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Taliban Official Mocks US for Rejecting Kamala Harris: 'Americans Are Not Ready to Hand Over' Country 'to a Woman'
A Taliban official mocked Americans' reluctance to elect a female leader after Donald Trump's 2024 presidential victory.
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Facebook Parent Meta Platforms Cuts Responsible Innovation Team
Group was put in place to address potential downsides of the company’s products; Meta says efforts will continue.
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Officials: Fraud suspect caught heading to Cuba on Jet Ski
A Cuban man charged in a $4.2 million Medicare fraud scheme is being held as a flight risk after officials said he tried to flee the U.S. on a Jet Ski. A federal judge in Miami ordered Ernesto Cruz Graveran, 54, of Hialeah, to be detained pending trial Monday, according to court records.
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GOP Lawmaker: Critics of Christian nationalism are "domestic terrorists"
In a bizarre straight-to-camera speech, conspiracy theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said we should effectively embrace Christian nationalism because it would solve all of America’s problems… and anyone who disagrees with her is a traitor. Somehow.
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#MeToo is over if we don’t listen to ‘imperfect victims’ like Amber Heard
The backlash to the #MeToo movement was always coming. We know this because a backlash has followed every single step forward feminists have ever made. This backlash was always going to be big, too. Not only did #MeToo threaten a status quo that props up powerful men, it threatened these men personally, and – as it seemed to some – with reckless caprice.
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Gang of thieves dismantled and stole a 550-ton iron bridge in broad daylight
Thieves wearing government uniforms worked from 7am using cutting torches and excavators, to take apart the iron bridge in Bihar, India.
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Fossil fuel firms sue governments across the world for £13bn as climate policies threaten profits
The majority of the cases are being brought under the Energy Charter Treaty, and are being hosted within the International Centre for The Settlement of Investment Disputes, a branch of the World Bank.
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Confused Americans Think the Rioter's Name Who Stole Podium from US Capitol is 'Via Getty'
Disturbing images are coming out of US Capitol building which was stormed, ransacked and vandalised by Trump supporters on Wednesday.
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Digital pioneer Geoff Huston apologises for bringing the internet to Australia
Huston says the internet is a 'gigantic vanity-reinforcing distorted TikTok selfie' and web security is 'the punchline to some demented sick joke'. But Australia's first Privacy Commissioner thinks he's being optimistic.
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A disgraced scientist and a viral video: how a Covid conspiracy theory started
On the surface, it is a classic tale of whistleblowing. A brave insider claiming to lay bare corporate power corrupting the US government. A truth teller courageously naming names who are part of what she calls a “circular cabal” killing Americans. Seen from another perspective, the viral video of Dr Judy Mikovits blaming the coronavirus outbreak on a conspiracy led by big pharma, Bill Gates and the World Health Organization is the work of a discredited crank.
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Televangelist Pat Robertson has claimed that scientists are attempting to "make a mouse human" using aborted fetal tissue
Televangelist Pat Robertson has claimed that scientists are attempting to "make a mouse human" with aborted fetal tissue, on his Christian Broadcasting Network program "The 700 Club."
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Activist threw a fisherman’s catch back into the lake. Now, he has to pay.
A dying fish was flopping on a hot deck. An animal activist called throwing it back in the water an act of kindness. The state called it theft. The value of St. Petersburg’s most internet famous flying fish? About $6. Now, Michael Leaming will have to pay a $500 fine and court costs after a judge found him guilty of depriving Robert Hope of his dinner by launching a tilapia into Crescent Lake in July 2017.
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Kanye West gave an impromptu ‘keynote’ atop an Apple Store table in Georgetown
Following his widely publicized meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House this morning, Kanye West proceeded to make an appearance at the Apple Store located less than a mile from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Though it’s unclear exactly what West was doing at the Apple Store — some local reports have him there for a Genius Bar appointment, but that remains unverified — he did proceed to stand on top of one of Apple’s signature wooden tables to deliver an impromptu “keynote.”
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Popup scam tricks child porn suspect into turning himself in
An Indiana man is facing child porn charges after a popup on his phone prompted him to turn himself in. Joseph Hanvey, 22, of Valparaiso, Indiana told police he tried to download a pornographic video involving a child last week, The Times of Northwest Indiana reported. A message popped up on his screen stating the phone was being monitored by the FBI, according to police.
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Sessions: Migrant children facilities not like Nazi Germany because 'they were keeping the Jews from leaving'
Attorney General Jeff Sessions dismissed comparisons of the detention facilities for migrant children to Nazi concentration camps by arguing that Nazis "were keeping the Jews from leaving the country." "Well, it's a real exaggeration, of course. In Nazi Germany, they were keeping the Jews from leaving the country," Sessions tried to explain during an interview Monday night with Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
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Judge calls for kitchen knives to be blunted amid crime wave
A judge has called for 10-inch kitchen knives to be blunted amid the increase in knife crime. Judge Nic Madge has suggested introducing a scheme whereby members of the public could get their kitchen knives modified. They would be taken to centres where they would be grounded down to have round ends. “But why we do need 8- or 10-inch kitchen knives with points? Butchers and fishmongers do, but how often, if at all, does a domestic chef use the point of an 8- or 10-inch knife? Rarely, if at all...
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Honduran villagers take legal action to stop mining firm digging up graves for gold
Nothing is sacred in the path of gold miners in northwestern Honduras – not even the dead. A transnational mining company, Aura Minerals, has been digging up graves in the 200-year-old cemetery near the community of Azacualpa, La Union, to clear the way to dig for gold. As many been exhumed by the company’s Honduran subsidiary, Minerales de Occidente (Minosa) since the process began last fall. The issue has divided Azacualpa, a coffee-producing community perched near the edge of the decades-old San Andres open-pit gold mine, and opened up rifts within families.
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Kansas Police No Longer Allowed to Have Sex With People They Pull Over
Police in Kansas are finally going to have to stop having sex with people they pull over for traffic violations.
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UK adults may soon have to buy "porn passes" from corner shops to prove their age online
Later this year, new UK legislation will require visitors to adult websites to prove that they’re over the legal age of 18. The logistics of how this will work, however, are proving trickier than thought. It’s likely most porn sites will verify user ages through credit cards. After all, in the UK at least, you need to be over the age of 18 in order to access any kind of credit.
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'20,000 lashes for murder': Liberal Party branch to debate proposal for corporal punishment
A branch of the NSW Liberal Party is set to debate the merits of Sharia-style corporal punishment and a radical proposal to make citizens responsible for sentencing criminals rather than judges. The notoriously hard-right Carlingford branch, under its colourful president George Popowski, will discuss a push to "straighten out the law and order system" by handing sentencing powers to a panel of 20 members of the public, with no more than 30 per cent from the legal fraternity.
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