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More Than Two-Thirds of Students Want Police Out of Schools
Anew survey of more than 600 middle and high school students across four states finds that 41 percent feel “very unsafe” or “unsafe” when they see police officers at their public schools. One-third said they feel targeted by police based on an asp ...[Read more]
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Two Dozen Senators Tell Biden It Is ‘Past Time’ to Finally Close Guantánamo
"As a symbol of lawlessness and human rights abuses, the detention facility continues to harm U.S. national security by serving as a propaganda tool for America's enemies and continues to hinder counterterrorism efforts and cooperation with allies," decla ...[Read more]
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Bill Gates says no to sharing vaccine formulas with global poor to end pandemic
Bill Gates, one of the world's richest men and most powerful philanthropists, was the target of criticism from social justice campaigners on Sunday after arguing that lifting patent protections on COVID-19 vaccine technology and sharing recipes with the w ...[Read more]
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A pesticide linked to brain damage in children could finally be banned
A federal appeals court has ruled that unless the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can prove that the pesticide chlorpyrifos is safe, it must be banned. The chemical, which has been widely used on agricultural crops for more than 50 years, has been l ...[Read more]
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Andrew Yang Cant Explain When Asked Why He Supports Israel Bombing Gaza
Aides for the New York mayoral hopeful tried to shut down voters in Queens who were outraged by his support for Israeli airstrikes that killed dozens of Palestinians. ...[Read more]
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Lisa Shaw death: BBC presenter had blood clots after AstraZeneca jab, family says
The award-winning BBC radio presenter Lisa Shaw died in hospital after suffering blood clots following her AstraZeneca vaccination, her family has said. The 44-year-old, who was a well-known broadcaster in the north-east of England and had worked for BBC ...[Read more]
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Into the Quagmire with Donald Rumsfeld
As President Ronald Reagan’s special envoy to the Middle East, Rumsfeld travelled to Baghdad to shake hands with Saddam Hussein and assure him of US support in the eight-year war that the Iraqi dictator had launched against Iran. His camaraderie with Sa ...[Read more]
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Biden Made Big Compromises on Climate — and Movements That Backed Him Are Livid
As a presidential candidate, Joe Biden unveiled a plan to tackle climate change, which he termed “an existential threat — not just to our environment, but to our health, our communities, our national security, and our economic well-being.” He promis ...[Read more]
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Sanders Says Last Thing California Needs Is ‘Some Right-Wing Republican Governor’
With just two weeks to go before California's closely watched gubernatorial recall election, Senator Bernie Sanders warned Sunday that the effort to oust Gov. Gavin Newsom is a "bold-faced Republican power grab" and urged the state's voters to reject it a ...[Read more]
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Hospitalizations for children sharply increase as Delta surges, C.D.C. studies find.
Vaccinations, however, have made a difference. ...[Read more]
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Israel: Nearly 200 Americans moved to West Bank settlements last year, gov’t figures reveal
Americans who made aliyah to Israel were far more likely than immigrants from any other country to move to West Bank settlements last year, according to recent data from Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics. The figures show 191 Americans out of 2,296 wh ...[Read more]
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