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7United KingdomTrans flag.svg NHS trans care officials speak at anti-trans hate group SEGM's conference
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6United StatesTexas. Trans flag.svg The Texas Department of Public Safety may begin reverting trans people's valid drivers licenses.
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3United States The anti-extremist Institute for Strategic DialogueWikipedia reports that American neo-Nazis like the Atomwaffen Division are moving away from Telegram to another platform SimpleX, due to fact it allows completely anonymous communications.
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12United StatesColorado. Election-denier Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk, was sentenced to 9 years in prison for helping a man associated with Mike Lindell (the MyPillow guy) hack into voting machines after the 2020 election.
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17European UnionTrans flag.svg European court strengthens trans rights by making document changes simplified and compatible between nations that are European Union member states.
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14United States American documentarian Cullen Hoback claims to have identified the creator of Bitcoin, the pseudonymous "Satoshi Nakamoto". The alleged findings are to be presented in a new HBO documentary he produced. (Another one he made, Q Into the Storm,Wikipedia had an interview where Ron Watkins seemed to inadvertently admit to being 8chan's QAnon.)
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14United StatesUtah. Book ban activists in Utah, not satisfied with purging school libraries, now target "Little Free Libraries", free-standing outdoor cabinets for book-sharing. They would like the owners of these installations arrested for "distributing pornography".
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6MoldovaRussia Moldova claims Russia is spending tens of millions of dollars worth to sway a referendum on whether Moldova joins the European Union. (Russia would prefer if they didn't, obviously.)
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14LebanonIsrael Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah agreed to temporary ceasefire days before assassination, according to the foreign minister of Lebanon.
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11United StatesTexas. Texas's power grid will finally connect to the rest of the US. The fact that it wasn't was a big part of the reason why the 2021 Texas power crisisWikipedia was such a disaster.
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19United StatesOklahoma. The MAGA grift continues: The criteria for Oklahoma's "Bible in all classrooms" mandate has been specifically designed so that only Donald Trump's expensive $60 or $90 "Bible" versionsWikipedia qualify.
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25United States The US port strike has ended, at least temporarily. The International Longshoremen’s Association has agreed to have its workers return to their jobs on October 4 after a tentative deal was reached.
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27United States Federal judge allows temporary restraining order to expire, possibly allowing tens of millions of people's student loan debt to be relieved by the Biden administration.
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24United KingdomMauritius United Kingdom cedes the Indian Ocean territory of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. The deal retains the UK-US military base on the islands. Previously the UK ethnically cleansed the indigenous residents in the expulsion of the Chagossians.Wikipedia In 2019, the International Court of Justice and United Nations ruled the UK had no sovereignty over the islands and should transfer their control to Mauritius.
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25IsraelUnited Nations Israel bans UN chief Guterres from entering the country
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28Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico's first female president, took office on October 1, 2024.
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28LebanonIsrael Israeli settlers are already planning to colonize southern Lebanon, and have shared ads for properties to that effect.
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36IranIsrael Iran launches major missile attack on Israel
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15United StatesMontana. Montana man sentenced to six months in prison for cloning hybrid sheep
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42United StatesCalifornia. More ghoulishness from California as California cities crack down on homelessness. Santa Monica is seeking to ban sleeping bags. Fresno has banned camping anywhere within city limits, even when no shelter is available. Multiple other localities are either dusting off old camping bans that haven't been enforced in years, or adding more punitive measures to camping regulations even in localities where camping hasn't been explicitly prohibited.
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39United StatesGeorgia (U.S. State). Jimmy Carter is still alive at 100 years old, making him the first ex-president to reach triple digits

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32IsraelLebanon Israel is about to launch a ground invasion on Lebanon. Update: The invasion has commenced.
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21Argentina In the first six months of Javier Milei's presidency, the Argentinian poverty rate has jumped from 42% to 53% according to the country's statistics agency.
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31United Kingdom UK becomes the first major economy to stop burning coal for electricity, closing its last power plant
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6Russia Russia does not appreciate anti-natalism, and would now like to make it a criminal offense. Putin needs meat for the meat grinder!
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30LebanonIsrael Israel's attacks on Lebanon have already displaced 140,000 kids as Netanyahu vows to continue the carpet bombing.
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35IsraelLebanon Hezbollah confirms that an Israeli airstrike in Beirut has killed its longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah.
