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Fined for yellow and blue shoes: How Russian laws smother dissent (www.bbc.com)

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Sure, 2024 has had lots of news – but compared with 1940, 1968 or 1973, it’s nothing exceptional (theconversation.com)

Labor Unions Urge Biden to Halt Military Aid for Israel. (www.commondreams.org)

Texas GOP leaders paint Harris as a disaster on border security. (www.texastribune.org)

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Next-generation US jet fighter program may get hit by budget woes. (www.voanews.com)

Maryland Is on Track to Process a Nearly 50-Year-Old Backlog of Rape Kits (www.propublica.org)

Sea Shepherd founder and anti-whaling activist Paul Watson arrested in Greenland (www.theguardian.com)

Some Republicans call on Biden to resign the presidency, too, after he ended his campaign (www.nbcnews.com)

Eulogy for a cactus: Sea level rise has eradicated a U.S. species for the first time. What's next? (grist.org)

Largest housing provider for migrant children engaged in pervasive sexual abuse, US says (apnews.com)

Employees of the largest housing provider for unaccompanied migrant children in the U.S. repeatedly sexually abused and harassed children in their care for at least eight years, the Justice Department said Thursday, alleging a shocking litany of offenses that took place as the company amassed billions of dollars in government...

Has policing changed since Eric Garner was killed? Here's what a decade of data shows. (gothamist.com)

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Ex-CIA analyst accused of working for South Korea for luxury handbags (www.channelnewsasia.com)

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GOP Unity Emerges at National Convention (cbnumy.blogspot.com)

Navy exonerates 256 Black sailors unjustly punished in 1944 after a deadly California port explosion (apnews.com)

The U.S. Navy has exonerated 256 Black sailors who were found to be unjustly punished in 1944 following a horrific port explosion that killed hundreds of service members and exposed racist double standards among the then-segregated ranks....

Rudy Giuliani’s sexual assault accuser asks to restart her case after bankruptcy dismissal (www.independent.co.uk)

"We were very disappointed": Joe Scarborough blasts decision to take "Morning Joe" off the air (www.salon.com)

California bans rules requiring schools to tell parents of child’s pronoun change (www.theguardian.com)

After planning to skip Republican National Convention, Nikki Haley will speak at it (www.usatoday.com)

Argentina designates Hamas a terrorist group in show of support for Israel (apnews.com)

How Watermelon Cupcakes Kicked Off an Internal Storm at Meta (www.wired.com)

After years of racist history, Coeur d'Alene city council unanimously passes hate crime ordinance | The Spokesman Review (www.spokesman.com)

Hungary’s Viktor Orbán to meet with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago (www.theguardian.com)

Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, will fly to Mar-a-Lago on Thursday to meet with Donald Trump, according to two sources with knowledge of the meeting....

Billionaire Sung Kook ‘Bill’ Hwang convicted of fraud by New York jury (www.theguardian.com)

Archegos Capital Management’s founder guilty of 10 of 11 criminal counts over investment firm that collapsed in 2021...

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