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13-Year-Old Palestinian Girl Shot Dead by Settlers & IOF in Qaryut | PNN

The child Bana Amjad Bakr (13 years old) was martyred on Friday evening after succumbing to a gunshot wound to the chest, caused by settlers and IOF who attacked the village of Qaryut, south of Nablus, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that its teams treated the child, who was critically wounded by live bullets fired by the occupation and its settlers during clashes in Qaryut. She was transported to Rafidia Surgical Hospital in Nablus, where doctors later announced her martyrdom due to her severe injuries.

The child’s father stated that his daughter was shot by live fire while she was inside her room at home with her sisters.

Source: 13-Year-Old Palestinian Girl Shot Dead by Settlers & IOF in Qaryut | PNN

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Tenet Media Shutters After Being Accused of Taking $10 Million in Covert Kremlin Funding – Mother Jones

…Tenet Media’s founders, Canadian conservative YouTuber Lauren Chen and her husband Liam Donovan, have not publicly commented on the allegations against Tenet. Nor has Canadian far-right activist Lauren Southern, a Tenet contributor who appeared in many of their videos. Other prominent contributors to the site, including far-right commentator Tim Pool, described themselves as “victims” in the Tenet scandal, who were unaware that employees of RT, the Russian state media entity, were secretly funding the company. Pool announced on Thursday that he has been contacted by federal investigators, writing, “The FBI believes I have information relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation and have requested a voluntary interview. I will be offering my assistance in this matter.”

The Daily Beast reported that Chen’s contract with Blaze TV, where she also made regular appearances, has been terminated. The company has also deleted her page on their website and wiped episodes of her podcast, “Pseudo-Intellectual,” from Spotify.

YouTube told NBC News’ Brandy Zadrozny that it had deleted Tenet Media’s channel and four others operated by Chen in light of the indictment and “after careful review,” writing the steps were part of “ongoing efforts to combat coordinated influence operations.”

For now, Tenet Media’s Twitter profile, Instagram page, TikTok, and Rumble pages all remain online—though none have been updated since the indictment was announced.

Source: Tenet Media Shutters After Being Accused of Taking $10 Million in Covert Kremlin Funding – Mother Jones

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Hiltzik: Decoding Trump’s rant on child care – Los Angeles Times

…in the proposal by Rubio and Ivanka Trump, families would have to raid their Social Security to pay for it by reducing or delaying their retirement benefits. As the Urban Institute calculated, for every 12-week leave, new parents would have to delay their Social Security benefits by more than twice that period, or as much as six months.

Parents who took four 12-week leaves, according to this analysis, would lose 10% of their retirement benefits, for life.

Based on the average benefit retirees receive this year, that would mean a hit of nearly $200 a month, taken at a time when many have few other financial resources if any: About 40% of retirees depend on Social Security for half their income or more, and for as many as 15%, Social Security represents 90% of their income.

Deferring retirement benefits, the Urban Institute observed, could “create financial hardship for people who develop health problems or lose their jobs as they approach retirement…”

Source: Hiltzik: Decoding Trump’s rant on child care – Los Angeles Times