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Hillary Clinton: I’ve Debated Trump and Biden. Here’s What I’m Watching For. (www.nytimes.com)

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Trump gag order partially lifted in hush money case (abcnews.go.com)

“Until sentence is imposed, all individuals covered by Paragraph (b)” – referring to members of the court staff, the district attorney’s staff and their families – “must continue to perform their lawful duties free from threats, intimidation, harassment, and harm,” Merchan wrote in the ruling....

Maui ponders its future as leaders consider restricting vacation rentals loved by tourists (apnews.com)

Alicia Humiston bought her condo in Lahaina after she visited Maui and fell for its rainforests, lava fields and the whales that gather offshore. She travels there about three times a year and rents out her unit for short periods when she’s not in Hawaii....

Violence outside Los Angeles synagogue taxed LAPD, sparks condemnation from Biden, Newsom, Bass. Mayor adds additional LAPD patrols outside houses of worship citywide (www.latimes.com)

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A fourth victim has died a day after a shooting at an Arkansas grocery store, police say (apnews.com)

Police said a fourth victim has died a day after a shooter opened fire at an Arkansas grocery store, wounding nine others and riddling cars with bullet holes as panicked bystanders scrambled for cover....

GOP resolution calls on SCOTUS to ‘intervene’ in Trump’s hush money case (www.politico.com)

Rep. William Timmons (R-S.C.) introduced a resolution Friday urging the Supreme Court to “intervene” in the hush money case against former President Donald Trump before the 2024 election — a move that experts say is a political stunt that faces significant legal obstacles....

Rolling Stone Lawsuit Forces Release of Henry Kissinger's FBI Files (www.rollingstone.com)

Ethics committee investigating Matt Gaetz over alleged sexual misconduct (www.theguardian.com)

A bipartisan Capitol Hill committee is investigating Matt Gaetz, the far-right Republican congressman and vocal Donald Trump supporter, over longstanding allegations of sexual misconduct, illicit drug use and other alleged ethical breaches, it said on Tuesday....

NASA Satellites Find Snow Didn’t Offset Southwest US Groundwater Loss - NASA (www.nasa.gov)

Surgeon general asks Congress to require warning labels for social media, like those on cigarettes (apnews.com)

The U.S. surgeon general has called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms similar to those now mandatory on cigarette boxes....

Nato is in talks to deploy more nuclear weapons in the face of a growing threat from Russia and China, the head of the alliance says (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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Maryland governor to pardon 175,000 marijuana convictions in sweeping order (www.washingtonpost.com)

Musk, other pro-Trump billionaires have helped shape shooting narrative (www.washingtonpost.com)

The right-leaning business community on twitter, including Elon Musk and hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman, used their megaphones to endorse Trump and fuel storylines about Saturday’s attack...

‘Like an oven’: death at US women’s prison amid heatwave sparks cries for help (www.theguardian.com)

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China says its recent threats of the death penalty effects "a very small number" of "diehard" advocates for Taiwanese independence, but others say these laws apply to nearly everyone in Taiwan (www.dw.com)

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Brett Favre is asking an appeals court to reinstate his defamation lawsuit against Shannon Sharpe (apnews.com)

Lawyers for retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to revive a defamation lawsuit Favre filed against a fellow Pro Football Hall of Fame member, former tight end Shannon Sharpe, amid the backdrop of a Mississippi welfare scandal that is one of the state’s largest public corruption cases....

High-ranking corrupt officials in China earn eight to fourteen times their regular salary by profiting from corruption, study based on official data says (www.zew.de)

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US prepares for bird flu pandemic with $176M Moderna vaccine deal (arstechnica.com)

NYC Black Residents Die From Heat Stress At Double The Rate Of White Residents, Report Says (newsone.com)

Scalpers Reverse-Engineer Ticketmaster's 'Non-Transferrable' Tickets (www.404media.co)

A lawsuit filed in California by concert giant AXS has revealed a legal and technological battle between ticket scalpers and platforms like Ticketmaster and AXS, in which scalpers have figured out how to extract “untransferable” tickets from their accounts by generating entry barcodes on parallel infrastructure that the...

Wildlife Protections Take a Back Seat to SpaceX’s Ambitions (www.nytimes.com)

UEFA Ticket app shares users' location data with police (stackdiary.com)

To attend the championship this year, fans must use a digital ticket provided through UEFA’s Ticket application. According to Heise, this app requires access to personal data, including name, email, phone number, and GPS permissions. While app store descriptions note the collection of personal information and activity data for...

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