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While organizers have not yet released their estimates of attendance at the actions, held in cities across the country, Russia’s Interior Ministry claims around 14,400 people were involved in the gatherings. They say crowds ranged in size from 6,000 in Moscow to only 40 people in the Far East city …

A few days ago, I arrived in the United States to spend a few weeks visiting friends as things begin to safely open back up. Within less than a day, I was able to get my first Covid-19 vaccine dose and already have my second scheduled. It speaks to how …

In a Tuesday Twitter thread, the Black Lives Matter organization called for Biden to end the 1033 program, otherwise known as the Law Enforcement Support Office, which allows for the transfer of military surplus equipment to local law enforcement agencies. While this can at times be weaponry, it also includes …

Stephen Chase Randolph, a participant in the January 6 raid on the Capitol in Washington, DC, was identified from surveillance footage and photographs using facial recognition software alone, the Huffington Post reported on Tuesday. The suspect’s identity appears to have been triangulated through computerized means alone, according to federal authorities, …

In the short clip posted to Instagram, the SUNY Buffalo State College teacher says she wants to be “honest” and hear “honest” responses from students before she finally declares, “I am sick of [talking] about Black Lives Matter.” The teacher was identified as Erica Cope by the student who took …

Truth hides in the darkness, if we go by the latest revelations surrounding Amnesty International The human rights organisation, whose stated aim is “campaigning for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all,” decided not to release a damning internal report to the press. It somehow found its way …

“Jeff Bezos had one of his minions, a mentally unbalanced middle-aged man called Erik Wemple, pull our dusty college yearbook and call around and see if we’d done anything naughty at the age of 19,” Carlson told viewers on Tuesday evening. He went on to claim that “quite a few …

As someone who tends towards scepticism about anything governments do in relation to health – I always prefer giving people information and the freedom to choose, particularly when it comes to our ‘bad habits’ like smoking, drinking alcohol, and eating the ‘wrong’ foods – I’ve found the illiberal responses by …

Footage from the center of the Russian capital, where the unauthorized rally was set to be held on Wednesday, showed riot police erecting barricades, while uniformed officers asked crowds – with many protesters shouting anti-Kremlin slogans – to disperse. Moscow authorities had rejected an application for a protest, and gatherings …

India is suffering a catastrophic second wave of Covid-19. With the number of new cases averaging nearly 250,000 a day over the past week, the country’s healthcare system has been pushed to the brink and deaths are on the rise, forcing several cities and states to go into lockdown. Prime …