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Settlement Push in East Jerusalem Neighborhood Shows Israeli “Apartheid”
Dalia Hatuqa
Opinions are shifting on the contentious label — and Israeli settlers’ threat to evict a Palestinian family in Sheikh Jarrah shows why.

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Pentagon Plans to Monitor Social Media of Military Personnel for Extremist Content
Ken Klippenstein
The military has previously balked at surveilling service members for extremist political views due to First Amendment protections.

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The Idea That Deficit Spending Is a Burden on Our Children Is the Dumbest Propaganda
Jon Schwarz
Every time the government sells a bond, it creates a liability for the government. But it also creates an asset for whoever bought it.

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Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner Trounces Police-Backed Primary Challenger
Akela Lacy, Alice Speri
Krasner’s victory gives momentum to the movement to elect reformist prosecutors, which has faced fierce backlash from law enforcement groups.

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Israel Destroyed Offices of More Than 20 Palestinian Media Outlets in Gaza
Shrouq Aila, Anna Therese Day
The bombing of global media offices in Gaza caused a stir, while few noted the Palestinian journalists left to work with targets on their backs.

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The Right-Wing Web Lobbying for Puerto Rican Statehood
Chris Gelardi
Some of the same interests that promote business in “opportunity zones” are funding the pro-statehood push in Washington.

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PRO Act Holdout Mark Kelly Served on Gig and Restaurant Company Boards
Ryan Grim
Kelly is in the minority of Senate Democrats who have sponsored neither the sweeping labor reform legislation nor a crackdown on forced arbitration.

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Steven Donziger Describes Contempt Case as a “Charade” as Trial Comes to a Close
Sharon Lerner
The environmental lawyer who sued Chevron over environmental pollution faces up to six months in prison.

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Hamas Official Denies Group Used Destroyed Gaza Media Tower for Intelligence
Trevor Aaronson
In its first official statement, Hamas denies Israel’s allegation that the building housing the AP and other news media was used for military intelligence.

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Mississippi’s Only Abortion Clinic Is at the Center of the Fight for the Future of Roe v. Wade
Jordan Smith
The Mississippi law is the first outright ban the Supreme Court has considered since the landmark case that legalized abortion.

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Chuck Schumer Rejects Joe Manchin’s Voting Rights Strategy
Ryan Grim, Sara Sirota
The Senate majority leader continues to push the all-encompassing For the People Act, while the West Virginia senator is narrowly focused on reauthorizing the Voting Rights Act.

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life goes oon 2021,courtwsy of germanys dw,one od my fav media souces huh


German lawmakers host 'Solidarity with Israel' rally
Politicians reiterated the country's "special responsibility" at a Berlin demonstration, which aimed to show solidarity with Israel and reject antisemitism. For some onlookers, the government response was "one-sided."

India: Why some states do better than others in tackling COVID
India has been struggling to control a devastating second coronavirus wave. But government action against COVID-19 is not uniform, with some states and cities getting a better grip over the health crisis than others.


COVID: An unfolding health crisis in rural India
While the number of COVID-19 infections is falling in India's big cities, the country's villages and small towns are still in the grip of a deadly second wave. The rural communities feel neglected by authorities in this hour of crisis.

COVID: Germany breaks 3rd wave but officials urge caution
The coronavirus pandemic is still far from over, top health officials have warned. Digital vaccine passports to facilitate travel could be available within a few weeks.

US still offers hope to Latin Americans fleeing violence
Hairdresser Cesar Moncado fled Honduras when gangs demanded protection money. He hopes to build a better future for his children in the US. Ines Pohl and Carolina Chimoy report from Miami.

Andrei Sakharov's path from bombmaker to human rights icon
Celebrations for the 100th birthday of Nobel Peace Prize winner and Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov will mainly be in the West. In Russia, his fame has faded even as his experiences are increasingly relevant today.

German referee Bibiana Steinhaus and other leading female figures within the game have published eight demands to promote gender equality within German football, including a quota for wom
'Football can do more': Bibiana Steinhaus and leading football women demand gender equality

Israel-Gaza cease-fire takes hold
Both sides have claimed victory after 11 days of fighting. Israel has warned Hamas it will respond with a "new level of force" against any fresh rocket fire.
 

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fkn sick of hearing aboutisrael,myanmar,even indiw
a few deathsmwhat te fuck

world conveniently forgets,the atrocities theyve committed over the years
and thatincudes the bullsjit wesren democracys
you know who they are
no exceptions
 

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The signature of outgoing Associated Press Executive Editor Sally Buzbee is conspicuously absent from the memo sent over the weekend.

