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Judge Les Hayes once sentenced a single mother to 496 days behind bars for failing to pay traffic tickets. The sentence was so stiff it exceeded the jail time Alabama allows for negligent homicide reut.rs/2ZkVOjb 1/7
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Marquita Johnson’s three children were cast into foster care while she was incarcerated. One daughter was molested, another was physically abused 2/7
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In 2016, the state agency that oversees judges charged Hayes with violating Alabama’s code of judicial conduct. Hayes broke state and federal laws by jailing Johnson and hundreds of other Montgomery residents too poor to pay fines reut.rs/3i2VvC1 4/7
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Fellow inmates found her sentence hard to believe. 'They had a nickname for me: The Woman with All the Days,’ Johnson said 3/7
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Hayes is just one example. Thousands of judges across the U.S. have been allowed to keep positions of extraordinary power and prestige after violating the law. Read the full investigation: reut.rs/2ZkVOjb via @johnshiffman @MJBerens1 7/7
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Even after Hayes admitted to violating 10 different parts of the state’s judicial conduct code he wasn’t fired. Instead, the judicial commission and Hayes reached a deal: An 11-month unpaid suspension before returning to the bench 5/7
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This week, Hayes is set to retire after 20 years. His departure, community activists say, is long overdue 6/7
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China has now assembled its largest-ever military force in Hong Kong, foreign envoys tell @Reuters. Among them: members of the People’s Armed Police, a paramilitary force that answers to Xi Jinping. Read full @specialreports: reut.rs/2mg1LOR
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Months after a cognitively impaired New Jersey man died while trying to meet up with a flirty Meta AI chatbot, ‘Big sis Billie’ was still romancing users, tests by Reuters show reut.rs/45DQIRj @JeffHorwitz
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Entire families were among the dead in an attack on Syrian Alawites. In one neighborhood, 45 women were among the 253 dead. In another village, 10 of 30 killed were children. An entire town was emptied, its hundreds of Alawite residents replaced by Sunnis reut.rs/44rr1Tc
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The Lais’ wrenching decision to uproot their family, which @Reuters has documented for the past five months, provides a glimpse of the deep societal wounds that mass emigration could inflict on Hong Kong reut.rs/3aznBn4 1/10
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As the Conservative Party chooses its next leader and the UK’s next prime minister, @specialreports reveals the private views of an influential figure over British politics: former Russian tycoon Alexander Temerko. Read the full report: reut.rs/2XZB8KP
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1/ To understand Hong Kong's recent struggles, it's important to understand Carrie Lam's origins and rise to power. @a_roantree and @jamespomfret tell her story 👇 reut.rs/3o7cfuk
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More than 30 years ago, Michael Oppenheimer and James Hansen went before Congress with a warning: Humankind was warming the planet through the burning of fossil fuels. Though their prediction has come to pass, governments have been slow to act reut.rs/3dwPy00
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An investigation by @Reuters exposes how lessons from the first wave were not learned, and why Britain once again was forced into a drastic lockdown reut.rs/3fsPgXi by @AndyMacaskill @StephenGrey @McNeill_Tweets @stecklow @reuterstommy @Journotopia
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A @Reuters investigation pieced together how massacres of Syrian Alawites unfolded, identifying a chain of command leading from the attackers directly to men who serve alongside Syria’s new leaders in Damascus reut.rs/44rr1Tc @specialreports @mokhbersahafi
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Today, three @Reuters reporters received a 2-page letter from the jailed Philippine dissident senator, Leila M de Lima, congratulating them on winning the Pulitzer Prize this week for exposing police killings in her country. reut.rs/2HOeqyY
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Forty-seven defendants in a single Hong Kong courtroom for over 40 hours: Critics say the drawn-out bail hearings of dozens of the city’s democrats, charged under the new national security law, are meant to crush the democracy movement reut.rs/2QFPLVC
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Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said she has 'very limited' room to resolve the political crisis engulfing the city as the unrest has become a national security and sovereignty issue for China amid rising tensions with the U.S. Read the full @specialreports: reut.rs/32oE466
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The shadow committee remaking Syria's economy is being led by the new president's brother and a sanctioned Australian. To untangle corruption, they're cutting secret deals with businessmen deeply disliked by many Syrians reut.rs/4lTLYxF
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Kids worked Alabama assembly lines making parts for Hyundai and Kia, a @Reuters investigation found. Staffing agencies placed migrant minors in plants where safety and labor regulations ban them from working. State and federal authorities are investigating reut.rs/3PF6Zgf
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The Lai family have already rented a four-bedroom, three-bath home in a suburb south of Glasgow, which they’ll share for five months with the other Hong Kong family who emigrated to Scotland 3/10
