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'Karma catching up': Conservative says GOP media's conspiracy theories are now biting them (www.rawstory.com)

Harvey Weinstein appeals LA rape conviction weeks after New York conviction was overturned (www.independent.co.uk)

EU elections: Macron to dissolve French parliament after crushing loss to far right (www.theguardian.com)

As National Rally achieves best ever result in France, populists also make gains in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands...

Seoul will restart anti-Pyongyang loudspeaker broadcasts in retaliation against trash balloons (apnews.com)

South Korea says it will restart anti-North Korean propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts in border areas in response to continuing North Korean campaigns to drop trash on the South with balloons....

Giant viruses discovered living in Greenland's dark ice and red snow | Live Science (www.livescience.com)

The giant viruses might infect algae that are increasing Greenland’s ice melt. These viruses could help kill off the damaging algal blooms, helping to reduce some of the impacts of climate change.

Rudy’s Coffee Roastery Also Just Went Bankrupt (www.thedailybeast.com)

Republican group pushing back on Trump immunity claim in $2M campaign (thehill.com)

Morale plummets inside The Washington Post as staffers express alarm over publisher’s attempts to squash story (www.cnn.com)

Elon Musk has been getting Trumpier. A direct line to Trump may be next | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)

Evanston faces lawsuit over reparations payments to Black residents (www.nbcnews.com)

Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group, argues that the reparations plan is unconstitutional because applicants qualify for payments based on their race....

IDF rescues four hostages from Hamas captivity in daring Gaza operation (www.jpost.com)

Noa Argamani, Almog Meir, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv were rescued in a joint operation by IDF, Shin Bet and police’s Yamam unit.

Swimmer Trying to Make Olympic History Is Left Off the U.S. Team (www.nytimes.com)

NYTimes gift article, no paywall

Smoke exposure from California's wildfires linked to 52,000 early deaths, study says (www.statnews.com)

NYPD officer accused of shooting driver in New Jersey road rage incident (www.nbcnews.com)

That 30-year-old victim, of Voorhees Township, was transported to a local hospital where he remains in treatment....

‘They have no options’: Texas court dims hope of timely abortion care for high-risk patients (www.theguardian.com)

James Webb telescope finds carbon at the dawn of the universe, challenging our understanding of when life could have emerged | Live Science (www.livescience.com)

The James Webb Space Telescope has found carbon in a galaxy just 350 million years after the Big Bang. That could mean life began much earlier too, a new study argues.

"I think it’s important to have him": Trump digs at poll numbers keeping RFK Jr. out of debates (www.salon.com)

Judge flags Facebook post claiming inside access to Trump verdict (www.bbc.com)

The US judge overseeing Donald Trump’s hush-money case in New York City has written a letter to prosecutors and the former president’s defence team about a Facebook post in which a person claims to have known the jury’s decision before it became public....

It Called Itself a Yoga School. Prosecutors Say It Was a Sex Cult. (www.nytimes.com)

Prosecutors say the organization exploited and drugged some of its female members, forcing them to sell their bodies and generating hundreds of thousands of dollars monthly from clients in Argentina and the United States. BAYS also ran an illicit clinic where some members were administered drugs to induce prolonged sleep,...

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