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After securing a debt ceiling agreement that caps federal spending and threatens food aid for hundreds of thousands of poor adults, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made clear Wednesday that Republicans are not finished targeting the nation’s safety net programs — and signaled a coming effort by the GOP to slash Social Security and Medicare. In a Fox News appearance ahead of the House’s passage of the...

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On a cold Christmas night in 2021 in the picturesque mountain city of Asheville, North Carolina, The Asheville Blade journalist Veronica Coit sat in a police station waiting to be booked. A police officer motioned toward Coit and said, “She says she’s press.” The magistrate responded: “Is she real press?” “In that very moment, he could’ve decided that we were press, which we were...

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The controversial social media influencer denies accusations of rape, human trafficking and exploiting women.

A woman from Tennessee was forced to endure a dangerous ectopic pregnancy due to the state’s draconian abortion laws, resulting in her having to deliver her baby several weeks premature and requiring a hysterectomy afterward, which she did not want, in order to save her life. Physicians at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where Mayron Hollis sought care for her problematic pregnancy last...

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Protests erupt as politician Ousmane Sonko is cleared of rape but gets two years for another offence.

The social media influencer is pressed on his controversial views in a combative BBC interview.

This is the influencer's first TV interview with a major broadcaster while under house arrest.

The Senate must approve the deal and send it to the president's desk this weekend to avoid a default.

As the leader of a body that determines the fate of the world behind closed doors, the head of the Federal Reserve is highly scrutinized. Observers, for example, used to guess what former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan was thinking about interest rates based on the weight of his briefcase. If the load was heavy, the reasoning stood, Greenspan had paperwork to convince the other members on the panel that...

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The Canadian fires have had a wide impact, with air quality warnings issued in the US northeast.

The defence ministry claims it has also thwarted attempts by Kyiv to "invade" the Belgorod region.

Nevada Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo signed into law on Tuesday a bill that provides greater reproductive and privacy rights protections for individuals coming to the state seeking abortion services. With several states across the country enacting abortion bans or severe restrictions, following the Supreme Court last summer overturning the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade...

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Federal prosecutors obtained an audio recording in which former President Donald Trump admits retaining a classified Pentagon document about a potential attack on Iran, raising the threat of a potential indictment in the Mar-a-Lago investigation, according to CNN. The recording indicates that Trump knew he kept classified material. The former president suggests in the audio that he wants to share...

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Nearly 40 members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus broke with the majority of their House Democratic colleagues late Wednesday to vote against the debt ceiling agreement negotiated by President Joe Biden and Republican leaders. The legislation, which would lift the debt ceiling until January 2025 and enact painful caps on non-military federal spending, passed the GOP-controlled House by a...

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Psychologists say emotions and time may be behind the perfectly normal phenomenon.

“This is a global struggle against fascism, it’s a global struggle against the militarization of the police and state violence against folks whose dissent is being oppressed,” says Jasmine, an organizer in Atlanta. In this episode of Movement Memos, host Kelly Hayes talks with authors Alex Vitale and Stuart Schrader about the frightening trajectory of policing in the United States.

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Paris St-Germain manager Christophe Galtier says forward Lionel Messi will play his final game for the club against Clermont on Saturday.

The BBC explains why an Australian soldier lost a war crimes defamation case - and what could happen next.

It caused the most civilian casualties in a single incident in the capital since the war began.

Jasmin Hartin pleaded guilty in April to manslaughter of a police chief in Belize with his own gun.