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The FDA reverses its ban on Juul e-cigarettes (www.nbcnews.com)

The Food and Drug Administration announcedThursday that it has reversed its ban on Juul e-cigarettes while it reviews new court decisions and considers updated information provided by the vape maker....

US to send new $225 million military aid package to Ukraine, officials say (apnews.com)

The U.S. will send about $225 million in military aid to Ukraine, U.S. officials said Thursday, in a new package that includes ammunition Kyiv’s forces could use to strike threats inside Russia to defend the city of Kharkiv from a heavy Russian assault....

Southern Baptists are poised to ban churches with women pastors. Some are urging them to reconsider (apnews.com)

From its towering white steeple and red-brick facade to its Sunday services filled with rousing gospel hymns and evangelistic sermons, First Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia, bears many of the classic hallmarks of a Southern Baptist church....

Judge orders Steve Bannon to report to prison on July 1 for contempt of Congress sentence (www.nbcnews.com)

A federal judge on Thursday ordered former Trump adviser Steve Bannon to report to prison on July 1 to begin a four-month prison sentence for defying subpoenas from the Jan. 6 Committee after a higher court rejected his appeal....

Poland: Soldier dies after knife attack on Belarus border (www.dw.com)

A Polish soldier who was stabbed on the country’s border with Belarus in May has died from his injuries, Poland’s military announced on Thursday....

2 police officers under investigation after they were recorded beating a man with batons at a bus stop (www.nbcnews.com)

Two Seattle police officers are under investigation after a bystander recorded them beating a man with their batons at a bus stop last week....

Consumers say they're pulling back on tipping servers, drivers and hair stylists (www.nbcnews.com)

People are a little bit stingier in barber chairs and Ubers than they were just a few years ago....

‘Rigged’: Trump attacks judge and courts in first post-conviction rally (www.theguardian.com)

Ex-president in Arizona warns appeal courts to ‘step up and straighten things out’ and insists he committed no crimes...

News and tech media mostly quiet after UN chief calls for ban on ads for oil and gas (www.theguardian.com)

The Guardian contacted 11 major organizations that run fossil-fuel ads after Wednesday speech by António Guterres...

Records expunged for St. Louis couple who waved guns at protesters. They want their guns back (apnews.com)

A judge has expunged the misdemeanor convictions of a St. Louis couple who waved guns at racial injustice protesters outside their mansion in 2020. Now they want their guns back....

Records tumble in Southwest US as temperatures soar well into triple digits and 122 in Death Valley (apnews.com)

Records tumbled across the Southwest United States on Thursday as temperatures soared past 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius) from southeast California to Arizona, where the region’s first heat wave of the year was expected to maintain its grip for at least another day....

Alex Jones agrees to liquidate his assets to pay Sandy Hook families, in move that would end his ownership of Infowars (www.cnn.com)

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday moved to liquidate his personal assets, agreeing to demands from the families of Sandy Hook victims whom he owes more than $1.5 billion in damages over his lies about the 2012 school massacre....

Biden and Macron use D-day event to emphasise support for Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)

Leaders rally behind Zelenskiy to make clear to Putin that, as in 1944, freedom in Europe is worth fighting for...

Myanmar soldiers cut off tattoos and gave detainees urine to drink, witnesses tell BBC (www.bbc.com)

At least 50 people were killed by Myanmar soldiers in a raid on a village in Rakhine State last week, say local residents and opposition forces....

France will send Mirage fighter jets to Ukraine, Macron says (www.politico.eu)

President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday that France would send Mirage 2000 fighter jets to Ukraine, in what would appear to be a significant increase in his country’s direct military support to Kyiv....

Russia to send combat vessels to Caribbean to project ‘global power’, US official says (www.theguardian.com)

Naval exercises spurred by US support for Ukraine are likely to include port calls in Cuba and Venezuela, says official...

China wants to recruit military pilots from the U.S. and its allies to strengthen Chinese air power, bulletin warns (www.nbcnews.com)

The warning from the U.S. and its four closest intellignce partners follows several arrests of U.S. service members for allegedly trying to pass info to China....

Republicans block bill to protect contraception access as Democrats make election-year push (apnews.com)

Senate Republicans have blocked legislation designed to protect women’s access to contraception, arguing that the bill was just a political stunt as Democrats mount an election-year effort to put GOP senators on the record on reproductive rights issues,...

Gay man says Qatar authorities lured him via dating app, planted drugs and subjected him to unfair trial (www.cbsnews.com)

A British-Mexican man who says he was targeted for being gay and arrested on false drug charges in Qatar has been given a suspended six-month jail sentence, a fine amounting to about $2,700, and a deportation order by a court in the Arab nation, which is a vital U.S. ally in the Middle East, according to his family and Mexican...

US and allies warn China is intensifying its efforts to recruit Western military pilots (www.cnn.com)

The warning from the U.S. and its four closest intellignce partners follows several arrests of U.S. service members for allegedly trying to pass info to China....

