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The incident happened on Monday near a Sonic Drive-In restaurant in the central part of the New Mexico city, police reported. Three officers were “conducting a welfare check” on a driver when they deemed it necessary to take the man into custody. Eyewitness footage of the incident published by local …

The country’s Covid-19 cabinet approved an easing of the shutdown measures after a meeting on Monday night, Netanyahu’s office said in a statement, putting Israel on track to enter the “second phase” of the Health Ministry’s exit plan this Sunday. With some 43 percent of Israeli citizens inoculated with at …

Lord Peter Mandelson is not a name that will resonate beyond the UK, but he is one of Britain’s most infamous spin doctors. The type of character who has seemingly exerted an extended sphere of influence without it ever being clear exactly what he does. He arrived into the Labour …

“This is beyond insult on top of injury – it’s injury on top of death,” attorney Benjamin Crump said in a statement on Monday, demanding an apology and that anyone who is involved with the meme be held accountable. “The type of callousness and cruelty within a person’s soul needed …

Disha Ravi, a young activist from Bangalore, was taken into custody over the weekend and charged with sedition and criminal conspiracy on grounds that she was a “key conspirator” in creating and disseminating the toolkit, which police say advocated “disaffection with the Indian state” and “economic, social, cultural and regional …

“This is an obvious act of American piracy and it is a great shame for the US to commit such acts under false pretenses,” foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told a weekly news conference on Monday. Khatibzadeh also said that the shipment belonged to Iran’s private sector and not the …

Speaking at a press conference in St. Petersburg on Monday and citing what he called Brussels’ failed political intervention in Ukraine during the country’s 2014 Maidan protests, Lavrov said that “it was then that the real humiliation of the EU took place.” Since then, Lavrov said, its politicians have been …

It was Trump’s name and not Biden’s that trended on social media Monday, as Americans observed a federal holiday inspired by their first president, George Washington. That was even before videos of a substantial crowd lining the road to Trump’s resort in West Palm Beach, Florida began to appear. One …

Given the revolving door of back-slapping, overpaid executive media gigs in Britain, which generally consist of haranguing a small army of grunts via iPhone while swanning from one lunch meeting to another (lockdown notwithstanding), ordinarily a sacked hack’s hard luck story wouldn’t rustle one’s notebook. However, having held down jobs …

All links to ‘We the People,’ the petition page launched out by the Obama administration in 2011, now redirect to the main White House website. Neither the ‘Contact’ nor ‘Get Involved’ links, which used to lead to it, do so anymore. Apparently, this has been the case since January 20, …