'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger,' China trolls new US tariffs | Reuters ( www.reuters.com )
Huawei flagship store surge in China signals showdown with Apple | Reuters ( www.reuters.com )
How Oil Companies Manipulate Journalists ( www.thenation.com )
Blinken sings and plays guitar in Kyiv night club | AP News ( apnews.com )
Abortion bans drive away up to half of young talent, new CNBC/Generation Lab youth survey finds ( www.cnbc.com )
US bans China crypto-miner from nuclear base area in Wyoming, citing spying concerns ( www.bbc.com )
US President Joe Biden has ordered a Chinese-owned cryptocurrency miner and its partners to sell land they own near a US nuclear missile base, citing spying concerns....
Nederland repeals “rights of nature” for watersheds to better pursue new dam ( coloradosun.com )
A cyberattack forces a big US health system to divert ambulances and take records offline ( abcnews.go.com )
A cyberattack on the Ascension health system operating in 19 states across the U.S. forced some of its 140 hospitals to divert ambulances, caused patients to postpone medical tests and blocked online access to patient records...
U.S. GDP converge to Dollar Tree store square footage in growth rate %
2021q1, GDP: 5.2, sqft: 3.1...
LockBit ransomware gang claims attack on Wichita as city struggles with payment issues, airport disruption ( therecord.media )
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3 bodies found in Mexico identified as 2 Australians, American killed in carjacking on surfing trip ( www.nbcnews.com )
Conditions d’emploi: unionizing at Lycée Français in New Orleans ( thelensnola.org )
Third-grade teacher Aurore Soliman, a French national, has taught in classrooms around the world. In France and in Norway, she was hired and automatically benefitted from pay scales and workplace conditions negotiated by teachers unions....
UCLA clashes: Pro-Palestinian protesters attacked by Israel supporters ( www.aljazeera.com )
Former NSA employee sentenced to almost 22 years for trying to sell secrets to Russia ( edition.cnn.com )
Jareh Sebastian Dalke, a 32-year-old Army veteran from Colorado, had briefly worked at the NSA, prosecutors said, and was reapplying to the agency when he tried to sell classified information to a person he believed worked for the Russian government but who actually worked for the FBI.
McKinsey faces US criminal probe over opioids work, sources say ( www.reuters.com )
The probe is focused on whether McKinsey engaged in a criminal conspiracy when advising Purdue and other pharmaceutical manufacturers on marketing strategies to boost sales of prescription painkillers that led to widespread addiction and fatal overdoses, two of the people said....
‘Not like other Passovers’: hundreds of Jewish demonstrators arrested after New York protest seder ( www.theguardian.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14830625...
Secretary of State Blinken to press Beijing over its support for Russian defense base on his trip to China next week ( www.reuters.com )
Cross posted from: https://feddit.de/post/11319037...
Sen. Rick Scott Says He’s a China Hawk. But He’s Made Lots of Money With China-Related Investments. ( www.motherjones.com )
In November, ahead of President Joe Biden’s meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) issued a press release casting himself as a fierce opponent of China. It declared, “Since being elected to the U.S. Senate, Senator Scott has introduced dozens of bills to punish Communist China for its increased...
Chinese online fast-fashion retailer Shein has become a target of boycott campaign in the U.S. amid allegations of Uyghur forced labor in China ( www.voanews.com )
Arslan Hidayat, head of the Save Uyghur campaign, says Shein's alleged use of forced labor exacerbates oppression of the Uyghur people....
Russian trolls target U.S. support for Ukraine, Kremlin documents show ( www.washingtonpost.com )
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/13024669...
Jackson, Mississippi, residents now get a voice in city’s water crisis ( prismreports.org )
As the t-shirt says: ‘If it’s Boeing, I’m not going’ ( www.bostonglobe.com )
How media’s money woes threaten democracy ( www.inquirer.com )
How investment firms shield the ultrawealthy from the IRS ( www.icij.org )
An investigation examining hundreds of leaked IRS forms offers a glimpse into the often-hidden challenges the U.S. tax agency faces in tackling the favorite new global investment vehicles of the ultrawealthy. That review and interviews with more than a dozen former tax officials show an agency struggling with not only a shortage...
Let Me Rewrite That For You: NY Times Misinforms Readers About RFK & Biden ( www.techdirt.com )
