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U.S. puts Japan back on currency manipulator watch list after 1 year (english.kyodonews.net)

Democrats, worried about future of medication abortion, push to repeal Comstock Act (19thnews.org)

Beaten schoolchildren, military training, and Kremlin propaganda: new report accuses Russia of violating international law through 'Russification' of Ukrainian education system (www.hrw.org)

Russian authorities are imposing the Russian curriculum and Kremlin propaganda in Ukrainian schools in occupied areas of Ukraine and have retaliated against school workers if they refuse to implement the imposed Russian curriculum, a report published by Human Rights Watch days....

Arizona AG sues governor for attempt to swipe opioid funding for Department of Corrections (www.salon.com)

Deluge of fake news websites threatens to drown out truth during US election (www.theguardian.com)

Fears that ‘pink slime’ sites could be as harmful to political discourse as foreign disinformation in 2016 and 2020...

Airbnb undermined team that removed extremist users, whistleblower claims | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)

Jess Hernandez worked full-time as an investigations analyst for Airbnb’s dangerous organizations team from May 2022 to November 2023, researching extremist networks as part of the company’s work to keep dangerous individuals off the platform. But she says she was terminated in November 2023, shortly after her team was...

The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax (www.propublica.org)

Stonehenge Sprayed With Orange Paint One Day Before Solstice (www.forbes.com)

Jeff Landry signs bill allowing surgical castration of some sex offenders (www.nola.com)

Louisiana judges can now sentence certain sex offenders to surgical castration, after Gov. Jeff Landry on Tuesday signed a bill into law that creates that penalty....

Donald Trump Rambles About AI 'Clean Fakes' While Trying to Call Biden Senile (gizmodo.com)

RFK Jr. heats up anti-press rhetoric and CIA conspiracies, as he fails to make debate stage (www.salon.com)

The Delusion of “Advanced” Plastic Recycling (www.propublica.org)

Green Groups Praise 'Step Forward' on Biden Old-Growth Forest Plan (www.commondreams.org)

FBI raids several California homes, including Oakland mayor's (apnews.com)

Donald Sutherland dies aged 88 (www.bbc.com)

Amy Coney Barrett may be poised to split conservatives on the Supreme Court... (www.politico.com)

A rift is emerging among the Supreme Court’s conservatives — and it could thwart the court’s recent march to expand gun rights....

2 climate activists were arrested after spraying orange paint on Stonehenge (www.npr.org)

I seriously think “Just Stop Oil” is a Koch Industries psyop because I’ve never seen so many random acts of cringe backfire this badly

Church of Scientology ignored woman’s ‘very real psychosis,’ stopped her from receiving mental health care before suicide, lawsuit claims (lawandcrime.com)

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