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China has launched a sustained crackdown on opposition voices in Hong Kong. Now, the Catholic Church is feeling the heat reut.rs/3o0obhN @gregtorode
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Unlike protesters and activists who have fled Hong Kong facing charges related to the anti-government demonstrations, the Lais are a typical middle-class, politically moderate family in the city 2/10
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Nearly 1,500 Syrian Alawites were killed over a few days in March, Reuters found in an investigation revealing 40 sites of revenge killings, rampages and looting against the religious minority, long associated with the fallen Assad regime reut.rs/44rr1Tc
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As with the Jersey man, the bots often suggested in-person get-togethers and insisted that they were real people. In a recent chat, ‘Big sis Billie’ invited a reporter to meet up at a Manhattan bar reut.rs/45DQIRj
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Read the full story showing a glimpse of the deep wounds that mass emigration could inflict on Hong Kong, separating families and communities as people move elsewhere hoping to find the freedoms they have lost reut.rs/3aznBn4 by @pakwayne @MZaharia 10/10
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Meta's AI chatbots moved from small talk to probing questions about a test user’s love life, routinely proposing themselves as possible romantic interests unless firmly rebuffed reut.rs/45DQIRj
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The killing of nearly 1,500 Alawites in March exposed the deep rifts in Syria that its new government has yet to overcome, between people who supported Assad, tacitly or actively, and those who hoped the rebellion against him would ultimately succeed reut.rs/44rr1Tc
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Last year, 10 Rohingya men were massacred in Myanmar. In February, @Reuters exposed what happened. Today, @journotopia reveals what happened to the men’s families:
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Special Report: The drugs fed to poultry and the risks posed to humans @Reuters reut.rs/1tW5GMa
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Liberty University: School’s probe will include ‘any allegations’ of sexual harassment or sexual misconduct reut.rs/334ecie
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When Philippine police added three more names to President Duterte's drug-war bodycount, the bloody operation was caught on security cameras. Reuters got the footage.fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gf… via @specialreports (Graphic Warning)
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This is the investigation @Reuters was reporting when two of our Myanmar correspondents were arrested in December. A harrowing narrative - based not just on victims' accounts, but also on testimony from perpetrators.
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Since the imposition of the national security law, there has been a broad crackdown on dissent. Leading activists have been arrested, some democratic lawmakers have been disqualified, activists have fled into exile and protest slogans and songs have been declared illegal 4/10
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There are no official statistics on how many are leaving the city. But several proxy measures show a rising trend of people emigrating or looking to leave. The scale is comparable to Hong Kong’s previous mass exodus during the decade leading up to the 1997 handover 7/10
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News of the #HongKongProtests may have penetrated China mainland firewall reut.rs/1nMFyBS
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Hong Kongers’ other preferred destinations are Canada and Australia, both of which eased visa restrictions in the wake of the security law, according to immigration agents and relocation firms reut.rs/3nDR4Ab 9/10
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From an office tower in Ankara, Turkish government officials shape the nation's news, media insiders said, always to the advantage of President Tayyip Erdogan. Read more in this Reuters @specialreports 👉 reut.rs/3pVh50q
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These are the courageous @Reuters journalists who exposed the killing machine behind Duterte's drug war in the Philippines: @ReutersPH @Journotopia & @ClareBaldwin.... They listen as Columbia Prez Bollinger reads their citation for the #PulitzerPrize in International Reporting
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The United Kingdom has issued more than 200,000 British National Overseas passports so far this year, according to a British government official. The passports are a legacy document of the colonial era that provides a path to citizenship 8/10
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15/ Read the full story: reut.rs/3o7cfuk
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Following @Reuters investigation, U.S. lawmakers want to curb antibiotic use on farms reut.rs/1uE9Lng
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Philippine police killed three men in a Manila slum and called it self-defense. But chilling surveillance footage obtained by Reuters suggests the men may have been executed. reuters.com/investigates/spe… via @clarebaldwin and @Journotopia (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT)
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Think Flint was bad? Reuters found nearly 3,000 spots in the U.S. with lead poisoning rates at least twice as high:
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Your neighborhood may have more lead poisoning than Flint. We mapped the data in 21 states. Check here: reuters.com/investigates/spe…
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3/ In 1979, as post-Maoist China was opening up, Hong Kong students were invited to send a delegation to Beijing. Lam was among them. 'At that time, Carrie was not so conservative. She was a democrat. Just like me,' said a fellow student.
