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- US deports 20 people to Liberia, the first of 1,200 migrants under Trump deal
- More than 100 dead after goldmine collapses in Central African Republic
- Five Americans among seven killed in safari helicopter crash in Kenya
- Spain to allow 500 children in Ceuta to go to mainland in immigration U-turn
- Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo now deadliest in country’s history
- JD Vance reportedly mocks Carney for trying to ‘out-tough’ Trump on trade
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- Activist forced out of US after criticising Trump-aligned Colombian politician
- Trump pauses Canada tariffs threat, and hints at revival of Keystone XL pipeline
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- Trump Administration to Support ‘Independent Journalism’ in Europe With Anti-Immigrant Focus
- Trump Administration Fails to Substantiate Its Claims of Noncitizen Voting (Again)
- Biggest US Retailers Use $5 Billion in Trump Tariff Refunds to Appease Investors
- Greg Abbott Grasps At Anything to Stir Up Anti-Islam Panic for His Reelection
- Is There a Polling ‘Crisis’ and Why Should We Care If There Is?
- DHS Exempted Itself from Normal Law for Undercover Investigation Into Protesters
- California’s Dem Senators Write to SoS Expressing ‘Grave Concerns’ About Tina Peters
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- The Intercept
- 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
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- 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
- A Democratic Socialist Aims to Oust a Top AIPAC Beneficiary in Florida
- ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He’s Approaching 300 Days Behind Bars With a Festering Wound.
- Secret ICE Agent Tried to “Entice” Minneapolis Activists Into Confrontational Tactics
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- Israeli settlers and military kill 2 Palestinians – one a teenager – in separate West Bank shootings
- Back-to-back Russian drone strikes kill more than a dozen at Ukraine shopping centre
- Turkey seeks Interpol arrest warrant for Netanyahu over Gaza flotilla detention
- Does Putin travel without security?
- Who are the eight candidates running to succeed Antonio Guterres as UN chief?
- Millions in Cuba face water shortages as oil crisis deepens
- Deadly daytime heat turns Japanese farmers nocturnal
- Brazillian football star Ronaldinho makes a comeback at the age of 46
- FIFA suspends Argentina's Paredes for 10 games over World Cup final clashes
- Moroccan families travel to Ceuta border in search of missing loved ones
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- 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
- Megyn Kelly attacks free childcare: "Actual contributing members of society will pay for the free childcare of people who do nothing"
- On Newsmax, Dick Morris falsely claims "except for a training accident really, nobody's died" in the Iran war
- On Deadline: White House, Angelo Carusone discusses lessons from the Florida primary: "Their media machine and their politics and their apparatus for building and organizing power is adapting, and we have to adapt along with it"
- Tim Pool: "There is a reason why Tucker, Candace, Alex [Jones] have all inverted their positions and have begun to stab their friends in the back."
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