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North Korean defectors may face deportation by China as COVID border controls ease

China usually sends defectors back to North Korea, but Pyongyang wouldn't let them in during the pandemic. That may soon change, and has led to concern among human rights advocates.

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As teacher shortages loom, one district grows future educators in high school

A school district in San Antonio, Texas, has built an entire high school dedicated to raising the next generation of teachers. It's a bold experiment that could pay off big if shortages continue.

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A Nashville senior was banned from prom for a suit, so a local business stepped in

B Hayes, an 18-year-old student at Nashville Christian School, was banned from going to their prom because they wore a suit and not a dress. The school said it "has established dress requirements."

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Twitter changes stoke Russian, Chinese propaganda surge

Russia, China and Iran are exploiting recent changes at Twitter to spread disinformation faster and farther

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Majority of Americans oppose bans of medication abortion drugs, poll finds

Majority of Americans also don’t believe federal judges should be able to overturn FDA approval of a prescription drug, poll shows

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Poll: Two-thirds oppose banning medication abortion

A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds 64% oppose laws that ban medication abortion — and confidence in the Supreme Court hits a new low.

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Twitter’s identity crisis risks broadcaster exodus

News organizations have been hit with the “Government-funded media” label (and others similar) - and many of them are unhappy.

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They're strangers with a painful shared bond: Robert E. Lee enslaved their ancestors

The descendants of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and those of the people the Lee family enslaved came together for the first time at Arlington House, the national memorial to Lee in Virginia.

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A group of state AGs calls for a national recall of high-theft Hyundai, Kia vehicles

Millions of vehicles manufactured by the companies between 2011 and 2022 can be easily hotwired and also lack engine immobilizers, a common anti-theft device.

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An Indiana woman is charged with a federal hate crime in alleged anti-Asian bus attack

A federal grand jury indicted Billie R. Davis, who is accused of stabbing an 18-year-old university student on a bus in Bloomington "because of the victim's race and national origin," officials said.

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His mom — a doctor and 'a true angel' — died when mortar struck her home in Sudan

Nagwa Khalid Hamad, 66, was one of at least 400 killed since conflict erupted last Saturday. Her son spoke to NPR about her death and life — and what she meant to him, to family and to her patients.

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Families of victims await justice as the ICC reopens Philippines drug war probe

An International Criminal Court investigation puts President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in a tough spot. His vice president is the daughter of the leader who launched the drug war at the heart of the probe.

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'Back on his game': Pa. Sen. John Fetterman hit the ground running in first week back in Washington

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Fetterman didn’t need an acceleration lane to get up to speed after returning to Capitol Hill this week following a two-month absence. He hit the gas as soon as he came to town.

Tribune News Service

Lyft is the latest tech company to cut jobs

Lyft will "significantly reduce" its staff to cut costs, said CEO David Risher, who took over as the ride-hailing company's leader just this week.

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U.S. says it 'infiltrated' the Sinaloa drug cartel in the fight against fentanyl

In sweeping indictments, the Justice Department targeted two dozen operatives in the Chapitos network of the Sinaloa cartel. But many drug policy experts say this won't slow fentanyl deaths.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Pope Francis, Ronaldo Lose Twitter Verified Blue Status, Others Keep It

Twitter on Thursday began removing legacy blue checkmarks from user profiles, with famous people including Pope Francis, Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates and Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo losing their verified status. Under Elon Musk's ownership, Twitter has changed how it hands out the coveted blue checkmarks, previously given to…

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Crump says Kaepernick to pay for autopsy for inmate who died in 'appalling conditions'

The former NFL quarterback is assisting the family of Lashawn Thompson, a Georgia jail inmate who died last year while covered in insects, civil rights attorney Ben Crump said.

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Twitter once muzzled Russian and Chinese state propaganda. That's over now

The company used "visibility filtering rules" in order to curtail propaganda and misinformation. Under Elon Musk, those guidelines have been discarded.

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From DD News to NPR: Leading news outlets no longer labelled ‘state-funded’ on Twitter

A day after deleting blue ticks from legacy accounts, Twitter dropped its labels from several news accounts that designate them as “government funded” or “publicly funded”.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Musk’s Twitter Drops 'Government-funded' Labels on Media Accounts

Twitter dropped the "Government-funded" and "China state-affiliated" labels, which implies government involvement in editorial content, from the accounts of various global media organizations, their profiles showed on Friday. Twitter dropped the "Government-funded Media" label from the accounts of US-based National Public Radio (NPR), British Broadcasting Corp and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation…

Evening Standard

Elon Musk ‘personally paying’ to keep blue ticks on some verified Twitter users

Stephen King, LeBron James and William Shatner are among the stars whose blue ticks remain, despite claiming they had not paid a subscription

Wales Online

Some people will keep Twitter blue ticks despite not paying

It comes after legacy verified checkmarks were removed from the social app on Thursday

Al Jazeera

Twitter drops ‘state-affiliated’, ‘government-funded’ labels

China’s Xinhua and Russia’s RT no longer labelled as state media after unannounced changes.

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Roberts invited to testify at Senate hearing on Supreme Court ethics

The invitation to attend a Senate judiciary hearing comes amid reports that Justice Clarence Thomas did not disclose luxury trips.

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John Fetterman wants to 'pay it forward' by speaking openly about his depression

The Pennsylvania freshman senator is back to work on Capitol Hill after admitting himself to a hospital to seek treatment for clinical depression in February.

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