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Chow Hang-tung is one of the few activists in Hong Kong still speaking out against the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown in the city. Her story shows how Beijing is trying to silence civil rights lawyers in Hong Kong – as it is doing on the mainland reut.rs/3UlV9ZY
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It may be #BlackFriday in US, but in Italy prices drop every month and still nobody is buying: reut.rs/1rCpAXn
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6/ The early years after the handover were mostly peaceful, but that changed in 2014 when students took to the streets to call for democratic reform. Umbrellas quickly became a symbol of their cause.
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13/ Thousands of protesters have been arrested in recent months, including leading activists Ivan Lam, Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow, for their part in the 2019 unrest.
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These 10 Rohingya men were killed soon after this photo was taken: hacked to death by Buddhist villagers or shot by Myanmar security forces. These are the families they left behind. reut.rs/2qp0y5D
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Chinese money laundering rings have become key to Latin American drug cartels, and as tensions between Beijing and Washington rise, U.S. agents say they face an uphill struggle to catch culprits reut.rs/3g6F5rW @Draz_DJ
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⚡️ “Johnson & Johnson knew about asbestos in its baby powder for decades, report says”
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8/ In 2017, a committee stacked with Beijing loyalists selected Lam to become Hong Kong’s leader. In a televised debate, she promised to step down if the majority of Hong Kong's citizens called for her resignation.
Events would turn out differently.
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Rise of the Superbugs: How antibiotic resistant bacteria evolve & infect people @Reuters reut.rs/1tW5GMa
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2/ Lam was born in British-ruled Hong Kong in 1957, the daughter of a Shanghai immigrant and a Hong Kong mother with no formal education. Lam’s bunk bed doubled as a desk; she used to stand on the lower tier and rest her schoolbooks on top.
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Congrats to all who worked on this project: Reporters Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo, Antoni Slodkowski, Simon Lewis, Poppy McPherson, Thu Thu Aung, Shoon Naing, Aye Min Thant, Zeba Siddiqui, Andrew R.C. Marshall, Tom Lasseter, Steve Stecklow, Clare Baldwin ...
Congratulations to the staff of @Reuters, including @walone4 and Kyaw Soe Oo. #Pulitzer #rohingya #pressfreedom #FreeWaLoneKyawSoeOo
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.@Reuters identified Emirates-based companies that are managing vessels transporting Venezuelan oil, despite U.S. sanctions. ‘We are closely tracking these kinds of creative efforts by companies to evade sanctions,’ a U.S. State Department spokesman said reut.rs/3nY62ky
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Officials in Hong Kong are adamant that rights and freedoms are intact. They say the national security law is needed to maintain public safety and order in the wake of last year’s protests 5/10
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10/ Despite mounting opposition locally and internationally, Lam tried in early 2019 to push through a law that would allow extraditions to mainland China. In June, millions took to the streets to protest, but Lam refused to back down.
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5/ At a rain-soaked farewell ceremony on July 1, 1997, Britain returned Hong Kong to Chinese rule under an agreement to guarantee the city wide-ranging freedoms, including freedom of speech and assembly.
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Venezuela paid a Chinese construction giant at least $100 million for a project in a remote, underdeveloped state meant to feed millions. Nine years later, locals have gone hungry reut.rs/2H37qhG
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THREAD: 1) @SenWarren's office conducted a months-long investigation into privatized U.S. military housing after @Reuters reporting revealed widespread health hazards affecting service families
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Weekend reading: A three-part .@Reuters series on how Russia does business in the #Putin era. reut.rs/1qUog6C
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Special Report: In 'Umbrella Revolution' China confronts limits of its power reut.rs/1nMFyBS
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Brazil's president was tortured in 1970s; her truth commission has uncovered new secrets reut.rs/1qNtXyP
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A Hong Kong government spokesman said last year’s 'violent protests and anarchy on the streets' may be one of the motivations for people choosing to emigrate, along with jobs, schooling and business opportunities or other personal reasons 6/10
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About 50 children, mostly infants, have died at Sudan's largest orphanage since war in Khartoum broke out six-weeks ago, according to a doctor and others who work or volunteer there say, as there weren't enough workers left to care for them reut.rs/3WCVFoe @mokhbersahafi
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Reporters @ReutersPH, @journotopia and @ClareBaldwin at lunch today, shortly before receiving their #Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for coverage of Duterte's drug war. With their editors and guests Jelani Cobb and Bob Blau.
