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The Houthis have cracked down brutally on Yemeni civil society. A strategic response is required (www.chathamhouse.org)

Tsunami advisory lifted after strong quake jolts Kyushu (www.japantimes.co.jp)

Biden, Harris head to Situation Room as Iran threatens attack on Israel (thehill.com)

Israeli media publishes video of soldiers allegedly raping Palestinian detainee (www.middleeasteye.net)

On Tuesday, Channel 12 released a video reputedly of the moment the Palestinian was sexually abused....

Google Search Promotes “Nudify” Apps (www.404media.co)

Searching for “undress apps,” “best deepfake nudes,” and similar terms on Google turns up “promoted” results for apps that use AI to produce nonconsensual nude images, despite a recent update to Google’s ad policies against this exact type of content and a recent effort to derank results for apps that produce...

The conspiracy theorists who think Biden has been replaced by AI (arstechnica.com)

Trump took a private flight with Project 2025 leader in 2022 (www.washingtonpost.com)

Trump took the flight to speak at a Heritage Foundation conference, where he said, “They’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do."

Trump claims – without evidence – to have saved Walz from protesters in 2020 (www.theguardian.com)

‘They grabbed me like I was a doll’: Day laborers say they are being beaten and targeted outside Home Depot by off-duty Chicago police working security (www.citybureau.org)

Archived at web.archive.org/…/migrant-day-laborers-home-depot…

Fifth inmate dies at Wisconsin prison as former warden pleads not guilty to misconduct charge (apnews.com)

Archived at web.archive.org/…/wisconsin-prison-death-warden-4…

Biofuels: Feeding the Earth or Feeding the Engine? - JSTOR Daily (daily.jstor.org)

Scholars Jörn P. W. Scharlemann and William F. Laurance paint a complex picture of the ecological impact of biofuels as an answer, writing that “not all biofuels are beneficial when their full environmental impacts are assessed, [and] some of the most important, such as those produced from corn, sugarcane, and soy, perform...

Report Shows USDA Summer Meals Programs Reach Only Fraction of Kids in Need (www.commondreams.org)

Americans continue to rack up credit card debt, hitting a record $1.14 trillion (www.cbsnews.com)

McDonald’s earnings, revenue miss estimates as consumer pullback worsens (www.cnbc.com)

Looks like McDonald’s is reaping what it sowed. Shit food at shit prices and no one wants to buy?! SHOCKER.

Utah outlaws books by Judy Blume and Sarah J Maas in first statewide ban (www.theguardian.com)

State has ordered books by 13 authors, 12 of them women, to be removed from every public school classroom and library

Court: Transgender people in prisons can get gender-affirming care [in Connecticut] (ctmirror.org)

Gen X, millennials face higher risk of 17 cancers than older generations (www.nbcnews.com)

Hamas names architect of Oct. 7 attack as new leader (www.axios.com)

Weak spots in metal may have led to fatal Osprey crash off Japan, documents obtained by AP reveal (apnews.com)

A gear crack that led to a fatal crash of a V-22 Osprey last year may have been started by weak spots in a metal used to manufacture that part, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press....

Childhood vaccinations seen as "not important," Gallup poll finds (www.salon.com)

The left loves Tim Walz. Can he unite the Democrats? (www.vox.com)

Former Milwaukee hotel workers charged with murder after video shows them holding down Black man (apnews.com)

Prosecutors in Milwaukee have charged four hotel workers in connection with D’Vontaye Mitchell’s death after scouring video showing them piling on top of the Black man during an incident that Mitchell’s family says is disturbingly similar to George Floyd’s death....

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