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Axios is reporting President Biden told Netanyahu in a phone call on Saturday evening that the U.S. will neither support nor participate in any counterattack against Iran. With both Israel and the U.S. having intercepted 99% of the drones and missiles...
by Munchausen
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on Sat Apr 13, 2024 at 11:56 PM PDT
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“We were filming in a safe place, I was wearing my flak jacket and my helmet — even the car I was in had a ‘PRESS’ and ‘TV’ sign marked on it. It was clear that I was a civilian and a journalist. We were targeted,” he told CNN. Those are the words of...
by Munchausen
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on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 10:04 PM PDT
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The death toll in the Moscow concert hall attack has risen to 133, Russia’s top state investigative agency said Saturday. The update from the Investigative Committee comes as authorities are combing the charrred wreckage of the Crocus City Hall on...
by Associated Press
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on Sat Mar 23, 2024 at 07:35 AM PDT
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George Conway has been making regular appearances on podcasts in recent months. He is a great source for keeping up with Trump trials, but not for political strategizing, unless you want ignorant attack ads and further division to continue dominating...
by greenandblue
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on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 12:38 PM PDT
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After news outlets called Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary for Donald Trump, the pundits got to work analyzing what this means for the candidates. Former Trump administration White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany was on Fox News’ Jesse Watters...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Jan 24, 2024 at 02:20 PM PST
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On Wednesday, September 13th, a small group of conservative protesters and far-right extremists from Freedom Angels, Leave Our Kids Alone, Mom Army/Dad Army (Moms For Liberty copycat groups), and Gays Against Groomers held a rally outside of the...
by VPSReports
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on Wed Sep 13, 2023 at 10:24 PM PDT
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Bahkmut points the way: there’s not a lot of reason to believe that the Russian fortifications are any less of a paper tiger than their army. I know Wagner probably extra sucks at fortifications, but on the other hand the Russian MoD has depleted...
by Yojo
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on Tue May 16, 2023 at 11:58 PM PDT
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On Friday, footage from home security cameras and police body cameras that captured the attack on Paul Pelosi, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, was released to the public. In the wee hours of the night on Oct. 28, 2022, 42-year-old David DePape...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Jan 27, 2023 at 05:55 PM PST
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Massive power outage in North Carolina 'intentional, willful,' may be linked to drag show protesters Tens of thousands of North Carolinians are without power Monday and under a state of emergency after two substations were reportedly damaged “intentionally” by gunfire. The outage is being investigated by authorities as a “criminal occurrence,” but...
by Rebekah Sager
158 comments
on Mon Dec 05, 2022 at 08:14 AM PST
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Officials are still searching for a man who slashed a woman and a bystander in a hate crime incident on the New York City subway. According to the police, the incident occurred last week on Tuesday on an 8th Avenue-bound L train. The suspect allegedly...
by Aysha Qamar
127 comments
on Mon Nov 28, 2022 at 11:26 AM PST
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In a Tuesday appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Ben Collins, a senior reporter with NBC News, minced no words about the impact online comments against LGBTQ Americans have been having. The latest example is the shooting deaths of five and the injuries...
by Rebekah Sager
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on Tue Nov 22, 2022 at 09:18 AM PST
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This idiot who did this may have done the beating but all the insurectionists and especially Donald J Trump provided the hammer. Their lies, chaos, hatred and inciting has come to this sort of thing. This is an 82 year old man. Think about that....
by Vetwife
262 comments
on Fri Oct 28, 2022 at 01:53 PM PDT
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A spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released a statement Friday morning announcing that her husband, Paul Pelosi, was in the hospital after “an assailant broke into the Pelosi residence in San Francisco and violently assaulted” him. Since the...
by Rebekah Sager
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on Fri Oct 28, 2022 at 01:27 PM PDT
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Sen. Marco Rubio tweeted three photos on Monday of a man he said was canvassing for him when he was violently attacked. After allegedly speaking with the victim’s father, Rubio wrote that the man was beaten after “4 animals” said, “Republicans weren’t...
by Rebekah Sager
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on Thu Oct 27, 2022 at 12:48 PM PDT
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Reports starting to come in of a man who just crashed his car into a barrier at the U.S. Capitol, started firing a gun randomly at nothing from the burning car, and then killed himself. No word yet on whether he was a MAGA adherent, but it would not be...
by Tailfish
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on Sun Aug 14, 2022 at 07:25 AM PDT
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Well, in case you thought the story about my kids being attacked by a Glenn Youngkin�appointee couldn’t get any worse, I have unfortunate news for you this morning.� The Richmond Times Dispatch ...
by SquireForYou
189 comments
on Wed Jun 22, 2022 at 06:51 AM PDT
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In addition to violence being inflicted upon marginalized folks by Republicans—particularly trans people, immigrants, and people of color—at the local and state level, individuals are (sadly) still hurting one another, too. As my coworker Aysha Qamar...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Mon Apr 04, 2022 at 12:22 PM PDT
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Days after a new report found that hate crimes against Asian Americans rose by 339% in 2021 compared with 2020, an Asian woman was found fatally stabbed in New York after a man followed her into her apartment. As a result, Asian Americans across the...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Tue Feb 15, 2022 at 11:00 AM PST
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A San Francisco resident is suing San Francisco's District Attorney Chesa Boudin in what may be the first lawsuit of its kind. The lawsuit, announced Tuesday by the Alliance for Asian American Justice, is a response to a violent attack on an elderly...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Wed Jan 26, 2022 at 10:24 AM PST
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Authorities in New York arrested and charged a man with a hate crime on Jan. 14 in connection to a Jan. 3 incident. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department (PAPD) officials confirmed that 21-year-old Mohamed Hassanain was arrested...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Fri Jan 21, 2022 at 10:17 AM PST
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