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A van brought Tong Ying-kit to a Hong Kong courthouse for his sentencing on Friday.Credit...Miguel Candela/EPA, via Shutterstock

Hong Kong Protester Is Sentenced to 9 Years in First Security Law Case

New York Times - By Austin Ramzy

Like you’ve never seen him before: Jean-Claude Van Damme (left) proves he can do it all in heels as an oft-disguised former secret agent in the action-comedy “The Last Mercenary.”(Alois Maille/Netflix)

Review: Jean-Claude Van Damme still kicking in the amusing ‘The Last Mercenary’

LA Times - BY MICHAEL ORDOÑASTAFF WRITER

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) speaks to reporters July 28 after Republicans announced a deal with Democrats on the infrastructure bill. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

Schumer, a leader more liked than feared, faces test of whether he can deliver the ‘big and bold’ agenda he’s promised

Washington Post - By Mike DeBonis

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'This is Madness': UK Accused of 'Discrimination' After Keeping France on 'Amber Plus' List

Sputnik - By Oleg Burunov

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Hong Kong crowd booing China's anthem sparks police probe

BBC News

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Navy charges sailor in connection with 2020 fire on USS Bonhomme Richard

CNN - By Barbara Starr and Paul LeBlanc

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‘Industrial Policy’ Is Back: The West Dusts Off Old Idea to Counter China

WSJ - By Greg Ip

Ghalia, who has had her Danish residency permit revoked. More women and older people have been affected by the change in policy, as men are at risk of being drafted into the military on return

Denmark faces legal action over attempts to return Syrian refugees

The Guardian - By Bethan McKernan, Rosie Swash and Annie Kelly

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Pfizer says vaccine's power wanes over time. Are you still protected?

NBC News - By Akshay Syal, MD

Senator Mitt Romney of Utah and other Republicans who negotiated the deal urged their colleagues to support a measure they said would provide badly needed funding for infrastructure projects. Credit...T.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times

$1 Trillion Infrastructure Deal Scales Senate Hurdle With Bipartisan Vote

New York Times - By Emily Cochrane and Jim Tankersley

Sri Siti Marni, 25, waits for her husband to come home from work at a nearby field in Bogor, Indonesia. She endured nine years of abuse toiling as a domestic worker for a family since age 11 after being promised schooling. (Irene Barlian / For The Times)

She was promised school. She ended up enslaved and tortured as a housemaid

LA Times - BY GEMMA HOLLIANI CAHYA, DAVID PIERSON

Desiree Maurer stands at the place in Westwood, Calif., she called home. Maurer relocated to Westwood after the 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise, Calif. (Kyle Grillot for The Washington Post)

Survivors of California’s deadliest wildfire haunted as new blaze nears: ‘I can’t do it again’

Washington Post - By María Luisa Paúl , Hannah Knowles and Frances Stead

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Powerful 8.2-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Alaska, Triggering Tsunami Warning

Sputnik - By Evgeny Mikhaylov

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Sun Dawu runs one of the country's largest private agricultural businesses in the northern province of Hebei.

Outspoken billionaire Sun Dawu jailed for 18 years in China

BBC News

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Simone Biles and 'the twisties': How fear affects the mental health and physical safety of gymnasts

CNN - Analysis by Elle Reeve

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Washington’s Oil Lobby Pivoted on Climate Change—and Made No One Happy

WSJ - By Timothy Puko and Ted Mann

Vast areas of the Amazon rainforest are being burned and cleared for grazing cattle — a double blow to global warming, as cattle produce methane and cleared forests release carbon into the atmosphere. Photograph: Florian Kopp/imageBROKER/REX/Shutterstock

Critical measures of global heating reaching tipping point, study finds

The Guardian - By Katharine Gammon

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Experts back CDC change on masks as delta variant spreads

NBC News - By Denise Chow

By one estimate, students were, on average, four to five months behind where they have typically been by the end of the school year. Credit...Pete Kiehart for The New York Times

The Pandemic Hurt These Students the Most

New York Times - By Sarah Mervosh

Simone Biles walks alone after the women’s team final at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday.(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

Column: Simone Biles will not compete in Olympic all-around gymnastics final

LA Times - BY HELENE ELLIOTT

Texas state Rep. Jake Ellzey, a retired Navy fighter pilot, is making his second run for a U.S. House seat. (Jake Ellzey for Congress)

Texas voters brush aside Trump endorsement and name Jake Ellzey the winner in a House special election in Texas

Washington Post - By David Weigel

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Indo-Nepal relation shouldn’t have another boomerang

By Radhakrishna Deuja

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Election 2024 live updates: Trump court docs usealed as candidates focus on Michigan

USA Today

Donald Trump during a campaign event in Potterville, Mich., on Aug. 29.Bill Pugliano / Getty Images file

Trump says he won't run again in four years if he loses November election

NBC News

Registered Nurse Bijaya Deuja's Daisy Award

Nepalese Nurse Bijaya Deuja honored with esteemed DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nursing Student for 2024 from US one of the largest Universities

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Inflation eases in April as prices fall for eggs, bacon and bread, CPI data shows

USA Today