Criticizing Israel? Nonprofit Media Could Lose Tax-Exempt Status Without Due Process (theintercept.com)
It doesn’t take much to be accused of supporting terrorism these days. And that doesn’t just go for student activists. In recent months, dozens of lawmakers and public officials have, without evidence, insinuated that U.S. news outlets provide material support for Hamas. Some even issued thinly veiled threats to prosecute...
Trump told oil executives and lobbyists that he would undo Biden’s climate policies (www.carbonbrief.org)
Donald Trump offered to weaken climate regulations in exchange for a $1bn contribution from oil company bosses to support his return to the White House later this year. During a dinner for senior oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago club last month, Trump “vowed to immediately reverse dozens of president [Joe] Biden’s...
School board in Virginia votes to restore Confederate names (www.reuters.com)
The education board for a rural Virginia county voted early on Friday to restore the names of Confederate generals stripped from two schools in 2020, making the mostly white, Republican district the first in the U.S. to take such an action....
James Webb Space Telescope chief scientist Jane Rigby receives highest US civilian award (www.space.com)
Madhya Pradesh: Summer Storm Damages World's Largest Floating Solar Plant at Omkareshwar Dam (Watch Video) (wattsupwiththat.com)
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US says Israel’s use of US arms likely violated international law, but evidence is incomplete (apnews.com)
Ferocious solar storm could give US rare view of northern lights (www.theguardian.com)
Supreme Court Rules Against Women Whose Cars Were Seized by the Police (www.nytimes.com)
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Wall Street has spent billions buying homes. A crackdown is looming. (www.wsj.com)
Lawmakers say investors that scooped up hundreds of thousands of houses to rent out are driving up home prices...
29% of US households have jobs but struggle to cover basic needs: They are 'one emergency from poverty,' one expert says (www.cnbc.com)
Why far-right groups are disrupting US campus protests: ‘When there’s so much attention, they show up’ (www.theguardian.com)
Virginia school board votes to restore names of Confederate leaders to schools (www.nbcnews.com)
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, a school board in northern Virginia stripped the names of Confederate military figures from two schools. Four years later, the board approved a motion to restore the names....
Trump asks oil executives for a billion dollars, as they write environmental policy for him (www.salon.com)
[US] State Department report says Israel likely violated international law in Gaza (www.independent.co.uk)
Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1bn – report (www.theguardian.com)
Donald Trump dangled a brazen “deal” in front of some of the top US oil bosses last month, proposing that they give him $1bn for his White House re-election campaign and vowing that once back in office he would instantly tear up Joe Biden’s environmental regulations and prevent any new ones, according to a bombshell new...
Federal appeals court upholds Steve Bannon’s contempt of Congress conviction (www.cnn.com)
Israeli whistleblowers detail horror of shadowy detention facility for Palestinians (www.cnn.com)
Russian forces attack Ukraine's Kharkiv region, striking on new front | Reuters (www.reuters.com)
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World Warned to Prepare for Today's Severe Geomagnetic Storm, First in 20 Years (www.yahoo.com)
How Paul Manafort Tried to Make Money With a Project Supposedly Tied to the Chinese Regime (www.motherjones.com)
South Carolina will soon ban gender-affirming & out trans kids to their parents (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Men behind the doomsday seed vault in the Arctic win World Food Prize (apnews.com)
As Cary Fowler and Geoffrey Hawtin began thinking about ways to prevent starvation and protect the world’s food supply, they came up with what Fowler called “the craziest idea anybody ever had” — a https://apnews.com/general-news-international-news-c7510518d0c9428782d06d0235f5783a built into the side of an Arctic...
U.S. University Did Something Crazy: Listened to Student Protesters Instead of Calling the Cops on Them (www.jezebel.com)
Record-breaking increase in CO2 levels in world’s atmosphere | Experts issue warning after finding global average concentration in March was 4.7ppm higher than same period last year (www.theguardian.com)
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