Features (select clips)

Business Insider

• Ja Rule wants to put Black NFT artists center stage by following in the footsteps of Harlem jazz and hip hop icons

• An engineer who was fired by Google says its AI chatbot is 'pretty racist' and that AI ethics at Google are a 'fig leaf'

• An engineer who was fired from Google believes its AI chatbot may have a soul but says he's not interested in convincing the public about it

• Why this professor is using $50,000 of his retirement savings to realize his childhood dream and fly into space

• As-told-to: American Airlines promised to reimburse the $1,700 ticket I bought after my flight was canceled. It's been more than a month and I'm still waiting.

• As-told-to: I bought a plane ticket just to look for my lost luggage. It was the only way I could get my bag back.

• As-told-to: I run one of the only 2 pharmacies that provides mail-order abortion pills. It's been a scary and wild time.

• Marjorie Taylor Greene blamed trans people for the tampon shortage. She's completely wrong.

• OkCupid's popular 'pro-choice' profile badge is helping singles weed out people they will likely clash with as the US overturns Roe V. Wade

• Wells Fargo interviewed me just to meet its diversity criteria. I felt less than human when I found out.

• As-told-to: Ryanair made me do a language test. It's meant to combat illegal immigration but was blatantly discriminatory.

• After Walmart faced backlash for its Juneteenth ice cream, fans urged people to buy Creamalicious, a Black-owned brand. Its CEO says they focus on their products, not politics.

• Black dating app BLK is rolling out profile stickers like 'Black Biz Owner' and 'Afro Latino' — take a look

• We tried a $220-a-month upmarket fitness club with 82 spin bikes. The silent disco-style fitness class pushed us to the limit.

• Ukraine's biggest food producer says the global food crisis could spell catastrophe and impact 'hundreds of millions of people

• Elon Musk's 'free speech' Twitter crusade could inflame its hate and disinformation problem, experts warn

• Support grows for selling seized Russian assets to fund Ukraine – but experts warn it's a complicated and risky strategy

• Estonian cards in Turkey, Italian cards in Singapore: ordinary Russians abroad are using foreign bank accounts after sanctions

• Running a business from a war zone: how a Ukrainian digital startup is surviving Russia's invasion

• Pandemic-weary singles are bored of Hinge and Tinder and desperate for new experiences. A new batch of apps are helping bring them together IRL.

The Associated Press

• For new hires, remote work brings challenges, opportunities

• Dating changed during the pandemic; apps are following suit

• Gig apps for a pandemic economy: Part time, no commitment

• UK’s royal swan census resumes on river after pandemic pause

• Nightclubs elated but doubts cloud England’s ‘Freedom Day’

• Virus surge fears, UK leader’s quarantine, mar ‘Freedom Day’

• As pandemic restrictions wane, hopes rise for Europe travel

Al Jazeera

• Bridging the digital gap for newly-arrived Afghans in the UK

• For British Asians, the word P*ki is haunting and painful

• With dozens in limbo, Denmark pressured to reverse refugee policy

• Do check-out free stores spell end of British supermarket?

• London theatre show aims to portray Rumi authentically

• Does English cricket have a racism problem?

• Poland abortion laws: Woman’s death spurs calls for change

• Denmark: Plan to further limit ‘non-Western’ residents draws ire

• Danish minister’s comment on sex before marriage angers Muslims

• Denmark refugees feel left out from lauded coronavirus policies

VICE (VICE World News, VICE Canada)

• How Women Are Dealing with the ‘Double Pandemic’ of Coronavirus and Domestic Violence

• How Right-Wing Extremism Has Changed the Lives of Canadian Muslim Women

• The Rebirth of Vancouver’s Historically Black Neighbourhood

The Washington Post/The Lily

• Trump left international abortion rights in shambles, activists say. Can Biden undo the damage?

NPR World

• In Pandemic Downturn, Canada's Drive For Guaranteed Basic Income Picks Up Speed

Truthout

• The Anti-Fraud Movement Behind Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Historic Win

New Statesman

• The human cost of America’s “economic war” in Venezuela

NACLA

• Canada’s Broken Pledge to Human Rights Defenders

Ripple of Change Magazine

• A Breath in the Ocean

• The Legacy of Loujain: Keeping Alive the Struggle of an Imprisoned Saudi Woman

Open Canada

• How Trump's latest efforts to stop abortion increasingly undermine global health

• Women Deliver: New funding, and critical questions for the fight for gender equality

Telesur English

• How Hindu Women Fought Child Marriage in Trinidad and Won

• Canada's Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Welcomed, But Falls Short

• SOA Watch Moves Annual Protest to Militarized US-Mexico Border

• Second Chapter of Black Lives Matter in Canada Is Thriving

• Ecuador Latin Kings Gang Transformed by Citizens' Revolution

• US Venezuela Sanctions Will Make Food Shortages Worse Warns Economist

• #SayHerName: The Anti-Violence Movement for All Black Women

• How the Communist Party-Led State of Kerala Is Leading India

• Toppling Columbus: Venezuela’s Fight Against Colonialism

• LGBT Rights in Asia: the Cases of Singapore and Vietnam

• The Life and Death of Brandi Bledsoe, the 23rd Trans Woman Killed in the U.S. in 2016

• 200 Years a Slave: The Buried History of Slavery in Canada

• Canada’s Role in Venezuela

• From Guerrilla to Ecuadorean State Lawmaker: Rosa Mireya Cardenas

• ‘Injecting Radical Politics into the Machinery’: An Interview with U.S. Green Party VP Candidate Ajamu Baraka