Japan Sends Man to G7 Meeting on Women’s Empowerment (time.com)
The incident highlights ongoing struggles with gender parity in Japan—which ranks lowest among G7 member states on the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index.
CDC issues alert after five cases of malaria were acquired locally in Texas and Florida (www.nbcnews.com)
The cases were the first in 20 years to be acquired in the U.S., with no links to travel outside the country. The last such local cases were identified in 2003 in Palm Beach County, Florida.
New Zealand to wipe out every last rat (www.bbc.com)
New Zealand plans to exterminate every last rat, mustelid and possum to save native birds. The government expects the task to be completed by 2050.
White House announces $40 billion in broadband funding (www.theverge.com)
States will receive at least $100 million
Texas airport worker dies after being sucked into Delta jet engine (www.theguardian.com)
A worker at San Antonio’s international airport died after being sucked into a jet’s engine late on Friday, officials said.
The office real estate crash will be so sharp and deep that Capital Economics thinks office values are unlikely to recover by 2040 (fortune.com)
The research firm’s top property economist likens the decline in office demand to what malls have experienced over the last six years—and sees a similar outcome.
Kremlin spokesman: Prigozhin case will be dropped, he will move to Belarus (kyivindependent.com)
The insurrection case against Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin will be closed, and he will move to Belarus, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on June 24.
Russia plan to blow up Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has been “drafted and approved” (www.newstatesman.com)
Kyrylo Budanov, chief of Ukraine’s military intelligence, warns of a dangerous escalation.
Workers at over 150 US Starbucks stores to strike over Pride decorations (www.theguardian.com)
More than 3,500 employees to take part in nationwide strike, led by company’s Seattle Roastery
Reddit is in danger of a death spiral (www.zdnet.com)
Can Reddit survive as its volunteer workforce close down subreddits and walk away from the site in protest at the management's new policies?
Erdan: UNSC must condemn Hezbollah infiltration into northern Israel (www.jpost.com)
Erdan warned that Israel "retains the right to take all necessary measures to protect its territory."
Nobel-winning economist calls for climate tax as carbon costs lives (www.dawn.com)
Changing climate will result in 73 more deaths per 100,000 people by the end of the century, says economist Esther Duflo.
Russia launches "Xi Jinping Thought Research Laboratory" to study Xi Jinping ideology (www.politico.eu)
UN adds Russia to list of shame for killing children in Ukraine (www.reuters.com)
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called out Russia on Thursday for killing 136 children in Ukraine in 2022, adding its armed forces to a global list of offenders, according to a report to the U.N. Security Council seen by Reuters.
TerraUSD: South Korea 'cryptocrash king' Do Kwon jailed (www.bbc.co.uk)
The collapse of the terraUSD stablecoin and the associated Luna token rocked cryptocurrency markets.
Teen son of Pakistani billionaire who died on Titanic sub ‘didn’t want to go on trip’ (www.independent.co.uk)
Azmeh Dawood told NBC News that her nephew only agreed to go on the expedition because it was important to his father
WSJ News Exclusive | U.S. Navy Detected Titan Sub Implosion Days Ago (www.wsj.com)
Underwater microphones designed to detect enemy submarines first detected Titan tragedy.
Debris found in search area for missing Titanic submersible (abc11.com)
FTC sues Amazon for tricking customers into signing up for Prime (www.theverge.com)
The agency also claims Amazon made it difficult to unsubscribe.
Search for Missing Titanic Submersible Nears Critical 96-hour Mark for Oxygen Supply (www.voanews.com)
Submersible was estimated to have about a four-day supply of breathable air when it launched Sunday morning
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg agree to hold cage fight (www.bbc.com)
Earlier this month, Meta showed staff plans for a text-based social network designed to compete with Twitter.
An ‘average’ American income may no longer cut it (thehill.com)
The typical U.S. family earns about $71,000 per year, according to the Census. Yet, the average American believes a family needs at least $85,000 in annual household income to get by, according to a recent Gallup poll....
US approves chicken made from cultivated cells, the nation's first 'lab-grown' meat (apnews.com)
Chicken grown from animal cells, not from slaughtered birds, can now be sold in the U.S. The Agriculture Department issued approvals Wednesday to California firms Upside Foods and Good Meat to sell the products, known as “lab-grown” or “cultivated” meat. The meat is grown in steel tanks, using cells that come from a...
'No kill' meat, grown from animal cells, is now approved for sale in the U.S. (www.npr.org)
Two U.S. food companies have received the go-ahead to sell chicken grown from cultivated animal cells in a production facility. It's the first time meat grown this way will be sold in the U.S.
"We're shocked that Joe Rogan would do this" - people who watched Joe Rogan do this to everyone else (www.axios.com)
A feud on Twitter highlights the perils of engaging on the platform and a growing tension among researchers and medical professionals.