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The Biden administration knew that Ukraine planned to attack a majority Russian-owned natural gas pipeline, owned by Nord Stream, three months ahead of an actual attack on the gas line, according to documents reviewed by the Washington Post. According to a Tuesday report from the Post, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) received information from [...]

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Large crowds gathered in Warsaw, Poland on Sunday to protest against the nation’s government. The protest, led by former Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his party the Civic Coalition (KO), gathered to protest a recently proposed law, the cost of living, inflation and women’s rights—among other issues. Tusk released an image of protesters on Twitter, [...]

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The White House announced sanctions against Sudanese companies Thursday in an attempt to “hold the parties accountable and to deny them the resources, funds, and weapons that have enabled them to perpetuate this horrific conflict.” The US announced the sanctions shortly before suspending the ceasefire extension the US and Saudi Arabia had negotiated between the [...]

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Floridians gathered across the state Thursday to protest a recently enacted law that imposes restrictions on undocumented immigrants. In what protesters dubbed, “a day without immigrants,” thousands walked off the job to voice their opposition to Governor Ron DeSantis’s approval of Senate Bill (SB) 1718. In Immokalee, Florida, dozens of businesses closed in support of the [...]

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Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo vetoed a bill Thursday that would have criminalized fake elector schemes in the state. Fake elector schemes came to national attention during the 2020 presidential election, during which several swing states saw the creation of fake electoral college slates in favor of former President Donald Trump even though he lost the [...]

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A US State Department ambassador told senators during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Wednesday that the Department of Defense (DOD) continues to block the US’s cooperation in the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) case against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Global Criminal Justice Ambassador-at-large Beth Van Schaack told senators that, despite recent changes to legislation, the [...]

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The US Supreme Court held Thursday that a local union must litigate a property damage dispute in state court, as opposed to appearing before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). In Glacier Northwest v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the court found that federal labor law, under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), did not preempt [...]

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Pakistani Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah called Tuesday for former Prime Minister Imran Khan to be tried in a military court following the outbreak of nationwide protests over his May 9 arrest. Sanaullah referred to Khan as the “architect of all this discord” amidst an ongoing crackdown on the former prime minister’s party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). [...]

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The US Supreme Court declined Tuesday to hear a case alleging that social media platform Reddit wrongly hosted sexually explicit images and videos of underage individuals, amounting to child pornography. As a result, a ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which dismissed the victims’ claim, will stand. The case, Jane [...]

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Two Pakistani journalists remain missing Saturday following a call for their release from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday. Unidentified men allegedly seized the first journalist, BOL News anchor and president Sami Abraham on May 24 following the airing of several segments supporting former Prime Minister Imran Khan. The second journalist, Imran Riaz [...]

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