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Right-wing talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh dead at 70
Rush Limbaugh, a pioneer in popularizing right-wing talk radio, has died at the age of 70 after a months-long battle with cancer. ...[Read more]
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Biden May Approve Logging an Old-Growth Forest, Heightening Climate Risks
If approved, the Trump-era project would be a reversal of Biden’s stated commitment to preserve federal land and waters. ...[Read more]
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Brazil’s rapid and violent Covid variant devastates Latin America
Apparently more contagious P1 variant linked to Brazil makes an already shattering Covid crisis somehow even worse. Nearly 1 million Latin American lives have been lost here since the region’s first Covid case was detected in February 2020, and the pand ...[Read more]
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Oracle Boasted That Its Software Was Used Against U.S. Protesters. Then It Took the Tech to China.
According to the documents and to video presentations, CPD used a tool called Endeca Information Discovery, a product from tech giant Oracle, to merge crime records, 911 calls, and other routine police information with protesters’ tweets. Oracle claims ...[Read more]
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Iran marks 33rd anniv. of US downing of passenger jet in Persian Gulf
Iran commemorates the 33rd anniversary of the downing of its passenger aircraft by a US Navy guided-missile cruiser over the Persian Gulf, which killed 290 people. ...[Read more]
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Trump’s DOJ attempted to seize records of WaPo journalist over report Russian leaks: report
The Trump-led U.S. Department of Justice attempted to seize communication records for three Washington Post by way of legal action as a response to their reports on Russian interference, unsealed court documents reveal.According to Axios, the latest repor ...[Read more]
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Human Rights Watch: apparent war crimes by Israel during May attack on Gaza
Human Rights Watch investigated several Israeli attacks that resulted in particularly high numbers of civilian casualties – with no evident military target – and determined that the incidents may have been war crimes. Other Israeli attacks during the ...[Read more]
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US Public Clear: War in Afghanistan Wasn’t Worth It
As corporate media amplify pro-war voices to cover developing events in Afghanistan, two polls out Sunday showed the U.S. public has little appetite for continuing the 20-year war. A new CBS News/YouGov survey, conducted August 18-20, found that 63% appro ...[Read more]
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Shoeless, shivering, passing out: Afghan refugees arrive in the UK
They arrived shoeless and shivering, with some toddlers wearing the same nappies they wore when fleeing their homes days earlier. Volunteers have described the extraordinary dignity and stoicism of the Afghan refugees, including about 2,200 children, who ...[Read more]
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220+ Medical Journals Unite to Demand Urgent Action on Climate Emergency
Asserting that humanity "cannot wait for the pandemic to pass" before acting to rapidly reduce carbon emissions fueling the climate emergency, more than 220 health journals around the world on Sunday published an unprecedented joint editorial calling for ...[Read more]
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‘They’re gonna kill me’: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell launches into a paranoid rant about the government
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell defended his appallingly bad and debunked three-hour election conspiracy theory "documentary" called "Absolute Truth," by saying he was so scared for his life during the Trump presidency that he prayed the federal government did ...[Read more]
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