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Buckle your seat belts - it's not over buff.ly/vTDnTwE

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EU announces €1.6bln financial aid package for Palestinian Authority #EuropeNews

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UK announces £120m aid package for Sudan - as Lammy warns 'much of the world continues to look away'

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The D.C. Council could be blocked from holding secret meetings to discuss sensitive topics and strategic plans under a new bill introduced by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, last week.

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Why are so many world leaders silent on Gaza? | Fiona Katauskas

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⚡️Polish FM criticizes Hungary's stance on Russia, accuses it of lacking 'moral clarity.’ Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski criticized Hungary on April 14 for being the only EU member state lacking "moral clarity" on Russia’s war against Ukraine.

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Senate Bill 1016 would prevent Oregon’s child welfare agency from putting kids’ belongings in trash bags as they move placements and make it explicit that luggage must be provided.

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Increased access to community-based doulas and midwives is one of several effective strategies identified by medical groups and health advocates in recent years to potentially stem a persistently high and rising national Black maternal mortality rate buff.ly/g3BkH8h

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"It is difficult to read a month of daily summaries and end up with a sense of what the overall shape of that month has been." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-oppositi...

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Video shows mother pick up baby and run during Southern California earthquake

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US military aid for Ukraine is about to cease. Is Europe ready? | David Shimer

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Feds charge L.A. County sheriff's deputy accused of smuggling heroin into jail

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Michelle Quattlebaum is running for reelection to represent northeast Denver on the school board https://www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/2025/04/15/michelle-qualttebaum-running-for-reelection-denver-school-board/

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A Palestinian student at Columbia University went into a Vermont immigration office hoping to begin the final step to becoming a US citizen. But instead of having an interview, Mohsen Mahdawi – who’s been in the United States for a decade – was taken away in handcuffs.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene disclosed that she had purchased between tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stock on April 8 and 9, the day before and the day of President Trump’s announcement that he was pausing a sweeping set of global tariffs.

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Corruption is quickly becoming the through line, and the message from the Los Angeles stage hammered this home: Your life feels more difficult, more stressful today as a direct result of a deeply entrenched plutocratic perfidy.

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The US Department of Education froze $2.3 billion in federal funding for Harvard University, just hours after the school rejected President Donald Trump's demands that it make deep policy changes on diversity reut.rs/4ie41w1

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El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said at the White House on Monday he had no plans to return a man mistakenly deported from the United States.

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Easter long weekend weather: mostly warm and sunny conditions in store for major Australian cities

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Riverbank stabilization, lead and asbestos contamination are just some of the projects tribes planned to address before the Trump administration froze funds.

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The Israeli military struck and destroyed part of the Ahli Arab Hospital, a mainstay of Gaza’s decimated health care system, on Sunday. A child being treated for a head injury died because of the rushed evacuation, according to the Anglican Church in Jerusalem, which oversees the medical center.

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Human Rights First strongly condemns Trump’s invitation and upcoming meeting with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, because of his authoritarian tactics and numerous human rights violations. Trump went on Truth Social praising and complimenting this monster as if he's a hero.

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In an interview with Global Voices, Evans Odhiambo Oketch, leader of Nguvu Change, sheds light on the water crisis that is threatening people's livelihoods in Kenya.

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President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff-driven reversal of decades of free trade is creating financial chaos for the very sector it’s meant to rebuild: American manufacturing.

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Math and computer science researchers have long known that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are exploring how physical systems put hard limits on what we can predict.

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At 106 years old, Vaughn Drake Jr. was the oldest known survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor until his death on April 7, according to his obituary.

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OPINION: "We must stop any effort to privatize Jackson’s water system. The city should retain ownership and control, with the ITPM and JXN Water’s interim actions monitored through clear milestones aligned with this objective," Tariq Abdul-Tawwab writes.

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A Louisiana immigration judge ruled Friday that Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil is eligible for deportation after the Trump administration accused the legal permanent resident of being a threat to U.S. foreign policy.

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Opinion: Natural Climate Solutions provide cost-effective ways to conserve and restore the ability of ecosystems to store carbon at a fraction of the cost of technological alternatives.

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⚡️Russian drone attack kills 1, injures 2 in Kherson Oblast. On April 12, Russian forces attacked a civilian vehicle in the Dniprovskiy district, Kherson Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said. The drone dropped explosives on the car, fatally wounding a 27-year-old man.

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Spurred by ProPublica’s reporting, Democrats have introduced a measure designed to block a right-wing strategy to disallow ballots after they were cast. It’s being used to try to upend the results of a key state Supreme Court race. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

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More than 22% of Americans don’t earn enough to be middle class: Do you?

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Taken together, the various projects are approaching $1 billion in paper gains even after accounting for the latest round of trade war-induced market gyrations, according to Bloomberg calculations

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While some see justice served in the Le Pen decision, they also know this: her family dynasty might be over, but her movement is far from finished, writes @diane2v.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...

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This week a spotlight has once again been shone on Victoria Spartz, the Ukrainian-born Republican lawmaker who is not a stranger to controversy. Despite her roots, Spartz has drawn criticism for her shifting stance on aid to Ukraine.

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Granderson: Stephen A. Smith for president? Try to be more of an FDR than a DJT

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5 more Black-owned businesses to move into Baltimore’s downtown amid DEI backlash

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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to “immediately dismiss” military personnel who signed petitions calling for an end to the war on Gaza as a means of securing the release of Israeli captives held in the besieged enclave. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/crs4j4

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Iran and the United States will begin crucial talks on Saturday to reach a new nuclear deal in an effort to ease tensions and avert another conflict in the Middle East that could further engulf the wider region.

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