The shooting comes 3 weeks ahead of crucial European Parliament elections, in which populist and hard-right parties appear poised to make gains.
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Biden won’t participate in debates sponsored by nonpartisan commission, proposes 2 Trump debates
WASHINGTON — President Biden said Wednesday on social media that he won’t participate in the campaign debates sponsored by a nonpartisan commission, instead challenging Republican Donald Trump to a pair of debates. “Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020,” Biden posted on X, the site formerly known as Twitter. “Since then, he hasn’t […]
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Miniature poodle named Sage wins Westminster Kennel Club dog show
Sage bested 6 other finalists to claim the best in show award at the United States’ most illustrious canine event.
Posted inNation & World, New England
Man gets over 3 years in prison for posting video threatening school shooting in New Hampshire
Kyle Hendrickson, who was arrested in Portland last year, is sentenced to 37 months in prison for posting a Snapchat video of himself with a gun outside Portsmouth High School.
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Blinken in Kyiv tries to rally sagging Ukrainian spirits as Russia makes new military gains
President Volodymyr Zelensky appealed to the secretary of state for more air defense systems, despite Congress recently approving $60 billion in aid for the beleaguered country.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Nation & World
Alice Munro, Nobel literature winner revered as short story master, dead at 92
The Canadian author was revered for her thoughtful characters and her ability to ‘accommodate an entire epic complexity …. in just a few short pages.’ She was admired without apparent envy, placed by the likes of Jonathan Franzen, John Updike and Cynthia Ozick at the very top of the pantheon.
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8 dead, at least 40 injured as farmworkers’ bus overturns in central Florida
It wasn’t immediately clear if the workers are migrants, but a Department of Labor document shows the farm the bus was heading to recently applied for 43 H-2A workers to harvest watermelons.
Posted inFood & Dining, Nation & World
There’s bird flu in U.S. dairy cows. Raw milk drinkers aren’t deterred.
The FDA and the U.S. CDC call raw milk one of the ‘riskiest’ foods people can consume.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Michael Cohen provides inside knowledge, admits his own lies, in Trump hush money trial
Donald Trump is joined at the courthouse by an entourage of Republican lawmakers that included House Speaker Mike Johnson and others considered vice presidential contenders for Trump’s 2024 campaign.
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Palestinians mark 76 years of dispossession as potentially even larger catastrophe unfolds
Some 700,000 Palestinians – a majority of the prewar population – fled or were driven from their homes before and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that followed Israel’s establishment.