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An Ex-Twitter Employee Just Broke Her Silence on Elon Musk--and Taught a Master Class in Emotional Intelligence (www.inc.com)

EU probes border agency's rescue role after migrant shipwreck killed hundreds (www.reuters.com)

LGBTQ+: When 15 rain-soaked marchers made history in India (www.bbc.co.uk)

Belarus arms emergency ministry to be ready in case of armed conflict (www.reuters.com)

Israel's parliament greenlights controversial judicial reform amid raging protests (www.euronews.com)

Corfu latest Greek island to evacuate over wildfires (www.bbc.co.uk)

Hungarian plan to target foreign influence fuels NGO and media fears (www.theguardian.com)

China weighs ending freeze on Boeing purchases with 737 Max deal in US -Bloomberg News (www.reuters.com)

Curbside trash is a problem in NYC. Officials have a not-so-novel fix: plastic bins (www.npr.org)

On a recent fall morning in central Harlem, stacks of plastic garbage bags filled the sidewalks in front of the well-kept brownstones. Some of the black bags leaked brownish-gray liquid, others sat intermingled with discarded furniture. Several contained ragged holes in the sides, where they’d been chewed through by rats the...

The Dehumanizing Nature of War (www.truthdig.com)

A Veterans Day meditation

Department of the Air Force Scheduled to Launch Seventh X-37B Mission on December 7. The X-37B space plane will operate in “new orbital regimes” and test “future space domain awareness technologies.” (www.spaceforce.mil)

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3 are charged with running sex ring that catered to politicians, military and others (www.npr.org)

DOJ says possibly hundreds of clients include government contractors with security clearances, doctors, lawyers, elected officials, military officers, professors and executives at tech companies.

No increase in local rice price, assures PM Anwar (www.malaymail.com)

China boosts 'political trust' with Vietnam ahead of Biden visit (www.reuters.com)

China sent a senior official to Vietnam to enhance “political trust” between the two countries, ahead of a scheduled visit by U.S. President Joe Biden designed to boost diplomatic ties between Washington and Hanoi....

Massive errors in FBI’s Active Shooting Reports from 2014-2022 regarding cases where civilians stop attacks: Instead of 4.6%, the correct number is at least 35.7%. In 2022, it is at least 41.3% (crimeresearch.org)

Two factors explain this discrepancy – one, misclassified shootings; and two, overlooked incidents. Regarding the former, the CPRC determined that the FBI reports had misclassified five shootings: In two incidents, the Bureau notes in its detailed write-up that citizens possessing valid firearms permits confronted the shooters...

Families sue UK government over relatives’ deaths during Covid crisis (www.theguardian.com)

Cases against government, care homes and hospitals relate to deaths in 2020, when patients with Covid were being moved into homes

US commerce secretary will visit China next week at a critical moment for the world's top two economies (www.cnn.com)

US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo will visit China next week at a critical time for the world’s second-largest economy — and for the Biden administration’s relationship with the country and its leaders....

A catastrophic breach of the United Kingdom electoral register affects tens of millions of residents following a cyberattack at the U.K. Electoral Commission (techcrunch.com)

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