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Israel and Hamas agree to first phase of Gaza peace plan, Trump says - Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in fighting and a release of hostages and prisoners, in an agreement that President Donald Trump says is a step tow...

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,323 - Here are the key events from day 1,323 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

HSBC offers $13.6bn deal to delist local Hong Kong unit - Proposal to buy out minority investors in Hang Seng Bank

Jan Böhmermann trifft Wolfram Weimer in Berlin: Böhmermanns Mea-Culpa-Move - Die Aufregung über ein abgesagtes Konzert von Rapper Chefket war riesig, jetzt gesteht TV-Satiriker Jan Böhmermann Fehler ein – und grillt den parteilosen,...

Retribution Is Here - The president’s threats of revenge are no longer bluster.

Trump to undergo 'routine' yearly medical exam at Walter Reed while visiting troops in Maryland - President Donald Trump is planning a Friday visit to Walter Reed Medical Center for his yearly checkup and to meet with troops at the hospital.

Disneyland visitor dies after riding the Haunted Mansion. Expert says theme park deaths are rare - A woman in her 60s suffered a medical episode while riding Disneyland's Haunted Mansion on Monday and was pronounced dead at a local hospital later that ...

J&J’s $966 Million Baby Powder Settlement Spotlights Racial Health Equity - Johnson & Johnson to pay $966 million to the family of Mae Moore, who died in 2021 from mesothelioma, a rare cancer linked to asbestos-contaminated talc ex...

Can Children or Youth Seek Therapy Without Parental Consent? - What are the options when a minor says to a mental health counselor, “Things have been really tough at home lately. Can I talk to you about it without my p...

Lakshya Sen exits, Mannepalli keeps Indian hopes alive at Arctic Open - He will take on world No. 18 Koki Watanabe of Japan in the pre-quarterfinals

Pope Leo Urges U.S. Bishops to Support Immigrants as Trump Escalates Deportations - The pope conveyed the message as President Trump escalated his deportation campaign, including in Chicago, the pope’s hometown.

Comey Case Developments: (4) Selective, Vindictive Prosecution Motion Is Coming - Motions to dismiss indictments based on selective prosecution are exceedingly difficult for defendants, but Comey has more to work with than most.

“Blessed are the peacemakers”: Trump announces Israel, Hamas agreement on “peace plan” - The president said that both sides of the war in Gaza have taken a step toward peace

At the Supreme Court, the case of the candidate who sued, even though he won - At issue was a suit by Rep. Michael Bost, R-Ill., challenging an Illinois regulation that allows ballots mailed in by Election Day to be counted for up to ...

Trump says Israel and Hamas signed 'first phase' of Gaza peace plan - President Trump announced on his social media platform that Israel and Hamas have signed on to the "first phase" of a peace plan, which includes the releas...

Canada and U.S. 'much more coordinated' than it appears, Carney says to summit - Carney touched on all things Canada, from hockey to the World Series, and said that Canada had the 'best deal of anyone' when it came to U.S. tariffs

Pakistan Courts Trump With Port Offer - A report suggests that Islamabad continues to use its critical minerals to attract U.S. financing.

Appeals court lifts order on Portland National Guard, deployment still blocked - Appeals court lifts order on Portland National Guard, deployment still blocked.

AI Stocks Fly High—but Not on Dreams of Superintelligence - Artificial intelligence stocks are on a historic bull run, but the so far rally owes more to spreadsheets than science fiction. The run-up in valuations ...

Without the Texas National Guard’s help, Broadview protests are calm Wednesday night - Texas National Guard spent Wednesday drilling with riot shields at their makeshift base about 40 miles southeast of Chicago. Local police kept things calm ...

There’s No Vaccine for the Common Cold. This Scientist Says That Won’t Be True for Long. - Imagine a winter without Emergen-C and Kleenex.

Katie Porter Tried to Cut Off a CBS Interview - The Cut - 1. Katie Porter Tried to Cut Off a CBS Interview The Cut 2. ‘Get out of my f--king shot’: Katie Porter tears into staffer in newly released v...

Russian Stocks Suffer Sharpest Single-Day Drop in 3 Years - The sellof accelerated after a senior diplomat said that progress toward a potential peace deal to end the war in Ukraine had largely stalled.

An American Hunger Crisis Is Coming - [image: A pallet of food awaits processing as volunteers work in the background to label cans of beans for redistribution at Roadrunner Food Bank in Albuqu...

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A guide to peculiar British road etiquette for Americans (including the art of the ‘thank you’ wave) - TV personality and car enthusiast Freddie Browne has produced a video outlining how to ‘drive British’. And Brits were asked in a survey which road rules...

Weekly Review - The primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall died at ninety-one; the CEO of Spotify stepped down; and the French prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu,...

Species of Spaces - Tina Girouard’s art of community and refuge

At Sunday Morning AA; Another Summer Solstice - At Sunday Morning AA The evangelical pastor who had loaned us a small room in his church for our meeting stopped in for a moment to welcome us before g...

‘Employment’s the best way to stop reoffending’: the boss of ready meals firm Cook on the ‘talent’ in prisons - The co-founder of the family-run frozen food maker says ethical practices pay dividends on top of financial returns for her business Rosie Brown, the bos...

Nissan management shake-up plans reported as sharks circle - Nissan is considering a change in leadership following poor results and the failure of a proposed merger with Honda, according to a report citing unnamed s...

United States of Charlottesville - Why the pro-Hamas rallies are only getting more extreme. View Post

Former Tottenham footballer Anton Walkes killed in Miami boat crash -

Diana Wichtel: Standing up against silent tolerance - OPINION Things my daughter and I message each other about: which of us was visited by the most adorable tiny goblin on Halloween; a video of a baby sloth b...

The Right Not To Be Lonely - Relevant Reading:Being Sure of Each Other: An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms Kimberley Brownlee, Oxford University Press, 2020, $50 What are the ethic...

Trial and error - A cornerstone of any -functioning democracy is the separation of police and the courts on one hand, and government and…

Seniors jump in caskets for haunted house like no other - [image: 91-year-old Teresa Lawrence] A casket waiting outside of a retirement home is not usually a welcome sight, but for seniors in Witless Bay it was j...

How to Survive Having an Internet-Famous Relative - It’s 2019, we’re all helplessly addicted to our phones, and mainstream pop-culture is finally starting to catch up. From influencer satire *Ingrid Goes W...

'The Right Stuff' author Tom Wolfe dead at 88 - Tom Wolfe, an early practitioner of 'new journalism' who captured the mood and culture of America across five decades with books including The Bonfire of t...

US abortion clinics face surge of trespassing and blockades - NEW YORK (AP) -- America's abortion clinics experienced a major upsurge in trespassing, obstruction and blockades by anti-abortion activists in 2017, ...

That's It For Today - This is my last post for the day. Starting in a few minutes we'll be replacing the guts of our website with something newer and better than what we have...

At MoMA P.S.1, Tomáš Rafa Explores the Chilling Rise of Nationalism in Europe - The recent defeat of far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in France's presidential runoff offered a break in the tide of political ugliness that has surged in...

Let Bannon and Trump talk. We’ll report. - *When a top White House* aide called *The New York Times* on Wednesday to offer up the sort of cartoonish, press-hating invective that has characterized Pr...

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