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After a shooting at a San Diego mosque on May 18, social media users began to speculate that the suspects were transgender. One X account, @amuse, which has more than 685,000 followers and regularly shares falsehoods, wrote in a post with more than 4 million views that the suspects were “identified as a transgender couple by classmates.” The post did not provide evidence and when an X user asked Grok for a source, @amuse replied, “I’m the source.” Grok is an artificial intelligence chatbot on X. Another poster, Nick Sortor, who has 1.5 million followers, wrote May 19 on X…
Raúl Castro, Cuba’s 94-year-old former dictator, was indicted Wednesday for his alleged role in the 1996 shootdown of two civilian aircraft operated by Brothers to the Rescue, a Miami-based humanitarian group founded by Cuban exiles. The indictment, returned by a federal grand jury in South Florida on April 23 and unsealed Wednesday in Miami, charges Castro and five Cuban military officials in connection with the February 24, 1996, attack that killed three American citizens and one legal permanent resident. The Justice Department announced the charges at Miami’s Freedom Tower, a symbol of the Cuban exile community and the site where hundreds…
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US forces boarded an Iranian tanker in the Gulf of Oman that was suspected of attempting to run the blockade. Earlier today in the Gulf of Oman, U.S. Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit boarded M/T Celestial Sea, an Iranian-flagged commercial oil tanker suspected of attempting to violate the US blockade,” US Central Command wrote on X Wednesday. “American forces released the vessel after searching and directing the ship’s crew to alter course.” Earlier today in the Gulf of Oman, U.S. Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit boarded M/T Celestial Sea, an Iranian-flagged commercial oil tanker suspected of…
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New accountability rules could expose the childcare wage crisis and push states to fund early childhood work like the public good it is. Source link
The Trump administration said it is settling a presidential lawsuit over leaked tax data by establishing a $1.776 billion fund to pay people who say they were victims of judicial “weaponization” under President Joe Biden. Democratic critics reacted swiftly. Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., called the fund “blatant corruption” and a “cash grab.” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said it is “an insane level of corruption — even for Trump.” Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., posted on X, “If Trump follows through, it will be the most brazen theft of taxpayer dollars by any president in history.” Democrats said the money might be…
When the Supreme Court issued its order on Thursday, the press didn’t report on a legal procedure. They reported on a political fantasy. Across the front pages – from national outlets to the Alabama Political Reporter – the verdict was unanimous: The court had “preserved” access to the abortion pill mifepristone. It was a clean, comforting narrative for a polarized public. It was also a legal fabrication. The Supreme Court didn’t “preserve” anything. In Louisiana v. FDA, the justices didn’t vote to protect a drug or endorse the FDA’s regulatory record. They issued an emergency stay to maintain the status…
The former home secretary was told proscribing anti-genocide activists Palestine Action within six months of key Filton hearing could prejudice the case, but she went ahead anyway, reports John McEvoy. U.K. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper outside the Home Office in London, July 5, 2024. (UK Home Office / Flickr / CC BY 2.0) By John McEvoyDeclassified UK Britain’s former home secretary, Yvette Cooper, was warned that proscribing Palestine Action could prejudice the trial of six activists but went ahead anyway, it can be revealed. Internal documents seen by Declassified show the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) advised Cooper not to proscribe Palestine Action as…