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Video shows US police officer fatally shooting 13-year-old on ground

Thank You, President Biden. Now Do the Right Thing.

Brazil floods show how German migration silenced Black and Indigenous stories

Joe Biden Is Now Democracy's Greatest Liability

Biden comes out swinging in first speech after presidential debate with Trump

Advocates Slam NY Gov for Halting Plan to Reduce Emissions, Fund Mass Transit

Biden pardons veterans convicted under military's ban on gay sex

Marilyn Monroe’s former home saved from demolition, designated as a monument

Belgium police disperse pro-Palestine protest

Record labels sue two AI startups for copyright infringement

Kenya's Ruto says finance bill to be withdrawn after anti-tax protest deaths

Auma Obama, Sister of Pres. Obama, on Kenyan Police Attacks on Youth-Led Tax Protests

AIPAC Spending Helps George Latimer Defeat Jamaal Bowman

'Julian Assange Is Free': WikiLeaks Founder Strikes Plea Deal With US

At least five killed, parliament set ablaze in Kenya tax protests

Civil rights groups file lawsuit over Louisiana Ten Commandments law

Over 20,000 children buried, trapped, detained, lost amid Gaza war

How America’s “Most Powerful Lobby” Is Stifling Efforts to Reform Oil Well Cleanup in State After State

Could therapy horses be the solution to Britain’s prison crisis?

Inflation, recession force Argentines to eat less beef

"Wouldn’t wish it on anyone": MLB icon Reggie Jackson details racism he faced

Waving flags, tens of thousands rally against Israeli govt

Top US State Department official for Israel-Palestine affairs resigns

Study Helps Explain How Wolf Removal Can 'Unravel' Key Ecological Systems

Zionist lobby group labelled 'propaganda' and 'misinformation' source by Wikipedia

Seine remains too polluted to host swimming events at Paris Olympics

‘Groundbreaking’: How children in Hawaii won landmark climate case

Jamaal Bowman, a critic of Israel’s war on Gaza, faces AIPAC-backed rival George Latimer in New York primary

Armenia Recognizes Palestinian Statehood

Study Helps Explain How Wolf Removal Can 'Unravel' Key Ecological Systems

FBI raids home of Oakland’s first-term mayor Sheng Thao

‘Florida loves prison labor’: working for free in the Sunshine state

Burkina Faso Junta Again Suspends TV News Broadcasts

Industry doesn’t need carbon capture when they’ve captured the government

South Korea fires warning shots after North Korean troops cross border

Elected officials in sweltering US states prioritizing fossil fuel cash over people

Rep. Ramirez Slams AIPAC-Led Campaign Against Jamaal Bowman in NY Primary

The exponential growth of solar power will change the world

Research Shows 10,000+ Killed or Harmed in Growing Global Attacks on Education

China and Russia have chilling plans for the Arctic

Tropical Storm Alberto threatens Texas and Mexico with flooding rains

Outgoing Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte wins race to head Nato

Searing heat wave drives record temperatures across eastern U.S.

Zionist lobby group labelled 'propaganda' and 'misinformation' source by Wikipedia

67% of water, sanitation infrastructure destroyed in Gaza since 7 October

Kenya police use tear gas, water cannon as hundreds protest over tax hikes

Iran condemns Canada listing of Revolutionary Guards as terrorist group

After Netanyahu Video, Sanders Says US Should Halt 'All Offensive Military Aid'

Georgia becomes first state to require election law training for police

Juneteenth Was Not Freely Given—It Was Won

'Stronger Than Ever': Amazon Labor Union Cements Alliance With Teamsters

New Zealand to provide another $5M to World Food Program, UNICEF for Gaza

Ohio EV Plant Workers Hail Historic Contract Victory

French actress and 60s icon Anouk Aimee dies at 92

Holocaust Scholar Loses Univ. of Minnesota Job Offer for Saying Israel Is Committing Genocide

Israeli Politician Quotes Hitler to Argue for Resettlement of Gaza

Maryland governor issues pardons for 175,000 cannabis-related convictions

At least ten migrants dead, dozens missing in two boat disasters off Italian coast

