Ukraine's missing children tracked down in Russia by digital sleuths (www.bbc.com)
More than 60 detectives used digital open source techniques to trace the missing children who are understood to have appeared in Russian propaganda....
Dartmouth Players Are Employees Who Can Unionize, U.S. Official Says (www.nytimes.com)
Iran backed hackers interrupt foreign media with AI deep fake propaganda. (www.theguardian.com)
Los Angeles records 475 mudslides during historic storm that has drenched Southern California (apnews.com)
The storm continued to pose new hazards, with the National Weather Service issuing a rare tornado warning for San Diego County. The warning was cancelled shortly after it was issued, with forecasters explaining that the storm no longer appeared capable of producing a twister even if it briefly turned some San Diego streets into...
History shows that lower mortgage rates make housing less, not more, affordable (creditnews.com)
UAW Signs Up Majority of Workers at Volkswagen Plant After Detroit Wins (www.bloomberg.com)
Appeals court rejects Trump's immunity claim in federal election interference case (abc7news.com)
Federal Appeals Court Denies Trump Presidential Immunity (www.usnews.com)
“I’m a mum-of-19 at 39 expecting my 20th child” Mother of 19 Children, Each with a Different Father, Shares Her Remarkable Story (thefashioncentral.co.uk)
Texas Will Expand Effort to Control Land Along Mexican Border, Abbott Says - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)
DOJ says First National Bank discriminated against Black, Latino borrowers in North Carolina (apnews.com)
First National Bank of Pennsylvania discriminated against Black and Latino homebuyers in North Carolina for a period of at least four years, the Justice Department said Monday, the latest in a long list of banks who have been caught redlining....
LGBTQ+ Palestinians can request asylum in Israel, court rules (www.jpost.com)
Senators Release Border Deal to Unlock Ukraine Aid, but Fate Remains Uncertain (www.nytimes.com)
Senate Republicans and Democrats on Sunday cemented a compromise plan to crack down on unlawful migration across the U.S. border with Mexico and cleared a critical hurdle to an aid package for Ukraine, but the deal faces long odds in a Congress deeply divided over both issues....
Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl still flying free 1 year after escaping Central Park Zoo - CBS New York (www.cbsnews.com)
Why the Department of Justice wouldn't let go of Charles Lynch’s 16-year old marijuana case (www.latimes.com)
The article honestly doesn’t answer the headline like at all, but the story of the federal government hounding this guy for over a decade for a bullshit weed case is wild...
US approves plan to strike Iranian targets in Syria and Iraq, officials say (www.bbc.com)
The US has approved plans for a series of strikes on Iranian targets in Syria and Iraq, officials have told the BBC’s US partner CBS News....
'Hamas tore off my clothes, threatened to shoot': Gaza hostage tells her story. Mia Regev said Hamas abused her by hitting her injured leg, laughed, and mocked her. (www.jpost.com)
CBS correspondent says he faced recent discrimination at Louisiana high school (because he's openly gay) (www.theguardian.com)
An award-winning reporter for a major US news broadcaster recently faced discrimination from the Roman Catholic high school he attended while growing up in Louisiana because he is openly gay, he has said....
Few are held responsible for wrongful convictions. Can a Philadelphia police perjury case stick? (apnews.com)
Of the nearly 3,500 people exonerated of serious crimes in the U.S. since 1989, more than half had their cases marred by alleged misconduct by police or prosecutors, according to a national database....
Startup news site The Messenger shutters less than a year after its launch (www.nbcnews.com)
The news outlet promised to provide “thorough, objective, non-partisan, and timely news coverage” in a time of bias and misinformation when it launched in May....
First penguins die in Antarctic of deadly H5N1 bird flu strain (www.theguardian.com)
Texas border city on edge as Gov. Abbott dials up battle with Biden: The border crisis has been reduced to a 2.5-mile stretch named after a Confederate general (www.washingtonpost.com)
EAGLE PASS, Tex. — A century and a half ago, Confederate Gen. Joseph Orville Shelby splashed into the wild waters of the Rio Grande off this border city and fled to Mexico, refusing to surrender his battle flag to Union soldiers....
Wayne LaPierre says he approved helicopter rides so NRA execs could avoid traffic while going to NASCAR races (www.nbcnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/wayne-lapierre-says-approved-he…
Israel claims a tunnel ran through this Gaza cemetery it destroyed. A visit to the site raised more questions than answers (www.cnn.com)
A spokesman for the Israeli military said they would provide video of the tunnel shaft in the enormous hole, but never did....
UPDATED -- 5 former Canadian world junior hockey players now face sexual assault charges (www.cbc.ca)
UPDATED – NHL players Michael McLeod of the New Jersey Devils and Dillion Dubé of the Calgary Flames have been charged with sexual assault related to an alleged group incident in 2018 in London, Ont., when they were members of Canada’s World Junior hockey team....