Autocracy is ‘evil,’ Taiwan president says after China threatens death for separatism (www.nbcnews.com)
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Autopsy finds boy suffocated in NC wilderness camp death (www.wbtv.com)
Autocracy is ‘evil,’ Taiwan president says after China threatens death for separatism (www.nbcnews.com)
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Has Facebook Stopped Trying? (www.404media.co)
In spring, 2018, Mark Zuckerberg invited more than a dozen professors and academics to a series of dinners at his home to discuss how Facebook could better keep its platforms safe from election disinformation, violent content, child sexual abuse material, and hate speech. Alongside these secret meetings, Facebook was regularly...
Violence outside Los Angeles synagogue taxed LAPD, sparks condemnation from Biden, Newsom, Bass. Mayor adds additional LAPD patrols outside houses of worship citywide (www.latimes.com)
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Fulop unveils pro-democracy government reform if he's governor - New Jersey Globe (newjerseyglobe.com)
As governor, Fulop would push for ranked choice voting and same-day voter registration.
Missouri politicians put a trick measure on the November ballot to silence your voice (www.kansascity.com)
Texas abortion ban linked to rise in infant and newborn deaths. Is it a 'foreshadow' for other states? (www.nbcnews.com)
Russia's Dagestan Holds Day of Mourning After Terror Attack (time.com)
Russia’s southern region of Dagestan held the first of three days of mourning Monday following a rampage by Islamic militants who killed 19 people, most of them police, and attacked houses of worship in apparently coordinated assaults in two cities....
Supreme Court Will Rule On Gender-Affirming Care For Minors (www.forbes.com)
Blaming Trump for 'combustible atmosphere,' prosecutors to push for gag order in classified docs case - ABC News (abcnews.go.com)
Prosecutors argue his rhetoric inflamed a supporter who attacked an FBI office.
UAE to legalise abortion in cases of rape and incest in landmark reform (tribune.com.pk)
Women have more rights now in UAE than US?
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....
Exclusive: Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse around Gaza war (www.theguardian.com)
Last November, just weeks into the war in Gaza, Amichai Chikli, a brash, 42-year-old Likud minister in the Israeli government, was called into the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, to brief lawmakers on what could be done about rising anti-war protests from young people across the United States, especially at elite universities....
Car dealerships in North America revert to pens and paper after cyberattacks on software provider (apnews.com)
Car dealerships in North America continue to wrestle with major disruptions that started last week with cyberattacks on a software company used widely in the auto retail sales sector....
Kamala Harris says abortion bans are creating 'a health care crisis' (www.nbcnews.com)
US prosecutors want Boeing to face criminal charges (www.bbc.com)
US prosecutors have recommended that the Department of Justice (DoJ) brings criminal charges against Boeing....
How America’s “Most Powerful Lobby” Is Stifling Efforts to Reform Oil Well Cleanup in State After State (www.propublica.org)
Last year, representatives of New Mexico’s oil industry met behind closed doors with the very groups with which they typically clash — state regulators and environmentalists — in search of an answer to the more than 70,000 wells sitting unplugged across the state. Many leak oil, brine and toxic or explosive gasses, and...
U.S. Aid to Israel in Four Charts (www.cfr.org)
Israel has been the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign aid since its founding, receiving about $310 billion (adjusted for inflation) in total economic and military assistance....