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Mitch McConnell announces he will step down as GOP leader

2024-02-29T19:10:29.135Z

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., announced on the Senate floor that he would be stepping down as Republican leader at the end of the term.

New details in Jam Master Jay murder revealed as trial commences

2024-02-03T00:32:04.973Z

Witness Uriel Rincon testified that co-defendant Karl Jordan Jr. fatally shot the hip-hop icon in 2002. Jordan and co-defendant Ronald Washington have pleaded not guilty to murder.

IDF Is Using Hunger as a Weapon of War, Says Israeli Rights Group B'Tselem

2024-01-11T00:24:12.703Z

Human rights groups say Israel is using starvation as a weapon in the Gaza Strip as Israel severely restricts the delivery of humanitarian aid, medicine and food supplies to millions inside the besieged and bombed territory. In a new report," Israeli human rights group B'Tselem lays out how Israel's decision to cut off electricity, water and international humanitarian aid to Gaza after a 17-year blockade against the territory has led to a very quick collapse of infrastructure. "The things that impede this provision of food for people who are starving is a declared policy by Israel," says Sarit Michaeli, B'Tselem international advocacy lead. "The Israeli government is at fault, is responsible for this, and this should lead to immediate international action."

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Jan. 6 Hearings to Begin as More Revelations Show How Trump Attempted to Orchestrate a Coup

2022-06-08T23:24:24.990Z

The House committee investigating the deadly January 6 attack on the Capitol will hold its first public hearing on Thursday after 10 months of meeting in private. The hearing will be the first of eight and is expected to draw on roughly 1,000 depositions and interviews. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Will Bunch says the success of the hearings will hinge on whether the committee can convince the public that the January 6 attack “wasn’t just a one-off event” but rather “part of an ongoing threat to democracy.” Bunch also speaks about the Pennsylvania Senate race, which he says “is life or death for democracy,” as well as the mass shooting in Philadelphia on Saturday, which left three dead and 11 injured.

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Prices Soar as Corporate Profiteers & Speculators Drive Inflation; It Hurts the Developing World

2022-04-14T00:53:27.781Z

The U.S. Labor Department said Tuesday inflation in the United States rose to 8.5% in March — the highest in four decades. Meanwhile, Oxfam is warning over 260 million people around the world could be pushed into extreme poverty by the end of year due to the pandemic and rising energy and food costs. For more on the growing inflation crisis, we speak with economist Jayati Ghosh, who says prices of essentials are soaring much higher than can be explained by oil prices and supply shortages alone, because of what she calls "feverish speculation" in financial markets and corporate profiteering. She also speaks about how the Global South sees the West's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine as deeply hypocritical when compared to the growing humanitarian crises in places like Yemen and Afghanistan, and calls on the International Monetary Fund to reverse practices of pushing austerity in less wealthy countries and instead focus on massive public spending to combat existential crises like inflation and climate change. Her recent article is titled "Putin's War Is Damaging the Developing World."