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24the World The far right is using AI to sell Hitler to a new generation: Videos of the Nazi leader speaking in English are reaching millions online. Experts fear they are fueling a surge of antisemitism.
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21United States P Diddy has been indicted for racketeering and sex trafficking.
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27United StatesLouisiana. Lawsuits filed against Baton Rouge cops for torturing detainees in torture warehouse dubbed the "Brave Cave."
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35United StatesTrans flag.svg For this week's "no shit" award: More trans teens have attempted suicide after states passed transphobic laws, a new study finds. Specifically, rates of suicide attempts from transgender and gender nonconforming teenagers increased by as much as 72%.
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16RussiaUnited StatesUgandaGay Pride Flag.svg It has been revealed in the Wall Street Journal that Russian money to the sum of $300,000 was used to support an American anti-LGBT organization Family Watch International in its activities in Africa, including a conference in Uganda.
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30United StatesOhio. A Haitian nonprofit files "longshot" charges against JD Vance and Donald Trump over their bullshit allegations that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in the city of Springfield, Ohio.
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31United States Alex Jones fucked around, and now he's found out as he's been ordered to liquidate Infowars to pay off settlement to Sandy Hook massacre families.
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16United StatesAlabama. Alabama is set to execute second person with nitrogen gas, after the utter shitshow that was the first one.
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38MoroccoIsraelPalestine Morocco court to try IDF soldier for war crimes in Gaza.
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25United StatesNew York. Flag of New York City.svg DINO NYC mayor Eric Adams indicted on federal charges (Archive)
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22United States The US is sending more troops to the Middle East despite an insistence from Biden that he is "working on de-escalation."
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23United States The DOJ is suing Visa for monopolizing the debit card market.
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10United Kingdom The Spectator magazine which is now owned by main shareholder of GB News Paul Marshall, has headhunted former minister and journalist Michael Gove as editor.
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25New CaledoniaFrance The French colony of New Caledonia is in crisis. French police cracked down on pro-independence indigenous groups after protests turned violent over a bill that would have granted voting rights to residents who have settled in the last decade, thereby diluting native votes. 13 people have been killed and 3,000 arrested, and protest leaders were deported to prisons in mainland France.
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54ThailandGay Pride Flag.svg Thailand legalizes same-sex marriage.
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25United StatesMissouri. Despite pleas from the public, prosecutors and even the victim's family to spare him, Marcellus Williams was executed for a crime he probably did not commit.
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33United StatesIsrael To the surprise of nobody, Sec. Antony Blinken rejected 2 reports that concluded Israel was blocking US aid to Gaza - accepting the reports would have required the US to stop delivering weapons to Israel.
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23United States One MAGA extremist is sending threatening messages to people perceived as political opponents of Donald Trump that are carefully worded in such a way as to avoid arrest.
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9China Top economist reportedly missing in mainland China after making private comments criticizing Xi Jinping due to the country's economic slowdown. According to the Wall Street Journal's sources, he was jailed and removed from his positions.
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14United StatesFlorida. Florida state government pressuring school districts to teach abstinence in sex education, and to avoid educating students about sexual activity, contraceptives, anatomy, or abuse.
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15United States In a surreal twist of irony, the prosecuting attorney in charge of the second Trump assassination attempt is Haitian-American.
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27LebanonIsrael Israel has carried out the vast majority of cross-border attacks in their conflict with Hezbollah since October 7th.
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28United StatesPalestineIsrael Tlaib enters the names of 710 Palestinian babies murdered by the Israeli government into the Congressional record.
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14United States Federal regulators are accusing the country's "three largest pharmacy benefit managers" of illegally driving up the price of insulin.
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21United StatesAlabama. Instead of raising wages, McDonald's is using prison labor instead.
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26United StatesCalifornia. Texas. California sues ExxonMobil for lying about plastics being recyclable
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31IsraelLebanon Israel has bombed targets across southern Lebanon, killing 274 people, including women and children, and wounding over 1,000.
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21Sri Lanka Leftist leader Anura DissanayakeWikipedia wins Sri Lankan presidential election.
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47IsraelPalestineQatar Israeli troops have raided Al Jazeera's press office in the West Bank, seizing equipment and literally welding the office's doors shut to keep it closed down. Ramallah, the city in which this happened, should legally be under full Palestinian political and security control.
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11PalestineIsrael A poll by the PCPSRWikipedia finds most Gazans oppose October 7 attack
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44United StatesKentucky. Gay Pride Flag.svg Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has signed an executive order banning conversion therapy on minors.