Climate scientists risk jobs, jail to save dying planet

‘The time is right’ for US to catch up on high-speed rail

White gold, Black bodies: how a tiny African nation shaped the world

At least five people reportedly shot at public splash pad in Michigan

US vice-president Kamala Harris announces $1.5bn in Ukraine aid

Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic

Colorado was built on stolen tribal land worth $1.7tn, report finds

93 Nations Back ICC as Israel Faces Charges for War Crimes in Gaza

Sotomayor rips Thomas’s bump stocks ruling in scathing dissent read from bench

Oklahoma supreme court dismisses lawsuit of Tulsa massacre survivors

Rare white buffalo born at Yellowstone prompts Lakota Sioux celebration

White-led DA party joins ANC in South African unity government

Indonesia to evacuate 1,000 injured Palestinians

EU court slaps $216m fine on Hungary for not following asylum laws

Site of Parkland school shooting, where 17 were murdered in 2018, to be demolished

Japan Parliament calls for ceasefire in Gaza

Hillary Clinton endorses George Latimer in challenge to unseat Jamaal Bowman

Pelosi: Trump coming to Capitol Hill with ‘mission of dismantling our democracy’

Afrophobia is destroying the African dream

Why did I cry when I was approved for $271 of food stamps this month?

Broken toilets, bed bugs and rats: US firefighters are in a housing crisis

America’s problem is massive inequality – not ‘woke’ educated elites

Russian warships and nuclear-powered submarine arrive in Cuba

France's rightwing Les Républicains vote out leader Éric Ciotti over election pact with far right

Jewish Army Intel Officer Quits over Gaza, Says “Impossible” Not to See Echoes of Holocaust

French conservatives in turmoil as leader backs Le Pen alliance for snap elections

Washington teen returning replica gun to store shot dead by security guard

US banana giant Chiquita ordered to pay $38m to families of Colombian men killed by death squads

California uni academics end pro-Palestinian strike under court order

A $600 Billion Swindle: Study Makes Case to 'Abolish' Medicare Advantage

“Clear Shift” Toward the Far Right: Anti-Immigrant Nationalists Gain Ground Across Europe

Revealed: drug cartels force migrant children to work as foot soldiers in Europe’s booming cocaine trade

SCOTUS Alito Exposed as 'Crusader for Christian Nationalism'

AIPAC is biggest source of GOP donations in Dem primaries

Calls to end Gaza ‘bloodbath’ after Israeli attack kills 274 Palestinians

NAACP Joins Growing Chorus Demanding Biden Halt Arms Shipments to Israel

EU elections: significant far-right gains in Germany and France

‘A sanctuary’: how neglected Native American communities are organizing their own food hubs

Tesla objects to $5.6 billion payout for lawyers who voided Musk's pay

'This Ain't It': Pennsylvanians Slam Jay-Z's Roc Nation for School Voucher Push

Spain Applies to Join ICJ Genocide Case Against Israel

Judge orders Steve Bannon to report to prison on July 1 for contempt of Congress sentence

Negro Leagues players finally get some measure of statistical justice from MLB

£18 trillion – what Britain owes in reparations. Time to pay up.

Spain-Israel tensions soar as Madrid throws support behind Palestine

Dozens killed in Israeli strike on UN school,

“Divest from Genocide”: 1,000+ Protest Brooklyn Museum for Israel Ties

French MPs wear colours of Palestinian flag

Biden issues order limiting asylum seekers from crossing US-Mexico border

Slovenia becomes latest EU country to recognise Palestine as a state

Mexican Women’s Movement Paved Way for Election of 1st Female President

Merrick Garland hits back at Trump and Republicans: ‘I will not be intimidated’

Nagasaki Mayor Withholds Israel's Invitation to Peace Ceremony

More than 1M Methodists leave church over same-sex rule change

Claudia Sheinbaum Wins Mexican Presidency in Landslide

Students walk out of University of Chicago graduation over Israel policies

‘We refuse to disappear’: the Hong Kong 47 facing life in jail after crackdown

Mexico on the brink of electing first female president