France: arts festival organizers say they received protests and threats from China after selecting Taiwan as its ‘guest of honour country’ for this year's event (focustaiwan.tw)
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France to deploy 30,000 police after election runoff amid fears of violence (www.theguardian.com)
About 30,000 police will be deployed across France on Sunday night amid fears of violence after the final results of a snap election in which the far right hopes to gain a majority in parliament....
Joey Chestnut, the 16-time Nathan's champ, aims to pull off a remarkable feat from afar (www.usatoday.com)
Private Prisons Are Profiting From Harsher Sentencing Laws (jacobin.com)
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75 percent of voters think Democrats have a better shot without Biden: poll (www.thehill.com)
The CNN poll also asked voters about potential replacements for Biden. Harris fared the best, trailing Trump by only two points, 47 percent to 45 percent, within the margin of error....
CNN Presidential Debate: President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump (m.youtube.com)
UK Gets Its Future Back": Labour's Keir Starmer In Victory Speech (ptv-news.com.pk)
Google Says AI Could Break Reality (www.404media.co)
Generative AI could “distort collective understanding of socio-political reality or scientific consensus,” and in many cases is already doing that, according to a new research paper from Google, one of the biggest companies in the world building, deploying, and promoting generative AI....
The Netherlands set to meet Nato 2% defence spending target - DutchNews.nl (www.dutchnews.nl)
Stingray that got pregnant despite no male companion has died, aquarium says (apnews.com)
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Biden blames jet lag & Texas Democrat calls for him to step down (www.bbc.com)
Peru grants China's state-owned Cosco Shipping the exclusive right to operate its Chanchay port while pressure is built to construct a highway across the Amazon rainforest (www.asianews.it)
Peru and Cosco Shipping, a Chinese state-owned construction company, have settled a dispute over the business model to be put in place for the Port of Chancay, built under China’s “Belt and Road Initiative”. The company is granted the exclusive right to operate the port after it is inaugurated in a few months....
'The way our districts are drawn is BS:' Ohio redistricting effort moves toward fall ballot (www.dispatch.com)
Behind the ‘last firewall’: Hill Democrats scramble to save themselves (www.politico.com)
As President Joe Biden’s campaign scrambles to calm nerves about the president’s disastrous debate performance, Democrats on Capitol Hill are growing increasingly furious at those around him and increasingly despondent about his prospects for re-election — and their own chances of winning House and Senate majorities....
Detroit police can no longer use facial recognition results as the sole basis for arrests (www.engadget.com)
South Carolina implements one of US’s most restrictive public school book bans (www.theguardian.com)
Trump loyalists plan to name and shame ‘blacklist’ of federal workers (www.theguardian.com)
Armed with rhetoric about the “deep state”, a conservative-backed group is planning to publicly name and shame career government employees that they consider hostile to Donald Trump....
Jeremy Corbyn leads pro-Palestine bloc by winning Islington North as independent candidate (www.thejc.com)
Jeremy Corbyn has retained his Islington North seat as an independent MP after he was expelled from Labour in May....
Ann Wilson, frontwoman of Heart, diagnosed with cancer (www.theguardian.com)
Ann Wilson, the lead singer of rock band Heart, has announced that she has been diagnosed with cancer....
Exclusive: Family Pursues Justice Against Middle School Coach Who Allegedly Strangled 13-Year-Old Student, Causing Him To Pass Out (atlantadailyworld.com)
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AI trains on kids’ photos even when parents use strict privacy settings (arstechnica.com)
New Jersey refuses to renew Trump golf club liquor licenses because of hush-money convictions (lawandcrime.com)
Taiwan raises travel alert for Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau over Beijing's new judicial guidelines introducing death penalty for supporters of Taiwanese independence (www.jurist.org)
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Steve Bannon swaps his podcast studio for a prison cell (www.motherjones.com)
A Bugatti, a first lady and the fake stories aimed at Americans (www.bbc.com)
Our latest investigation, carried out over more than six months and involving the examination of hundreds of articles across dozens of websites, found that the operation has a new target - American voters....
