Trump Tower is coming to Saudi Arabia | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
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Ron DeSantis vetoes millions in arts grants to defund “sexual” theater festivals (www.lgbtqnation.com)
'The way our districts are drawn is BS:' Ohio redistricting effort moves toward fall ballot (www.dispatch.com)
Peru grants China's state-owned Cosco Shipping the exclusive right to operate its Chanchay port while pressure is built to construct a highway across the Amazon rainforest (www.asianews.it)
Peru and Cosco Shipping, a Chinese state-owned construction company, have settled a dispute over the business model to be put in place for the Port of Chancay, built under China’s “Belt and Road Initiative”. The company is granted the exclusive right to operate the port after it is inaugurated in a few months....
New Jersey refuses to renew Trump golf club liquor licenses because of hush-money convictions (lawandcrime.com)
Scientists wary of bird flu pandemic 'unfolding in slow motion' (www.reuters.com)
Scientists tracking the spread of bird flu are increasingly concerned that gaps in surveillance may keep them several steps behind a new pandemic, according to Reuters interviews with more than a dozen leading disease experts....
How the Chevron ruling could slow the FDA and affect critical drug development and response times. (www.politico.com)
The Supreme Court’s Chevron ruling could have implications for speedy drug research
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson faces further sex offence charges (www.bbc.co.uk)
Steve Bannon swaps his podcast studio for a prison cell (www.motherjones.com)
GameStop investor retracts suit accusing Roaring Kitty of pump-and-dump scheme (arstechnica.com)
South Carolina implements one of US’s most restrictive public school book bans (www.theguardian.com)
‘Epidemic’ of sex trafficking alleged at Red Roof Inn hotels across US (www.independent.co.uk)
Instances of anti-LGBTQ vandalism reported in nearly two dozen states during Pride Month (www.nbcnews.com)
Etsy to ban sale of most sex toys, explicit content, and more (mashable.com)
Online retailer Etsy will prohibit sales of most sex toys, content that depicts sex acts and genitalia, and more starting July 29....
Open Primaries Initiative supporters to deliver verified signatures to Secretary of State (www.boisestatepublicradio.org)
Taiwan raises travel alert for Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau over Beijing's new judicial guidelines introducing death penalty for supporters of Taiwanese independence (www.jurist.org)
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Gang violence in Haiti has displaced 300,000 children, the United Nations says (www.npr.org)
Children are more than half of the nearly 580,000 people who have become homeless in the last four months. The spike in violence began in late February after a series of coordinated attacks on key government infrastructure eventually led Prime Minister Ariel Henry to resign in April....
7 in 10 Americans think Supreme Court justices put ideology over impartiality: AP-NORC poll (apnews.com)
A solid majority of Americans say Supreme Court justices are more likely to be guided by their own ideology rather than serving as neutral arbiters of government authority, a new poll finds, as the high court is poised to rule on major cases involving former President Donald Trump and other divisive issues....
Microdosing and tripping on mushrooms is on the rise in U.S. (www.npr.org)
16-year-old Quincy Wilson now the youngest-ever male US track Olympian (www.independent.co.uk)
Under pressure on plane safety, Boeing is buying stressed supplier Spirit for $4.7 billion (apnews.com)
Boeing announced plans to acquire key supplier Spirit AeroSystems for $4.7 billion, a move that it says will improve plane quality and safety amid increasing scrutiny by Congress, airlines and the Department of Justice....
Trump loyalists plan to name and shame ‘blacklist’ of federal workers (www.theguardian.com)
Armed with rhetoric about the “deep state”, a conservative-backed group is planning to publicly name and shame career government employees that they consider hostile to Donald Trump....
A teen tech whiz nicknamed 'God's influencer' will become the first millennial saint (www.npr.org)
Behind the ‘last firewall’: Hill Democrats scramble to save themselves (www.politico.com)
As President Joe Biden’s campaign scrambles to calm nerves about the president’s disastrous debate performance, Democrats on Capitol Hill are growing increasingly furious at those around him and increasingly despondent about his prospects for re-election — and their own chances of winning House and Senate majorities....
Legislative 2024: Ludivine Daoudi, this RN candidate in Calvados who posed with a Nazi army cap (ground.news)
