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- WSJ: Trump is Considering “Limited” Strikes on Iran, With Option to Ramp Up Assault
- Trump Says U.S. Will Give $10B in Funding to His U.N. Alternative, the “Board of Peace”
- Israeli Settler Fatally Shoots Palestinian-American Teen in Occupied West Bank
- Palestinian Journalists Describe Beatings, Starvation and Sexual Assault by Israeli Captors
- “Hallmarks of Genocide”: U.N. Experts Sound Alarm Over Sudanese Paramilitary Group’s Atrocities
- U.K. Police Raid Former Home of Ex-Prince Andrew, Arrested Over Ties to Jeffrey Epstein
- French Prosecutors Reopen Probe Into Epstein Associates Including Model Scout Jean-Luc Brunel
- Trump Banner Draped over DOJ Headquarters Amid Growing Demands for Full Release of Epstein Files
- Judge Rejects Trump Administration’s Practice of Denying Bonds to Indefinitely Jail Immigrants
- Police in Cameroon Arrest Journalists Probing Trump’s Secretive Deportation Campaign
- Federal Prisons Prohibit Gender-Affirming Care for Trans People
- Bernie Sanders Rallies Support for California Wealth Tax Opposed by Billionaires and Gov. Newsom
- CNN: U.S. Military Planning to Strike Iran as Early as This Weekend
- UK Authorities Arrest Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Over Epstein Ties
- Former Victoria’s Secret CEO Les Wexner Testifies About His Links to Epstein
- UN Panel Says Alleged Sex Crimes in Epstein Files Amount to Crimes Against Humanity
- The Guardian: Trump Admin Planning 5,000-Person Military Base in Gaza
- Trump’s So-Called Board of Peace Holds Its Inaugural Meeting in Washington D.C.
- Lancet Medical Journal: Death Toll in Israel’s Assault on Gaza Far Higher Than Reported
- Palestinian Photographer Mariam Dagga Posthumously Wins 2026 Polk Award for Photojournalism
- Russian President Putin Slams U.S. Oil Blockade of Cuba
- MS NOW: DHS Launching Nationwide Campaign to Probe and Prosecute Naturalized Citizens for Voter Fraud
- Trump Admin Planning to Roll Back Limits on Toxic Mercury Pollution From Coal-Fired Power Plants
- NYU Langone Health to Close Trans Youth Health Program
- South Korea’s Former President Sentenced to Life in Prison
- Eight Backcountry Skiers Found Dead After Avalanche in California
- U.S. Military Says It Carried Out Strikes on Three Boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, Killing at Least 11 People
- Iran’s Foreign Minister: U.S. and Iranian Negotiators Have Agreed on “Guiding Principles” on Iran’s Nuclear Program
- Mehdi Mahmoudian, Oscar-Nominated Co-Writer of “It Was Just an Accident,” Released from Iranian Prison
- Peru’s Congress Impeaches Interim Peruvian President José Jerí
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