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Israeli Police Round Up Palestinian Protesters Out of Global Spotlight
Robert Mackey
“This is what we warned about. Israel will target us all when you stop looking.”

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Senate Preparing $10 Billion Bailout Fund for Jeff Bezos Space Firm
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Bezos’s Blue Origin lost its bid for a major NASA contract to Elon Musk, but the Senate is ordering the agency to give a second one now.

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Oracle Boasted That Its Software Was Used Against U.S. Protesters. Then It Took the Tech to China.
Mara Hvistendahl
To sell the CIA-backed Endeca software for use by Chinese authorities, Oracle touted its use in Chicago for predictive policing.

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Prosecutors Ignored Evidence of Her Estranged Husband’s Abuse. She Faces 25 Years in Prison for Murder.
Lauren Gill
Advocates for domestic violence survivors are pointing to Tracy McCarter’s case as they push Manhattan DA candidates to pledge reform.

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Emily Wilder’s Firing Is No Surprise: AP Has Always Been Right-Wing
Jon Schwarz
From its founding during the Mexican-American War to its reporting on Latin America today, AP’s always been quietly conservative.

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Congress Misses Symbolic Deadline for Police Reform
Akela Lacy
Biden wanted a bill ready to sign by the anniversary of George Floyd’s death. Advocates say Democrats didn’t just miss the deadline — they missed the point.

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Israeli Police Target Palestinian Journalists at Al Aqsa Mosque
Oren Ziv
Journalists at the Jerusalem holy site documented police arbitrarily denying access, delivering beatings, and firing on reporters with rubber-coated bullets.

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fuck,it makes me madder than hell,wen all these western mongrel spokespersons mutter western democracy shit,is any better than russia/chinas

fkn bullshit
who starts most of te wars,to begin with
too fkn scared the last few years huh
but still mo re other countries atrocties
grrrr
 

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How to stay mentally healthy in the new ‘normal’

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Steve Elliot, communications director for the Arizona Department of Health Services, stands as cars line up to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at the State Farm Stadium 24/7 vaccine distribution center in Glendale, Arizona, on April 6, 2021. Photo by Chloe Jones/PBS NewsHour


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For many people, getting vaccinated against COVID offered the much-needed promise of a new, safer chapter in their lives. PBS NewsHour spoke to 8 people about what getting their shots meant to them, as well as what they chose to do with the peace of mind and freedom they gained with their newfound protection.

Although going about daily life is much safer for vaccinated people in the U.S., that reality doesn’t negate the traumatic months that lead up to this moment. Many people are feeling anxious at the thought of spending time with others unmasked, or grieving the losses they have endured since the pandemic began last March. PBS NewsHour’s William Brangham asked two experts for their advice on how to care for your mental health this year.

Moderna announced this week that its COVID vaccine is effective in children ages 12 to 17. Kids make up 14 percent of the country’s coronavirus cases, according to the Associated Press. While they’re less likely to fall severely ill, vaccinating children is a key step to protecting a broader swath of the population against the virus. If the Food and Drug Administration authorizes the company’s shot next month, it will become the second vaccine available to recipients under 17.


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The Biden administration is raising new questions about the novel coronavirus’s origins, and calling on U.S. intelligence to determine whether the virus jumped from animals to humans or escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, noted that the majority of scientists “believe that the most likely scenario is that this [virus] was a natural occurrence, but one knows that 100 percent for sure.” The administration vowed to release more information on their findings in the next three months.

Can fully vaccinated people still get infected with the coronavirus, or spread it to others? Existing data suggests that if breakthrough infections do occur among those who are at least two weeks out from their final dose of a COVID vaccine, they will likely experience mild symptoms that don’t lead to severe illness. But it’s less clear whether these vaccines prevent fully vaccinated people from infecting others. That’s why experts encourage unvaccinated people, as well as those who are immunocompromised or too young to get vaccinated, to continue masking and social distancing in public.

Public health precautions designed to prevent the spread of COVID have also dramatically cut transmission of annual bugs like the flu and common cold. Some experts are concerned that the next cold-and-flu season could be a “nasty” one, according to STAT.

