Almost four years after Sandra Bland was stopped by a Texas state trooper and then found dead in a jail cell three days later, cellphone video of the encounter taken by Bland herself has been released for the very first time, leading her family to call fo ...[
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New York City, already a world epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, sharply increased its death toll by more than 3,700 victims on Tuesday, after officials said they were now including people who had never tested positive for the virus but were presumed ...[
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For forty years, governments around the world have been cutting taxes on the rich, claiming that the result would be more jobs and higher incomes. A new study shows how catastrophically wrong that policy has been. ...[
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Members of QAnon were among the far-right extremists who violently stormed the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6. And according to an intelligence report the Washington Post has obtained, the FBI has been warning law enforcement agencies that QAnon membe ...[
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Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group, has a past as an informer for federal and local law enforcement, repeatedly working undercover for investigators after he was arrested in 2012, according to a former prosecutor and a transcript ...[
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Yeah, this was easy enough to predict.Part of voting against a COVID relief measure that polls better than dolphins riding glitter-farting unicorns on enchanted rainbow highways to free breadsticks and blowhole-waxing night at Olive Garden is that you're ...[
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Caron Nazario was driving his newly purchased Chevy Tahoe home when two police officers pulled him over in Windsor, Virginia, whipped out their guns, and started barking orders.
With their weapons raised, the officers demanded that Nazario, a Black and ...[
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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned Monday that humanity stands "on the verge of the abyss" as the climate crisis pushes the world "dangerously close" to hitting the 1.5 degree Celsius target limit of warming.
Guterres delivered the ...[
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In Florida, where Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed a controversial measure known as the “anti-riot bill” that is widely viewed as a response to the Black Lives Matter movement and calls to “defund the police.” Under the new law, a public ga ...[
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Last month, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance announced they were moving to dismiss nearly two hundred convictions involving Joseph Franco, a veteran narcotics detective who was indicted for lying under o ...[
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Ashraf Maniar was surveilled and harassed at home in the U.S., and detained by a foreign government, after being placed on the no fly list. ...[
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