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Bill Russell, NBA great and longtime activist, dies at 88

Lake Mead: shrinking waters uncover buried secrets and grisly finds

Death toll rises in Kentucky flooding as rescue efforts continue

Nursing Homes Are Suing the Friends and Family of Residents

Biden Nominates 'Distinguished' Abortion Rights Lawyer to Federal Court

Pope calls treatment of Indigenous in Canada schools ‘genocide’

US elections: Bernie Sanders campaigns for Michigan progressives

Pro-Israel group pours millions into primary to defeat Jewish candidate

Price Gouging at the Pump Results in 235% Profit Increase for Oil Companies

It’s Time to End My Grandfather’s Harmful Legacy — the Helms Amendment

‘Point blank’: 16 year old Palestinian killed by Israelis

Kentucky floods leave several dead, thousands without power

Massachusetts Trader Joe's Becomes First to Unionize

Republicans block bill to help military veterans exposed to toxins

‘Hunted’: one in three people killed by US police were fleeing

Lavrov denigrates West’s stance towards Africa on Ethiopia visit

The Corporate Narrative on Inflation Is Bogus

Blazing hay and manure roadblocks: What to know as Dutch farm protests get messy

Shell, Total continue buyback bonanza after record profits

‘Nazi’ talk: Orbán adviser trashes ‘mixed race’ speech in dramatic exit

Macron hosts Saudi Arabia’s ‘bone saw’ prince

Russia’s Africa moves force Europe rethink on Ethiopia

Russia to further slash gas deliveries to Germany via Nord Stream pipeline

Biden's New Low-Income Solar Power Program Hailed as 'Vital' for People and Planet

CDC set to make monkeypox a nationally notifiable condition

Progressive Champion Mandela Barnes Emerges as Dem to Take on Ron Johnson in Wisconsin

Ex-cop Kueng gets 3 years for violating Floyd’s rights

Paintings Made of Stone

Justice Thomas no longer listed as GWU faculty after Roe backlash

Progressives Slam Senate Passage of $76 Billion 'Corporate Giveaway'

Nigerian workers begin 3-day protest against university shutdowns

Attack in Vancouver suburb leaves two homeless people and gunman dead

Pope Francis apologizes for abuse of Indigenous children in Canadian schools, promises investigation

Furious Michigan Medical Students Ditch Anti-Abortion Speaker in Protest

Twitter sees first win in case against Elon Musk

Pope arrives in Canada on tour of ‘penance’ for Indigenous abuse

California Oak Fire Rages Out of Control as Biden Mulls Climate Emergency

Starbucks workers officially reached 200 union election wins

Renton shooting: one dead and five injured in Seattle suburb

Right-Wing Judge Bars $18 Minimum Wage From California's 2022 Ballot

'Dead bodies' and dump sites draw DOJ civil rights probe of Houston

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon found guilty for refusing to testify to Jan. 6 panel

Three Picasso artworks discovered in three months

Sanders Joins Chorus Demanding Rejection of Amazon's One Medical Purchase

Mexican president renewed asylum offer for Assange in letter to Biden

Former Minneapolis police officer jailed for 2-1/2 years in George Floyd case

Backlash after Georgia school’s new logo resembles Nazi symbol

NFL players like me are cheered when we come out … and are soon unemployed

Revealed: oil sector’s ‘staggering’ $3bn-a-day profits for last 50 years

Ivana Trump, first wife of former President Donald Trump, mother of Ivanka, Eric, Don Jr., dead at 73

Was She Murdered?: Ivana Trump died of blunt force injuries to her torso

San Francisco Mayor London Breed Moves to the Right

Sanders Files Amendment to Limit $76 Billion in 'Corporate Welfare' for Microchip Industry

17 House Democrats Arrested Protesting Roe Reversal at Supreme Court

‘It goes up like tinder’: unprecedented blazes envelop Alaska

Joe Manchin Just Proved Why We Need the OLIGARCH Act

US justice system is a perfect instrument of racist rule

Pop art sculptor Claes Oldenburg dies aged 93

Wild bison return to UK for first time in thousands of years

As police crack down on homelessness, unhoused end up in Mojave desert

Gas supplies from Algeria to Italy to increase in coming years

Over 1,000 Die as Record-Breaking Heat, Wildfires Scorch Europe

Jayapal Says 'Systemic Reform' Needed to Thwart Manchin's Obstruction

Sanders says Manchin ‘sabotaged the president's agenda’

