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More than 100 pro-Palestine rallies to take place across UK, say organisers (www.theguardian.com)

York County teacher accused of assaulting 6-year-old special needs student (www.13newsnow.com)

Elizabeth Anne Sparr, 47, was charged with one count of assault and battery, the York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office said.

Trump classified documents trial running about four months behind schedule (www.theguardian.com)

Donald Trump’s trial on charges that he retained classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club and obstructed justice is running about four months behind schedule after the federal judge presiding in the case in Florida declined to set a crucial filing deadline until at least next March....

Forget ‘Man the Hunter’ – physiological and archaeological evidence rewrites assumptions about a gendered division of labor in prehistoric times (theconversation.com)

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How major environmental groups ended up on the wrong side of California’s housing crisis (www.motherjones.com)

Nearly 450 patients at Massachusetts hospital may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis (abcnews.go.com)

Texas man who said death sentence was based on discredited testimony is executed for 1990 killing (www.pbs.org)

A Texas man who said his death sentence was based on false and unscientific expert testimony was executed Thursday evening for killing a man during a robbery decades ago....

Surveillance Tech Companies Are Writing Press Releases For Cops. Worse, News Agencies Are Publishing Them. (www.techdirt.com)

There’s nothing new about cop shops letting their tech providers write their press releases for them. Law enforcement officers love power but often think nothing of surrendering their autonom…

Rosalynn Carter, 96-year-old former first lady, is in hospice care at home (www.npr.org)

Israeli ex-PM claims Hamas centre is in the south of Gaza not hospital (www.euronews.com)

As Israel intensifies its ground offensive in Gaza, amid serious humanitarian concerns, its former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has told Euronews: "the war must go on" until Israel reaches its endgame: the end of Hamas.

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez just blew up the internet by describing their ‘pretty normal’ typical day amid surging billionaire backlash (fortune.com)

Traverse City salon faces discrimination charge over anti-trans social posts | Bridge Michigan (www.bridgemi.com)

Transgender rights are under attack. But trans people 'just want to thrive and survive.' (www.usatoday.com)

Users Can't Speak to Viral AI Girlfriend CarynAI Because CEO Is in Jail for Arson (www.404media.co)

“CarynAI being down has really caused an uproar within my community,” Caryn Marjorie said.

Swedish dockworkers are refusing to unload Teslas at ports in broad boycott move (www.npr.org)

Thousands of Swedish workers are rallying behind 120 Tesla mechanics. The workers are boycotting Teslas until the company signs a contract. Even postal workers may stop delivering mail.

Man Who Attacked Paul Pelosi Says He Was Radicalized by Gamergate (www.vice.com)

The man told jurors he spent hours listening to far-right podcasts before breaking into the Pelosi home and attacking the then-Speaker’s husband with a hammer.

'SNL' Legend Dana Carvey Reveals Son Dex Has Died at 32 (popculture.com)

Backpage founder convicted of 1 count of money laundering. Arizona jury deadlocks on 84 other counts (apnews.com)

Health Insurers Have Been Breaking State Laws for Years (www.propublica.org)

George Santos will not seek re-election after House details ‘pervasive’ fraud (www.theguardian.com)

The New York Republican congressman, fabulist and criminal defendant George Santos said he would not seek re-election next year, after the US House ethics committee issued a report detailing “grave and pervasive campaign finance violations and fraudulent activity” and recommended action against him....

Iran tells Hamas it will not enter the war with Israel (www.telegraph.co.uk)

Australia: Sydney University sacks immune-compromised academic for insisting on COVID safety (www.wsws.org)

Unless Niko Tiliopoulos’s sacking is defeated, it will set a precedent for use throughout the tertiary education industry to victimise and sack educators who refuse, for critical health reasons, to adhere to the intensifying “return to campus” offensive.

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