(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Overnight News Digest: The effect of censorship on high school play choices [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-06-05 NPR The Educational Theatre Association has released its top-10 lists of plays and musicals performed in high schools during the 2022-2023 school year. More than 2,300 public and private high school teachers across the U.S. participated. The Addams Family topped the list of full-length musicals, followed by Mamma Mia! ... The EdTA calls the survey a "snapshot" of both what's popular with high school theater departments and "the educational climate." Eighty five percent of respondents reported being, "at least somewhat concerned about censorship" and 67% said that, "censorship concerns" are influencing their selections for next year. This is an open thread where everyone is welcome, especially night owls and early birds, to share and discuss the happenings of the day. Please feel free to share your articles and stories in the comments. x The FBI and Justice Dept. under then-Attorney General William P. Barr reviewed allegations from a confidential informant about Joe Biden and his family, and they determined there were no grounds for further investigative steps. https://t.co/sDxeyTxQrj — The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 6, 2023 Iowa building collapse: Bodies of three men recovered BBC The bodies of three men have been recovered from the rubble of a six-story apartment building in Iowa, officials have said, more than a week after it collapsed. Officials named the men as Branden Colvin, 42, Ryan Hitchcock, 51, and Daniel Prien, 60. No-one else is known to be missing from the site of the cave-in on 28 May. The former hotel had been the subject of numerous complaints from residents about its deteriorating condition. BBC Unlawful information-gathering "acted like a web" around the Duke of Sussex, a court has heard during his trial against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN). Prince Harry's barrister told London's High Court no aspect of his youth was safe from press intrusion - citing stories about his relationship with Chelsy Davy appearing in the Mirror. The duke is claiming MGN journalists used unlawful methods to gather information, including phone hacking. MGN denies phone hacking in this case. Making his opening speech for the duke, barrister David Sherborne, who is also representing three other people, said: "These methods acted like a web around the prince in the hope it would catch the valuable information that they sought through these unlawful means, some of which made it in stories." He said Prince Harry did not have a "vendetta against the press" but he wanted to hold them to account. BBC Conservative MP Bob Stewart has been charged with racially abusing a man he allegedly told to "go back to Bahrain". The Beckenham MP faces two public order charges relating to an incident outside an event hosted by the Bahraini embassy. It occurred after a campaigner pressed him on his links to the country outside the event in December last year. Mr Stewart will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 5 July. The Metropolitan Police said Mr Stewart faced one charge of using threatening or abusive words or behaviour, where the offence was racially aggravated. He also faces an alternative charge of threatening behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress, the force added. The force said the alternative charge related to the same incident, and would "allow the court discretion on the racial element". The Guardian, UK The high court will decide “very soon” whether ministers should be forced to hand over all unredacted files demanded by the Covid inquiry, MPs have been told. In an attempt to allay concerns of a cover-up, the Cabinet Office minister Jeremy Quin faced down fractious MPs on Monday and denied there was any political involvement in the scrutiny of such material. Legal action launched by the government last week had been expedited, he said, with the first hearing to go ahead “on or shortly after 30 June”. He claimed the government’s motive for the unprecedented move to try to limit the Covid inquiry’s powers had been “misinterpreted”. A judicial review is being sought by the Cabinet Office because it wants to avoid handing over the entire WhatsApp history of Boris Johnson and a former No 10 aide, Henry Cook, as well as the former prime minister’s notebooks. The Guardian, US A leading Republican donor whose family members were killed in a plane crash in Virginia on Sunday following a pursuit by US military jets lost another daughter in a scuba diving tragedy almost 30 years ago, it was reported on Monday. John Rumpel, a Florida businessman and frequent contributor to Donald Trump’s political operation, said his daughter Adina Azarian, 49, and two-year-old granddaughter were among four victims of the crash that caused a security scare when the plane flew over restricted airspace in Washington DC. Another daughter, Victoria, 19, was killed in a diving accident in 1994, the Daily Beast reported , and Rumpel and his wife, Barbara, an executive with the National Rifle Association, later named an assisted living facility in their home town of Melbourne, Florida, in her honor. The Guardian, International Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner group of mercenaries has captured a Russian commander, as the notorious leader further escalates his feud with the regular army. In a video posted on Prigozhin’s social media channels, Lt Col Roman Venevitin, the commander of Russia’s 72nd Brigade, tells an interrogator that, while drunk, he had ordered his troops to fire on a Wagner convoy. In the footage, which resembled clips of prisoner of war soldiers, Venevitin said he acted because of his “personal dislike” for Wagner and then apologised. Last week, Prigozhin accused the Russian army of trying to blow up his men as they were pulling back from the eastern Ukrainian town of Bakhmut. NPR The iconic Champs-Élysées in Paris was taken over by writers on Sunday in perhaps the world's largest-ever dictation event. Instead of car traffic, the famed boulevard was covered by some 1,779 desks organized into rows for the more than 5,000 applicants chosen to participate in the exercise, the AFP reported. The dictation was run by novelist Rachid Santaki, who began an initiative in 2013 called La Dictée Geante — or the Giant Dictation — to