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The driver has been charged with several offences, including attempted murder.

The 29-year-old was stopped in Memphis on 7 January for reckless driving and died three days later.

After training women on the beach and in a garage, Osama has now moved to a professional centre.

What's behind the raid on the West Bank city, which led to nine Palestinian deaths on Thursday?

Pascale Ferrier, a dual citizen of Canada and France, is expected to face around 22 years in prison.

Republican leadership in the Senate is openly courting Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema — a former Democrat who changed her party affiliation to independent in December — to caucus with Republicans or become an official member of the GOP. Sinema, who obstructed a number of items on the Democratic agenda as a member of that party, currently caucuses with Democrats, as do two other independents in the...

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The Swedish government was complicit in the burning of the Quran at a protest in Stockholm last weekend, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu reportedly said Thursday.

A House GOP proposal to repeal all federal income taxes — including levies on corporations and the rich — and replace them with a whopping 30% national sales tax is drawing increasingly vocal backlash from economists, tax policy experts, and Democratic lawmakers who say the plan is yet another Republican ploy to reward the wealthy at everyone else’s expense Unveiled earlier this month by Rep.

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News outlet CNET said Wednesday it has issued corrections on a number of articles, including some that it described as "substantial," after using an artificial intelligence-powered tool to help write dozens of stories.

Image Credit: Facebook: KC Tenants A new Biden administration plan announced Wednesday aims to make rent more affordable and protect tenants’ rights. This comes as rental costs in the United States rose nearly 25% between 2019 and 2022. It also comes as investors bought nearly a quarter of all single-family homes sold in 2021, making home ownership increasingly impossible for people forced to...

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A new poll shows that President Joe Biden’s approval rating hasn’t been greatly affected by the discovery that he had been improperly storing classified documents in his offices and on his personal property. Most Americans are concerned about Biden’s handling of the government documents, a portion of which were marked classified. Indeed, a majority (57 percent) disapprove of how the president has...

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Officials investigate whether it knowingly scheduled more flights than it could handle last month.

Southwest Airlines reported a loss for the fourth quarter because of the company's service meltdown over the holiday travel season, and it warned the costs from those problems will result in another loss in the first quarter.

For decades, auto thefts had been plummeting but rose sharply at the onset of the pandemic.

Three high school students represented by attorney Benjamin Crump are planning to sue Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for rejecting a new high school Advanced Placement African-American studies course, the prominent civil rights lawyer said Wednesday. As Common Dreams reported last week, DeSantis rejected the pilot course in AP African-American studies being tested by the College Board—the...

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The man is thought to have been involved in a scheme to pass on German intelligence to Russia.

In this episode of “Movement Memos,” Atlanta organizer Micah Herskind and host Kelly Hayes discuss the death of Tortuguita, a forest defender who was gunned down by police while resisting the construction of “Cop City.” “It’s all hands on deck for the forces of the prison-industrial complex, the forces of capitalism … they are willing to use any and all tactics and tools available to them...

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A week after Republicans secured a majority in the House, the party wasted no time in showing how it intends to rule — passing not one, but two anti-abortion provisions. The first was a resolution that condemns attacks on “pro-life facilities, groups, and churches,” according to the legislation. By “pro-life facilities,” Republicans mean crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs), which are anti-abortion...

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The US economy expanded again during the fourth quarter, registering solid growth to end 2022 even as consumers and businesses battled historically high inflation and rising historically high interest rates.

Spanish authorities believe the Moroccan suspect in a deadly machete attack at two churches in the southern port city of Algeciras Wednesday acted alone in the assault, which is being investigated as a suspected terror attack.