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54United States Cards Against Humanity LLC, the company behind the popular card game, sues SpaceX due to the illegal takeover and development of a strip of US-Mexico border land to store materials and equipment. Cards Against Humanity LLC purchased the land in 2017 to intentionally impede former president Trump's plans for a border wall.
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27South KoreaEuropean UnionUnited StatesAustralia An investigation by the Associated Press and PBS found that governments in the EU as well as the USA and Australia ignored evidence, for decades, that adoption agencies in South Korea were kidnapping and committing fraud to supply babies for adoption. At the peak in the 1970s and '80s, South Korea was sending out hundreds of babies per month, and Western nations pressured South Korea to keep the practice going when the Korean government was tempted to put an end to it. The Korean adoptee diaspora is the largest in the world, at 200,000.
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-1GeorgiaGay Pride Flag.svg Parliament in Georgia (the independent country) passes harsh restrictions on LGBT rights. This appears to be part of Georgia's ruling party moving closer to Russia and taking inspiration from Putin (this being evocative of Putin's so-called "gay propaganda" ban). Just a day after the restrictions were passed, a trans woman was found murdered in Georgia.
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50IsraelLebanon Israel has killed dozens and wounded thousands in Lebanon by somehow causing pagers and walkie-talkies held by Hezbollah militants to explode. 2 children were among the fatalities. Israel's defense minister said the country is "opening a new phase in the war".
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40United StatesCalifornia. California passes laws limiting use of AI, including by adding protections for actors against use of their likeness without permission.
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43IsraelPalestine Israel is exploiting African asylum seekers for dangerous military service in Gaza, promising permanent residency in exchange for service.
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44United StatesPalestineIsrael Another person self-immolates in protest of continued American complicity in the Gaza genocide.
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27United Kingdom Teenage grooming victim takes her own life after being spied on by MI5 and charged with terrorism by British police.
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23United States 44 Senate Republicans voted to block advancement of a bill that would have established a nationwide right to IVF treatments. The bill needed 60 votes to proceed.
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28China The number of new businesses founded in China this year has declined 99% from 2018 due to an economic slowdown, poorly-conceived policies from the government, and Xi Jinping's ongoing crackdown on the private sector.
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21Cuba Things are getting worse and worse in Cuba. Many Habaneros (Havana residents) are suffering water shortages due to a faulty water system. Crime is increasing which is making locals feel unsafe. On top of that there are reports coming out that emigration is running so high, the country has already lost 18% of the population between 2022 and 2023.
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37United KingdomMorocco Plans to create one of the longest interconnectors in the world between Morocco and the UK, bringing over cheap renewable electricity from the Maghreb to Western Europe has just hit a typical big British stumbling block of NIMBYism over the wires carrying the power.
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34the World The results of the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize are in. Among the winners are a Japanese research team that discovered that mammals can breathe through their anuses, two researchers who discovered that real plants can sometimes imitate the shape of nearby fake plants, and a European research team that discovered that the chances of flipping a coin aren't 50/50.
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28Austria Austrian woman is found guilty of fatally infecting her neighbor with COVID-19.
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62PalestineIsraelUnited States American protester shot dead by IDF in occupied West Bank.
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57PalestineIsrael The true death toll for the Gaza genocide, as of September 2024, could be as high as 335,500.
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-8United StatesFlorida. Russia Four Russia-backed Black Hammer "activists" convicted for interfering in a St. Petersburg, Florida election.
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59PalestineSouth AfricaUnited StatesIsrael Israel is lobbying United States Congress to pressure South Africa to drop its genocide case.
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42YemenUnited StatesUnited Kingdom US and British fighter jets blow up girls' school in Yemen, killing two girls and leaving seven more injured.
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13United StatesOhio. Bomb threats have been reported being made against multiple buildings in Springfield, Ohio, including City Hall.
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-9IranUnited KingdomEuropean UnionUnited States Iran turns to Hells Angels and other criminal gangs to target critics: Iran has cultivated ties with criminal networks in the West to carry out a recent wave of violent plots in the United States and Europe.
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20United StatesOhio. Inflammatory hoaxes being spread (including by Trump at the presidential debate) about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio are causing the Haitian families there to feel ostracized and to fear for their safety.
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14Israel The IDF is investigating disinformation that was planted in the London-based Jewish Chronicle, on a story that Hamas' leader Yahya Sinwar planned to flee to Iran with some of the Israeli hostages.
