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- Egyptian journalists plan weekend protest over detention of six colleagues
- Scientists discover 180,000 giant tortoises on one Seychelles island
- Ethiopia launches drone attack against Eritrean troops who crossed into Tigray
- Kenya confirms first Ebola case as virus ‘surges’ in DR Congo province
- Tigray rebel groups ‘forcibly recruiting boys as young as 15’ as fighting spreads
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- Trump Mails Americans Checks Ahead of Midterms, Seeking to Compensate for What His Party Did to Healthcare
- Trump Admin Gears Up for Post-Midterm Crackdown on Abortion Drug
- Oh Hey, More AI Stuff – Is This Our Reliable Narrator?
- Democrats Issue Stark Election Warning: ‘I’d Be Shocked If He Didn’t Try To Cheat’
- Docs Reveal New Details About Dramatic Admin Efforts to Substantiate the Non-Citizen Voting Myth
- New Details Emerge on Stephen Miller’s Meddling at the Trump DOJ
- Sam Alito Wants You to Forget How the Conservative Legal Movement Always Works
- The AI Panic and the Hunt for Reliable Narrators
- Still More Extremists Surface in Senate Candidate Mike Collins’ Orbit
- The Intercept
- ICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness Says
- Pete Hegseth’s Military of the Future: Defined by AI and an Utter Lack of Oversight
- Armed Border Agents Arrest Protesters, Bulldoze 200-Year-Old Tree to Build Border Wall
- Feds Charged Activists Just Before Major Anti-ICE Protest in a Tiny Vermont Town
- He Confessed to an Afghanistan War Murder. The U.S. Military Promptly Closed the Case.
- Antisemitism Law Helped Get a Professor Fired for Free Speech, Lawsuit Says
- The U.S. Military Struggles to Protect Its Bases Amid Failing Iran War
- The Key Witness Against Richard Glossip Just Returned to Court. It Didn’t Go Well.
- Susan Collins’s Committee Bought Trucks the Army Didn’t Want. Then Campaign Donations Poured In.
- Public Radio Station Forced to Call Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America”
- France24
- Brazil’s Flavio Bolsonaro wins third-place candidate’s support against Lula
- US files new torture charges against Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro and wife Cilia Flores
- OpenAI bans Russian, Iranian ChatGPT propaganda networks
- Fort Hood shooter’s firing squad execution to be livestreamed, Pentagon says
- Trump envoys, European officials to discuss ‘new ideas’ for Ukraine peace in Miami
- Black sea and black ops: How exposed is Europe to Ukraine war spillover?
- Spain mourns Maricarmen Abascal, whose eviction sparked housing protests
- ‘Nothing will stop us’: French student protests show few signs of ending
- 'Fighting for our future': France high school students vow no let-up
- Aaron Sorkin, Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White: The director and cast behind the Facebook sequel
- Media Matters For America
- Some Megyn Kelly callers push back on her coverage of the Cornell sexual assault case: "I did stop listening to Megyn"
- New York Fed research found that if not for Trump's tariffs, goods prices would have declined. Many news outlets haven't yet covered it.
- “WE NEED MORE SLUT SHAMING:” Right-wing media react to the Cornell sexual assault case
- FLASHBACK: At Fox, U.S. Ambassador Guilfoyle endorsed criminal investigation into Clinton “pay-for-play” claims
- Fox is using climate denial to undermine bipartisan support for AI safeguards
- Juan O. Savin, an ally of Tina Peters, suggests “Trump had meetings in the White House” discussing plans that may include refusing to certify election results
- MAGA media’s election denial in LA mayoral race is a warning for the midterms
- Fox News at 30: Even the pretense of impartiality is all but gone
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