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May 15 2024
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Seventh Native American tribe bans Kristi Noem over drug cartel comments
A seventh Native American tribe has banned Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) from their land after she accused some tribal leaders of not doing enough to combat drug cartels. The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe confirmed Noem had been banned from their reservation in a post on Facebook on Tuesday after the council unanimously voted in favor of banning the governor. She has now been banned from all but two Native
Washington ExaminerMay 15 2024
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Employees are cheating on workplace drug tests at the highest rate in more than 30 years
A rise in the use of recreational marijuana use in states that have legalized cannabis appears to be behind a spike in falsified workplace drug tests. According to figures from Quest Diagnostics cited by the Wall Street Journal, workers are cheating on drug screens at a rate not seen in over 30 years. While the number of Americans testing positive for listed substances remains stable for the
FortuneMay 15 2024
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Russia escalates war in Ukraine, with an eye to complicate Kyiv’s defence
Russia opens a new front in Ukraine’s north, prompting Kyiv to respond with attacks on Russian energy infrastructure. Russia escalated its aggressive war in Ukraine psychologically, tactically and economically in the past week, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken admitted, “it’s a challenging moment”. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Russian soldiers had begun to train with
Al JazeeraMay 15 2024
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UK judge loses appeal over dismissal for deleting messages to suspected drug dealer
LONDON, May 15 (Reuters) - A British criminal judge who was fired for deleting WhatsApp conversations with a suspected drug dealer on Wednesday lost a bid to bring a legal challenge against the decision. Judge Jonathan Swift ruled at a hearing in London's High Court that former Lincoln-based Judge Andrew Easteal had no arguable case that his removal breached his right to a private life.
ReutersMay 15 2024
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Researchers identify drug compounds that can reduce prion protein levels in infected cells
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Prions are the abnormal, pathogenic agents that are transmissible and are able to induce abnormal folding of specific normal cellular proteins. Prion disease is an umbrella term for a group of fatal and currently
Phys.orgMay 15 2024
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A Civil War-Era Strategy That Could Help the Biden Campaign
According to some polls, Joe Biden and the Democrats may be heading towards a grim outcome in November. Not only does the Senate map favor Republicans, the President’s approval ratings are dismal. There’s some indication the Biden team knows it, too. In an effort to change course, they’ve coined and sold “Bidenonomics” with little success, hit reset on the Biden campaign, and are reportedly in
Time MagazineMay 15 2024
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Russia Accused of Using German Anti-War Protests for Propaganda
Russian military intelligence has worked to exploit fringe peace demonstrations in Germany as part of a broader operation aiming to influence public opinion in the country and undermine support for Ukraine, according to European government officials familiar with the matter and documents seen by Bloomberg News.
One organization targeted by the Russian GRU’s psychological operations unit
BloombergMay 15 2024
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Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin on Disrupting the U.S. War Machine
The past week in Gaza has seen a major escalation in Israeli attacks against the besieged and starving Palestinians trapped in a killing cage. The Biden administration has aggressively sought to portray itself as being increasingly at odds with Israel’s tactics, mostly focusing on U.S. threats to withhold some weapons shipments if Benjamin Netanyahu conducts an invasion of Rafah. But the cold
The InterceptMay 14 2024
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Russia’s War on Ukraine Is Raising Borrowing Costs for EU’s East
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has hit sovereign borrowing costs for the EU’s 10 eastern members, raising the cost by around half a percentage point since the war began, according to an analysis by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. “You see the impact of the war on central Europe,” Beata Javorcik , the EBRD’s chief economist, said in an interview ahead of the release of the
Bloomberg