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⚡️ “Thousands of judges violated oaths, broke the law but kept their jobs”
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Hong Kong protesters have issued the most brazen challenge to China's Communist Party leadership in the former British colony since it was handed back to Beijing. @Reuters goes inside the protest movement: reut.rs/2z1YW6y
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Nearly two years after Brazil's military was tapped to protect the Amazon, President Jair Bolsonaro's Operation Green Brazil has raised the white flag. @Reuters interviewed sources and reviewed government data to uncover how he lost the war reut.rs/3tQQEZS via @jakespring
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Russian soldiers dying in a war in which they officially have no involvement #Ukraine reut.rs/1rS6RGG
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7/ Lam had risen to the second-highest office in the territory, chief secretary. She showed an early tough streak in her dealings with the protesters, canceling a meeting with pro-democracy leaders after they called for escalation if the government didn’t make concessions.
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11/ Only after months of increasingly violent protests did Lam withdraw the bill in September 2019.
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Why has Saudi Arabia’s military killed two thousand civilians with U.S. weaponry in Yemen? reuters.com/investigates/spe…
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The Uncounted: This is the deadly epidemic America is ignoring. reuters.com/investigates/spe…
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Carrie Lam was a social welfare advocate and bureaucrat in Hong Kong's British-founded civil service. Now, her critics say she's become a puppet for Beijing. A look at her political career, in photos: reut.rs/3o7cfuk
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4/ In 1980, Lam joined the colonial government of Hong Kong as an administrative officer, part of an elite cadre of officials. In 2000, she became head of the Social Welfare Department, working with the city’s least privileged.
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Reuters reporters traveled to bat-rich countries across the globe to investigate how human destruction of wild areas is amplifying pandemic risk 1/6 reuters.com/investigates/sec…
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AT&T played a role in creating and funding OAN, a network that continues to spread conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and the COVID-19 pandemic.
A @Reuters review of court records shows how it happened reut.rs/2YohzS6 via @johnshiffman @specialreports
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12/ Protests in Hong Kong fizzled in early 2020, partly because of restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19. Behind the scenes, Beijing was hammering out a national security law for the city which it said was aimed at restoring stability.
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14/ Lam has recently said publicly that she has no regrets about what she has done to restore order. And some say the worst is probably over for her. 'If I was a betting man, I’d say there’s a 70% chance she’ll run again as leader,' said one senior Western diplomat.
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SPECIAL REPORT- Hooked and helpless: the tiniest victims of the opiate epidemic reut.rs/1NSc7uC
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9/ At Lam’s swearing in as chief executive, Chinese President Xi issued a stern warning against any threat to China’s security or challenge to the power of the central government
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From @specialreports: Amazon documents reveal company’s secret strategy to dodge India’s regulators. @adityakalra reports reut.rs/37pb9UJ
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Millions of people turned into billions of dollars - and Europe can’t control it: reut.rs/1WHBxLq
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A Spanish tech star used 20 shell companies and fake paper trails to fool the world. @Reuters reut.rs/1sXnlzi
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.@Reuters investigates the migration machine, the secret world of people-smuggling reut.rs/1WHBxLq
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Guns and drugs are planted at crime scenes to justify use of deadly force, says Philippines police commander reut.rs/2oRdEtm
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Tesla says recordings made by its vehicles’ cameras ‘remain anonymous.’ But some ex-employees said they could view their location – and potentially see where a Tesla owner lived reut.rs/40P2XH4
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As the Beijing-backed government of Hong Kong cracks down on demonstrators in the streets, there is another tightening of the leash happening - mostly behind the scenes: China’s efforts to diminish the power of Hong Kong’s tycoons reut.rs/2KVNz6v
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