Opinion

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  • Source: CNN
  • 07/23/2025
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Florida police under fire as video of Black man punched, dragged by deputies during traffic stop goes viral

A cell phone video showing a White police officer in Jacksonville, Florida, striking a Black man in the face during a February traffic stop before officers dragged the driver from his car has sparked outrage online as conflicting accounts of the incident have emerged.

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Russia earthquake: Five powerful quakes rock Kamchatka, tsunami warning for Hawaii lifted — Here's all you need to know

As many as five earthquakes struck near the coast of Kamchatka region in the far east of Russia on Sunday, with the most powerful being of magnitude 7.4, earthquake monitoring agencies said.

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  • Source: NBC News
  • 07/22/2025
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Tennessee Republican Mark Green to resign from Congress for private-sector job

Green, the chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, said he will vacate his seat after the next House vote on a Trump agenda bill.

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Alaska Airlines lifts ground stop for all mainline aircraft: FAA

Alaska Airlines' operations resumed late Sunday after it had asked for a ground stop for all the airline's mainline aircraft, according to the airline and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.

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  • Source: BBC
  • 07/21/2025
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At least 19 dead after air force jet crashes into Bangladesh school

At least 19 people have died and 164 were injured after a Bangladeshi air force training jet crashed into a school campus in the capital, Dhaka. Footage from Milestone School and College in the northern suburb of Uttara shows a huge fire and thick smoke, after the aircraft slammed into a two-storey building.

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WH: Trump 'Would Not Recommend Special Prosecutor' in Epstein Case

President Donald Trump "would not recommend a special prosecutor" in the Jeffrey Epstein case, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday.

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Louisiana police chiefs charged with reporting fake crimes against immigrants in visa fraud scheme

Three current or former Louisiana police chiefs were among those indicted in an alleged scheme to drum up bogus crimes against immigrants so they could qualify for a special visa that allows noncitizen crime victims to remain in the US.

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Pete Hegseth orders the removal of 2,000 National Guard troops from Los Angeles

The troops were deployed after protests over immigration raids last month. California opposed the deployment, calling it a military overreach by the Trump administration.

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Trump admin pulls plug on $4B for California's 'train to nowhere' project

California's embattled high-speed rail project suffered a major setback after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the termination of $4 billion in unspent federal funding by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA).

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At least 15 injured in Russian attack targeting energy infrastructure in Ukraine

Russia pounded four Ukrainian cities overnight into Wednesday, injuring at least 15 people in an attack that mostly targeted energy infrastructure, officials said.

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Supreme Court Allows Trump’s Education Department to Resume Layoffs

The Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling on Monday allowing President Donald Trump’s Department of Education to resume efforts to slash its workforce in half.

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Rand Paul announces he will reissue his criminal referral of Dr. Fauci to Justice Department

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., announced Monday that he would be reissuing his criminal referral of Dr. Anthony Fauci to the Department of Justice under President Donald Trump.

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Airlines scramble to check Boeing jets after investigation reveals potential reason for Air India plane crash

International airlines are preparing to inspect their Boeing fleets after a preliminary investigation into last month’s fatal Air India crash identified flaws linked to the plane’s fuel cutoff switches. 

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Russia fires 136 drones at Ukraine ahead of Trump-NATO head meeting

Russia fired 136 drones at Ukraine, Kyiv’s air force said Monday, ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s meeting with NATO head Mark Rutte, where the two are expected to announce a new weapons deal for their besieged European ally.

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xAI explains the Grok Nazi meltdown, as Tesla puts Elon’s bot in its cars

Several days after temporarily shutting down the Grok AI bot that was producing antisemitic posts and praising Hitler in response to user prompts, Elon Musk’s AI company tried to explain why that happened. In a series of posts on X, it said that “...we discovered the root cause was an update to a code path upstream of the @grok bot.

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Supreme Court blocks Florida law banning illegal immigrants from the Sunshine State

Florida cannot enforce a new law that would bar illegal immigrants from entering the Sunshine State, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday.