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- RSF siege of El Fasher in Sudan has ‘hallmarks of genocide’, UN mission finds
- More than 1,000 Kenyans lured to fight for Russia in Ukraine war, report says
- Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, says OpenAI’s George Osborne
- Kenyan authorities used Israeli tech to crack activist’s phone, report claims
- How an undercover cop foiled an IS plot to massacre Britain’s Jews – podcast
- Leftist who defended child marriage elected as Peru’s interim president
- Credit cards cancelled, Google accounts closed: ICC judges on life under Trump sanctions
- US says 11 people killed in latest strikes on alleged drug boats
- Peru’s president ousted in ‘express impeachment’ after just four months
- Mexican president challenges UK asylum given to woman accused of corruption
- Talking Points Memo
- A Setback for the DOJ’s Push To Get State Voter Rolls
- Listen To This: ICE Meltdown
- America’s True Exceptionalism: A Culture of Impunity
- You Don’t Need to Be Found Guilty for the Justice System to Ruin Your Life
- Trump’s Great Double-Down
- Carr Tries To Wash His Hands Of the Colbert Matter
- VIDEO: Hunter Walker and Allegra Kirkland Discuss the Bizarro Characters Behind the Fulton County Raid
- FBI’s Top Influencers Tout ‘Antifa’ Funding Investigations
- Amid Mass ICE Arrests, Trump Pardon Recipient Juan Orlando Hernández Given Special Treatment
- Trump’s Fave Snarling Spox Exits Stage Right
- The Intercept
- More U.S. Troops Are Headed to Nigeria
- A New PAC Wants to Counter Israel’s Influence. It Also Welcomes Hitler Apologists.
- Philadelphia Could Elect Its First Muslim Congressman. He’s Not Sure Where He Stands on Israel.
- Can Trump’s Plan for Warehouse Immigrant Detention Camps Be Stopped?
- It’s Correct and Moral to Use the Olympics to Speak Out About Politics
- U.S. Sent a Rescue Plane for Boat Strike Survivors. It Took 45 Hours to Arrive.
- Air Force Maintenance Staff Can’t Stop Buying Fancy Knives With Tax Dollars
- Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us
- Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars From New York City’s Public Hospitals
- Leakers Helped Destroy Deportation Case Against Tufts Student
- France24
- No, this video does not prove Israel used a thermobaric bomb in Gaza
- Iran-US tensions mount as carrier nears Mideast
- As Board of Peace meets, 'every day is worse than the one before' for Gazans
- French prosecutor seeks homicide charges in killing of far-right activist Quentin Deranque
- Indonesia, an unlikely staunch backer of Trump's Gaza plan?
- Trump's 'Board of Peace' Gaza pledge 'a drop in the ocean'
- Why does AI need to be kept in check?
- Never-before-seen photos of Nazi executions in Greece surface on eBay
- Macron asks Meloni not to 'comment' on France's affairs after activist remark
- Trump's first 'Board of Peace' meeting: 'Still unclear what he's trying to achieve'
- Media Matters For America
- Mark Levin’s clarion call for Trump to wage war on Iran
- “Go the [bleep] home!”: Right-wing media lash out at US Olympians who criticize the Trump administration
- Sean Hannity is demanding regime change in Iran to stop the country's nuclear program ... which Hannity previously claimed Trump had "obliterated"
- Jillian Michaels accuses Trump of a “flip-flop” on the Epstein files: “It’s the same flip-flop times a million because imagine the phone calls. Everybody’s life is going to be ruined.”
- Fox News correspondent: "It's a bit surreal seeing the juxtaposition of President Trump presiding over the Board of Peace while preparing for war"
- MAGA “prophet” Julie Green delivers “prophetic word” about martial law and the 2026 midterms
- On Newsmax, Benny Johnson calls for a Federal Elections Commission investigation into Stephen Colbert
- Newsmax host says "zero" conservatives wanted to speak with him about Epstein files
- Newsmax host criticizes Steve Bannon for his relationship with Epstein: "Some of the exchanges between Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein -- it makes my hair go up"
- On Deadline: White House, Angelo Carusone discusses what Stephen Colbert and CBS reveal about the Trump administration’s role in media decisions
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- Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism
- The Loss of El Dorado: A Colonial History
- The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War—A Tragedy in Three Acts
- The Vietnam Trauma in American Foreign Policy: 1945-75 by Kattenburg, Paul M. (1980) Paperback
- Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
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