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Three women said the actor sexually assaulted them at his Hollywood home between 2001-03.

Law enforcement officers in Georgia have arrested three top organizers behind a bail fund in Atlanta that has been aiding protesters against Cop City. Atlanta police arrested the organizers, the CEO, chief financial officer and the secretary for the group behind the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, at their homes on Wednesday morning. According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI)...

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Indian wrestlers protesting against sexual harassment have been targeted by an artificially generated image.

It will also pay out after allowing employees of its Ring doorbell system access to customer recordings.

The Oklahoma state Supreme Court has found two state laws restricting abortions to be unconstitutional and in violation of a standard established by the court earlier this year. The 6-3 ruling found two laws, both of which passed in 2022, to be unlawful. Senate Bill 1503 was a so-called “fetal heartbeat” ban, a measurement of fetal development that medical experts say is a misnomer as well as an...

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When a six-week abortion ban failed to pass in Nebraska, Republicans added a 12-week ban into a measure on gender-affirming care. But a new lawsuit argues that such legislation violates the state constitution by combining “two distinct and unrelated subjects” into one bill. The bill, originally focused on restrictions for gender-affirming care for transgender youth, was amended to include a 12...

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Canada will be the first country to have warning labels on the tipping paper of individual cigarettes.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) released a report on Tuesday finding that the U.S. is quickly hurtling toward a child care cliff that will plunge the country even deeper into its child care crisis come September unless Congress acts. The report, released by Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee chair Sanders and member Sen. Patty Murray (D-Washington), finds that both families and...

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Some sightings turn out to be wayward Bart Simpson balloons. Others remain a mystery.

Texas students have faced increasing restrictions in recent years on their education, from limiting discussions about race and gender in the classroom to regulating books in school libraries. The latest move by Texas politicians is hidden in plain sight under an existing 2021 ban that targets the teaching of “inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive” groups. The law, HB 3979...

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Organisers say nearly 2,000 staff have pledged to participate in the protest.

Ahead of Wednesday’s House vote on the debt ceiling deal, progressive lawmakers have introduced a pair of amendments to remove provisions that would hurt the nation’s most economically vulnerable populations. On Tuesday, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Massachusetts) filed an amendment to the legislation that would strike a provision buried in the bill that would restart student loan payments at the end...

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has subpoenaed former White House personnel to discuss the firing of Christopher Krebs, a cybersecurity expert who worked in the Trump administration and who outspokenly disagreed with the former president’s false election fraud claims, as part of its investigation into the former president’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

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We go to Kampala, Uganda, to discuss the impact of one of the most draconian anti-LGBTQ laws in the world, just signed by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. The new law makes same-sex relationships punishable by life imprisonment. Some LGBTQ people could receive the death sentence. Homophobia in Uganda is heavily influenced by American evangelists, who function as “exporters of hate...

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Water rights negotiators from California, Arizona and Nevada announced earlier this month that they have reached an agreement to reduce their draw of water from the Colorado River by 3 million acre-feet between now and 2026. That translates to the amount of water that several million households use in a year, and it represents a 14 percent reduction in water usage. Slightly over half of that...

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On a Sunday afternoon in late May 2022, Zander Moricz, then class president of Sarasota County’s Pine View School, spent the moments before his graduation speech sitting outside the auditorium, on the phone with his lawyers. Over the previous month, the question of what he’d say when he stepped to the podium had become national news. That March, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had signed the...

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The driver launched the car through the air before crash landing onto another car on the road.

Jovica Stanišic and Franko Simatovic trained death squads accused of ethnic cleansing, the Hague says.

In this exclusive Truthout interview, Anthony DiMaggio, associate professor of political science at Lehigh University, breaks down the indictment of former President Donald Trump in New York as well as his pending criminal investigation in Georgia. He discusses the significance of both cases, what the left can do to prevent a dangerous precedent and what the stakes are for democracy in 2024.

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On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump announced on his campaign site that, if he’s elected in 2024, on his first day back in the White House he’d issue an executive order ending birthright citizenship — an action that would be unconstitutional and likely face an immediate challenge in the courts. “As part of my plan to secure the border, on Day One of my new term in office, I will sign an...

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