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Nationwide discount retailer with 1,400 stores sparks fears of mass closures as it mulls bankruptcy (www.dailymail.co.uk)

Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier denied parole for 1975 killings of 2 FBI agents (www.npr.org)

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BTS' Jin to be torchbearer for Paris Olympics — reports (www.philstar.com)

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Nonbinary runner Nikki Hiltz makes record time in qualifying for the Paris Olympics (www.lgbtqnation.com)

Alzheimer’s scientist indicted for allegedly falsifying data in $16M scheme (arstechnica.com)

A federal grand jury has indicted an embattled Alzheimer’s researcher for allegedly falsifying data to fraudulently obtain $16 million in federal research funding from the National Institutes of Health for the development of a controversial Alzheimer’s drug and diagnostic test....

16-year-old Quincy Wilson now the youngest-ever male US track Olympian (www.independent.co.uk)

A teen tech whiz nicknamed 'God's influencer' will become the first millennial saint (www.npr.org)

Here’s what Boeing’s deal to buy Spirit AeroSystems means for the jet maker (www.marketwatch.com)

Bitcoiner contributes to Julian Assange’s freedom, pays $500K debt in BTC (cointelegraph.com)

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Iranian reformist Pezeshkian and hard-liner Jalili head to runoff presidential election (www.pbs.org)

Iran will hold a runoff presidential election pitting a little-known reformist against a hard-line former nuclear negotiator after results released Saturday showed the lowest-ever poll turnout in the Islamic Republic’s history.

Nature interrupted: Impact of the US-Mexico border wall on wildlife (knowablemagazine.org)

The wall has been devastating to wildlife, it has effectively stopped them from accessing water, but it has not stopped humans.

'Stay awake or be arrested': Sotomayor's passionate dissent in homeless encampments case (www.usatoday.com)

Some Surprises in the No Surprises Act (www.propublica.org)

More Than 10 Years Later, the Senate Torture Report Is Still Secret (theintercept.com)

THE SENATE SELECT Committee on Intelligence submitted its 6,700-page “torture report” about the CIA to the White House in April 2014. More than 10 years later, the full report remains secret after a federal appellate court dismissed a lawsuit I filed in the hopes of forcing its release....

Belching livestock to incur green levy in Denmark from 2030 (www.theguardian.com)

Family awarded $1.5m after customs agents kept US citizens, aged nine and 14, imprisoned (www.independent.co.uk)

South Carolina GOP Women Who Filibustered Abortion Ban (After Previously Voting for It) Are Ousted (www.jezebel.com)

The Army made her plead guilty or face prison for being gay. She’s still paying the price. (www.usatoday.com)

US Supreme Court divisions expected to be exposed as final rulings loom (www.reuters.com)

The U.S. Supreme Court, with its 6-3 conservative majority, managed to bridge its ideological divide in major rulings this month involving constitutional gun rights and access to the abortion pill, but that could change as the court heads into what may be the final week of its term....

Construction workers are dying from suicide at an alarming rate, with an estimated 6,000 construction workers dying as a result of suicide in 2022 (www.nbcnews.com)

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