*WHO proposes fresh mission to China and lab audits.*

*Illinois is first state to bar police from lying to juveniles during interrogations.*

Now that the state understands the wrong of pushing people into false confessions, for minors, it should extend this protection to adult suspects. False confessions by adults may not be as probable as false confessions by minors, but they are not rare either. Imprisoning an adult based on a false confession is an injustice too.

The Bootleg fire in Oregon is burning rapidly through expanses of dead trees.

The article does not say, but I suspect that these trees were killed by pine borer beetles, which have extended their range northward with the help of global heating.

Los Angeles thugs shot an unarmed man at a major intersection without taking the time to check the rumor that he had a gun.

Should cops carry binoculars with which to check, from a safe distance, whether an object is really a firearm?

Chairman Xi has made the Chinese too scared to disagree with him, but is still not satisfied. So now China is inserting brainwashing into everyone's daily life, at home and at work.

I expect this effort to convert Chinese into Xi-ple to weaken China, making it rigid and irrational internally, and more offputting to foreigners. It won't be necessary to cite the brainwashing of Uyghurs, which China denies, when the brainwashing of Han people is visible everywhere you go.

That can help save the rest of the world from China, but it is hard for me to rejoice at the idea, because the injustice to Chinese will be immense.