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The Guardian- Prince Harry quits board of wildlife charity after rangers’ human rights abuses
- Video shows hundreds held captive after Nigeria mosque kidnapping
- Children make up half of mpox cases in Guinea-Bissau as epidemic spreads
- Landslide at waste mound in Guinea capital kills 30, government says
- US deports 20 people to Liberia, the first of 1,200 migrants under Trump deal
- US strikes a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing 2 people in first attack in months
- Trump announces new 50% tariff on Canadian cars, trucks and steel
- Mark Carney says Canada can’t accept US trade deal that would weaken French language
- ‘No more!!!’: Trump lashes out after US-Canada talks devolve into trade war
- The lesson from Canada’s collapsed trade talks with the US: negotiation may be futile
Talking Points Memo- Dems Prepare for Trump Corruption Investigation Blitz Should They Take House
- Trump Gets Significant Early Win in Mail-In Ballot Case from Supreme Court
- Blanche Must Provide Info on Minneapolis Surveillance, House Oversight Dem Says
- Trash Talking Doug Ford and a Bit of TPM Lore
- Trump-Aligned America First Policy Institute Backing Ex-NBA Player Tossed from WNBA Game
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- Trump’s Wars of Whim, And How He Loses Them
- Darline Graham’s Big Blunder Creates an Opening for a Far-Right Congressman
- Canada Sits the United States Down for an Intervention
- The Pending Supreme Court Decision Hanging Over the Midterms
The Intercept- Pentagon Spokesperson Admits There’s a Secret Blacklist of Journalists
- The Dawn of a New Cold War
- RIP to the Russiagate Liberals
- What American Doctors Saw in Gaza
- This Mysterious “Astroturf” Group Popped Up to Defend the Paramount Merger
- The Mossad Suffers a Crushing Defeat Entirely of Its Own Making
- Immigrant Wants to Pay $368,000 in Fines, but Broken Payment System Won’t Let Him
- What The Intercept Is Reading
- The Short Life of a Newborn During the Iran War
- ICE Worked With Iranian Regime to Set Up Deportation Flights as Trump Laid Plans for War
France24- Trump administration to revoke visas of foreigners seeking asylum in US, officials say
- Tornado devastates village in southwestern France’s Aude region
- Israel's Netanyahu says Iran tried to assassinate one of his sons
- Zambia shuts down court system
- UK, France ‘re-announce’ anti-missile technology for Ukraine: ‘None will be online for years’
- Saudi Arabia to invest €6 billion in theme parks near Paris, Macron says
- What the renewed Black Sea blockade means for Ukraine’s farmers
- 🔴 Mideast live: US unveils fresh sanctions to 'sever every economic lifeline' sustaining Iran
- Mohammed bin Salman in the City of Light: Does West value economic interests over 'Western values'?
- Ceasefire verification mission deploys to eastern DR Congo
Media Matters For America- Real wages have fallen for several months, but these Fox hosts claim wages are rising
- Here’s the Fox & Friends segment that introduced Trump to Natalie Harp
- Fox anchor admits the network is obsessively covering the WNBA
- Right-wing media liken Massachusetts law expanding abortion access to Satanism, murder, and "human sacrifice"
- Media Matters weekly newsletter, August 21
- Nick Fuentes on the Iran war: “This is the worst loss of the 21st century and it isn’t even close”
- Rudy Giuliani calls Fox News a “bad station”
- Sean Hannity covers Iran war for the first time in weeks, complains Trump isn’t getting “credit” for it
- Jesse Watters guest says if women "are not going to be homemakers" or “committed moms, then the only role they have left is as sex objects and as workers”
- The MAGA media fixation on the "red-green alliance" is an attempt to hold a fracturing coalition together
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