Only 38 Municipalities Receive Clean Audits – Auditor General SA – In what has become an annual plea for leadership and accountability, the auditor general of South Africa on Wednesday highlighted how many municipalities, bar a golden few, are failing on almost every major metric of performance, good governance and integrity. [m&g]

Jury Finds Danny Masterson Guilty On 2 Counts In Rape Retrial – The “That ’70s Show” actor was accused of raping three women. [abc]

UFOs: Five Revelations From Nasa’s Public Meeting – American authorities have examined around 800 mysterious reports of unidentified flying objects collected over decades – but only a small fraction are truly unexplained, a panel of researchers says. [bbc]

Outbreak Of Avian Flu Detected At Five Poultry Farms In Western Cape – An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has affected five commercial chicken farms in the Western Cape. [capetownetc]

Trump Captured On Tape Talking About Classified Document He Kept After Leaving The White House – Federal prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of a summer 2021 meeting in which former President Donald Trump acknowledges he held onto a classified Pentagon document about a potential attack on Iran, multiple sources told CNN, undercutting his argument that he declassified everything. [cnn]