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Sen. Bernie Sanders, who chairs the HELP committee, wrote a letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Tuesday regarding the company's warehouse safety record.

European Union officials say there is a growing risk of mosquito-borne viral diseases such as dengue and chikungunya in Europe due to climate change. The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control said Thursday that because heat waves and flooding are becoming more frequent and severe, conditions are more favorable for invasive mosquito species. Ways to control mosquito populations include eliminating standing water where mosquitoes breed, using eco-friendly larvicides and promoting community awareness about mosquito control. The agency says personal protective measures include the use of mosquito bed nets, wearing clothes that cover most of the body and using mosquito repellent.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 21, 2023

"Ukrainian forces conducted counteroffensive operations on at least three sectors of the front on June 21

Zelensky acknowledged that the progress of Ukrainian counteroffensives has been slower than expected"

#Biden #EU #Pentagon #Military #War #Ukraine #NATO #Putin #Russia #Weapons #US #WW3 #Zelensky #News #CounterOffensive #Crimea #ISW

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-21-2023

Iran Update, June 21, 2023

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-june-21-2023

#Iran #Conflict #War #HumanRights #CivilRights

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"Ukraine Situation Report: Counteroffensive Slowed By 77,000 Square Miles Of Mines

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that regardless of what happens in the counteroffensive, he won’t negotiate until Russia leaves. "

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraine-situation-report-counteroffensive-slowed-by-72000-square-miles-of-mines

#Biden #EU #Pentagon #Military #War #Ukraine #NATO #Putin #Russia #Weapons #US #WW3 #Zelensky #News #CounterOffensive #Crimea

Kosovo-Serbia Crisis

"The European Union will hold crisis talks on Thursday with the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo as the bloc seeks to ease the latest spike in tensions.

“I have called the leaders of Serbia & Kosovo to Brussels for urgent meetings to find the way out of the current crisis,” the EU’s foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said."

https://www.thedefensepost.com/2023/06/22/eu-crisis-talks-serbia-kosovo/

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"Challenger 2s work jointly with Stryker and Marder IFVs in Ukraine"

https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2023/06/22/challenger-2s-work-jointly-with-stryker-and-marder-ifvs-in-ukraine/

#Biden #EU #Pentagon #Military #War #Ukraine #NATO #Putin #Russia #Weapons #US #WW3 #Zelensky #News #CounterOffensive #Tanks #Armor

Just fix the pot hole... and, stop whining.

"Ukraine strikes Chonhar bridge to Crimea, says Russia"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65982817

#Biden #EU #Pentagon #Military #War #Ukraine #NATO #Putin #Russia #Weapons #US #WW3 #Zelensky #News #CounterOffensive #RoadRepair #PotHole

Impending Nuclear Release???

""Intelligence services have received information that Russia is considering the scenario of a terrorist act at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant — a terrorist act with the release of radiation. They have prepared everything for this," Zelensky said in a statement on social media."

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/06/22/zelensky-claims-russia-preparing-radiation-leak-at-nuclear-plant-a81591

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Pirate [Internet] Radio

"Russians join the resistance with pirate radio and Tinder. People are finding inventive ways to protest against Putin’s war"

https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/06/20/russians-join-the-resistance-with-pirate-radio-and-tinder

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Earlier this month, Meta showed staff plans for a text-based social network designed to compete with Twitter.

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.

That finding tracks with a recent study from SmartAsset, a financial technology company, which found the average American worker needs $68,499 in after-tax income to live comfortably. (That works out to around $85,000 in total income, assuming a 20-percent tax hit.)

The two releases point to the same conclusion: Many Americans earn too little in 2023 to attain a decent standard of living in their communities.

Turkey is expected to reverse some of the unorthodox economic policies of President Erdogan.

House leaders and the head of the U.S. Postal Service unveiled a new stamp Wednesday honoring the late Rep. John Lewis.

The stamp design features a 2013 photograph of the Georgia Democrat taken by Marco Grob for Time magazine, according to a Postal Service news release. The selvage, or a stamp pane's margin, will feature a 1963 photograph taken by Steve Schapiro of Lewis outside a nonviolent protest workshop.

A year-long investigation uncovers a sadistic abuse network stretching from Indonesia to the US.

Texas’ power grid operator is asking residents to voluntarily cut back on electricity due to anticipated record demand on the system as a heat wave keeps parts of the state and southern U.S. in triple-digit temperatures. Much of Texas on Tuesday was under excessive heat warnings. In the West Texas city of San Angelo, temperatures soared to an all-time high of 114 degrees. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas' request is its first this year asking customers to curtail their energy use. In neighboring Oklahoma, meanwhile, more than 100,000 customers are eagerly awaiting the restoration of power following weekend storms. And in Louisiana, more than 51,000 electricity customers are still without power.

All adults in the United States ages 19 to 64 should be screened for anxiety disorders, according to a recommendation from the US Preventive Services Task Force that was released Tuesday.

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 living animal, a fertilized egg or a special bank of stored cells. The goal is to eliminate harm to animals and drastically reduce the environmental impacts of raising them. The meat will initially be sold only at upscale restaurants.

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.

A feud on Twitter highlights the perils of engaging on the platform and a growing tension among researchers and medical professionals.

Coast Guard says sounds and banging noises heard from search area for Titanic submersible for second day.