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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian guided bombs struck an apartment block in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv on Saturday, killing at least one person and injuring nine, including a 6-year-old, authorities said Saturday. A body was pulled from the rubble hours after the attack, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said on Telegram. He said bombs slammed into the low-rise block in Kharkiv’s Kholodnohirskiy district in the early hours of Saturday. The head of the regional administration, Oleh Syniehubov, said at least nine people were injured, five of whom hospitalized. Elsewhere in Kharkiv, a Russian drone struck a civilian car on Friday evening,…

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The Trump Environmental Protection Agency’s repeal of the Endangerment Finding – which asserted carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare – is one of the most consequential actions of President Trump’s second term. Now, however, Department of Justice bureaucrats are sabotaging the legal basis for the repeal. The root of the Endangerment Finding was a flawed 2007 Supreme Court decision, for which the Supreme Court has since repudiated the underlying logic. In the 2007 decision, Massachusetts v. EPA, a 5-to-4 decision of the Supreme Court held that carbon dioxide fits the Clean Air Act’s definition of…

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Police in Edinburgh said they have arrested a man white man after five men were injured in knife attacks throughout the Scottish capital on Friday evening. As opposed to other knife attacks in which the ethnicity of the suspect is often kept from the public, Police Scotland said on Saturday that they have arrested a “36-year-old white Scottish man” on suspicion of carrying out multiple stabbings. The force said that two men were originally injured at around 8:50 pm in the Sighthill area of the city. A further three men were then attacked in the Telford Road and Leith Walk…

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“The Case for Reparations” author and left-wing activist Ta-Nehisi Coates contended in Vanity Fair that Kamala Harris’s 2024 campaign exposed a contradiction between Democrats’ invocation of black civil rights heroes and their support for an American foreign policy he described as “imperial.” In the essay, titled “Did Kamala Harris’s Silence on Gaza Cost Her the White House?” Coates described Harris’s rise as the product of a coalition of black women activists who, in his telling, had already delivered what he called “an enviable string of political victories.” “They demanded a black woman on the ticket. They got it. They demanded…

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Scott Bessent urged President Trump not to host the “special-needs child” at the White House, according to a book by NYT reporters US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who had negotiated a much-touted rare earth minerals deal with Kiev, was reportedly worried that “little f**ker” Vladimir Zelensky would mess up the signing ceremony in the Oval Office, according to a new book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.The infamous confrontation last year took place as the Ukrainian leader sat down with President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance to finalize a deal granting the US access…

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An Iranian singer, along with her production team, has been sentenced to 74 lashings for performing a patriotic song without a hijab in a viral video. In 2024, Parastoo Ahmadi, age 29, livestreamed a video of her singing the patriotic song Az Khoone Javanane Vatan (From the Blood of the Youth of the Homeland) that went viral, generating millions of views. She and several musicians who performed with her was briefly detained before being released, but according to court documents obtained by The Guardian, she received a harsh and brutal punishment by the regime for not wearing a hijab. According to…

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Wisconsin Seventh Congressional District candidate Michael Alfonso said on Breitbart News Saturday that voters want Congress to act and help make President Donald Trump’s agenda longer lasting. Alfonso, who has President Trump’s endorsement and is the son-in-law of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, told Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matt Boyle that it is “pretty humbling” to have Trump’s support and that “every day” he is “going to be working to make sure I live up to that endorsement.” Trump stated in May, “Michael Alfonso has been a winner all of his life,” adding that he “comes from a truly spectacular…

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Washington and Tehran are sending conflicting messages ahead of follow-up discussions in Switzerland The situation in the Strait of Hormuz remains tense following the signing of a memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran, as the countries’ delegations descend on Switzerland for follow-up discussions.Commercial shipping through the key waterway was disrupted after the US-Israeli attack on Iran in February, and its reopening has become one of the key points of the memorandum signed by President Donald Trump on Wednesday. Washington promised to lift its own blockade of Iranian ports, while Tehran would gradually “make arrangements using its best efforts for…

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Authorities in Mexico are keeping quiet about the discovery of a mass grave with four bodies, including two men from Chicago who were reported missing in May. The discovery took place this week in southern Mexico City. According to a report from Mexico’s Zeta Magazine, authorities were carrying out a search operation in the Valle de Silencio rural community in the Marquesa region. In that region, authorities found the bodies of three men and two women. While authorities have not publicly released information on the case, Zeta reported that the operation was done in an attempt to locate Zafar Padamsee…

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The national Civil Defense Alert platform sent out bizarre emergency warnings due to an apparent hack Thousands of Brazilians across multiple states were shocked and puzzled by emergency alerts sent to their cell phones in the middle of the night, some containing gibberish while others warned them to brace for an imminent alien attack.The false alarms were sent between Friday night and early Saturday morning through Brazil’s national Civil Defense Alert platform, a system normally reserved for serious warnings about floods, landslides, storms and other emergencies.Instead, residents in several cities were jolted awake by “extreme alert” notifications containing the word…

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