Heatwave scorches Europe as hundreds evacuated from wildfires

Autopsy shows Ohio police shot unarmed Jayland Walker 46 times

Brazil: killing of Lula’s party treasurer raises fears of violent run-up to election

Saudi sovereign fund to become Aston Martin's No. 2 shareholder

The GOP's Army of Christian Nationalists and White Supremacists

Ex-CIA engineer convicted in massive theft of secret info

A rural banking crisis is brewing in China

Ivana Trump, former president's first wife, dies at 73

Not One Single Republican Votes for Probe of Neo-Nazis in US Military and Police

Former CIA coder convicted of espionage over massive leak of hacking tools

A Former Mueller Prosecutor Takes Merrick Garland to Task

Happy birthday, Harrison Ford! A superb grumpy old man for 80 years and counting

We need a criminal investigation into Donald Trump

Mass grave, remains of 8,000 Nazi war victims found in Poland

Add Witness Intimidation to the List of Jan. 6 Charges Against Trump

Jan. 6 Panel Refers Trump to DOJ for Suspected Witness Tampering

Getty opens access to 30,000 images of black diaspora in UK and US

Euro drops in value and now on par with dollar

The amateur investors swindled and ruined by the crypto crash

Cancer plagues residents of US region polluted by ‘forever chemicals’

Gov. Newsom signs bill allowing suits against gun makers for negligence

Uber caught again and again lying and breaking laws

Advocates Demand Justice for Boy, 15, Killed During Albuquerque Police Attack

Cubans decry preemptive clampdown on protest anniversary

Fairness on the Fairway: Public Golf Courses and Civil Rights

‘We have a new Hitler in Russia’: Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina on Putin’s crimes

French opposition slams Uber-Macron ‘secret deal’ following Uber revelations

Musk's Tesla stock sale windfall dwarfs Twitter loss

Viktor Orbán to Speak at US Conservatives' Annual Summit

Uber offered shares to media barons for political help

Global South Is Facing a “Complete Energy Crisis” from Oil to Natural Gas

Biden heckled by Parkland father during event to celebrate new gun law

'The Uber Files': 124,000+ Leaked Files Expose Global Dirty Dealings

Murder of Jayland Walker was indeed ‘routine’ police practice

Two bar shootings leave 19 dead in South Africa

Honoring the mahu: Hawaii celebrates its Indigenous healers

EU Classifies Gas as Green Energy

The Southwest is bone dry

'Love Parade' returns as 'Rave the Planet'

Twitter vows to sue after Elon Musk pulls out of $44 billion buyout deal

EU Parliament condemns U.S. abortion ruling, calls for human rights safeguards

The federal government's plan to kill bears in Yellowstone National Park

Biden signs executive order on abortion access

World leaders express shock over assassination of Japan's Shinzo Abe

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is assassinated at a campaign rally

Colorado governor issues executive order to protect abortion access

Families sue TikTok after girls died while trying ‘blackout challenge’

Judge holds Cushman & Wakefield in contempt, orders fines in Trump probe

Witnesses say teens gassed to death in SA nightclub

UK’s Boris Johnson refuses to quit despite mass resignations

Ben & Jerry's sues Unilever to block distribution in Israeli settlements

57 shot and 9 dead 9 Dead in Fourth of July Weekend Shootings in Chicago

Algeria marks 60 years of independence from France

6 dead, 30 hurt in shooting at Chicago-area July 4 parade

NASA says its concerned about China's attempt to dominate the moon

Akron police release bodycam footage after the "murder" of Black man

Palestinian teen shot by Israeli forces dies

Judge puts Biden on the spot over immunity for Saudi crown prince

‘Fragile situation’ in Libya as anger seethes over living conditions

The Supreme Court Is Laying Groundwork to Pre-Rig the 2024 Election

The week the supreme court reshaped America: ‘We’re being hurled back decades’

‘It Was All Just a Show’: Confessions of a Republican Campaign Hit Man

At least 5 killed in magnitude 6.1 earthquake in southern Iran

Friends co-creator to donate $4m amid embarrassment over show’s whiteness

Waterways in Brazil's Manaus choked by tons of trash

The People Must Create a New Americas