The Chinese government has quietly produced and spread thousands of videos in which citizens deny Beijing's abuses against their communities. / ProPublica Morgan Stanley plans to bar unvaccinated staff from its New York headquarters. / BBC News Junaid Nabi: Vaccine hesitancy and refusal in the US are a sign of
The Supreme Court unanimously agreed that the NCAA's limits on the ways schools compensate athletes violate antitrust laws. / BuzzFeed News A new report finds algorithmic bias in medicine is influencing nearly every aspect of how patients are treated. / STAT "I procured more than 60 inches worth of
A new poll shows a majority of Americans are open to a progressive police reform bill. / Vox Politicians around the world are borrowing Trump's "Stop the Steal" tactics. / The Atlantic The Barstool-ification of the GOP could reconfigure its cultural politics for a generation. / Politico Fareed
We're off tomorrow in observance of Juneteenth, and will return on Monday. The Delta variant is on the rise in the US, and could further cleave the nation by surging in areas with higher unvaccinated populations—but barely registering elsewhere. / BuzzFeed News How the pandemic is an example
Biden is now set to sign into law the bill that will make Juneteenth a federal holiday. / Associated Press How will teachers explain to students why they have the day off in states that are banning critical race theory in classrooms? / BuzzFeed News An Alabama lawmaker who wants to ban
An emboldened President Biden meets an unbothered Vladimir Putin. Both may find themselves craving some predictability. / The Washington Post Unrelated: A new simulation shows that an advanced civilization can colonize a galaxy in a modest amount of time. / Gizmodo At the height of the pandemic in the US, workers were
President Biden and European Union leaders reach a deal to end a 17-year-old trade dispute. / The Washington Post The uncrewed aerial vehicle business is booming thanks to regulators starting to relax laws that govern drones. / The Economist Reality Winner, a former intelligence contractor jailed for leaking classified information,
Covid cases are no longer falling in the US, due to a slowing vaccination rate as well as the more contagious and severe Delta variant. / The New York Times Related: US governors are assessing whether to keep emergency orders in place. / Associated Press "They were so close, they weren&
Between Friday afternoon and Saturday morning, four shooting incidents killed at least two people and injured at least 34 in Austin, Dallas, Savannah, and Chicago. / CNN Trump's Dept. of Justice secretly subpoenaed Apple to hand over metadata on some members of the House Intelligence Committee. / The Verge See
A new outbreak of the coronavirus suggests that lockdown measures could be a part of Chinese life for some time to come. / The New York Times More children and teenagers are experiencing chronic symptoms after Covid even as the pandemic ebbs in the US. / STAT Researchers hope that work on
