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Catholic Bishops finally apologize for church’s role in harming kids at Indigenous boarding schools (www.motherjones.com)

Trump floats eliminating U.S. income tax and replacing it with tariffs on imports (www.cnbc.com)

Bannon vows Trump’s opponents will be prosecuted in a second term | CNN Politics (edition.cnn.com)

Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of Donald Trump, vowed investigations and prosecutions of those who have probed the former president and his political allies, declaring at a conservative gathering Saturday that Inauguration Day in 2025 will be “accountability day.”...

FAA investigating Southwest flight that came within 400 feet of crashing into the ocean | CNN (edition.cnn.com)

A federal investigation is underway after a Southwest Airlines flight plunged toward the ocean off the coast of a Hawaiian island....

CDC warns of disruptions to ADHD meds after $100M fraud arrest (thehill.com)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning those who take medication for ADHD, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, could face a disruption in accessing care after two executives were arrested for a $100 million fraud scheme....

UI friction with this forum

There doesn’t seem to be much going on in this forum. I wonder if one reason is that the UI UX is a bit clunky. At least I’m finding it challenging to use NVDA with it. I’m used to having a learning curve for NVDA use on practrically all new websites I visit. But this forum seems more challenging than even Reddit (and...

‘This will not be 1968.’ Chicago police prepare for DNC as whole world watches once again. (www.chicagotribune.com)

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These Common Medications Can Make Heat Waves More Dangerous (www.nytimes.com)

H5N1 Bird Flu Isn’t a Human Pandemic—Yet. American Contrariness Could Turn It into One (www.scientificamerican.com)

When H5N1 avian influenza started spreading among dairy cattle across the U.S. this year, regulators warned against consuming unpasteurized milk. What happened? Raw milk sales went up....

Missouri woman's murder conviction tossed after 43 years. Her lawyers say a police officer did it (apnews.com)

A judge has overturned the conviction of a Missouri woman who was a psychiatric patient when she incriminated herself in a 1980 killing that her attorneys argue was actually committed by a now-discredited police officer....

Trump to visit Detroit church as part of Black voter push (www.reuters.com)

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will venture to Detroit on Saturday to attend a roundtable discussion at a Black church, the latest in an effort to peel away Black voters from President Joe Biden ahead of November’s election....

Photographer Wins AI Image Contest with Real Picture, Then Gets Disqualified

Romania denies visas for entire Russian delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Bucharest over "aggression against Ukraine" (en.rua.gr)

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Over 50,000 Palestinian children require treatment for acute malnutrition, says UN agency (www.middleeastmonitor.com)

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) reported on Saturday that over 50,000 children in the Gaza Strip are in urgent need of treatment for acute malnutrition, Anadolu Agency reports....

House Passes Bill To Automatically Register Young Men for the Draft (www.yahoo.com)

"People are angry": Mike Johnson faces bipartisan uproar over Intelligence Committee picks (www.axios.com)

Both picks were bound to be inflammatory:...

As War Drags On, Gazans More Willing to Speak Out Against Hamas (www.nytimes.com)

Ordinary Gazans are bearing the brunt of the 8-month Israeli military onslaught on the territory and many blame the Palestinian armed faction for starting the war....

Jewish students told "go back to Poland" at campus rallies (www.newsweek.com)

Jewish students told Newsweek they faced antisemitic abuse and intimidation at some of America’s most-prestigious universities.

CEOs at Trump meeting: Ex-president ‘meandering’ and ‘doesn't know what he's talking about’ (www.cnbc.com)

Among the topics on which Trump offered scant details were how he would reduce taxes and cut back on business regulations, according to two other people in the room who spoke to CNBC....

International Criminal Court (ICC) investigating alleged Russian cyberattacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure as possible war crimes, sources say (www.reuters.com)

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court are investigating alleged Russian cyberattacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure as possible war crimes, four sources familiar with the case said....

Putin demands more Ukrainian land to end war; Kyiv rejects 'ultimatum' (www.msn.com)

MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Russia would end the war in Ukraine only if Kyiv agreed to drop its NATO ambitions and hand over the entirety of four provinces claimed by Moscow, demands Kyiv swiftly rejected as tantamount to surrender....

"Training future authoritarians": How China promotes its authoritarian capitalism model by teaching government officials in the Global South on how to infringe people's freedom and undermine democracy (www.atlanticcouncil.org)