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3 senators missed the vote on Sweden and Finland joining NATO — but all were in favor, leaving Josh Hawley as a lone dissenter
Sens. John Cornyn, Jeff Merkley, and Patrick Leahy all support Finland and Sweden joining NATO, but…
Mia Jankowicz
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Kremlin advisor says he's 'shocked' by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, marking a rare dissent against Putin
President Vladimir Putin has surrounded himself with military advisors and shunned moderate voices,…
Bill Bostock
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Xi Jinping says Hong Kong experienced 'true democracy' only after handover to China, which has brutally cracked down on dissent
Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Hong Kong to mark the 25-year anniversary of the city being tr…
Sinéad Baker
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The leftist case for free speech as a tool for justice
The "Harper's letter" sparked a conversation about free expression and open debate. The left-wing c…
Anthony L. Fisher
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Russia's elite are publicly criticizing the Ukraine invasion in rare shows of dissent, but it's not enough to sway Putin, experts say
Some Russian oligarchs and officials have spoken against Ukraine's invasion, a rare sight in Russia…
Bill Bostock
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3 members of Russia's parliament speak out against Putin's invasion of Ukraine, marking a rare moment of dissent
The three members — Vyacheslav Markhaev, Oleg Smolin, and Mikhail Matveyev — said they …
Sarah Al-Arshani
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Clarence Thomas was the lone dissent in the Supreme Court's January order rejecting Trump's bid to withhold documents from the January 6 panel
Thomas' vote came under scrutiny Thursday following reports that his wife, Ginni Thomas, texted Mar…
Erin Snodgrass
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Kellyanne Conway says she didn't object to her husband George Conway's change of heart about Trump, but was puzzled by his vocal and 'aggressive' dissent
"I just wanted the old George, the loving husband and father who did not fritter away the day in an…
John L. Dorman
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Putin compared his crackdown on dissent to the US prosecution of Capitol rioters and the killing of Ashli Babbitt ahead of his summit with Biden
"Did you order the assassination of the woman who walked into the Congress and who was shot and kil…
Tom Porter
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7 of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court decisions and dissents that changed American history
As the world mourns the loss of the 5-foot-1 giant, here is a look into Justice Ginsburg's historic…
Inyoung Choi
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A Princeton professor warned students not to take his class while in China amid the country's tightening grip on dissent
Rory Truex, an assistant professor at Princeton, told students living in China that they should avo…
Irene Jiang
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Banana Republic brought back a necklace made famous by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who called it her 'dissenting collar'
Banana Republic first sold the "Notorious Necklace" in 2012, and it became popular after Ruth Bader…
Darcy Schild
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Federal government executes Dustin Higgs, the 13th person to be killed since July. Justice Sonia Sotomayor writes scathing dissent: 'This is not justice.'
"After seventeen years without a single federal execution, the Government has executed twelve peopl…
Azmi Haroun
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Authoritarian leaders are using the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to lock up dissenters and grab power, human rights experts warn
Movie theaters, nightclubs, and bars were all shuttered for a month. "These are very dangerous gath…
Cristina Maza
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The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is trying to purge the White House of dissenters. She's been boosting Trump for years.
Also reported to have been on the chopping block was Sean Doocey, the former head of the White Hous…
Ellen Cranley,Ellen Cranley
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Microsoft's president says the company welcomes employee dissent, and says other tech companies 'don't listen to their employees enough'
Similar to employees at Google and other tech giants, Microsoft's female and minority engineers exp…
Nicholas Carlson,Allana Akhtar
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The firestorm at HSBC's investment bank is escalating as the bank hits back against internal dissent
"The division's leadership has, year-on-year, utterly failed to create a successful strategy,'' the…
Will Martin
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China is set to pass a draconian new law in Hong Kong that would effectively stifle all dissent. Here's what could happen to people in the city.
China wants to pass a new security law that could further punish protesters and intensify Chinese a…
Sinéad Baker
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Scary, real incidents show how unethical Indian doctors have become. But these Doctors tell you just how to figure fake from real
Two doctors, Dr Arun Gadre and Dr Abhay Shukla, took the initiative to list down such malpractices …
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'Great for the bottom line but awful for society': More than 350 Amazon workers slammed its climate policies in defiance of a crackdown on dissent
The pro-environmental drive among Amazon workers has been gaining steam since April 2019, when Amaz…