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- U.N.’s Humanitarian Efforts in Gaza Hit “Breaking Point” Amid Israeli Attacks on Aid Workers
- Canada’s Justin Trudeau Resigns as Liberal Party Leader and Prime Minister
- Vice President Kamala Harris Certifies Donald Trump’s 2024 Election Victory
- Trump Seeks to Block Release of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Findings
- Rudy Giuliani Found in Contempt of Court in Georgia Election Workers’ Defamation Case
- Biden Bans New Offshore Oil Drilling Along Most of U.S. Coastline
- U.S. Transfers 11 Yemeni Prisoners from Guantánamo to Oman; 15 Prisoners Remain
- Pentagon Reaches Historic Settlement with LGBTQ+ Vets Dismissed Under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
- Minneapolis City Council Approves Consent Decree Mandating Federal Oversight of Police
- At Least 95 Die as Magnitude 7.1 Earthquake Strikes Tibet
- Austrian Far-Right Party Tasked with Forming Ruling Coalition
- French Neo-Nazi Leader Jean-Marie Le Pen Dies at 96
- Israel Bombs Gaza Over 100 Times in 3 Days, Killing Scores of Palestinians
- Netanyahu’s Office Downplays Reports of Progress in Gaza Ceasefire Talks
- Attack on Israeli Bus and Cars in Occupied West Bank Kills 3 and Wounds 8
- Biden Approves Sale of $8 Billion in Additional Bombs, Missiles and Arms to Israel
- Israeli Embassy Helps Army Reservist Flee Brazil to Avoid War Crimes Inquiry
- Ukraine Launches Surprise Cross-Border Offensive in Russia’s Kursk Region
- House Speaker Mike Johnson Narrowly Retains Gavel After Trump Intervenes
- “We Have a Territories & Colonies Problem”: Del. Plaskett Blasts Silencing of 4 Million U.S. Citizens
- Congress to Certify Trump’s Electoral College Win Four Years After MAGA Rioters Stormed Capitol
- NY Judge Upholds Trump’s Election Subversion Felony Conviction But Will Not Sentence Him to Prison
- Trump Welcomes Far-Right Italian PM Giorgia Meloni to Mar-a-Lago
- Prominent Cartoonist Quits Washington Post After Editors Kill Caricature of Trump and Bezos
- Pyongyang Tests Ballistic Missile as Blinken Visits a South Korea in Political Turmoil
- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Reportedly on Cusp of Resigning
- “How to Hide a Genocide”: Al-Haq Report Shows How Israel Hides Behind “Safe Zones”
- Doha Ceasefire Talks Set to Resume as UNSC Takes Up Israeli Attacks on Gaza Hospitals
- 3,500 Children in Gaza Could Die of Malnutrition as Hunger Grips Besieged Territory
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