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Biden wants to ban ripoff "financial advisors" ( pluralistic.net )

Zelensky asks to visit Israel in show of solidarity ( www.axios.com )

An American tourist is arrested for smashing ancient Roman statues at a museum in Israel ( apnews.com )

China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation: With elections looming, China wants Taiwanese voters to think America is their greatest threat ( www.economist.com )

Prigozhin most likely dead, and an explosion may have downed his plane, U.S. officials say ( wapo.st )

WP gift article expires in 14 days....

US proposes January start for Trump election trial ( www.reuters.com )

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday asked a federal judge to begin former President Donald Trump’s trial on charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden on Jan. 2, 2024....

Hong Kong judge defies government’s bid to ban pro-democracy protest song, saying it could undermine freedom of expression ( www.theguardian.com )

The government had sought the injunction banning online publication or distribution of the song, arguing it insulted China’s national anthem and could give people the impression that Hong Kong was an independent country.

Violence against women: Sex without consent is rape, say MEPs ( www.eureporter.co )

Super-rich warned of ‘pitchforks and torches’ unless they tackle inequality ( www.theguardian.com )

Nigel Farage is now considering whether “life was worth living” in the UK. ( inews.co.uk )

That moment when you are walking down the street and you accidentally tread in a steaming pile of irony.

Protests broke Reddit hack for useful Google search results—and Google knows it ( arstechnica.com )

cross-posted from: vlemmy.net/post/317922...

Social media giants to face multimillion-dollar fines for spreading fake news ( 12ft.io )

Putin will address the nation soon, Kremlin says ( twitter.com )

A whistleblower raised safety concerns about OceanGate’s submersible in 2018. Then he was fired. ( techcrunch.com )

Israel, Hamas agree on four-day truce, hostage release and aid into Gaza ( www.reuters.com )

Note that this isn’t ALL the hostages – just 50 in exchange for 150 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel. archive.org link...

Gaza’s Largest Hospitals Close, Premature Babies Taken Out of Incubators, Israeli Forces Reportedly Entered Hospitals and Fired at Patients ( www.democracynow.org )

“Five kids in the pediatric [Shifa Hospital] ICU left alone in Rantisi Hospital, and we don’t know what’s going on with them. The communications were lost, so they might be dead or alive,” one of the doctors said....

US student held in Dubai for weeks for tapping security officer’s arm ( www.theguardian.com )

A Summer Rite in Spain: Coping With the British Tourist Invasion ( www.nytimes.com )

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Trump’s defense in the 2020 election case, explained by legal experts ( www.vox.com )

Former President Donald Trump’s legal defense against federal criminal charges for trying to overturn the 2020 election is beginning to take shape....

"A ticking time bomb that can explode at any time", as EVs surge, so does nickel mining’s death toll ( restofworld.org )

Chinese demand for nickel, an important ingredient in EV batteries, has triggered a mining boom in the remote regions of Indonesia. The country has signed over a dozen deals worth more than $15 billion with suppliers for EV giants like Tesla and Hyundai Motor, but deaths and injuries from industrial accidents have been racking...

Federal judge blocks Florida from enforcing ban on minors attending drag shows ( www.politico.com )

Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court ( www.propublica.org )

In early July 2008, Samuel Alito stood on a riverbank in a remote corner of Alaska. The Supreme Court justice was on vacation at a luxury fishing lodge that charged more than $1,000 a day, and after catching a king salmon nearly the size of his leg, Alito posed for a picture. To his left, a man stood beaming: Paul Singer, a...

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