Before I forget…
ChatGPT said an Australian mayor served prison time for bribery. This is false. In India, Rahul Gandhi will appeal his defamation conviction. Xi Jinping showed Emmanuel Macron a fine time in China, while his constituents back in France are preparing a different sort of welcome. Chinese fighter jets crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait as China began drills around Taiwan in anger at President Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
The US Supreme Court blocked West Virginia from enforcing its transgender-athlete ban while a case in a lower court proceeds, Oklahoma may get its first religious-charter school funded by taxpayer money, and Tennessee expelled two Black House Democrats after they protested against gun violence.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas defended luxury trips financed by his “dearest friends” after a ProPublica report said he failed to report them despite a law requiring the disclosure of such gifts.
Tesla was ordered to pay $3.2 million to a Black former worker, Jes Staley sought a separate trial over links to sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein, and Sweetgreen renamed its “Chipotle Chicken Burrito Bowl,” calling it the “Chicken + Chipotle Pepper Bowl” after a certain large restaurant chain complained. A judge denied Hawaii Transportation Department’s request to toss out a climate-change case file by children as young as 9.
Finally, two Restoration plays: One of two surviving copies of the Declaration of Breda, key to the return of King Charles II to Britain in 1660 after the execution of his father, will be auctioned. And King Charles III supports research into the monarchy’s links to slavery.
