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Maxwell is seen in the undated video looking noticeably pale with discoloration under one of her eyes, her normally meticulous hair and makeup absent. Surfacing on Thursday after one of her lawyers released it on social media, the photo quickly made the rounds online, as it is the first that …

Each of the identified soldiers and officers would appear before a higher military council, the Armed Forces Chief of Staff, General Francois Lecointre, told Le Parisien. All of them would be subjected to “disciplinary sanctions,” with the harsher ones reserved for the most senior ranks, he added. “I believe that …

After three years of protests and controversy, Governor Ned Lamont signed bill HB6423 – which removes a clause enshrined in law since 1959 that allowed non-immunized children to attend school, college, and daycare – on Wednesday after it was approved by the Democrat-majority Senate late on Tuesday night. Over 2,000 …

One in four post-Covid stroke patients is younger than 55, according to the comprehensive international study published in the peer-reviewed journal Stroke. This is considered unusually high, given that normally only between 10% and 15% of stroke patients are aged between 18 and 50. More alarmingly, the researchers say that …

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On April 26, the EU and Afghanistan finalized their Joint Declaration on Migration Cooperation, designed to combat “irregular migration” to the EU from Afghanistan, mainly by expediting the process of deportation.  The agreement, which serves as an update of sorts to a 2016 EU-Afghanistan migration agreement dubbed the Joint Way …

“Today is a day ending in ‘y,’ which means that @TheGuardian published a false claim that could have been checked in about 5 seconds and that multiple outlets have already corrected,” Greenwald tweeted on Thursday in response to a Guardian article titled, ‘Substack: the future of news – or a …

When I heard that South Carolina Senator Tim Scott had been chosen to do the Republican rebuttal to Joe Biden’s speech, I knew that the right man had been picked for the job. I expected a good speech from the junior senator from South Carolina simply on the premise that …

The line – also leaked to the press in advance of Wednesday’s address to a rump Congress – was used to set up Biden’s claim that his administration has completely turned the country around in 100 days. While it was eagerly picked up by partisans in the corporate press, it …

Taking questions from reporters on Thursday, Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative at the United Nations, said that he was concerned about worsening diplomatic relations with Western states, but that Moscow was ready to respond to escalations in kind. Citing a popular Russian proverb, the envoy claimed that the …