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human trafficking

Anti-Trafficking Charity Operation Underground Railroad Has Another Murky Rescue Story
The anti-trafficking group tells a tale about saving 10 women from sexual slavery and bringing them to the U.S. with the help of Trump’s White House and Tony Robbins. The full story is even stranger.
Tim Marchman
Anna Merlan
8.12.21
unions

A New App Is Taking Labor Unions Out of Union Organizing
Unit is among several new digital platforms that aim to ease the unionization process and empower workers to stand up to their bosses, but some union organizers have their doubts.
Lauren Kaori Gurley
8.12.21
location data

Google Bans Location Data Firm Funded by Former Saudi Intelligence Head
SafeGraph sells smartphone location data to essentially anyone. Google banned the company in June.
Joseph Cox
8.12.21
Global supply chain

There Is A Tennis Ball Shortage Too Now
It's not clear when the tennis ball shortage will ease.
Aaron Gordon
8.12.21
Politics

A Guy Who Might Be at Fault for January 6 Somehow Got Hired on the Capitol Riot Committee
“How can you objectively do a fact-finding mission with no partisanship when January 6 happened under your watch?”
Cameron Joseph
8.12.21
LGBTQ

In Pakistan, Transgender Women Who Reject Men’s Advances Often Face Violence
An organized network of men, who pursue and harass transgender women, sent 200 threatening messages to Paras, a transgender dancer.
Rimal Farrukh
8.12.21
WTF

He Built a Helicopter From Scratch. It Worked, Then It Killed Him.
He DIYed his own working helicopter using car parts from scrap dealers.
Shamani Joshi
8.12.21
qanon

What We Know About the QAnon Surfer Who Killed His 2 Children In Mexico
Matthew Coleman told the FBI he “believed his children were going to grow into monsters so he had to kill them.”
David Gilbert
Lillian Perlmutter
8.12.21
News

Passenger and Military Jets Both Report Seeing a UFO Over Eastern Canada
A July 30 report describes a “bright green flying object” that “flew into a cloud, then disappeared.”
Daniel Otis
8.12.21
Czech Republic

The State Separated Him From His Mother Aged 8 Months. It Took 26 Years to Learn the Truth.
Michal Dord was “one in thousands” of Roma newborns separated from their parents in the Czech Republic, the last EU country to institutionalise babies rather than place them in foster care.
Anna Koslerova
8.12.21
Race

Black People Using E-Scooters Disproportionately Targeted By Police in London
Data obtained by VICE World News indicates the Metropolitan Police are stopping and punishing electric scooter-riders who are Black at higher rates than those who are white.
Max Daly
8.12.21
Extreme weather

Europe's Hottest-Ever Temperature Was Just Recorded in Italy. Great.
As wildfires rage across the Mediterranean, a meteorological agency in Sicily recorded a record temperature of 48.8 degrees celsius, although it still needs to be verified internationally.
Simon Childs
8.12.21
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