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Social media giants brace for unprecedented mega lawsuit
Bloomberg: …two consolidated lawsuits accuse Snap Inc.’s Snapchat; Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook and Instagram; ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok; and…

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Trump, Australia’s Albanese sign critical minerals agreement to counter China
Bloomberg: US President Donald Trump signed a landmark pact with visiting Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to boost America’s access…
Beyond Meat’s stock collapses after debt deal
Los Angeles Times: The plant-based meat maker has seen sales plunge from $465 million in 2021 to $326 million last year as consumers return to…
British Police urged to reveal how they define Islamophobia
Calls to make it clearer that the term is not used as a ‘blasphemy law’… More on this: ‘TWO-TIER’ HATE: State-backed definition of…
UK’s Met Police will no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents
The Metropolitan Police says it will no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents to allow officers to “focus on matters that meet the…
CIA activity against Venezuelan leaders revives specter of US interventionism in Latin America
El Pais: The agency’s covert operations, which Trump confirmed last week, hark back to the coups, assassination attempts and insurgencies…
Risk of financial—and moral—collapse
The Atlantic: A new history of the circumstances that led to the Great Depression sheds light on the systemic dangers we face today…
Eric Schmidt’s ex-mistress, 31, sues former Google CEO, 70, over alleged stalking, abuse, ‘digital surveillance’
New York Post: “Please note Eric’s technical background,” Ritter alleged in the filing. “I literally cannot have a private phone call or send…
Blindness cured with ‘revolutionary’ bionic chip
Electronic implant restores sight to patients with age-related condition, signalling ‘new era’ for artificial vision…
Japan elects first female leader
Washington Post: Sanae Takaichi, a firebrand nationalist and security hawk, was chosen as prime minister of Japan on Tuesday, becoming the…
Argentine peso weakens to fresh low despite US interventions
Washington’s $400mn of support fails to halt currency’s slide ahead of the Latin American country’s midterm elections…
Congressional Democrats investigate arrests of Americans during raids
New York Times: Representative Robert Garcia and Senator Richard Blumenthal started an inquiry to examine reports of misconduct by immigration…
ICE’s ‘athletically allergic’ recruits
The Atlantic: President Donald Trump’s plan to double the size of the ICE workforce has met a foe more powerful than any activist group. It is…
Justice Dept scrutinizes trip Fani Willis took to Bahamas
New York Times: President Trump has said that Ms. Willis, the prosecutor who brought election interference charges against him two years ago…
Trump admin. fires 2 prosecutors who opposed charges against N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James
CBS News: These firings continue an ongoing purge in the office, after the ouster of Erik Siebert, the former interim U.S. attorney who did…
Judge rules ICE agents can be arrested at courthouses
Breitbart: A Chicago-area judge has ruled that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers can be arrested at Cook County courthouses…
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade…
Washington Post: Demolition crews on Monday began tearing down part of the White House to build President Donald Trump’s long-desired ballroom…
‘Illegal $3 trillion tax’: Small businesses urge SCOTUS to strike down Trump tariffs
Bloomberg: Trump usurped the power of Congress to tax when he issued levies in February and April under an emergency law that was never…
Amazon restores cloud services unit AWS after massive outage
About three hours after the outage began early Monday morning, Amazon Web Services (AWS) said it was starting to recover, but it wasn’t…
Virginia Giuffre beaten, raped by “well-known prime minister,” her memoir reveals
New York Post: In her posthumous memoir “Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice,” Giuffre recalled begging…
Kenya converts $3.5 billion loans from China into yuan to cut interest
Reuters: The swap, which allows the floating, dollar-based interest rates across the three loans from China Exim Bank to drop into their…
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