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Post #4499275
President Trump secretly flew out of last month’s NATO summit in Turkey on an alternate military aircraft while the White House made it appear that he was flying on Air Force One, according to a report. @AssociatedPress@flipboard.com reports the operation was prompted by an Iranian assassination threat. https://flip.it/2OLrAV #Trump #News #AirForceOne
Post #4394823
To protect consumers from fraud and spam, France started a government-run service where people who wanted to avoid unwanted marketing calls. After finding that many call centers were ignoring the list, the nation is now banning unsolicited telemarketing calls altogether. Read more from @ABCNews@flipboard.com https://flip.it/rBAAzA #France #Consumer #Spam
Post #4382724
U.S. FCC Commissioners face ethics complaints for taking luxury gifts from Paramount, @ProPublica@newsie.social reports. The FCC members allegedly accepted "luxury gala tickets from Paramount as the company sought government approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery." https://flip.it/0gNtMA #FCC #Ethics #News
Post #4098922
One person is dead, others face life-threatening injuries, after a van drives into the crowd at a Berlin LGBTQ+ event. @AssociatedPress@flipboard.com reports: https://flip.it/Qo.C2q #News #LGBTQ+ #Berlin
Post #4096167
From the outskirts of Bordeaux to communities near Madrid, fast-moving wildfires in France and Spain are driving mass evacuations, destroying homes, and claiming lives. Read more from DW: https://flip.it/V7.Q5R #News #Europe #Wildfires
Post #4092604
Troy Jackson, former lawmaker and logger, replaces Graham Platner as Democratic U.S. Senate nominee in Maine. Read more from @AssociatedPress@flipboard.com: https://flip.it/AR4K0Z #News #Politics #Midterms
Post #4075784
A month after powerful earthquakes killed thousands of people in Venezuela, conditions for the displaced have been growing more dire. Residents in La Guaira say aid has been sparse and looting is rampant. Read more from @NBCNews@flipboard.com https://flip.it/26JKsB #Venezuela #Earthquake #SouthAmerica
Post #3997574
Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy fired his commander-in-chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, after rare protests pressured the move following the controversial removal of popular Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. A spat between the two military leaders spilled into public view, breaking the image of a unified front. Read more from @NBCNews@flipboard.com https://flip.it/rSyRcR #Ukraine #Zelenskyy #Russia
Post #3896845
ICE officer in fatal Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say. @AssociatedPress@flipboard.com reports: "David Brouillette has a history of terrifying and violent behavior, according to those relatives. They accuse him of attacking women in his life over the years." https://flip.it/M60q7J #ICE #Maine #News
Post #3878802
President Trump says ICE should continue traffic stops despite new policy to halt them. @AssociatedPress reports on the fallout from the latest ICE shootings: https://flip.it/KWqRup #ICE #Trump #News
Post #3878801
An agreement has lifted the border controls between the British territory of Gibraltar and the Spanish mainland, closing what Spain’s leader called “an open wound. “Today, we are making history, good history, because today, the last wall in continental Europe falls,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said. Read more from @euronews https://flip.it/OqsYHJ #Gibraltar #Spain #Britain
Post #3878800
An agreement has lifted the border controls between the British territory of Gibraltar and the Spanish mainland, closing what Spain’s leader called “an open wound. “Today, we are making history, good history, because today, the last wall in continental Europe falls,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said. Read more from @euronews https://flip.it/OqsYHJ #Gibraltar #Spain #Britain
Post #3878799
After 6 years, Trump brings his 2020 election obsession to primetime at the White House. @AssociatedPress reports on tonight&#39;s speech: https://flip.it/H._34C #Trump #USPolitics #News
Post #3878798
Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov says Prime Minister Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed him because of the minister’s conflict with Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi over military reforms. Thousands of people in Ukraine have taken to the streets to protest his removal. Read more from @euronews https://flip.it/VNN32r #Ukraine #Zelenskyy #Russia
Post #3878797
An Italian court has convicted the former CEO of Italy’s main highway operator and 31 others on charges linked to the 2018 collapse of the Genoa highway bridge that killed 43 people. Read more from @AssociatedPress https://flip.it/qrTa80 #Italy #Highway #Genoa
Post #3842861
The World Health Organization says 80% of new Ebola cases in eastern Congo are emerging from unknown chains of transmission, worrying health officials that the disease is spreading faster than they can track. Read more from @npr@flipboard.com https://flip.it/_G66Xd #WHO #Ebola #Congo
Post #3837271
U.S. President Donald Trump will address the nation tomorrow night at 9 p.m. Eastern. We already know what he'll say: That newly declassified reports show a foreign government plotted to interfere in the 2020 election. "As I write this, none of the broadcast networks has said whether it’ll carry the speech live. But they shouldn’t," writes @parkermolloy.com for her The Present Age newsletter. https://flip.it/5wZSG1 #USNews #TrumpAdministraton #Elections
Post #3815021
For Emmanuel Macron’s last Bastille Day as president of France, he invited 30 other leaders to the festivities, seemingly to show Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Trump that Europe is united. Read more from @AssociatedPress@flipboard.com. https://flip.it/I4oeND #Ukraine #France #Europe
Post #3814624
Is the U.S. government planning to build a network of detention facilities in other nations? Charles R. Davis writes for The Redoubt about documents that suggest this is the case, and what might be the consequences: The effective disappearance of thousands of deported migrants. "What happens to them will be of much less concern to almost everybody, except the immediate families of those people, and so they will be much harder to protect," journalist Andrea Pitzer told Davis. "I th...
