*[Putin] "attacked Ukraine with North Korea-supplied ballistic missiles."*

Russia makes its own ballistic missiles, and in principle doesn't need to use North Korea's, but it's production rate is insufficient. I suspect that Putin's reason for using some now is only to show that he won't hesitate to use them.

Jimmy Lai's lawyers have accused China of torturing a former democracy activist to make him confess to a so-called crime, and have asked the UN special rapporteur on torture to take some sort of action.

I can easily believe that China did this, but I don't understand why the article describes this as an "appeal" to the rapporteur. As far as I know, neither that rapporteur nor the UN as a whole has any power to overturn a Chinese court ruling. Chinese courts take their orders from the Chinese state.

Musk is retaliating against the National Labor Relations Board (for enforcing labor laws) by suing to abolish the National Labor Relations Board.

I wish this were an exaggeration, but it's not. With our partisan Supreme Court it might actually succeed.

*US Department of Justice sues Texas over new state immigration law … allowing police to [arrest] people suspected of crossing the US border without authorization.*

Investigating ways to collect PFAS from waste water (or drinking water) and eventually destroy them.