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Biden to Sign Executive Order Raising Federal Workers’ Wages to $15 an Hour
President Joe Biden plans to announce on Tuesday that he is raising the minimum wage for employees contracted to work for the federal government to $15 per hour starting next spring. The increase will represent a 37 percent increase in pay overall from th ...[Read more]
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Cracks in Northern Ireland?
The political situation in NI remains febrile, despite a pause in the rioting. Arlene Foster, the Democratic Unionist party (DUP) leader and Northern Ireland’s first minister, resigned after 6 turbulent years in that position. Foster would probably have ...[Read more]
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US preacher asks followers to help buy fourth private jet
Jesse Duplantis said God had told him to buy a Falcon 7X for $54m (£41m). He added he was hesitant about the purchase at first, but said God had told him: "I didn't ask you to pay for it. I asked you to believe for it." Although preachers owning private ...[Read more]
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A Veteran Tried to Credit Black Americans on Memorial Day. His Mic Got Muted.
Retired Army Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter was speaking at an American Legion service in Hudson, Ohio, on Monday when he was intentionally silenced. ...[Read more]
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Norwegian fund divests from firms linked to Israeli settlements
Norway’s largest pension fund announced it has divested assets in 16 companies for their links to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, including telecom equipment giant Motorola. “In KLP’s assessment, there is an unacceptable risk that the ...[Read more]
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Afghan activist: George W. Bush’s claim US war in Afghanistan protected women is a shameless lie
As the United States continues to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan after 20 years of war and occupation, the Taliban say they now control most Afghan territory, surrounding major population centers and holding more than two-thirds of Afghanistan's bor ...[Read more]
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Israeli Soldiers Arrest Seven Journalists Covering Peaceful West Bank Protest
Israeli military arrested, handcuffed, and interrogated Palestinian journalists who had legally covered a peaceful protest inside a "closed military zone." ...[Read more]
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The Dasht-e-Leili Massacre of Taliban prisoners of war, US FOIA
November 2001, ~ 2,000 Taliban prisoners are believed to have been killed in container trucks by US-allied Afghan troops, operating with US forces, and buried in a mass grave in Dasht-e-Leili, #Afghanistan. Investigators discovered the mass grave in 2002 ...[Read more]
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Trump abruptly deletes message praising ‘highly respected’ Arizona auditors’ after they confirm Biden’s win
Trump issued a statement late Thursday night, after news about the report's conclusions had already broken, that expressed confidence that Friday's press conference would show that he really won Arizona. But on Friday, that message was removed from his si ...[Read more]
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Whistleblower slams Capitol Police leaders for Jan. 6 ‘failures’ accuses ex-USCP head of lying to Congress
Nine months have passed since the January 6 insurrection, and new reporting continues to emerge about that event. According to NBC News reporters Julie Tsirkin and Teaganne Finn, a Capitol Police whistleblower recently sent a letter to members of Congress ...[Read more]
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China Lab Leak Smear: Accuse Them Of What You Have Been Doing First
The US is as of this moment smearing China by saying that Covid got out from a lab in Wuhan. A concerted campaign going on as evidenced by the same headlines being pushed by all the media that lied about Iraqi WMDs - from WaPo to CNN. This is happening ...[Read more]
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