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Post-Debate Poll Shows 72% of Voters Say Biden Doesn’t Have Cognitive Health to Keep Serving as President (www.yahoo.com)

Biden’s Lapses Are Said to Be Increasingly Common and Worrisome (www.nytimes.com)

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

Private Prisons Are Profiting From Harsher Sentencing Laws (jacobin.com)

Archived at web.archive.org/…/private-prisons-sentencing-law-…

FDA bans food additive found in citrusy sports drinks and sodas (www.nbcnews.com)

The FDA said it had concluded that BVO was not safe for use after the results of studies, it conducted in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, found the potential for adverse effects in humans....

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....

Strike kills family as Israeli evacuation order sparks panicked flight from southern Gaza city (apnews.com)

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike killed a prominent Palestinian doctor and eight members of his extended family on Tuesday after they complied with military orders to evacuate their home and moved into an Israeli-designated safe zone....

The US will pay Moderna $176 million to develop an mRNA pandemic bird flu vaccine (apnews.com)

Wisconsin Supreme Court to consider whether 175-year-old law bans abortion (abcnews.go.com)

The Netherlands set to meet Nato 2% defence spending target - DutchNews.nl (www.dutchnews.nl)

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

Archived at web.archive.org/…/leonard-peltier-denied-parole

Pew finds nation divided on whether the American Dream is still possible (www.cbsnews.com)

While 53% say the American Dream remains possible, another 41% believe the life of relative economic security the notion once conjured up is now out of reach, the survey of 8,709 U.S. adults found. That divide roughly held regardless of race, ethnicity, partisanship and education of respondents, the nonpartisan think tank found....

Stingray that got pregnant despite no male companion has died, aquarium says (apnews.com)

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China and Russia jointly develop strike drones, Ukraine allies worry about Beijing may boost production, European officials say (eutoday.net)

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Hundreds of candidates pull out of French run-off in bid to foil far right (www.aljazeera.com)

France’s left-wing and centrist parties have withdrawn hundreds of candidates from Sunday’s parliamentary elections, in a move aimed at thwarting the formation of the country’s first far-right government since World War II....

Tory student group condemned after video shows them ‘singing to Nazi song’ University of Warwick says video ‘troubling’ after footage shows students dancing at Conservative association dinner (www.theguardian.com)

Plastic manufacturers may have broken US laws (www.motherjones.com)

Giuliani disbarred in NY as court finds he repeatedly lied about Trump’s 2020 election loss (apnews.com)

Edited for rule 10: NEW YORK (AP) — Rudolph Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, federal prosecutor and legal adviser to Donald Trump, was disbarred in the state on Tuesday after a court found he repeatedly made false statements about Trump’s 2020 election loss....

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