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Pregnant Woman in Kentucky Challenges Law
A pregnant woman in Kentucky, identified as Jane Doe, has filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s near-total abortion ban. The ban prohibits all abortions after six weeks except when necessary to save the patient’s life or prevent disabling injury. Most pregnancies aren’t discovered until after six weeks. This is the second legal challenge in days against restrictive abortion laws that emerged in…
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Gaza's Devastation
Gaza’s Devastation: A bleak future looms after Hamas’s reckless vendetta and Israel’s military offensive.
The aftermath of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza paints a grim picture, turning much of the region into an uninhabitable wasteland. Entire neighborhoods have been wiped out, with homes, schools, and hospitals bearing the brunt of airstrikes and tank fire. The toll on the population is…
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Israel Agrees to Brief Evac Periods
Israel has agreed to daily four-hour humanitarian pauses in its offensive against Hamas in northern Gaza, according to the White House.
President Joe Biden had urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for both daily pauses and a broader three-day cessation to make space for negotiations for the release of hostages held by Hamas. While a formal cease-fire seems unlikely at the moment, the…
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Mass Shooting and a Manhunt in Maine
A mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine left at least 18 people dead in a restaurant and a bowling alley on Wednesday. The incident has triggered a major search for Robert Card, a person of interest who is a trained firearms instructor. Authorities have urged residents to remain in their homes, while schools have declared closures for safety.
The search for the suspect has extended to both land and…
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Gaza Strip a Death Trap
The Gaza Strip is in danger of being left a wasteland during the latest eruption between Hamas and Israel. Over 180,000 Palestinians have sought refuge in U.N. shelters, while Israeli warplanes relentlessly strike this tiny territory. It all began with a weekend attack by Hamas militants, provoking a swift and severe Israeli retaliation.
People like Sabreen al-Attar had to make quick decisions to…
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Florida Man Can't Walk on Water
A Florida man is facing federal charges after attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a man-made hamster wheel-like vessel called the “hydro-pod.”
On August 26, the U.S. Coast Guard encountered Reza Ray Baluchi, 51, in his odd craft approximately 70 miles off the coast of Tybee Island, Georgia while they were doing hurricane preparations. According to a criminal complaint filed in Miami,…
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Great Wall Damaged for Shortcut
The Great Wall of China was damaged by two construction workers, who smashed a shortcut through it with an excavator.
Built to keep massive armies out of China during the Ming Dynasty, the Great Wall ran for about 8,850 miles. In the past four hundred years, long stretches of it have been pillaged for bricks and stones, building hundreds of farms. During the Communist revolution, intact segments…
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#China#cultural relics#great wall of china#united nations protected heritage site#vandalism#youyu county
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The Voice, The Vote
The Voice Referendum in Australia will come to a vote on October, creating an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
Approximately 3.8% of Australians today are indigenous, a group which lumps together both the native Aboriginal people of the mainland, and the Torres Strait Islanders, who come from islands off the northeast coast. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, their numbers are…
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#aboriginal people#Australia#parliament representation#political representation#the voice#torres strait islanders
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An Office of Gun Violence
An office of gun violence prevention is being assembled by the White House, in a federal first.
The plans haven’t been officially announced yet, but two sources inside the White House have confirmed the plans. The office fulfills a promise of President Biden’s 2024 election campaign, coordinating efforts to form meaningful guidance for states on the issue of gun violence. It will likely be…
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Indictments for Trump, Yet Again
More indictments for former president Donald Trump, along with 18 co-conspirators, over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia.
Trump’s meltdowns and specious accusations of voter fraud after his failed re-election were very public, and led directly to the unrest that broke into attempted insurrection on January 6th when his rally broke into the Capitol building to interfere…
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#2020 election#donald trump#election crime#fani willis#Georgia#mark meadows#rudy guiliani#vote tamporing
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A Spacecraft for India
A spacecraft lands on the Moon’s south pole, as India achieves a world’s first in lunar travel.
The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft launched from Satish Dhawan Space Center in Andhra Pradesh six weeks ago, carried out of the atmosphere by a rocket. The international community of space enthusiasts held their breath as it traversed the distance. On Wednesday, the landing craft touched down, carrying a…
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Wildfire Destroys Hawaii Town
A wildfire in Hawaii have killed at least 36 people, destroying the town of Lahaina on Maui as hurricane winds and dry conditions combine in catastrophe.
The fires began on Tuesday night, in dry grassland on the island of Maui. Hurricane Dora passed by the islands hundreds of miles to the south, but it caused unusually strong trade winds to whip across the archipelago. Together, the two surprised…
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Kenya to Police in Haiti
Kenya is being asked to lead an international police force in Haiti, to help restore order in the destabilized country.
In October 2022, a UN resolution decreed that a police action be sent to Haiti, to help stabilize the gang-dominated country. Their democratic government has collapsed entirely following two major earthquakes, the loss of all civic infrastructure, and the assassination of a…
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Funding Crisis Means Empty Mouths
A funding crisis in the United Nations is crippling the World Food Program, cutting off aid to millions of people.
The World Food Program, a part of the UN and the world’s largest humanitarian organization, provides emergency food relief to populations in both acute and chronic need. In 2021, they supported over 128 million people in over 100 countries. One of their founding purposes was to…
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Hollywood Strike Increases
The Hollywood Strike is growing, and fans have questions: should they boycott? Where to they give support?
On Friday, the Screen Actor’s Guild, the union representing virtually all screen actors in the United States, voted overwhelmingly to go on strike. They’ve joined forces with the screenwriters’ guiild, which went on strike several weeks early, against the Alliance of Motion Picture and…
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The Newest Volcano in the World
The newest volcano in the world is throwing up lava fountains on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula in a spectacular display.
The new volcanic fissure is another outburst of the Fagradalsfjall lava field which underlies the volcanically active part of the island nation. It is the third year in a row that the lava field has generated an eruption, but the first on this particular site. Together, the…
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Hottest Day Ever. Again. So Far.
Hottest day ever recorded on July 3rd, with a global average of 17.01 degrees Celsius (62.62 F). The previous record, of 16.92C (62.46F) was set in August 2016.
17C sounds low, but remember that any global average includes the half of the world currently experiencing winter, and reflects high winter temperatures as well.
For several weeks, the southern United States has suffered under a heat…
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