Dozens of USAID contracts were canceled last weekend. Here’s what happened : Goats and Soda – NPR

  1. Dozens of USAID contracts were canceled last weekend. Here's what happened : Goats and Soda  NPR
  2. U.S. Slashes Many of the Aid Programs It Had Promised to Keep  The New York Times
  3. Trump administration says it cut funding to some life-saving UN food programs by mistake  AP News
  4. USAID foreign officers to be repatriated, local staff fired by Aug. 15  Devex
  5. Exclusive: Trump administration moves to restore some terminated foreign aid programs, sources say  Reuters
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Former Brazil President Bolsonaro hospitalized with abdominal pain – Reuters

  1. Former Brazil President Bolsonaro hospitalized with abdominal pain  Reuters
  2. Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro hospitalized with abdominal pain  CNN
  3. Brazil’s Bolsonaro hospitalised with abdominal pain, in ‘stable’ condition  South China Morning Post
  4. Brazil's former president Bolsonaro in hospital with abdominal pain  Yahoo
  5. Brazil’s former President Bolsonaro hospitalized with abdominal pain  AP News
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Chinese nationals fighting for Russia in Ukraine are mercenaries-US officials – Reuters

  1. Chinese nationals fighting for Russia in Ukraine are mercenaries-US officials  Reuters
  2. Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy says US ‘very surprised’ after Chinese fighters captured on frontline  The Guardian
  3. Ukraine Accuses Russia of Systematically Recruiting Soldiers From China  WSJ
  4. Reuters: Chinese military officers have been present behind Russian lines with Beijing’s approval  The Kyiv Independent
  5. Chinese Soldiers Quietly Creep Into Ukraine War  Newsweek
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What we know about the Dominican nightclub collapse and its victims – CNN

  1. What we know about the Dominican nightclub collapse and its victims  CNN
  2. What Happened Before the Dominican Republic Nightclub Roof Collapse  The New York Times
  3. Over 220 dead, including former MLB pitcher Octavio Dotel, after roof collapses at Dominican Republic nightclub  ABC News
  4. Dominican Republic issues official report on collapse that killed 221  Reuters
  5. Mourners pay tribute to merengue icon Rubby Pérez, who died in the Dominican roof collapse  AP News
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Immigration agents turned away after trying to enter LA elementary schools

School district says DHS agents, seeking five students in first through sixth grades, were barred from entering

Immigration officials attempted to enter two Los Angeles elementary schools this week, but were turned away by school administrators. The incident appears to be the Trump administration’s first attempt to enter the city’s public schools since amending regulations to allow immigration agents to enter “sensitive areas” such as schools.

At a Thursday press conference, the Los Angeles unified school district superintendent, Alberto Carvalho, confirmed that agents from the Department of Homeland Security were seeking five students in first through sixth grades.

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US House panel drops inquiry into Northwestern’s law school clinics

Move comes after professors sued and alleged investigation violated their constitutional free speech rights

The US House education and workforce committee withdrew an investigation into Northwestern University’s law school clinics after professors there sued and alleged that the inquiry violated their constitutional free speech rights.

The professors secured what amounted to a legal victory for them on Thursday, when the House committee withdrew its investigative requests with respect to the university and its law school’s Bluhm Legal Clinic program on Thursday.

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Helicopter crash in South Africa blamed on ‘unsecured’ penguin – upi.com

  1. Helicopter crash in South Africa blamed on 'unsecured' penguin  upi.com
  2. What we know about the New York City helicopter crash investigation  USA Today
  3. How a penguin in a cardboard box caused a helicopter crash in South Africa  Fox News
  4. South African helicopter crash blamed on penguin in a box  NBC News
  5. Unsecured penguin caused helicopter crash in South Africa  BBC
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European travellers cancel US visits as Trump’s policies threaten tourism – Financial Times

  1. European travellers cancel US visits as Trump’s policies threaten tourism  Financial Times
  2. International travel is declining, and it's costing the US: 'It's shaking everything up'  USA Today
  3. Opinion | Does anybody want to visit the U.S. right now?  The Washington Post
  4. ‘It’s like our friend started a fist fight with us’: These Europeans are skipping US travel  CNN
  5. World Travelers Are Rethinking Vacation Plans to the US  Bloomberg
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UK woman says she was arrested after confiscating her daughters’ iPads

Vanessa Brown called police response in Cobham, Surrey, ‘a complete overreaction’ that left her ‘catatonic’

A history teacher has said she was arrested and blocked from seeing her daughters after she confiscated their iPads.

Vanessa Brown, 50, described her “unspeakable devastation and trauma” after spending seven-and-a-half hours in a cell on 26 March after a claim that she had stolen two iPads.

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