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Trump and 18 others charged in Georgia election inquiry – BBC News
At least eight “fake electors”, who signed a bogus certificate claiming Mr Trump won the election in that state, have reached immunity deals in the case after agreeing to interviews with Fulton County prosecutors. Source: Trump and 18 others charged in Georgia election inquiry – BBC News
Full PDF: Read Georgia’s indictment of Trump in 2020 election
The 41-count indictment filed in Georgia tonight includes Trump and 18 others. As expected, Willis used Georgia’s RICO statute as part of the indictment. Several people named in the indictment are known members of Trump’s inner circle, including former chief of staff Mark Meadows and former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark. But other names may be less familiar.
Source: Full PDF: Read Georgia’s indictment of Trump in 2020 election
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Opinion | At a College Targeted by DeSantis, Gender Studies Is Out, Jocks Are In – The New York Times
Over a third of the faculty members have left. Many of last year’s students are continuing their education elsewhere. Hampshire College, a small private liberal arts school in New England, has offered financial aid to New College students so they can transfer without tuition increases. Thirty-five plan to attend Hampshire this fall, and 30 more have inquired about doing so in the spring, a large number, given that last year New College had fewer than 700 students. Last week, New College’s leadership announced that it was moving to abolish the gender studies department. Chris Rufo, the culture warrior whom DeSantis put on New College’s board of trustees, boasted that it would be “the first public university in America to begin rolling back the encroachment of gender ideology and queer theory on its academic offerings.”
Afghanistan refugees being let down by UK, says think tank – BBC News
…Operation Pitting saw the UK airlift around 15,000 people out of Kabul – including British nationals, as well as people who worked with the UK in Afghanistan and their family members.
Those who had nowhere to live were placed in government-funded hotels. This was supposed to be temporary accommodation but by the end of March, there were still around 8,800 Afghans living in hotels.
The government has imposed a deadline of the end of August for Afghans to be moved out of hotels, but councils have warned some are facing homelessness as they cannot find anywhere else to live.
More In Common, an organisation founded in the wake of the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox, surveyed 132 Afghans in the UK.
It was told of failures in communication with local authorities and the Home Office on housing, rental applications being repeatedly rejected, and unsuitable homes being offered, sometimes hundreds of miles away…
Source: Afghanistan refugees being let down by UK, says think tank – BBC News
Beaten in prison for marking Martyrs’ Day, two Burmese inmates die — Radio Free Asia
The holiday marks the memory of renowned fallen figures within Burma’s independence movement, including Gen. Aung San, father of deposed and jailed former State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, seven other independence leaders, and one bodyguard who were gunned down by a group of armed men in uniform while holding a cabinet meeting in Yangon on July 19, 1947.
The holiday is marked annually by both pro-democracy groups and the military junta, which seized control of the elected government in a February 2021 coup and later sentenced Suu Kyi to 33 years in prison following trials that rights groups have condemned as shams.
Source: Beaten in prison for marking Martyrs’ Day, two Burmese inmates die — Radio Free Asia
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