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No business leader can ignore America's cruel, racist death penalty. People expect the private sector to take a stand.
Ex-Unilever CEO Paul Polman argues people expect businesses to take stands. Opposing capital punish…
Paul Polman
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Exclusive: A veteran FBI agent told Congress that investigations into Giuliani and other Trump allies were suppressed
The FBI agent's bombshell allegations of political bias appeared in a leaked statement made to the …
Mattathias Schwartz
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Big US casino operators like Wynn and MGM stand to lose millions after China's gambling capital of Macau shut down operations to curb COVID-19
China's gambling capital has shut down operations for the first time since February 2020 in an atte…
Samantha Delouya
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Virginia has moved closer to abolishing the death penalty in a watershed moment for the Southern state
Virginia is on the cusp of becoming the 23rd state to abolish the death penalty, the result of shif…
John L. Dorman
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Putin may have set a trap for Wagner fighters by letting them flee to Belarus, military experts say
The ISW said the Kremlin will likely see Wagner Group fighters who go to Belarus "as traitors wheth…
Sinéad Baker
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Prigozhin tried to call Putin when he realized his rebellion had 'gone too far' but the Russian president ignored him: report
The Russian president faced the most serious challenge to his power in decades when fighters from t…
Tom Porter
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Prigozhin says he's sorry Wagner mercenaries shot down Russian aircraft, but the military might not forgive them for killing its service members
Letting those involved in the Wagner boss' deadly revolt go unpunished threatens to leave lasting r…
Jake Epstein
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Trump's barbarism isn't just on display at the Capitol, he's also on a death penalty killing spree.
One-fourth of all the federal executions of the past century were ordered by President Donald Trump…
Anthony L. Fisher
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US spy agencies knew 'something was up' before Wagner Group mutiny, report says
There had been "high concern" over what kind of instability a Russian "civil war" might cause, The …
Isobel van Hagen
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Footage appears to show Russian attack helicopter bombing one of its own oil depot to deny Wagner mercenaries fuel supply
Clips appears to show a massive explosion at an oil depot in the city of Voronezh, after a Russian …
Isobel van Hagen
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Wagner fighters almost certainly aim to march on Moscow, UK intel says. What happens next depends on the loyalty of Russia's security forces.
What happens next in the unprecedented challenge to Putin's power will largely depend on the loyalt…
Alia Shoaib
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A San Diego man got sick of living in a regular country so he founded a nation of his own called Slowjamastan and crowned himself its sultan
"I ran out of countries, so I created my own," Randy Williams, the self-appointed sultan of Slowjam…
Cheryl Teh
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The Unabomber, who terrorized the US in a 17-year bombing spree, died today. In 1996 he was arrested after being turned in by his brother.
Ted Kaczynski terrorized the US during a bombing spree that lasted 17 years. It was ultimately a ti…
Emily Cohn
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Gunman who killed 5 at Capital Gazette newspaper sentenced to 6 life terms in prison
Jarrod Ramos was sentenced to 345 years of prison, in addition to the life terms, all of which will…
Jake Epstein
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Woman who cut the unborn baby from her pregnant victim's womb is set to be the first woman to be executed by the US government in almost 70 years
Lisa Montgomery, 52, is scheduled to be killed by lethal injection on December 8 at the Federal Cor…
Naina Bhardwaj
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Shell-shocked animals at Kyiv Zoo are being given anti-depressants as Russia ramps up its missile attacks
Animals were rattled after a rocket struck Kyiv Zoo as part of a Russian airstrike on Tuesday.
Sophia Ankel
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Twitter's posthumous blue checks look a lot like necro-advertising, the legally questionable marketing strategy that uses dead celebrities to boost sales
Delebs, or dead celebrities, have been used to promote products from Diet Coke to Dirt Devil vacuum…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Two Ukrainian men in wheelchairs were forcibly deported to Russia and subjected to months of abuse. Then they escaped.
Bohdan and Oleksandr were forcibly sent to the Voronezh region of Russia after their care home in K…
Sophia Ankel
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Idaho becomes 5th state after Utah, South Carolina, Mississippi and Oklahoma to allow death by firing squads as companies limit use of drugs for lethal injections
Idaho, like other states, is struggling to acquire drugs required for lethal injection after drug m…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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Saudi Arabia breaks its own record for executions, beheading over 180 people in 2019
While executions fell globally, Saudi Arabia put more people to death than ever before, according t…