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Voices: I watched the police arrest hundreds of peaceful protesters – I fear Britain is on a slippery slope towards authoritarianism
The Independent
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August 14, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Weekly global protein digest: 2025 US forecast - broiler production up; egg & turkey production down
The Poultry Site
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Livestock analyst Jim Wyckoff reports on global protein news Weekly US beef, pork export sales report Beef: Net sales of 4,300 MT for 2025--a marketing-year low--were down 73 percent from the previous week and 66 percent from the prior 4-week...
Twenty Dissidents Abducted in Nicaragua
Havana Times
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August 15, 2025
In the departments of Carazo, Masaya, Granada, and Rivas View of police patrols with riot gear during a raid in Managua. // Photo: Archive Among those illegally detained are former political prisoners, returned exiles, artists, businesspeople, and...
DOGE Saves $4.2 Billion More in Wasteful Contracts
PJ Media - Virginia
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August 15, 2025
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is still hard at work cutting billions of taxpayer dollars’ worth of outrageous federal contracts and grants. In less than a week, DOGE was able to end over 120 federal contracts worth billions of...
Trump is open to doing business with Russia. That could be tricky
CNN
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August 15, 2025
Follow London — US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are heading to Alaska for pivotal talks that could unlock a long-sought peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. A peace deal, or a simple thawing of relations between...
5-year-old boy had his cancer treatments interrupted with his deportation as his family files suit against ICE
The Independent (U.S.)
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August 12, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Bolivian voters are hungry for change — and disillusioned by the options ahead of election
Associated Press
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August 15, 2025
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The campaign billboards adorning the streets of Bolivia for Sunday’s presidential election make grand promises: A solution to the dire economic crisis within 100 days, an end to fuel shortages and bread lines, unity for a...
The Powerful Tool In Trump's Mass Deportation Arsenal
HuffPost
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August 12, 2025
After more than a decade of living in the United States without incident, 19-year-old Emerson Colindres, a budding soccer star who had just graduated high school, was arrested this summer during an immigration check-in and spent two weeks in a...
‘Wouldn’t It Be Funny if We Tricked a Bunch of People into Going to Church?’
Christianity Today
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August 11, 2025
Earlier this year, several news outlets reported on increasing openness to Christianity among Silicon Valley tech elites. The stories focused on the work of an organization called ACTS 17 Collective, whose name is both a Scriptural reference to...
The politics of plenty: why food insecurity persists in a world of abundance
British Medical Journal
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Hashim Hounkpatin1, research doctor, Tinashe Goronga2, research doctor, Sherifath Mama Chabi3, researcher, Aimé Yedenou1, research doctor 1Centre de recherche en reproduction humaine et en démographie, Benin 2Center for Health Equity, Zimbabwe...
US Guts Criticism of Indigenous Rights Abuses, Mentions of Climate Change From Annual Human Rights Reports
Inside Climate News
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August 14, 2025
Forget Indigenous rights, climate change and environmental protection. That’s the stark message from the latest edition of the U.S. Department of State’s reports on human rights practices across the world, according to an Inside Climate News...
More photos of the Sand and Sage Roundup Rodeo – “The Happiest Place on Dirt”
The Prowers Journal - Colorado
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August 13, 2025
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Ultimate Guide: Star of the Seas
Cruise Passenger
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August 14, 2025
Deck Plans Reviews Icon of the Seas is no longer alone as the biggest ship in the world. Royal Caribbean’s newest ship, Star of the Seas will start sailing this weekend. The ship is the second Icon-class vessel and will sail alongside her twin....
2025 Sand and Sage Roundup and Fair in the books
The Prowers Journal - Colorado
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August 13, 2025
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U.S. and Paraguay sign ‘Safe Third Country Agreement’
One America News Network
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August 14, 2025
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (C) and Foreign Minister of Paraguay Ruben Ramirez Lezcano (L) shake hands after signing a memorandum of understanding in the Treaty Room of the State Department in Washington, DC, on August 14, 2025. (Photo by...
As Trader Joe's opens in New Orleans, try these quirky local restaurants near the grocery
Nola - Louisiana
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Sure, you can now get your everything bagel seasoning, frozen kimbap, sourdough rye chips and other favorite Trader Joe’s food brands in New Orleans. But did you know that right next-door you can get fresh squid ink noodles, vegan curry, Filipino...
White House Orders NASA to Destroy Vital CO2-Monitoring Satellites
WebProNews
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August 6, 2025
In a move that has sent shockwaves through the scientific community, the White House has directed NASA to prepare plans for the deliberate destruction of two key satellites dedicated to monitoring atmospheric carbon dioxide. These instruments,...
AMERICA/COSTA RICA - The 12th Regional Meeting on the Pastoral Care of Human Mobility in Costa Rica
Fides
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August 14, 2025
Thursday, 14 August 2025 San José (Agenzia Fides) – The 12th Regional Meeting of Bishops and Pastoral Workers of Human Mobility from North, Central America, and the Caribbean will be held from August 18 to 22 in Costa Rica, at the Juan XXIII...
This is Trump’s immigration crackdown, up close: cruel, immoral, unjust (Editorial Board Opinion)
Syracuse.com - New York
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August 10, 2025
Federal prosecutors said last week they intend to retry Honduran immigrant Doris Aleman-Bonilla on a felony charge of illegal re-entry after a jury failed to reach a verdict. A second trial would double down on the vast amount of taxpayer...
The quest to create gene-edited babies gets a reboot
Lakeshore PBS - Indiana
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August 6, 2025
A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's first gene-edited babies. His work was reviled as reckless and unethical because, among other reasons, gene-editing was so new and...