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Jul 30 2022
News
Exclusive: Brazil federal police warned against Bolsonaro arms agenda
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 29 (Reuters) - As President Jair Bolsonaro has aggressively sought to boost gun ownership in Brazil, documents obtained by Reuters reveal one key source of resistance to his agenda: his own federal police.
Nearly two decades after Brazil passed a landmark firearms control law, Bolsonaro has used dozens of executive orders to weaken such restrictions, turning the
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Feb 10 2022
Opinion
In the ‘Genocide Olympics,’ Are We All Complicit?
The Olympics have been in a state of moral crisis for some time now, mired in countless controversies over bribery, corruption, financial waste, cheating, environmental damage, forced displacement of local residents and, more recently, the pandemic. But as the Times sports columnist Kurt Streeter wrote last week, “Beijing 2022 sits at a whole other level of discord.”
Casting the darkest
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Mar 15 2022
Fact Check
Does Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Bill Outlaw the Word ‘Gay’?
Social media has been flooded with misinformation about the Parental Rights in Education bill in Florida, which critics derogatorily nicknamed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Some have suggested that the bill, as the nickname suggests, literally outlaws the word “gay” in Florida.
The bill, which has passed both houses of the Florida legislature, prevents teachers from providing instruction on
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Jul 13 2022
News
Joe Biden heads to Middle East amid faltering US sway
Joe Biden might prefer not to have visited the Middle East this week, or any other week for that matter. His agenda is full.
The president's Democratic Party colleagues in the US Congress look to be heading for a bruising result in November's mid-term elections. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has touched off the most serious confrontation between the world's biggest nuclear-armed
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Feb 17 2022
News
Durham Investigation
“[John] Durham, the former U.S. attorney in Connecticut, was appointed in 2019 by then-Attorney General William Barr to investigate possible misconduct within the U.S. government as it investigated Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and any ties to the Trump campaign. One of the three people he’s charged is Michael Sussmann, a prominent cybersecurity lawyer who represented
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Mar 23 2022
News
Defending her record, Jackson back for 3rd day of hearings
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson is returning to the Senate for a third day of hearings as Republicans try to paint her as soft on crime and Democrats herald the historic nature of her nomination to become the first Black woman on the high court.
In Tuesday’s marathon hearing, Republicans aggressively questioned Jackson on the sentences she has handed down to sex offenders in
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Mar 16 2021
News
Huge fight looms over raising taxes
Washington is gearing up for a battle over raising taxes as President Biden looks for a way to pay for his agenda while Republicans are planning to dig in their heels ahead of the 2022 elections.
Biden last week signed a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package that was mostly deficit-financed. The White House and congressional Democrats are now turning their attention to another
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Jun 06 2022
News
British Prime Minister Johnson to face no-confidence vote
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will face a no-confidence vote Monday that could oust him from power, as discontent with his rule finally threatens to topple a politician who has often seemed invincible despite many scandals.
The charismatic leader renowned for his ability to connect with voters has recently struggled to turn the page on revelations that he and his staff repeatedly
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Dec 06 2021
News
U.S. Diplomats Will Boycott Beijing Olympics, Psaki Confirms
During a press briefing Monday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed that the U.S. government delegation will boycott the winter Olympic Games in Beijing over the Chinese regime’s numerous human rights abuses, most recently the presumed suppression of decorated tennis star Peng Shuai.
“The Biden administration will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the
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May 31 2022
Opinion
The Epidemic of Mass Shootings Is Neither Inevitable Nor Unsolvable
For many years now, every horrific gun massacre has ricocheted widely with a familiar theme of outrage and surrender. On Wednesday, the day after a heavily armed, suicidal 18-year-old slaughtered 19 children and two adults at a Texas elementary school, Washington Post columnist Brian Broome published one of the more powerful versions of that narrative I’ve ever read. “Nothing happened after
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