Notices by Steve Herman (w7voa@journa.host), page 16

Freelance photojournalist Linda Tirado, the recipient of the National Press Club's 2020 domestic John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award, is dying and has entered hospice care as a result of injuries sustained during her coverage of the Minneapolis protests surrounding the killing of George Floyd. https://www.press.org/newsroom/club-urges-members-donate-aubuchon-winners-hospice-care

Actor Donald Sutherland has died. https://variety.com/2024/film/news/donald-sutherland-dead-mash-hunger-games-1236043323/

Details on the new evidence that raises questions about whether the Saudi government provided crucial assistance to the hijackers during the 9/11 terror attacks. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bayoumi-video-examined-as-september-11-evidence-60-minutes/

CBS News - Video obtained by 60 Minutes raises new questions about Saudi Arabia’s connection to the 9/11 terror attacks.

It is now law in Louisiana there be a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable font” in every public school classroom, from kindergarten to state-funded universities. https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-ten-commandments-displayed-classrooms-571a2447906f7bbd5a166d53db005a62

Rep. Matt Gaetz may have "engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct." - House Ethics Committee https://ethics.house.gov/press-releases/statement-regarding-matter-representative-matt-gaetz

Chinese coast guard personnel boarding a Philippine government ship — wielding machetes and knives to puncture navy boats and seizing disassembled rifles — is an act of “piracy” and Beijing should pay for the damage, says the chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
https://www.rappler.com/philippines/chinese-coast-guard-boarded-philippine-ship-says-brawner/

Thailand to become the first Southeast Asian nation to legalize same-sex marriage. https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2813260/senate-passes-landmark-bill-recognising-marriage-equality

A federal indictment alleges an Arizona man, who was arrested in New Mexico, planned to target Black concertgoers at an Atlanta venue. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/16/us/atlanta-concert-shooting-plot.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0E0.W8kh.cExZk7f28Z72&smid=url-share

NY Times - The publisher and incoming editor of The Washington Post used fraudulently obtained phone and company records in newspaper articles as journalists in London, according to a former colleague, the published account of a private investigator and an analysis of newspaper archives. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/15/world/europe/will-lewis-records-uk-editor.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

US State Department announces it’s imposing sanctions on Tzav 9, “a violent extremist Israeli group that has been blocking, harassing, and damaging convoys carrying lifesaving humanitarian assistance to Palestinian civilians in Gaza.”

WHCA issues a statement following today’s press conference in Italy.

Immigrants’ rights groups today sued the Biden administration over the president’s proclamation and a new rule that severely restricts asylum and that they contend puts thousands of lives at risk. https://www.aclu.org/cases/las-americas-immigrant-advocacy-center-v-u-s-department-of-homeland-security

FCC reinstating the radio duplication rule that prohibits the duplication of FM programming beyond a 25% threshold. The commission says the decision serves the public interest by furthering the goals of competition, programming diversity, localism and spectrum efficiency.
https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/headlines/fcc-reinstates-radio-duplication-rule-for-commercial-fm-stations

A government report from Ottawa warns it's time for Canada to prepare for the possibility of civil war in the US. https://horizons.service.canada.ca/en/2024/disruptions/

Florida jury finds Chiquita Brands International liable for funding a violent Colombian paramilitary organization that was responsible for major human rights atrocities during the 1990s and 2000s. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/colombia-chiquita-papers/2024-06-10/chiquita-found-liable-colombia-paramilitary-killings?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=79d29912-5564-4511-9602-990dee5b28d0

IDF alleges three of the Israeli hostages freed yesterday in Gaza were held in the home of Abdallah Aljamal, a journalist who had worked for Al Jazeera.

Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, is confirmed to have was died when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90. https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/rescue-teams-searching-for-plane-crash-reported-19503900.php

France’s Macron calls snap elections. https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240609-%F0%9F%94%B4-live-polls-open-european-elections-parliament

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu “is preventing us from progressing towards a true victory," says War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz. “For this reason we are leaving the emergency government today, with a heavy heart, yet wholeheartedly."