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MK Michal Shir says legislation, widely seen as targeting Netanyahu, will ‘rectify absurd situation’ in which indicted individual can lead country

(NEW YORK) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo faced mounting pressure Tuesday to resign, including from President Joe Biden and other onetime Democratic allies, after an investigation found he sexually harassed nearly a dozen women and worked to retaliate against

The U.S. women’s basketball team won a decisive victory against Australia in Olympic quarterfinals on Wednesday, continuing a winning streak that has lasted since 1992. The Australian Opals, who are ranked second in the world after the U.S. by the

Loship, the Vietnamese on-demand e-commerce platform that started as a reviews app, announced today it has raised $12 million in pre-Series C funding, bringing its valuation to $100 million. The round was co-led by BAce Capital, an Ant Group-backed venture

Japan’s Sakura Yosozumi claimed the gold medal and Kokona Hiraki won the silver in the first ever women’s Olympic park skateboarding event Wednesday—and settled for good the question of which country is the best at skateboarding in 2021. Sky Brown,

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The actor was recently quoted as saying that he had decided to “retire” the word his daughter calls the “f-slur” after she objected to a joke he made.

He is one of 5,000 former prisoners released by the Afghan government last year under pressure from the U.S. who have returned to the battlefield.

American gymnast Simone Biles returned to competition in the Tokyo Olympics and won a bronze medal in the individual balance beam final.

Myanmar is reeling under a new wave of COVID-19 infections. The health care system has all but collapsed as badly needed doctors are hunted by the military for their opposition to the Feb. 1 coup.