improve literacy across France. "It's about bringing people together, having fun around spelling and the French language," Santaki told RFI in 2018. "I often talk about the pleasure of reading, of writing, and that means having fun, we take the drama out of it, turn the experience upside down." Al Jazeera Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh – Climate experts in Bangladesh have expressed concern about massive refugee camps here – some of the largest in the world – being located in an extreme-weather hot zone. Cox’s Bazar, a coastal region in southeastern Bangladesh, is prone to cyclones, wildfires, and landslides. Without prompt climate mitigation action and investment, Bangladesh’s coastal population and the estimated one million Rohingya refugees it accommodates are under severe threat, analysts say. Although it narrowly escaped Cyclone Mocha’s worst impacts, the area remains at great risk, scientists warn. Saleemul Huq, a climate scientist and director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development, said landslides pose the biggest problem in the Rohingya camps. Predicting heavy rainfall patterns and cyclones is a challenging task, and this was evident during the recent encounter with Cyclone Mocha. Al Jazeera Washington, DC – The United States is committed to brokering formal diplomatic relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said, as President Joe Biden’s administration continues an Israel “normalisation” push. Speaking at a conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), an influential pro-Israel lobby group in the US, Blinken said on Monday that Washington “has a real national security interest in promoting normalisation” between the two countries. Deutsche Welle It's not in Germany's interest for India to remain dependent on Russian weapons, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said on Monday during a tour of the region to shore up defense partnerships. India has long relied on Russia for its defense needs and has also become a major buyer of discounted Russian crude oil since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in early 2022. "It is not up to Germany to change that on our own," Pistorius told DW's chief political correspondent Nina Haase in an exclusive interview in Jakarta, Indonesia. "This is an issue we have to solve jointly with other partners. But of course, we can't have an interest in the long run that India is so dependent on Russia's delivery of weapons or other materials." Miami Herald via Yahoo News Perched on a leaf in the cool night air, a creature stops to rest. The nine babies on her back stay balanced despite the slope. A bright beam of light pierces through the darkness. Scientists spot the mother and approach her perch. They peer closer at the creatures and realize they’re looking at a new species. Researcher Philippe Kok summited Wei-Assipu-tepui, a “small table-top mountain” along the Guyana-Brazil border, for a multi-week animal survey in 2009, he wrote in a study published May 25 in the journal Zoological Letters. The mountain reaches about 1.5 miles in elevation but can only be reached by helicopter or “technical climb” because of its cliff-like sides. Reuters Canada is on track for its worst-ever year of wildfire destruction as warm and dry conditions are forecast to persist through to the end of the summer after an unprecedented start to the fire season, officials said on Monday. Blazes are burning in nearly all Canadian provinces and territories, and federal government officials said their modeling shows increased wildfire risk in most of Canada through August. "The distribution of fires from coast to coast this year is unusual. At this time of the year, fires usually occur only on one side of the country at a time, most often that being in the west," said Michael Norton, an official with Canada's Natural Resources ministry. Quebec, in eastern Canada, was currently the worst impacted due to multiple fires ignited by lightning, Norton said. "The rate of increase of area burned is also high ... if this rate continues, we could hit record levels for area burned this year," he said. USA Today WASHINGTON – The campaign jab from Sen. Marco Rubio aimed at then-candidate Donald Trump felt so very 2016. "And you know what they say about guys with small hands," the Florida senator and then-Republican presidential candidate said during a campaign stop. Rubio took a beat before adding: "You can't trust 'em!” Rubio’s insult, which came up again during a presidential debate days later, made its way into an appeal to the Supreme Court – not from a peeved Trump seeking damages or a scandalized voter but rather in a trademark dispute from a man who wants to make a T-shirt emblazoned with the words “TRUMP TOO SMALL.” NY Times As California officials accused Florida of shipping migrants to its capital city last week, about 20 more people, mostly from Venezuela, arrived on Monday on the same chartered plane. A group of Latin American migrants aboard a chartered private plane landed at a small airport in Sacramento on Monday, the second such planeload in three days to arrive in California’s capital city from an airfield in New Mexico. The group of about 20 migrants, who said they were mainly from Venezuela, landed just before 10:30 a.m. Pacific time and was ushered into a room at Sacramento Executive Airport to meet with officials from California’s Justice Department. One of the migrants, David Mata, 28, said he arrived in the United States from Venezuela roughly two weeks ago looking for work. Mr. Mata said that he did not know who had orchestrated his trip to Sacramento, but that whoever did had paid for it in its entirety. x New York City's reliance on the tactic known as “stop and frisk" as part of a new initiative to combat gun violence is harming communities of color and running afoul of the law, a federal monitor reported. https://t.co/xylppcaXNw — The Associated Press (@AP) June 6, 2023 The crew of the Overnight News Digest consists of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, jeremybloom, Magnifico, annetteboardman, rise above the swamp, Besame and jck. Alumni editors include (but not limited to) eeff, Interceptor 7, Man Oh Man, wader, Neon Vincent, palantir, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse (RIP), ek hornbeck (RIP), rfall, ScottyUrb, Doctor RJ, BentLiberal, Oke (RIP) and jlms qkw. 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