Whistleblowers Further Expose Israel's Torture of Detainees (consortiumnews.com)
Aid Agencies are Running Out of Food as Israel Expands Assault on Rafah (scheerpost.com)
Iran's hardliners win parliamentary run-off vote (www.dw.com)
Iran’s hardline factions have strengthened their grip on power in a run-off parliamentary election. Most independent and opposition candidates were barred from running....
Poor Kenyans feel devastated by floods and brutalized by the government’s response (apnews.com)
Former Ku Klux Klan leader’s adult child comes out as trans after rejecting white nationalism (www.thepinknews.com)
The adult child of a former Ku Klux Klan (KKK) leader has come out as transgender.
Donald Trump says he'll revoke Joe Biden's protections for trans people 'on day one' (www.advocate.com)
“We’re gonna end it on day one … the whole thing is crazy,” Trump said on a Philadelphia talk show.
power of Israel (lemmy.world)
House passes anti-Semitism bill as Johnson highlights campus protests
The Vote Uncommitted campaign wants to pressure Biden to champion a ceasefire in Gaza (therealnews.com)
Widespread outrage at Biden’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza has turned the Democratic primary into a battleground for the party’s future.
Life in the most sanctioned country in the world (www.youtube.com)
Snack giant PepsiCo sourced palm oil from razed Indigenous land (www.thebureauinvestigates.com)
Peruvian palm oil linked to environmental and human rights violations ended up in the supply chain for the makers of Gatorade and Cheetos
Hamas attacks Israel-Gaza border crossing as cease-fire talks appear to fizzle (www.cbsnews.com)
Georgia GOP vice chair booted for illegally voting 9 times as a convicted felon (www.alternet.org)
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German lawmakers support plans to protect Ukrainian airspace from NATO territory by means of Western air defense (www.faz.net)
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Australia tries to stop a violence against women 'epidemic', starting with schools (www.bbc.com)
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Thomas says critics are pushing 'nastiness' and calls Washington a 'hideous place' (apnews.com)
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told attendees at a judicial conference Friday that he and his wife have faced “nastiness” and “lies” over the last several years and decried Washington, D.C., as a “hideous place.”...
Exclusive: Biden to put tariffs on China medical supplies - sources (www.reuters.com)
US woman charged with concealing bleach in husband’s coffee avoids jail (www.theguardian.com)
Melody Feliciano Johnson, initially charged in Arizona with attempted murder, receives probation after striking plea deal...
Chinese woman jailed for reporting on Covid in Wuhan to be freed after four years (www.theguardian.com)
Citizen journalist Zhang Zhan’s search for the truth during the early days of the pandemic was seen as a threat by the authorities...
US announces $400 million military aid package for Ukraine (www.cnn.com)
The US announced on Friday a new $400 million military aid package to Ukraine....
They made one-of-a-kind quilts that captured the public's imagination. Then Target came along (apnews.com)
Over the past two decades, Gee’s Bend quilts have captured the public’s imagination with their kaleidoscopic colors and their daring geometric patterns. The groundbreaking art practice was cultivated by direct descendants of slaves in rural Alabama who have faced oppression, geographic isolation and intense material...
Northern lights dazzle over UK, Europe and across the hemisphere (www.theguardian.com)
Aurora borealis sightings further south than usual from Ireland and Britain to Czech Republic and Germany as solar storm hits Earth’s atmosphere
Pope tells Italians they need to have more babies (www.euronews.com)
Italy’s birth rate, already one of the lowest in the world, has been falling steadily for about 15 years and reached a record low last year....
America's debt tops $34 trillion, but a commission to address it appears dead in Congress (apnews.com)
For Mike Johnson it was effectively a Day 1 priority....
Russia mounts surprise assault on northern Ukraine in most serious cross-border offensive in two years (www.cnn.com)
Russian forces have made two cross-border assaults inside northern Ukraine, according to information from Ukrainian sources and officials, in what President Volodymyr Zelensky is calling a “new wave of counteroffensive actions” by Russia....
Israel orders people in more areas of Gaza's Rafah to evacuate (www.reuters.com)
Israel called on Saturday for Palestinians in more areas of Gaza’s southern city of Rafah to evacuate and head to what it calls an expanded humanitarian area in Al-Mawasi, in a further indication that the military is pressing ahead with its plans for a ground attack on Rafah....