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politics @lemmy.world•Republican bill urges "deadly force" to stop abortions in North Carolina
16·11 days agoGOP policy is a deadly force
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump DOJ ‘Going After’ Thousands of 2020 Georgia Election Workers Amid Rigging Probe
4·12 days agofake justice via current federal GOP administration
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politics @lemmy.world•US planning to halt immigration at 'sanctuary city' airports
4·12 days agoSome of the largest cities included on the list are Boston, Denver, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Newark, Seattle and San Francisco.
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World News@lemmy.world•Iran hosts Pakistani delegation amid diplomatic flurry to avert new US strikesEnglish
3·16 days agoIran’s top negotiator has said there will be no compromise over its national rights during a meeting with the Pakistani army chief in Tehran on Saturday, amid a flurry of diplomacy aimed at preventing renewed US strikes on Iran.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliamentary speaker, said Tehran would secure its “legitimate rights”, whether through the battlefield or through negotiations, while accusing the US of not being an honest negotiating partner, Iranian state media reported.
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World News@lemmy.world•Canada is imposing a 15% tax on streaming services to support local contentEnglish
2·16 days agoalso, “The Great White North” on SCTV eh?
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump's justice department scrubs its website of news releases about January 6 defendants
5·16 days ago“Out damned spot…” —Lady Macbeth
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politics @lemmy.world•PG&E Spends Millions Against Tom Steyer. What’s Behind the Clash?
5·16 days ago…central to the conflict between the progressive billionaire and the power behemoth, experts say, is Steyer’s ambitious plan to cut electricity bills. That platform is built on a pledge to wield the governor’s power over appointments to install regulators who will reduce the utilities’ guaranteed profits.
“That is a material threat to utility investors,” said Michael Wara, director of the Climate and Energy Policy Program at Stanford University.
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World News@lemmy.world•Pope meets families who lost children to toxic waste in Italy’s ‘Land of Fires’English
3·16 days agoPope Leo has met Italian families whose loved ones have died or have cancer as a result of illegal toxic dumping linked to a multi-billion-euro criminal racket run by the mafia.
Leo’s visit to the *Terra dei Fuochi,*or Land of Fires, near Naples, came on the eve of the 11th anniversary of Pope Francis’ big ecological encyclical, Laudato Si(Praised Be), and indicates Leo’s commitment to carry on his predecessor’s environmental agenda.
“I have come first of all to gather the tears of those who have lost loved ones, killed by environmental pollution caused by unscrupulous people and organisations who for too long were able to act with impunity,” Leo said in remarks to family members and clergy inside Acerra’s cathedral.
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politics @lemmy.world•Ex-judges sound alarm about feds ‘micromanaging’ immigration courts
8·16 days ago“It might be the prerogative of the executive branch to set policy, but it’s really not their role to set limitations on rights,” Cade said. “And that’s what we’ve seen happening with the immigration court system.”
Fróes said the new policies created a toxic work environment and led some immigration judges and much of the Chelmsford staff to quit.
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politics @lemmy.world•Howard Lutnick Donated $5 Million to House Republicans Before Epstein Testimony
7·16 days agoHoward Lutnick, President Trump’s secretary of commerce, made a $5 million donation last month to a committee supporting House Republicans, an unusually large contribution for a sitting cabinet secretary.
The donation was made on April 1, four weeks after the House Oversight Committee arranged to interview Mr. Lutnick about his ties to the sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein. The closed-door interview took place on May 6.
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World News@lemmy.world•Pope Leo decries 'dizzying' profits earned by companies that polluteEnglish
18·16 days agoPope Leo on Saturday called out companies who seek “dizzying” profits at the cost of environmental pollution, on a visit to an area in Italy known as a hotbed for illegal dumping of toxic waste.
On a visit to Acerra, about 220 km (137 miles) south of Rome, the first U.S. pope urged the world to “reject temptations of power and enrichment linked to practices that pollute the land, water, air, and social coexistence.”
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News@lemmy.world•White House to host mass prayer event to promote Christian origins of the US
2·22 days agochrist a’mighty!
absolutely!
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Technology@lemmy.world•US orders travelers on Air Force One to throw away gifts, pins, and burner phones after China tripEnglish
2·22 days agoKra$h, Patel!








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