Breaking: at 30-Jun-2025 a record 4,184 #HK prisoners were unconvicted and presumed innocent. That's a record 42.2% of the prison population, excluding immigration detainees. webb-site.com/dbpub/jail.asp

Reuters: A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Fed governor Lisa Cook, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters. The document, dated May 28, 2021, was issued to Cook by her credit union in the weeks

SPECIAL REPORT: A large swath of the U.S. currently does not have the basic, ground-level immunity necessary to stop the spread of viruses that had once receded into the past, a six-month NBC News investigation in collaboration with scientists at Stanford University finds.

Will we accept deaths from driverless cars? Despite more than 1mn people killed in car accidents each year, David Li, head of the world's biggest maker of lidar sensors, questions if the public is ready for robotaxi reality ... via Financial Times ft.com/content/1cea95…

Oh hey looks like the BoJ is finally going to start selling down its equity ETF holdings, and it'll only take (checks notes) 125 years!?

reuters.com/business/media… The Trump administration said on Friday it would ask companies to pay $100,000 per year for H-1B worker visas, potentially dealing a big blow to the technology sector that relies heavily on skilled workers from India and China.

At a Monday press conference, President Donald Trump issued a warning: “Don’t take Tylenol if you’re pregnant.” Doctors say it’s safe to use acetaminophen, the main ingredient in Tylenol, to reduce fever and pain during pregnancy. 🧵buff.ly/YY9G6hW

Some brave and/or foolhardy Hong Kong cabbie is out there in the typhoon livestreaming his shift. Looks practically balmy right now, but it's set to get pretty intense this evening: youtube.com/live/A7IgRjsBF…

Obituary: “I had this terrible thirst for contact with Chinese people,” Jerome Cohen once said. He went on to spend decades influencing the country’s legal, trade and human-rights policies. on.wsj.com/4nLzQiT

PM Ishiba delivered his address to the UN General Assembly earlier today, stating that recognition of Palestinian statehood is "not a matter of if but when." He said that Japan may change responses if Israel continues unilateral actions. nikkei.com/article/DGXZQO…

Resonates with earlier findings that visual language models don't actually use visual information but just guess via shortcut heuristics, output tokens that seem to look like the model actually analyzed the image content when it actually didn't. Shortcut learning strikes again.

Not even 20 minutes later and I guess we’re doing 50% tariffs on IKEA for some reason. He’s a man with a plan to make life more expensive and he can’t be stopped.

South Korea plans to open around-the-clock FX trade, president says reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

Conversely: if a 30% rise can't convince global investors to buy China stocks, what will?

At a moment when Trump calls climate change a con and Europe can't agree on emissions reduction, China is making a 'compelling' case to climate-vulnerable nations (74 countries, more than 1.8bn people) to overhaul their energy systems. Opinion via Financial Times ft.com/content/dd6304…

He’s straightforwardly giving China more leverage here.

I did not expect this result in a runoff. Clear win despite being a decided second among lawmakers in round 1. I am glad to see Japan’s LDP lawmakers embracing a woman to lead them. I wonder if she will be able to form a lasting coalition.

Bring back long coats