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China complains as the Netherlands warns of its endemic espionage

Outlining his 2022 report on threats to the Netherlands, the director-general of that nation's intelligence service observed that China poses "the biggest threat to the Netherlands's economic security."

Supreme Court weighs religious accommodation for Christian postal worker

The Supreme Court on Tuesday debated how far employers must go to accommodate their employees’ religious beliefs as the justices weighed an evangelical Christian’s claims of discrimination while serving as a U.S. Postal Service worker. Gerald Groff sued the United States Postal Service (USPS) after being disciplined for missing scheduled Sunday shifts to deliver Amazon...

The one metric that matters when predicting a recession

Everything in this world is simply about supply and demand.

Federal watchdog finds HHS secretary violated Hatch Act

A federal watchdog on Tuesday informed the White House that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra violated the Hatch Act at an awards gala last September. The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) submitted a report to President Biden detailing that Becerra was found to have violated the ethics law when he said at...

Supreme Court urged to keep abortion pill restrictions in place

A group of anti-abortion doctors urged the Supreme Court on Tuesday to keep a lower court's ruling that severely restricted the ability of patients to obtain mifepristone, one of two commonly-used abortion pills. The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine told the justices that they should leave in place last Wednesday's ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit...

YouTube changing policies on content related to eating disorders

YouTube is changing its policies on content related to eating disorders, the video-sharing platform announced on Tuesday. The company will update its approach to the content in the coming weeks with consult from third-party experts “to create space for community, recovery and resources, while protecting viewers,” according to a release. “Because people come to our...

Sheriff’s office: Recordings of alleged discussions about killing reporters, hanging Black people were altered

The scandal-ridden Oklahoma sheriff’s office says that audio that promoted the state’s governor to call for officials to resign was altered, and that its lead was being investigated. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) called for officials in the county sheriff's office to resign after apparently discussing killing local reporters and lynching Black people. The leaked...

Meta opens virtual reality game Horizon Worlds to teens after pushback from safety advocates

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, will open its virtual reality app Horizon Worlds to teens with protections in place to help keep minors safe, the company said Tuesday  The expansion of Horizon Worlds to users aged 13 to 17 by Meta comes after pushback from kids’ online safety advocates and a two...

US citizens, Russian nationals charged in influence campaign probe

A group of four U.S. citizens and three Russian nationals have been charged in connection to an investigation into a foreign influence campaign.  The Justice Department (DOJ) said in a release on Tuesday that a federal grand jury issued a superseding indictment against the individuals, alleging they were working on behalf of the Russian government...

How cascading crises may have chased Viking settlers from North America

Rising seas and increased flooding may have helped chase Viking colonists out of Greenland, a new study has found. The study offers a new explanation to a medieval mystery: why Viking settlements on the doorstep of North America failed on the eve of European contact with the continent’s peoples. In the new account, rising seas...

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