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Female journalists under attack as press freedom falters
Physical and online abuse, detentions, deportations and sexual violence – a global crackdown on women in journalism is intensifying. Female journalists are at the “epicentre of risk” as attacks on press freedom intensify around the world.. ...The Guardian - World -
Los Angeles unleashes a new weapon in its fight against mosquitoes: More mosquitoes
An aggressive mosquito species has moved into Los Angeles. So officials are releasing thousands of sterile mosquitoes in bid to fight them.NBC News - Top stories -
Bitterly divided Garrick Club prepares to vote on female membership again
Tuesday’s debate on whether the existing rules do not in fact bar women comes amid rising resignations and threats. In May 1924, the Manchester Guardian revealed a “recent innovation in the Garrick Club to admit ladies to one of its rooms” meant ...The Guardian - World -
Afghanistan's only female diplomat resigns in India after gold smuggling allegations
An Afghan diplomat in India who was appointed before the Taliban seized power in 2021 and says she was the only woman in the country’s diplomatic service has resignedABC News - World - India -
New public buildings to be required to have separate male and female toilets
Legislation is needed to address safety, privacy and dignity concerns, minister Kemi Badenoch says.BBC News - Top stories -
‘My role was to be a truthful witness’: photographer Jack Lueders-Booth’s Polaroids of American female prisoners
In the 1970s, the photographer began teaching in a progressive US women’s prison and made moving portraits of many of the inmates. Looking back, he sees how many of them actually felt safer in prison. In 1970, aged 35, Jack Lueders-Booth left a ...The Guardian - World -
Former female trainee in Royal Marines says sexual assault was dismissed as ‘high jinks’
Marines ‘want to protect the chain of command’, she says. ‘They don’t want to protect women’. When Isabel became a trainee for the Royal Marines band, she thought she was fulfilling a childhood dream. But within a few weeks the 18-year-old found ...The Guardian - World -
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‘Biden’s Vietnam’: Progressive lawmakers warn not to repeat campus protest history
Students protesting for Palestinian liberation have also referenced the legacy of student resistance and state crackdowns at inflection points throughout American history.Politico - Politics -
Teenager turns himself in to police after attack on German lawmaker
Matthias Ecke, a European parliamentarian for Olaf Scholz’s SPD, was set upon while putting up EU election posters in Dresden. A 17-year-old has turned himself in to police in Germany after an attack on a lawmaker that the country’s leaders ...The Guardian - World - Germany -
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Arizona governor's signing of abortion law repeal follows political fight by women lawmakers
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs' signing of the repeal of a Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions was a stirring occasion for the women working to ensure the 19th century law remains in the pastABC News - Health - Abortion -
‘So inappropriate.’ Dave & Buster’s plans to allow gambling, and an Illinois lawmaker is trying to stop it.
‘I think there are some spaces and environments that are just not appropriate for gambling to be pushed on people, especially places where there are lots of children,’ says Illinois state Rep. Dan DidechMarketWatch - Business -
'I've been working on this for 50 years:' Democratic lawmaker applauds plan to reclassify marijuana
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) tells Meet the Press NOW he has "never been more pleased in terms of a single decision the federal government has done” as President Biden reportedly plans to change the way marijuana is treated by the federal ...NBC News - Politics