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Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley: The Plight of Barbados Is Also a Dire Climate Warning for the U.S.

Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, who has emerged as a fierce critic of the international community’s inaction on the climate crisis, warned that the urgent climate risks facing island nations like hers are also affecting big nations like the

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WATCH LIVE: The White House holds news briefing with actor and Uvalde native Matthew McConaughey

McConaughey is a native of Uvalde, Texas, where a shooter massacred 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School May 24.

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#MeToo Founder Tarana Burke: the Amber Heard Verdict Is the Result of a Broken System

#MeToo founder Tarana Burke says that the verdict in the high-profile defamation case between actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard is the result of a broken system. While speaking alongside Chase Strangio, the American Civil Liberties Union’s deputy director for

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Dutch reporter’s children confront alleged killers in court

The children of a leading Dutch crime reporter confronted his alleged killers in court on Tuesday accusing the two men of gunning down their “hero” father from behind. Journalist Peter R. de Vries, 64, was shot in the head outside

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Russia almost fully in control of Donbas province, now holds 20 percent of Ukraine

Russia claims to have taken control of 97 percent of one of the two provinces that make up Ukraine’s Donbas, bringing the Kremlin closer to its goal of fully capturing the eastern industrial heartland of coal mines and factories.

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Exhausted Russian troops complain about ‘hunger and cold’ in public TikTok videos

While Russia has made some military gains in Ukraine’s east, high casualty rates are causing some Russian units to express publicly their exhaustion and displeasure with battlefield conditions, with some even questioning if Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is even legal,

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U.S., allies fly fighter jets over Korean Peninsula in show of force

he United States and its Asian allies have flown dozens of fighter jets over waters surrounding the Korean Peninsula in a show of force as their diplomats discussed a coordinated response to a possibly imminent North Korean nuclear test.

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National Hurricane Center Director to take over as head of the National Weather Service

National Hurricane Center Director Ken Graham will take over as head of the National Weather Service.

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Russian UN ambassador storms out of Security Council meeting as members detail war crimes against Ukrainian civilians

Speaking to the United Nations Security Council this Monday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said that the “mountain of credible reports of atrocities committed by Russia’s forces against civilians has grown every day” since Russian launched its

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Three Arizona police officers are placed on leave after looking on as a man drowned – NPR

Three Arizona police officers are placed on leave after looking on as a man drowned  NPR Tempe, Arizona drowning: Police officer told victim ‘I’m not jumping in after you,’ report says  Fox News Arizona investigators are reviewing officer conduct after a man

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