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Prominent Palestinian doctor, Iyad Rantisi, dies during interrogation in Israel (www.palestinechronicle.com)
U.S. put a hold on an ammunition shipment to Israel (www.axios.com)
The Biden administration last week put a hold on a shipment of U.S.-made ammunition to Israel, two Israeli officials told Axios....
The UK’s controversial Rwanda deportation plan, explained (www.vox.com)
AMD confirms Radeon GPU sales have nosedived (www.pcgamesn.com)
Second Boeing whistleblower dies in less than two months (www.newshub.co.nz)
Harvey Weinstein faces New York retrial after 2020 rape conviction overturned (www.theguardian.com)
Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, says his team is determined to retry case against the disgraced movie mogul...
As Biden Plans to Reschedule Marijuana, Advocates Say 'Fully Legalize' It (www.commondreams.org)
Chinese scientist who first published COVID sequence protests after being locked out of his lab (apnews.com)
The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China was staging a sit-in protest after authorities locked him out of his lab....
FCC Imposes Nearly $200 Million in Fines on US Wireless Carriers (AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon) for Illegal Location Data Sharing (neuters.de)
The carriers sold “real-time location information to data aggregators, allowing this highly sensitive data to wind up in the hands of bail-bond companies, bounty hunters, and other shady actors,” FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said in a statement....
Biden administration restores protections for gay and transgender Americans seeking health care (www.cnn.com)
Columbia leadership rebuked by faculty panel for police crackdown on protesters (www.reuters.com)
Columbia University’s embattled president came under renewed pressure on Friday as a campus oversight panel sharply criticized her administration for clamping down on a pro-Palestinian protest at the Ivy League school....
Boston police forcibly remove pro-Palestinian tent encampment at Emerson College; more than 100 arrested (www.bostonglobe.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/emerson-encampment-cleared/
Dow sinks nearly 700 points after GDP report, heading toward its largest drop of the year (www.cnn.com)
Women on Supreme Court Consider Need for Life-Saving Abortions (www.rollingstone.com)
Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Sonia Sotomayor questioned Wednesday when Idaho’s extreme law would allow emergency abortion care...
Airlines will now be required to give automatic cash refunds for canceled and delayed flights (apnews.com)
TikTok’s Pro-China Tilt (www.nytimes.com)
The times dives into an intelligence report on how TikTok’s political algorithm anomalies align with the CCP’s Geostrategic Objectives networkcontagion.us/…/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.2…...
N.C. report finds wilderness camp failed to ensure boy was breathing before he died (www.nbcnews.com)
A state inspection report offers new details on the hours leading up to a 12-year-old’s death at Trails Carolina, a camp for troubled adolescents....
Amazon debuts grocery delivery program for Prime members, SNAP recipients (www.cbsnews.com)
Thousands of European flights reportedly affected by suspected Russian jamming (kyivindependent.com)
House passes critical aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan along with a TikTok ban (www.nbcnews.com)
The House on Saturday passed a $95 billion aid package that includes two long-awaited bills with $60.8 billion of Ukraine aid and $26 billion in aid to Israel....
TikTok ‘ban’ passes in the House again, moving to the Senate in foreign aid package (www.theverge.com)
The House once again passed a bill that could ban TikTok from the US unless its Chinese parent company ByteDance divests it — but this time, it’s in a way that will be harder for the Senate to stall....
GPT-4 performance comparable with physicians on official medical board residency examinations. Model performance near or above official passing rate in all medical specialties tested (ai.nejm.org)
Two Justices Clash on Congress’s Power Over Supreme Court Ethics (www.nytimes.com)
For the second summer in a row, Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Elena Kagan sketched out dueling conceptions of their institution’s place in the constitutional structure.
The Trojan Room coffee pot was switched off at 09:54 UTC on 22 August 2001 (lemmy.capebreton.social)
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