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- Human rights investigators called for arms embargo, peacekeeping force in Sudan over alleged human rights violations.
- A federal judge agreed to postpone Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case until after the November election.
- The 14-year-old suspect in a shooting that killed four people at a Georgia high school and his father will both remain in custody after back-to-back court hearings.
- Dozens gathered at UCSF rally to protest firing of staffer, alleging “racist repression” of anti-Israel voices.
- Berkeley Rabbi Michael Lerner, who founded Tikkun magazine and was an early Jewish advocate for peace and coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians, has died at 81.
(Sudanese refugee camp in Chad, 16 May 2023 / Henry Wilkins, Voice of America)