family leave, teachers stockpile sick days and aim for summer babies (www.opb.org)
France conducts first test firing of V-MAX hypersonic glider demonstrator (beehaw.org)
The Direction générale de l’armement (DGA), the French procurement and technology agency carried out the inaugural test firing of a sounding rocket carrying the V-MAX hypersonic glider demonstrator on June 26, 2023....
IMF reports inflation driven by corporate profits (www.imf.org)
NTSB: Airline worker ‘ingested into’ plane engine at Texas airport (www.wfsb.com)
Trump heard on CNN tape discussing secret documents (www.bbc.com)
An audio recording in which Donald Trump appears to acknowledge keeping a classified document after leaving the White House has been obtained by US media....
Co-creator of lithium-ion battery and the oldest Nobel winner dies at age 100 (12ft.io)
Billionaires ‘disappointed’ after superyachts banned from Naples port (12ft.io)
Young Saudi woman sentenced to more than 30 years in prison over tweets on human rights (web.archive.org)
Fatima al-Shawarbi, who is from Al-Ahsa province and believed to be under 30, reported to have used her anonymous Twitter account to highlight the plight of the Howeitat – a tribe whose members have been forcibly displaced for the Neom megaproject – women’s rights, and calling for a constitutional monarchy.
Social media giants to face multimillion-dollar fines for spreading fake news (12ft.io)
Video update on Russia with context (youtu.be)
Beau of the Fifth Column talking about what’s going on in Russia
New research underscores benefits of gender-affirming hormones, rebutting anti-trans claims (www.statnews.com)
Actual evidence from actual scientists....
Elon Musk Silences Critics By Deactivating Accounts And Reaching Out To Their Employers (finance.yahoo.com)
Meteorologist resigns, citing PTSD from threats over climate change coverage (www.washingtonpost.com)
Who had this on their bingo card?
British woman claims Etihad Airways employee sent her unsolicited private messages after searching her data in the airline's system (nitter.net)
“Terrifying experience travelling alone”, she tweets.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Says Russia Acted In 'Good Faith' In Ukraine Invasion (news.yahoo.com)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday he believes Russia acted in “good faith” amid the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, adding the U.S., in fact, bore heavy responsibility for the ongoing war.
