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Al Sharpton: Trump’s $60 Bibles ‘a spit in the face of people that really believe’
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The Rev Al Sharpton makes comment to MSNBC amid backlash over Republican’s latest moneymaking schemeThe spectacle of Donald Trump selling $60 Bibles is “a spit in the face of people that really believe”, the Rev Al Sharpton said, amid widespread backlash over the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s latest moneymaking scheme.“Blasphemy certainly comes to mind,” Sharpton told MSNBC. Continue reading... (The Guardian)
Georgia Republican official fined $5,000 for voting illegally nine times
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Brian Pritchard, first vice-president of state party, voted in nine elections while on probation for 1996 forgery felony convictionAn official in the Georgia Republican party who has said the 2020 election was stolen was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine and will receive a public reprimand for voting illegally nine times, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Thursday.Brian Pritchard, the first vice-president of the state Republican party, illegally voted in nine elections from 2008 to 2010 while he was still on probation for a 1996 forgery felony conviction in Pennsylvania. Georgia and 14 other states require people to have completed their sentence, including probation, before they can vote. About 163,475 people could not vote in Georgia in 2022 because they were on felony probation, according to an estimate by the Sentencing Project, a criminal justice non-profit. Continue reading... (The Guardian)
France assesses Paris Olympics terrorist threat in light of Moscow attack
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Minister and intelligence services meet to discuss security for Games that includes opening ceremony on the SeineThe French interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, has met intelligence services to assess the terrorist threat to the country, after the Moscow concert hall attack claimed by Islamic State raised fresh security fears over the Paris Olympics.One of the biggest security challenges facing the organisers of the Games in the French capital is to protect the opening ceremony on 26 July. It is planned to be an unprecedented, open-air extravaganza, which for the first time in Olympic history will not take place within the confines of a stadium, but instead involve a flotilla of 94 boats carrying thousands of waving athletes down a 6km (3.7-mile) stretch of the Seine, followed by a further 80 boats carrying media and security, while an estimated 222,000 people gather along the river’s edge and 200,000 more watch from buildings. Continue reading... (The Guardian)
Ontario moves to allow use of Indigenous languages in legislature
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‘Momentous change’ will permit lawmakers in Canadian province to address chamber in ‘first languages’Lawmakers in Ontario will now be able to address the province’s legislature using Indigenous languages, in a “momentous change” that belatedly recognizes the “first languages” of the region.The Ontario government house leader, Paul Calandra, this week moved to amend a standing order that previously required lawmakers to use either English or French. Following a vote, that order now allows for an “Indigenous language spoken in Canada” to be used when addressing the speaker or chamber. Continue reading... (The Guardian)
Judge says Sam Bankman-Fried was remorseless as he sentences him to 25 years in prison for orchestrating $8bn fraud – live
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Sentence for former CEO of now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange is lower than the 4-50 years prosecutors asked forSam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents are in the courtroom to witness their son’s sentencing.Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried are both law professors at Stanford University, the former of tax law and the latter of legal ethics. Bankman-Fried said they were not involved in “any of the relevant parts” of FTX’s operation. Continue reading... (The Guardian)
Girl, 10, left inoperable after planned NHS surgery cancelled seven times
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Eva Tennent, whose operations were scheduled in Edinburgh, has Rett syndrome and advanced scoliosisA 10-year-old girl’s spinal condition has become inoperable after her planned surgery was cancelled seven times in six months, her mother has claimed.Eva Tennent suffers from Rett syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that affects brain development, and has advanced scoliosis that causes her spine to twist and curve to the side. Continue reading... (The Guardian)
Karlie Kloss and Joshua Kushner announce plan to revive Life magazine
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Model and investor husband’s company Bedford Media to bring photography publication back to print and digital distributionThe model and entrepreneur Karlie Kloss and her billionaire tech investor husband Joshua Kushner are set to revive Life magazine, the iconic photography weekly publication.On Thursday, Bedford Media, a holding company headed by Kloss and Kushner, announced that it is bringing Life back to print and digital distribution as part of an agreement with Dotdash Meredith, the US’s largest digital and print publisher. Continue reading... (The Guardian)
Advance of Islamic State affiliates ‘could lay ground for new wave of terrorism’
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IS has stalled in Iraq and Syria but officials believe it has been planning new attacks on west for yearsIslamic State (IS) remains defeated in its core strongholds of the Middle East but has made significant progress in Africa and parts of south Asia, winning territory and resources that could serve as a launchpad for a new campaign of extremist violence, analysts and officials believe.European governments have moved to their highest levels of alert for years after the attack on a concert hall in Moscow last week by militants from IS which killed 140 people. Continue reading... (The Guardian)
Independent to take control of BuzzFeed and HuffPost in UK and Ireland
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Media companies to combine publishing and advertising platforms to target gen Z and millennialsThe Independent will take control of BuzzFeed and HuffPost in the UK and Ireland with the intention to create “Britain’s biggest publisher network for gen Z and millennial audiences”, the publishers have said.The two media companies will combine their publishing, data and advertising platforms “to allow commercial partners to seamlessly buy across their sites”. Continue reading... (The Guardian)
Suspect charged with murder after four killed in Illinois stabbing attack
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Christian Soto, 22, in custody after rampage leaves girl, 15, woman, 63, and two men aged 49 and 22 deadA man has been charged with murder following a stabbing attack that left four people dead in northern Illinois.Police said that Christian Soto, 22, has been charged with multiple counts of murder, intent to kill and home invasion after the stabbings on Wednesday in Rockford, which is 90 miles north-west of Chicago. Continue reading... (The Guardian)