Post #3807850
"The population of the 27-nation European Union will peak in 2029 before falling in the coming decades, according to a report published Tuesday that puts a spotlight on the major challenges of an ageing citizenry." @AFP_NEWS_US@flipboard.com reports: https://flip.it/uF95-w #EU #Immigration #News
Post #3795508
A man shot dead by U.S. immigration authorities in Maine was authorized to work in the country, according to an advocacy group. Sen. Angus King says the 26-year-old Colombian was not the target of immigration action, and that Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told him the man "weaponized" his vehicle before the ICE agent shot him. https://flip.it/EXaciu #Immigration #USNews #Maine
Post #3770830
Sen. Lindsey Graham died from aortic dissection due to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, medical examiner finds. Read more from @CBSNews@flipboard.com: https://flip.it/eQq8Zy #News #Politics #LindseyGraham
Post #3721187
RE: https://flipboard.social/@NewsDesk/116896514648311369 Update: A 26-year-old man, who is a white British national, has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of U.K. politician Ann Widdecombe. Police say this is not being treated as a terrorist incident. Here's @Independent@flipboard.com with more. https://flip.it/lkdKif #AnnWiddecombe #UKNews #News
Post #3543743
The Albanian-American man who sold land to a resort development backed by President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is under investigation for alleged drug trafficking and money laundering. The revelations come as protests against the government sparked by the development have led to clashes with police. Read more from @CBSNews@flipboard.com https://flip.it/B2tDXu #Albania #Development #Trump
Post #3538854
The Vatican has excommunicated the bishops and priests of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), a traditionalist society that celebrates ancient Latin Mass and opposes the modernization of the Catholic Church. Here's more from @npr@flipboard.com. https://flip.it/EjbO1F #Religion #Catholicism #SSPX
Post #3537500
U.K. Reform Party leader Nigel Farage is once again under scrutiny for his finances. The News Agents ask how long his "man of the people" act can go on, with his five homes, £5 million gift from a crypto billionaire, and £270,000 payment for advertising gold bars. "He's raking it in from gold bullion, whilst he's also talking about getting rid of workers' rights, getting rid of the minimum wage, getting rid of the protection for people in their employment," says E...
Post #3416637
The BBC has told a judge that Donald Trump needs to prove he did not "foment or incite" the riot at the U.S. Capitol if he is to win his $10 billion libel claim against the broadcaster. Lawyers have subpoenaed 47 individuals and organizations in order to establish Trump's "true knowledge, intent, and state of mind" when he spoke to followers shortly before the attack. The libel case relates to an episode of the TV program "Panorama," The Panorama program at the...
Post #3389834
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani flexed his political muscle Tuesday, getting a clean sweep as his three endorsed congressional candidates advanced to November’s general election, ousting two incumbent Democratic congressmen. @abc@flipboard.com reports: https://flip.it/_rz681 #Mamdani #USPolitics #News
Post #3357996
28,000 people have signed a petition to rename the Chicago road on which Trump Tower sits, changing its name from Wabash Avenue to Barack Hussein Obama Avenue. Here's more from @USAToday@flipboard.com. https://flip.it/K.PfAZ #Trump #Obama #Chicago
Post #3319527
Organic baby formula sold across the United States has been recalled after an outbreak of infant botulism. @USAToday@flipboard.com reports: https://flip.it/GU9Hvi #Health #Babies #USNews