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How many people die when polluters exceed their limits? (Wired)

  • “A new report tallies the death toll from excess emissions by looking at air pollution and spikes in local ozone levels.”
Will a Native-led initiative spur an agricultural revolution in rural Alaska? (High Country News)

  • “A grassroots project to build biomass-heated greenhouses aims to alleviate food insecurity in the communities most affected by it.”
Hold the scuba: These lizards can breathe underwater. (Mongabay)

  • “Researchers recently discovered that several species of semi-aquatic anole lizards can breathe underwater — or rebreathe — for up to 18 minutes.”
What happens when the sun burns out? (Popular Science)

  • “Just as a music box will wind itself out, the hydrogen in the sun’s core will run dry. When that happens, in around 5 billion years, the sun will have to find a new power source.”
If aliens are out there, they’re way out there. (The Atlantic)

  • “Real evidence of extraterrestrial life will come from a distant corner of space, not UFOs in our sky.”
Looking beyond the female firsts of science history. (Smithsonian Magazine)

  • “Two authors ask readers to change their understanding of what science is and who gets to participate.”
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just saying
roadrunner
beep beepsorry/sad for you/your populace
and ye another boastful president,this one biden

unfortunate,he started behind the 8 ball tho
givr him crredir for that -- sigh
 

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Journalists in Australia Censured for Demanding Better Coverage of Israel and Palestine

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In the city with the highest rate of police killings, open investigations pile up while the family of Cortez Bufford waits for answers.

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Journalists in Australia Censured for Demanding Better Coverage of Israel and Palestine
Akela Lacy
At least a dozen journalists were asked to remove their signatures from an open letter criticizing reporting on the region. Some were also told their contracts might not be renewed.

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Imprisoned Anti-Fascist Activist Says Federal Guards Let White Supremacists Beat Him
Natasha Lennard
Eric King’s civil rights lawsuit alleges a pattern of abuse by Bureau of Prison guards across several facilities.

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Microwave Weapon Concerns Spread to Department of Homeland Security
Ken Klippenstein
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Jewish and Palestinian Mobs Dueled in Israeli Towns — but the Crackdown Came for One Side
Dalia Hatuqa
Mixed Israeli cities and towns saw the worst intercommunal violence in decades — but Israeli police raids swept up almost exclusively Palestinians.

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Bolsonaro’s Environment Minister Bulldozed the Amazon. Now He’s Under Investigation for Corruption.
Andrew Fishman
Brazil’s Supreme Court granted search warrants for the homes and financial records of Ricardo Salles, who accelerated deforestation during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Pressure Mounts to Tax the Rich in Connecticut
Rachel M. Cohen
While Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont threatens a veto, an emboldened wealth tax movement is gaining ground state by state.

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With Thousands Left Homeless, Gaza Reconstruction Faces Familiar Obstacle: Israeli Siege
Shrouq Aila, Anna Therese Day
In the shadow of the Israel-Hamas cease-fire, thousands of Gazan residents face homelessness, grief, and trauma — amid a continuing Israeli blockade.

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Joe Biden Is Filling Top Pentagon Positions With Defense Contractors
Sara Sirota, Lee Fang
Some of the top Defense Department officials — including Defense Secretary nominee Lloyd Austin — have deep ties to the private sector.

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Progressive Groups Push for New Rule That Could Break Up Big Banks
Rose Adams
The change to a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau provision would give consumers more control over their data.

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Anti-China Trade Bill Is Big Boost for Big Tech
Sara Sirota, Ryan Grim
A last-minute amendment will essentially force the U.S. Trade Representative to recognize restrictions on challenges to tech companies’ monopolistic power.

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Congress Sought Details About Biden’s Pledge to End U.S. Support for Yemen War. They Got a “Non-Answer.”
Alex Emmons
The State Department’s letter — which finally arrived Wednesday, more than two months late — contains no new information.

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getting sicj of aged bidens preachy holier than thou attitudee

talking downnn to al and sundry,be a gutless wimp at the end of the day,i bet
not an patch on trump,as a leader that is
 

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Why Joe Biden Needs to Go Big on Nuclear Arms Control by Richard Burt and Jon Wolfsthal
Determining whether trade-offs in some areas of military capability are worth both the stability they may create, the costs savings they may produce, and the benefits to alliance management that come with effectively negotiated agreements is a complicated task that mixes military and strategic considerations and, of course, domestic politics. Read it here.



How a Trust Deficit Holds China Back by David Stilwell
Having finally acknowledged and engaged in strategic competition with the People’s Republic of China, we must effectively employ all the advantages of our liberal democratic system—especially rapid, distributed, and effective decision-making. This can only be accomplished by employing trust to delegate authority. Read it here.



Taiwan Should Be the Target of U.S. Vaccine Diplomacy by Christian Whiton
The Biden administration has begun offering to divert some of America’s excess orders to other countries in need. U.S. allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region should be the priority. Read it here.



Biden Must Manage the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Dennis Ross
The Biden administration does not want to be consumed by the Middle East, but it also needs to do enough to manage what is happening in the region to avoid being drawn in, in circumstances that offer worse options at higher costs. Read it here.



