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North Carolina teacher killed in shoot-out after trying to rob Mexican drug cartel
Barney Harris shot and killed despite wearing bulletproof vest to rob drugs and cash
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The US is readying sanctions against Russia over the SolarWinds cyber attack. Here's a simple explanation of how the massive hack happened and why it's such a big deal
Federal investigators and cybersecurity experts say that Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service is probably responsible for the attack.
- LA Times
Clippers sign DeMarcus Cousins to a second 10-day contract
The Clippers signed veteran center DeMarcus Cousins to a second 10-day contract on Friday.
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From Asian hate crime to a minimum wage: 25 things Ted Cruz has voted against this year
All the votes the Texas senator opposed in 2021 – including not one confirmation of a woman to the position of Cabinet secretary
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX will build spacecraft to land Nasa astronauts on moon, report says
Artemis will land the first woman and person of colour on the moon
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Can you still get Covid-19 after having the vaccine?
Pfizer is 95 per cent effective in preventing Covid-19 disease and Moderna is 94 per cent effective in preventing Covid-19 disease
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Mitch McConnell refused to allow Ruth Bader Ginsburg to lie in state in Capitol, book claims
‘Mitch McConnell is not a force for good in our country,’ Nancy Pelosi reportedly told author
- BBC
Biden backtracks on keeping Trump cap on refugees
A refugee organisation says the White House's explanation of the order is "completely false".
- Kansas City Star
Country music ‘moving in right direction’ with inclusivity, Keith Urban says
Keith Urban will co-host the ACM Awards with Mickey Guyton, the first Black woman to host the award show.
- The Independent
AOC ignores Marjorie Taylor Greene’s incessant Twitter pleas for a public ‘head to head’
MTG says a debate ‘would be informative for the American People’ with her degree in business administration and AOC’s degree in economics
- The Telegraph
SNP accused of trying to ‘deceive’ Scots into independence with manifesto giveaways
Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of trying to con Scots into backing a new independence referendum with a series of unaffordable election giveaways. ” ’ The Scottish Tories claimed that the Scottish budget would need to at least double if all of the policies and aspirations included in the SNP manifesto were to be implemented. The spending splurge promised by Ms Sturgeon includes free bikes for poorer children, an end to NHS dentistry charges, free bus travel for young people and a laptop or tablet for every school pupil. The respected Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has raised a series of doubts about the affordability of the party’s manifesto commitments, warning that “tricky trade-offs” would be required. The impartial analysis by the thinktank found that Nicola Sturgeon’s array of spending promises would have a "significant net cost”, and said it was “disappointing” that the manifesto does not provide information about what the “significant pledges” would cost. Separate costings by the Scottish Conservatives found that the SNP’s spending plans totalled £95 billion in a single year, although that figure includes policies that the nationalists have accepted could not be delivered with Holyrood's existing powers.
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Frederick deputies investigate fatal shooting of teen at hotel
The Frederick County Sheriff's Office is looking for whoever shot and killed a teenager at a hotel in Frederick. The Sheriff's Office said deputies were called around 2 a.m. Friday to the Country Inn and Suites on Spectrum Drive, across from the Francis Scott Key Mall, where a boy was fatally shot.
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Officer involved in Breonna Taylor shooting lands book deal
Post Hill Press to publish book by Sgt Jonathan Mattingly rejected by Simon & Schuster
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Bjork, Sabres spoil Backstrom's 1,000th game, beat Capitals
Anders Bjork scored his first goal with his new team and added an assist, helping Buffalo spoil Nicklas Backstrom’s 1,000th game as the Sabres beat the Washington Capitals 5-2 on Thursday night. Sam Reinhart scored his 15th goal and Victor Olofsson added his 12th for Buffalo, which has won five of its last nine following an 18-game winless streak. Casey Middlestadt added the first short-handed goal of his career during the Sabres’ three-goal second period.
- BBC
Jimmy Lai: Hong Kong's rebel mogul and pro-democracy voice
The rags-to-riches rise of a fiercely anti-communist Hong Kong tycoon who ended up in jail for protesting.
- Business Insider
Trump rape accuser adds to former president's legal woes by asking court to keep defamation lawsuit alive
The former Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll published an account accusing Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s.
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A prisoner was 'covered in filth and barking like a dog' after 600 days of solitary confinement in a Virginia jail
Tyquine Lee's treatment at Virginia's Red Onion State Prison is one of the thousands of stories of long-term solitary confinement in America.
- Associated Press
Iran names suspect in Natanz attack, says he fled country
Iran named a suspect Saturday in the attack on its Natanz nuclear facility that damaged centrifuges there, saying he had fled the country “hours before” the sabotage happened. While the extent of the damage from the April 11 sabotage remains unclear, it comes as Iran tries to negotiate with world powers over allowing the U.S. to re-enter its tattered nuclear deal with world powers and lift the economic sanctions it faces. Already, Iran has begun enriching uranium up to 60% purity in response — three times higher than ever before, though in small quantities.
- The Independent
GOP’s ‘America First’ caucus platform calls for ‘respecting Anglo-Saxon traditions’
‘America is a nation with a border, and a culture, strengthened by a common respect for uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions,’ an America First pamphlet says