- The Senate has unanimously passed a bill to fund historically black colleges and universities on a permanent basis, providing $255 million yearly in federal funding.
- Indicted Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is facing more calls to resign as the country's justice ministry plans to charge his cousin and personal lawyer David Shimrion with money laundering.
- Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi will face a UN tribunal at the Hague next week on charges that the the country's deadly crackdown on Rohingya Muslims was genocide.
- Hong Kong is bracing for another weekend of protests as demonstrators and human rights groups are planning massive marches on Sunday and a general strike on Monday.
- New worldwide carbon emissions data shows 2019 rate of increase in greenhouse gases may be under one percent, but that still leaves the need for sharp decreases in the years ahead to meet Paris goals.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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