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From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for June 10th.
Here are today's top 10 news stories.
Let's get into it.
First, from BBC News (Top). Fifa working to resolve revoked Iran tickets.
Fifa has said it is working to "maximise opportunities for Iranian supporters to attend matches" after the country's World Cup group-stage ticket allocation was revoked just days before the tournament.
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Second, from BBC Africa. I have right papers and visa - barred referee Artan.
Somali referee Omar Artan says he was subjected to an 11-hour immigration interview before being denied entry to the United States for the World Cup despite holding the "right papers" and "right visa".
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Third, from Reason. Trump's $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee Is an Unconstitutional Tax, a Federal Judge Rules.
President Donald Trump violated the separation of powers when he announced a new $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications last September, a federal judge in Boston ruled on Monday. Trump's policy "imposes a tax on H-1B petitions without the requisite delegation by Congress," wrote U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin, a Barack Obama appointee.
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Fourth, from The American Prospect. ICE Raids at World Cup Games? A Los Angeles Union Says, No Way!.
On Friday, the first World Cup match featuring the U.S. team will be held at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, one of those innumerable small cities nestled in the very heart of Los Angeles. Whether those in attendance will have access to food and drink, however, is much in doubt, as the 2,000 workers who prepare, sell, and serve said food and drink may go on strike, for reasons political, humane, and existential.
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Fifth, from Mother Jones. US Denies Entry to Africa’s Referee of the Year Ahead of World Cup.
A World Cup referee from Somalia confirmed on Tuesday that US border patrol officials denied him entry into the country.
“I am very, very disappointed,” Omar Abdulkadir Artan, one of 52 referees chosen in April for the upcoming FIFA Men’s World Cup, told the New York Times.
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Sixth, from Mother Jones. MAGA Has a Playbook to Steal the Midterms. They’re Using it in California..
“No way this could have happened,” President Donald Trump wrote on TruthSocial early Monday morning. “Rigged Election!”
While he could reasonably have been referring to any number of elections he’s deemed “rigged” over the last decade, in this instance, Trump had turned his bleary eyes to the Los Angeles mayoral race, where a progressive challenger, city council member Nithya Raman, has pulled ahead of reality TV heel-turned-crystal-enthusiast-turned Republican candidate Spencer Pratt.
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Seventh, from Mother Jones. Working While Menopausal.
Before 2023, Danielle was the “workhorse” at her job in the front office of a large dental practice in Puyallup, Washington. “I was only given positive reviews,” she told me. But after doctors found a mass in her uterus and recommended a preventive hysterectomy at age 35, everything changed.
The procedure sent her into early menopause. Caused by a drop in hormones that typically occurs after a woman’s last menstrual cycle, the shift to menopause can cause a variety of symptoms. Danielle was engulfed by intense mood swings.
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Eighth, from Mother Jones. Dr. Oz: You Can’t Be Racist Anymore, Because That’s Racist.
Apparently “because of woke,” disparaging a whole community of people based on their nationality and using that sentiment to justify extensive fraud investigations that lead to cutting social services and occupying cities with federal agents is racist.
“You’re not allowed to complain about Somalians because that’s racist,” President Donald Trump’s administrator for Medicare and Medicaid, Dr. Mehmet Oz, complained on Tuesday on Fox News.
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Ninth, from Mother Jones. Gwyneth Paltrow Just Goopified Drone Warfare.
Despite reaping billions in the weapons industry as cofounder of the military-tech company Anduril, Trae Stephens says he does not believe that “wartime profiteering is ethical, really, in any way.”
That was just one takeaway from an hourlong conversation he had with Gwyneth Paltrow on her Goop podcast last week, during which Stephens held forth on God, great power conflict, the male loneliness crisis, and what he thinks the Pope really meant when he said “Jesus does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.”
At first glance, they make a strange pair: Paltrow’s known f
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Tenth, from Mother Jones. Lawmakers Demand Answers After We Revealed Forest Service Spraying Roundup All Over Public Lands.