Rent monopoly crackdown continues as FBI raids corporate landlord for 18 Arizona properties (coppercourier.com)

Federal agents raided a property management company operating in Arizona as part of an investigation into price-fixing rent, marking a distinct escalation in the renewed push to enforce consumer protection laws....

Charleston bridge closed as out-of-control ship powers through harbor (www.theguardian.com)

Police cleared traffic and pedestrians from bridge as cargo ship went nearly full throttle through South Carolina harbor...

Taliban publicly flogs 63 people accused of crimes, including women (www.nbcnews.com)

The U.N. office condemned corporal punishment and called for respect for international human rights obligations....

A hail stone the size of a pineapple was found in Texas. It likely sets a state record (apnews.com)

Storm trackers in the Texas Panhandle recovered a massive hail stone that researchers say is likely to be a new state record....

Secretive court system has awarded over $100bn public money to corporations, finds new analysis (www.theguardian.com)

Fossil fuel firms are biggest beneficiaries of investor-state dispute settlement courts which have awarded $114bn of public money...

Dangerous heatwave hits US from Texas to California with grim records expected (www.theguardian.com)

Millions of Americans are sweltering as experts warn early heat could herald next record-smashing summer...

Chinese nationals ran cybercrime syndicate from Zambia (www.bbc.com)

Twenty-two Chinese nationals have pleaded guilty to committing cyber-related crimes in Zambia....

European elections: Centre left struggles to hold back surge from right (www.bbc.com)

“The very soul of Europe is at risk,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez warned fellow European centre-left politicians who had gathered in Rome ahead of a difficult EU election campaign....

Why Canadians are angry with their biggest supermarket (www.bbc.com)

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IEA: Clean energy investment to reach $2 trillion in 2024 (www.dw.com)

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), more money is being invested in solar power than in all other sources of electricity combined....

Several killed in Czech train crash, dozens injured (www.dw.com)

At least four people were killed when a passenger train collided head on with a freight train in the Czech city of Pardubice, according to rescue services....

Mexico man dies from first human case of bird flu strain H5N2 (www.theguardian.com)

Scientists are on alert for signs the virus is adapting to spread more easily among humans, after the WHO announced the death from April...

WHO confirms first death in Mexico from bird flu never seen in humans (www.nbcnews.com)

The 59-year-old was the first lab-confirmed human case of infection with A(H5N2) subtype of the virus which has been reported in poultry in the country....

Europe Has Fallen Behind the U.S. and China. Can It Catch Up? (www.nytimes.com)

A “competitiveness crisis” is raising alarms for officials and business leaders in the European Union, where investment, income and productivity are lagging....

Elon Musk ordered Nvidia to ship thousands of AI chips reserved for Tesla to X and xAI (www.cnbc.com)

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Prosecutor asks Texas court to reverse governor's pardon of man who fatally shot demonstrator (apnews.com)

The Texas governor’s pardon of a former Army sergeant who fatally shot a Black Lives Matter demonstrator undermines the state’s legal system and constitution and should be reversed, a prosecutor said Tuesday....

Colorado officials reach $8.5 million settlement with woman who was left handcuffed in a police car that was hit by a train (www.cnn.com)

Local Colorado officials have reached an $8.5 million settlement with a woman who was hospitalized in 2022 after being left handcuffed in a police SUV that was then hit by a train....

Global rich must pay more to tackle climate crisis, says architect of Paris deal (www.theguardian.com)

Rich individuals in all countries must pay more to tackle the climate crisis, whether through taxes or charges on consumption, one of the architects of the Paris agreement has said....

Global rich must pay more to tackle climate crisis, says architect of Paris deal (www.theguardian.com)

Rich individuals in all countries must pay more to tackle the climate crisis, whether through taxes or charges on consumption, one of the architects of the Paris agreement has said....

Oceans face ‘triple threat’ of extreme heat, oxygen loss and acidification (www.theguardian.com)

Third of world’s ocean surface particularly vulnerable to threats driven by burning fossil fuel and deforestation, new research finds...

‘Racial resentment’ a factor in violence of 6 January 2021, study says (www.theguardian.com)

Measurable in Trump supporters, psycho-social phenomenon can have consequences for democracy, authors say...

Italian court dismisses Amanda Knox appeal against slander verdict (www.theguardian.com)

Knox, 36, hoped to overturn conviction for wrongly accusing a bar owner of murdering British student Meredith Kercher...

Lebanon: Shots fired at US Embassy in Beirut (www.dw.com)

One assailant has been hospitalized after being shot and wounded by the Lebanese army. The embassy said no staff were harmed in the incident....

Gunman captured after shootout outside US Embassy in Lebanon (apnews.com)

A gunman was shot and captured by Lebanese soldiers after a Wednesday morning shootout outside the U.S. Embassy near Beirut that injured an embassy security guard, the military and embassy officals said....