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BBC
Tesla investors back record-breaking Musk pay deal
Tesla shareholders have backed a record-breaking pay package for boss Elon Musk and approved a plan to move the firm's legal headquarters to Texas.
The results are a victory for the billionaire, who had campaigned fiercely for the payout, which is worth up to $56bn - the exact amount depends on the Tesla share price.
Shares in the company closed up nearly 3% after Mr Musk's announcement.
"My understanding is that there's been about 1,100% appreciation in Tesla stock. And that's pretty, pretty impressive. Most CEOs have never done anything like that," said Mr Brauer.
The vote is not binding and legal experts have said it is not clear if a court that blocked the deal will accept the re-vote and allow the company to restore the pay package.
BBC 50 billion for Ukraine, 50 billion for Musk
G7 agrees $50bn loan for Ukraine from Russian assets
The G7 has agreed to use frozen Russian assets to raise $50bn (£39bn) for Ukraine to help it fight invading Russian forces.
US President Joe Biden said it was another reminder to Russia "that we're not backing down", but Moscow has threatened "extremely painful" retaliatory measures.
The money is not expected to arrive until the end of the year but is seen as a longer-term solution to support Ukraine's war effort and economy.
Also at the G7 summit in Italy, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Mr Biden signed a 10-year bilateral security deal between Ukraine and the US, hailed by Kyiv as "historic".
The agreement envisages US military and training aid to Ukraine - but it does not commit Washington to send troops to fight for its ally.
Some $325bn worth of assets were frozen by the G7, alongside the EU, following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
The pot of assets is generating about $3bn a year in interest.
BBC
Telehealth executives accused of $100m Adderall scheme
US investigators have arrested the founder and CEO of a telehealth company who is accused of a running a $100m (£78m) scheme to fraudulently distribute over 40m pills of Adderall and other controlled substances.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland said that Done CEO Ruthia He conspired with the company's clinical president, David Brody, "to provide easy access to Adderall and other stimulants for no legitimate medical purpose".
America's top law officer said the executives had exploited telemedicine rules that were loosened during the Covid pandemic.
Done Global, a San Francisco-based start-up, became popular during the pandemic as an online way to obtain Adderall by paying a monthly subscription fee.
The prosecution is likely to disrupt access to Adderall for tens of thousands of Americans, according to the New York Times.
Ms He was arrested in Los Angeles and Dr Brody in San Rafael, California, according to officials.
The Guardian
US woman faces up to 30 years in prison over bong water: ‘It’s just so wrong’
A woman who was pulled over by Minnesota police officers faces up to 30 years in prison after a bong containing water that tested positive for methamphetamine was discovered in her car, despite Minnesota decriminalizing drug paraphernalia last year.
The case shows how some are still affected by harsher laws from the “war on drugs” era.
Jessica Beske of Fargo, North Dakota, was pulled over in Polk county, Minnesota, while driving on Highway 59 when deputies reportedly smelled marijuana coming from Beske’s car, the Minnesota Reformer reported.
Officers allege that they discovered a bong, a glass container containing a “crystal substance”, and other drug paraphernalia in the 43-year-old’s car.
Beske said she was now working with a lawyer to help her navigate through the extraordinary penalty and remains hopeful that the law could change.
“It’s just so wrong that I just have to hold hope that this is going to change the law, hopefully,” Beske said. “I don’t want anybody else to have to have to go through this.”
Reuters
Unrelenting rain puts South Florida at risk of 'life-threatening' flooding
June 13 (Reuters) - More torrential downpours deluged South Florida on Thursday, adding to more than a foot (30 cm) of rain that fell on parts of the state this week and leading forecasters to issue flood watches or warnings for an area where 8 million people reside.
Some areas, including portions of Broward and Miami-Dade counties, were at risk of "life-threatening flooding," as water built up on roadways and lapped up against thresholds of homes, the National Weather Service said.
A few spots have reported up to 18-to-25 inches (46-to-63.5 cm) of rain since Monday, said Bob Oravec, a forecaster with the service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
North Miami Beach was near the top of the list for rainfall on Thursday with 20.4 inches of rain since Monday, said Oravec, while Big Cypress National Preserve in the Everglades was awash with about 25 inches.
In Hallandale Beach, which has been inundated by 19.3 inches of precipitation, resident Luis Garcia Infante said he had never experienced such a deluge in his 13 years of living in the community in south Broward County.
Reuters
Exclusive: Famine watchdog projects 756,000 Sudanese face starvation in coming months
June 13 (Reuters) - An estimated 756,000 people in Sudan could face catastrophic food shortages by September, according to a preliminary projection used by United Nations agencies and aid groups to determine whether to officially declare a famine.
The preliminary results, as of June 1 and seen by Reuters, reflect a rapidly deteriorating situation in the war-torn country. The most recent previous projection, released in December, showed that 17.7 million people, or 37% of the population, faced high levels of food insecurity, but none were considered in a catastrophic situation.
Now, an estimated 25.6 million people, or 54% of the population, face critical shortages, including more than nine million people in an emergency situation or worse.
Al Jazeera
Forcibly displaced population doubles to 120 million over the past 10 years
At least 117.3 million people, or one in 69 individuals worldwide, remain forcibly displaced, according to a report released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today.
Forced displacement as a result of conflict and violence, persecution and human rights violations, has continued to rise in the first four months of 2024 and is likely to have surpassed 120 million by the end of April 2024.
At least 117.3 million people, or one in 69 individuals worldwide, remain forcibly displaced, according to a report released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today.
Forced displacement as a result of conflict and violence, persecution and human rights violations, has continued to rise in the first four months of 2024 and is likely to have surpassed 120 million by the end of April 2024.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Donald Trump calls Milwaukee 'a horrible city' weeks before RNC comes to town
WASHINGTON – Donald Trump on Thursday called Milwaukee — where in a little over a month he will be declared the Republican nominee for president — a "horrible city."
Trump made the comment to House Republicans in a morning meeting on Capitol Hill to discuss campaign strategies, among other GOP priorities, ahead of the 2024 election. His remarks came five days before he is scheduled to visit Racine for a campaign rally.
"Milwaukee, where we are having our convention, is a horrible city," Trump told the GOP lawmakers, according to a report from Punchbowl News.
Trump has repeatedly falsely claimed he won Wisconsin in 2020 and has at times blamed Milwaukee's election officials for the election outcome, baselessly claiming absentee voting in the state's largest city was rife with fraud.
NPR
Wreck of famed explorer Shackleton's last ship has been found off the coast of Canada
ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland — The wreck of the last ship belonging to Sir Ernest Shackleton, a famous Irish-born British explorer of Antarctica, has been found off the coast of Labrador in Canada, 62 years after it went missing. The wreck was found by an international team led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
The Quest was found using sonar scans on Sunday evening, sitting on its keel under 390 meters of churning, frigid water, the society said. Its towering mast is lying broken beside it, likely cracked off as the vessel was sucked into the depths after it struck ice on May 5, 1962.
Shackleton's death aboard the ship in 1922 marked the end of what historians consider the "heroic age" of Antarctic exploration. The explorer led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, and he was in the early stages of a fourth when he died of a heart attack. He was 47.