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-16Belarus Ministry of Defense official, Alexander Ivanov, claims that Pokémon GO's development team NianticWikipedia has been using their game to spy on them. Perhaps Mr. Ivanov has been watching RT too much.
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26Mexico Mexico's Congress passes controversial judicial reform that will require judges to stand for election.
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31Peru Alberto Fujimori, Peru's former dictator who was guilty of corruption, murders, and human rights abuses, has died at age 86. According to his eldest daughter, Fujimori had been planning to run for president in 2026. Lucky miss.
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58Australia X Corp. says Twitter should not have to pay fines for failing to adequately respond to questions about their moderation of child sexual abuse content from the Australian government. Their reasoning given in court for why not to pay the fines is "Twitter has ceased to exist."
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24European UnionIreland The Court of Justice of European Union has ordered Apple to pay the tax authorities in Ireland 13 billion euro (US$14.3 billion) in unpaid corporate taxes, after the court ruled its special tax arrangements with the Republic was illegal state aid.
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24United Kingdom The Green Party has done a complete 180 on its opposition to High Speed 2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail, and voted to fully support high-speed rail.
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-27France Emmanuel Macron appoints former EU right-wing bureaucrat and Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier as France's new Prime Minister.
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-4VenezuelaSpain Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González flees to Madrid, and seeks political asylum in Spain.
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22United KingdomTrans flag.svg LGB Alliance in desperate attempt to institute trans-erasure by demanding that government publications remove references to T in LGBT.
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16United StatesMissouri. CDC reports a human case of bird flu in Missouri without known exposure to infected animals.
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18United States NYT investigation: a leading American psychiatric hospital chain trapped people inside when not medically necessary, in order to extract health insurance money.
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22United States Reuters reports that hedge fund Starboard is challenging Murdoch's control over News Corporation through the company's dual share ownership, which allows the Murdoch family to control 40% of the company despite only owning 14% of the shares.
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69the World Say it with us, folks: this was the hottest summer on record.
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22United StatesNew York. Sentencing for Donald Trump's felony conviction will be delayed until 26 November, after the presidential election.
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-9United StatesVenezuelaDominican Republic US seizes plane linked to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in the Dominican Republic for alleged sanctions violations, with a second one under investigation.
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-9United StatesRussia A new DOJ indictment has accused Tenet Media, a company that produces the shows of Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, Lauren Southern, and Benny Johnson,Wikipedia of being paid by RT to promote right-wing and pro-Russian talking points. Tenet Media was co-founded by neo-Nazi Lauren Chen, and her husband is president of the company. Update: The New Republic has reported that Tenet Media folded one day after the indictment was unsealed. In addition, Blaze Media has terminated their association with Lauren Chen.
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10United States The Internet Archive loses its court appeal against book publishers.
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-31ChinaUnited StatesNew York. Former aide to New York governor charged by US Justice Department for allegedly working as an "undisclosed agent of the Chinese government".
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25United StatesGeorgia (U.S. State). Another day, another mass shooting. This time at a high school in Georgia. 2 students and 2 teachers were killed. The 14 year old perpetrator is already in custody and will be tried as an adult. Update: Colin Gray, the father of the perpetrator, has also been arrested and charged with murder.
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19United StatesIllinois. A federal judge has ruled that Illinois' law banning concealed carry on public transport is unconstitutional.
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56IsraelPalestineEgypt A major dispute over the Philadelphi corridor, a narrow strip of scrubland and sand dunes along the Gaza-Egypt border, has ground ceasefire talks to a halt. Netanyahu insists on Israeli control of the corridor to stop weapons from entering Gaza, but Egypt angrily denies this ever happened. Some figures in Netanyahu's cabinet want him to back down.
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-16Iran An Iranian activist has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for posting a single period in reply to a post from the Supreme Leader on X/Twitter.
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40United StatesTexas. Texas cops won't save kids, but they will raid the houses of Latino campaign volunteers as part of a bullshit "election fraud" investigation.
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41United StatesTexas. Trans flag.svg Texas, in addition to blocking legal sex marker changes for trans people, is also blocking detransitioners from reversing their markers to their originally-registered birth sex. Instead, they are all being put on a "list" compiled by the state for "unknown" reasons.
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-31United StatesOregon. Hard drugs recriminalized in Oregon.




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