"The system includes mandatory facial-recognition scans at gas stations and Wi-Fi sniffers that secretly collect data from network devices. Over the past two years, the technology has helped authorities round up an estimated hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other Muslims and lock them up in clandestine camps that China calls 're-education centers.'"
"U.S. marijuana companies are not allowed to list on the Nasdaq or the New York Stock Exchange due to federal restrictions, leaving a nascent yet booming market to be traded in Canada."
"Tryptamines, DMT and magic mushrooms, amphetamines, including MDMA, and ergolines, like LSD consistently boosted brain connections."
"Prosecutors claim the police framed the teen so that the department could boast perfect burglary arrest statistics."
"Despite condemnations from China, the US continues to sell advanced weapons to the island under the Taiwan Relations Act for its self-defense against a much bigger Chinese military."
"The United States is at war in so many places that the majority of citizens would struggle to name half of them."
"French President Emmanuel Macron called for a common European defence force and budget, as well as common asylum offices, border police, financial transaction tax and carbon tax, in a wide-ranging speech setting out his vision for Europe."
"160 American-born children have a parent who could soon be ordered to leave the country; many families are relying on handouts."
"He survived about 15,000 days of isolation – a form of captivity that the United Nations has denounced as torture and that scientific studies have shown is capable of inflicting severe psychological damage on individuals in less than a week."