Lifting Nord Stream 2 Sanctions Creates a New Crisis by Russell A. Berman
Opposing the Russian gas pipeline was the right policy for the United States, and that opposition was widely shared in Europe, if not in some parts of the German political leadership. The Biden administration’s peremptory reversal makes no sense. Read it here.
 

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Exclusive: NYPD Took Hours to Respond to Mass Looting, Despite Quickly Cracking Down on Protests
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Internal city documents show slow responses to mass looting, as NYPD’s heavily militarized riot squad cracked down on protests.

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Why Daniel Ellsberg Wants the U.S. to Prosecute Him Under the Espionage Act
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American Web Loan was set up as a tribal lender, but a class-action lawsuit reveals who controlled the company — and made massive profits — behind the scenes.

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Corporate Subsidy Quietly Dies in Texas — Topping Off Bad Week for Big Oil
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The end of the property tax exemption came as one of a series of blows heralding new public pushback against fossil fuels.

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Ashraf Maniar was surveilled and harassed at home in the U.S., and detained by a foreign government, after being placed on the terrorism watchlist.

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bullshit
should have happened years ago
world loives on sympahy re thay couny/its leaders






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Mixed views among Israeli-Arabs over Ra'am party joining coalition


Some Israeli Arabs congratulate Ra'am party head Mansour Abbas for joining the coalition, while others warn he is setting a dangerous precedent in focusing on civil demands only.

 

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Hundreds arrested in massive global crime sting

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800 suspected criminals were arrested in over a dozen countries during an operation conceived by Australian authorities and the FBI ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
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Hundreds arrested in massive global crime sting
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Global police sting
More than 800 suspected criminals have been arrested in over a dozen countries around the globe during an operation conceived by Australian authorities and the American FBI, after months of monitoring messages from criminal gangs on an FBI-run encrypted messaging app called ANOM. The app was distributed to criminals via middlemen police informants, authorities said. The targets included drug gangs and individuals with links to mafia organizations, from which police seized 32 tons of drugs — including cocaine, cannabis, amphetamines and methamphetamines. Other seized items included 250 firearms, 55 luxury cars and more than $148 million in cash and cryptocurrencies.

Nigeria Twitter ban
Nigeria’s telecommunications companies have blocked Twitter in the country after the platform deleted a tweet from the president, saying it violated its terms of use. The ban has been justified by alleging that "the persistent use of the platform for activities ... [is] capable of undermining Nigeria's corporate existence." People are still able to use the platform using a VPN connection to circumvent the ban, but Nigeria’s attorney general has vowed to prosecute those who find a way to use it.

Canada killing
Four members of a Muslim immigrant family in Canada were killed in an apparent pickup truck attack in the Ontarian city on London. Authorities are investigating the potential terrorism charges against a 20-year-old man, now in police custody, who rammed the car into the family that was waiting to cross the street at an intersection. Salman Afzal, 46; his wife Madiha, 44; their daughter, Yumna, 15, and a 74-year-old grandmother, whose name was withheld, died, while another boy has been hospitalized. “There is evidence that this was a planned, premeditated act, motivated by hate,” Detective Superintendent Paul Waight of the London police department said at a press conference. “We believe the victims were targeted because of their Islamic faith.”




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Addressing migration requires long-term commitment, says analyst on Harris visit to Guatemala

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While in Guatemala during her first trip abroad as vice president, Kamala Harris emphasized the need to restore hope for struggling residents of Central American countries, and discouraged them from considering the dangerous trek to illegally entering the United States. She discussed with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei everything from vaccine sharing to corruption in the region.

"Regionally, you're talking about $13 billion that I believe is lost a year to corruption. That means that there's no money for education, building a better health care system, infrastructure," said Adriana Beltran, with the watchdog group The Washington Office on Latin America.

Gruesome boarding school discovery forces Canada to reckon with its cultural genocide history

Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP
After the gruesome discovery of the remains of 215 children buried on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, advocates are calling for a mass investigation into other missing children from Canada’s residential schools as the nation reckons with its history of cultural genocide against Indigenous Peoples of Canada. “How could you not know that 215 people are in the ground?” asked Roberta Hill, a former student herself. “So, when the parents are saying, ‘I didn’t get my child back, I want to know where my kid is,’ OK — for 215 children, who’s accountable?”


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Dr. Enongo Lumumba Kasongo, a musician whose stage name is Sammus, adds a new twist to Afrofuturism, a concept that reimagines a future filled with arts, science and technology seen through a Black lens. The entire sound and persona of her music is built on this idea that Black people can write themselves into the future — even write the future itself.

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