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- Four people killed in ‘violent, fast-moving’ fire at Canadian military base
- ‘4,000 people minding our own business’: four decades on, Falklands again face a hostile Argentina
- Mexican judge sentences three men to 158 years in prison for murders of Australian and US surfers
- Brazilian Amazon deforestation falls to lowest on record as pivotal vote looms
Talking Points Memo- Powers Jostle Over Oil Prices and US Midterms
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- Feud In Dolly Parton’s Inner Circle Reveals Arms Deal with Haitian Police
- Data Centers
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- Stephen Miller Is Anchoring the Trump Administration’s Nightmare Blunt Rotation
- More MAGA-Under-Pressure, ‘Layla’-Coda Updates
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The Intercept- President Apocalypse
- Dems Have an Opportunity to Force an End to the Iran War. Will They Take It?
- DHS Was Designed as a Weapon
- Long After the Maui Fires, Toxic Metals Linger in Residents’ Bodies
- Lockheed Martin Showered Susan Collins With Cash as F-35 Program Hit Turbulence
- Trump Is Targeting Ilhan Omar. Where’s the Elite Media Outrage?
- America’s Sordid History of Filming Executions as Entertainment
- Inside ICE, Officials Question String of Trump Admin “Midterm Panic Moves”
- Mother Sues ICE Contractor for Jailing Her and Her Baby in a Hotel Room
- Reflecting on the Trump Era
France24- French student protests: 'There's been lack of investment in education for years now'
- 'Quite horrifying': Afghan economic crisis leaves EU deportees with 'very little' to return to
- Russia pounds Kyiv as Rubio urges Ukraine's Zelensky to 'focus' on ending the war
- ‘Not a problem of short-term solutions’: French students demand structural change, better conditions
- 🔴 Live: Macron rejects French interior minister's resignation after weekend of unrest
- Live: French minister admits police 'lost control' of protests as Macron rejects his offer to resign
- ISS mission: 'It's really exciting to see this renewal of French women in space'
- Brazil's Lula, Bolsonaro clash in bitter debate ahead of election run-off
- Louvre's $100 million crown jewels still missing one year after daring heist
- Canadian military base fire kills at least four, injures dozens
Media Matters For America- The Charlie Kirk Show co-host Blake Neff says that the MAHA movement should consider that it is not "on that list of core promises that Trump made central to his plan"
- “Excellent, excellent pick”: Here are the right-wing media figures who praised the now-ousted White House press secretary Katie Zacharia
- Podcast Wars: Ben Shapiro crashes out and everybody hates Tucker Carlson
- Fox News is peddling election "fear porn" about Democrats to rescue Republicans
- On Fox & Friends, Kid Rock compares Abdul El-Sayed to the Fort Hood shooter and the 9/11 hijackers
- The under-the-radar Spanish-language right-wing media backlash
- Here's the MAGA host taking credit for Katie Zacharia’s appointment to press secretary
- Nick Fuentes: “Ted Cruz acknowledged that the GOP has a groyper problem. … This is the sitting U.S. senator from the state of Texas using the phrase groyperism. You know how big of a victory that is in and of itself?”
- When a Fox News anchor called Katie Zacharia a “licensed attorney” (she isn’t)
- Discontent in Spanish-language conservative media illustrates GOP's deteriorating Hispanic coalition
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