Judge Orders Sale of Alex Jones’s Personal Assets but Keeps Infowars in Business (www.nytimes.com)
Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic (www.reuters.com)
The U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public. Health experts say the gambit was indefensible and put innocent lives at risk....
Alex Jones’ personal assets to be sold to pay $1.5B Sandy Hook debt. Company bankruptcy is dismissed (apnews.com)
A federal judge on Friday ordered the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ′ personal assets but dismissed his company’s separate bankruptcy case, leaving the future of his Infowars media platform uncertain as he owes $1.5 billion for his false claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax....
Maker of Jeep and Dodge plans to kill chrome on cars, citing risks to those who make it (www.cnn.com)
US Supreme Court lifts ban on gun bump stocks (www.bbc.com)
How the IRS went soft on billionaires and corporate tax cheats - ICIJ (www.icij.org)
China's government launched additional "local communication centers" to increase propaganda efforts worldwide (chinamediaproject.org)
The addition of external propaganda bases in Zhejiang and Tianjin over the past two weeks brings the total number at the provincial level to 23. These International Communication Centers (ICCs), also being launched at the city level, are meant to remake China’s approach to delivering its message externally....
1 of 2 abducted Louisiana children is found dead in Mississippi after their mother is killed (apnews.com)
A Louisiana woman was found dead in her home Thursday, and her two young daughters were abducted and found hours later in Mississippi — one dead and the other alive, police said....
Alex Jones’ personal assets to be sold to help pay Sandy Hook debt as judge decides Infowars’ fate (apnews.com)
A federal judge on Friday ordered the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ′ personal assets and was still deciding on his company’s separate bankruptcy case. The decision could determine the future of his Infowars media platform, as Jones owes $1.5 billion for his false claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School...
Vietnam War veteran comes out as gay in his obituary, reveals he will be buried next to "the love of my life" (www.cbsnews.com)
Yellen says China's trade policies could 'interfere significantly' with US bilateral relationship (apnews.com)
Telehealth executives accused of $100m Adderall scheme (www.bbc.com)
US investigators have arrested the founder and CEO of a telehealth company who is accused of a running a $100m (£78m) scheme to fraudulently distribute over 40m pills of Adderall and other controlled substances....
Woman dies after being hit by police truck on S.C. beach (www.wrdw.com)
Tennessee sheriff faces 22 charges in 2 counties, accused of profiting from inmate labor (www.tennessean.com)
A Tennessee sheriff is facing 22 charges in two counties after a state investigation found he allegedly participated in a scheme to profit from inmate labor....
Boeing and Airbus may have used 'counterfeit' titanium in planes, FAA says (www.nbcnews.com)
The Federal Aviation Administration said it would investigate allegations that titanium had entered the supply chain via falsified documents....
Meet Guy Sims Fitch, a Fake Writer Invented by the US Government (gizmodo.com)
Guy Sims Fitch was created by the United States Information Agency (USIA), America’s official news distribution service for the rest of the world. Today, people find the term “propaganda” to be incredibly loaded and even negative. But employees of the USIA used the term freely and proudly in the 1950s and 60s, believing...
The head of the FAA says his agency was too hands-off in its oversight of Boeing (apnews.com)
The top U.S. aviation regulator said Thursday that the Federal Aviation Administration should have been more aware of manufacturing problems inside Boeing before a panel blew off a 737 Max during an Alaska Airlines flight in January....
Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on bump stocks, gun accessories used in 2017 Vegas massacre (apnews.com)
Supreme Court rules gun 'bump stocks’ ban is unlawful (www.cnbc.com)
Does exercise in greenspace boost the individual health benefits of each? (www.sciencedaily.com)
“It is clear that the use of parks and natural settings for physical activities could be a potentially powerful tool for promoting two important health behaviors simultaneously,” Maddock said. “This could be especially important given that the majority of Americans do not get enough exercise or spend enough time...
G7 Leaders Agree on $50 Billion Loan to Ukraine From Frozen Russian Assets (www.nytimes.com)
The agreement comes as Ukraine has been forced to sell some state assets and as the momentum in the war has shifted in favor of Russia.
Drenched South Florida faces fresh flood threats from more heavy rains (www.axios.com)
Heavy to excessive rainfall may bring “considerable to locally catastrophic urban flooding” across South Florida through Friday, the National Weather Service warns.
UN demands halt to siege of Sudan | Africanews (www.africanews.com)
The United Nations Security Council on Thursday, June 13 adopted a resolution demanding that Sudan’s paramilitary force immediately halt its siege of the only capital in the vast western region of Darfur that it doesn’t control and where more than a million people are reportedly trapped.
Wells Fargo fires workers over fake keyboard activity (www.bbc.com)
US banking giant Wells Fargo has sacked a number of employees following claims that staff were faking keyboard activity to fool the company into thinking they were working when they were not....
