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Bill Cosby Is A Free Man After Pennsylvania Supreme Court Overturns Sex Assault Conviction – The stunning decision in the case of the man once known as “America’s Dad” reverses the first high-profile celebrity criminal trial of the #MeToo era. [cnn]

Emotional Zondo On Zuma Attacks: ‘It Hasn’t Been Easy… But I Would Do It Again’ – Zuma accused the Zondo Commission of being involved in a political plot against him, and likened the Constitutional Court to the apartheid government. [news24]

Donald Rumsfeld, US Defence Chief During Iraq War, Dies At 88 – Rumsfeld, who served as defence secretary under George W Bush, was the architect of the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. [aljazeera]

SA Records More Than 19,500 New Covid-19 Cases, 380 Deaths In 24 Hours – Gauteng recorded 11,160 new cases in the past 24 hours, while the Western Cape recorded more than 2,000 new infections and three provinces saw more than 1,000 cases. [timeslive]

Donald Trump’s Family Business Indicted On Criminal Charges – Trump Organization chief finance officer Allen Weisselberg will appear in court on Thursday, according to US media. [sky]

International Financiers Pump R10bn Into SA’s Aspen Pharmacare To Boost Covid-19 Vaccine Production – The World Bank’s private sector arm said this was the largest healthcare investment it had mobilised to date. [dmav]

Tim Berners-Lee’s NFT Of World Wide Web Source Code Sold For $5.4m – The sale effectively comprises a blockchain-based record of ownership of files containing the original source code for the world wide web. [guardian]

‘Sedition Hunters’: Meet The Online Sleuths Aiding The FBI’s Capitol Manhunt – Six months and 500 arrests into the Jan. 6 probe, a motley crew of online sleuths is generating leads, making connections, and keeping the feds on their toes. [huffpost]

Instagram Is Pivoting To Video – Like so many media companies before it, Instagram is gearing up for a sweeping embrace of video as its content of choice, the platform’s head, Adam Mosseri, announced on Wednesday. [gizmodo]

Covid Transmission ‘Common’ In Pet Cats And Dogs – “If you have Covid, you should avoid contact with your cat or dog, just as you would do with other people,” Dr Els Broens, from Utrecht University, said. [bbc]

No, WhatsApp Group Admins Don’t Have To Send That POPIA Message Around –  A chain message has spawned that is doing the rounds on the platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram. [mybb]

Eskom Seeks R140bn For Shift To Renewable Energy – Eskom, Africa’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter, is pitching a $10bn (R140.31bn) plan to global lenders that would cause it to shut most of its coal-fired plants by 2050 and embrace renewable energy. [busday]

‘If We Succeed In Not Going Bankrupt, Then That’ll Be Great’ Says Elon Musk On Starlink – Elon Musk’s constellation of internet satellites, Starlink, will need up to $30 billion (R430 billion) in funding to survive, the billionaire said on Tuesday. [businsider]

Spectator Who Caused Tour De France Crash Arrested – The spectator is accused of involuntarily causing injury and putting the life of others at risk. [reuters]

Manchester United Agree Jadon Sancho Transfer With £72.9m Deal To Complete Long-Awaited Signing – The two clubs have been negotiating over a fee for a few months, with Dortmund rejecting United’s bid of £67m at the start of June. [goal]

Prince Harry Returns To Public Eye As Floral Tribute To Princess Diana Revealed – The Dukes of Cambridge and Sussex will be briefly reunited this afternoon for the unveiling of the statue on what would have been their mother’s 60th birthday. [tele]

Former Smallville Star Allison Mack Sentenced For Role In NXIVM Sex Cult – The group’s leader, Keith Raniere, was sentenced to 120 years in prison in October for racketeering and sex trafficking charges. [newsau]

Aunt Viv Drags Claire Huxtable Over Terrible Bill Cosby Tweet – “FINALLY!!!! A terrible wrong is being righted- a miscarriage of justice is corrected,” Rashad, who played Claire Huxtable to Cosby’s Cliff tweeted shortly after the news broke. [dbeast]

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