“Gun violence in this country is an epidemic, and an international embarrassment,” Biden declared on Thursday, in a speech announcing six executive orders aimed at tightening up the US’ gun laws. The orders were revealed by the White House a day earlier, and include a directive asking the Justice Department …
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A tally compiled by Reuters reported that the US death toll from the virus had reached 500,054 as of Monday, with over 28 million registered cases of the disease across the country since the outbreak of the pandemic. American flags at all federal buildings will be flown at half-staff for …
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Pro-Trump demonstrators who gathered outside Washington State Capitol faced off with counter-protesters who attended an event labeled“Squash fascists”. Violence followed, with videos on social media showing supporters of the president beating Antifa with American flags. WARNING: VIDEOS MAY CONTAIN EXPLICIT LANGUAGE Other footage appeared to depict masked protesters using tear gas against …
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“[What] has happened to academic freedom and freedom of speech? There is nothing in this article that is ‘false,’” Carl Heneghan, the director of the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University, said on Friday. He posted a screenshot of Facebook flagging his article for the Spectator magazine as ‘False …
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“Keep the faith, guys. We’re gonna win this,” Biden wrote, encouraging his supporters on election night. The Democratic Party candidate added that he believed he was “on track” to beat incumbent President Donald Trump to the White House. Facebook quickly placed a warning on Biden’s post, reminding everyone that the …
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“Some or all of the content shared in this Tweet is disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic process,” reads the warning the platform attached to Trump’s tweet, in which the president aired his grievances over a recent SCOTUS decision to allow mail ballots that arrive …
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Around 200 demonstrators marched through the city on Saturday night, with some individuals smashing windows and applying graffiti on buildings. A bank, a restaurant and a Starbucks coffee shop were among the businesses targeted, the Portland Police said in a statement. No arrests were made, but the acts of vandalism …
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The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia sent a note of protest to the US, UK and Canada because posted in June LGBT flags on the buildings of their embassies in Moscow. This was reported on the website of the state Duma of the Russian Federation. “The foreign Ministry quickly …
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The police did not interfere with the pickets. November 18 in the Russian city of St. Petersburg activists held pickets in support of the Crimean Tatars and against repression in the occupied Peninsula. Relevant photos of the action published by the public initiative “Strategy-18” on his page in Facebook. The …
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In the Catalan cities remove the national flags of Spain In Catalonia after the proclamation of independence of administrative buildings began to remove the national flags of Spain. It is reported that the city Council of Girona removed the Spanish flag within ten minutes after the announcement of the voting …
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