The citizens of Nebraska voted to raise the minimum wage, step by step up to 15 dollars per hour.

*Voters in Alabama, Tennessee, Oregon, and Vermont approved ballot measures Tuesday that would bar forced labor as punishment for those convicted of crimes in those states.*

(satire) *AI Software Company Patches Bug That Caused App To Treat Black People Equally.*

(serious): This being a piece of nonfree software, I presume the correction made it treat everyone equally badly.

Syria is investing in convincing tourists to come there and ignore Assad's record of murder and torture.

They must feel that since Egypt and Salafi Arabia succeed at this, Syria can do it too.

Serbia is politically dominated by an ideology that calls for conquest of neighboring lands that "are supposed to be" part of Serbia, and lionizes the war criminals of the 1990s. They idolize Putin for trying to conquer Ukraine, because that provides an example of what they want Serbia to do on a smaller scale.