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Mexican journalist Alejandro Leyva Aguilar was shot dead while eating at a street food stall in Oaxaca., Journalist killed in Mexico after years of exposing corruption NewsFeed Mexican journalist Alejandro Leyva Aguilar was shot dead while eating at a street food stall in Oaxaca. He had spent years reporting onContinue Reading

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“Thirty-Year Sentence for Transporting Zines Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Free Speech,” an Intercept headline (6/26/26) shouted days after a federal court sentenced eight anti-ICE protesters to a combined 450 years in prison.  The case stemmed from a July 4, 2025, protest outside the ICE Prairieland detention center in Alvarado, Texas. People had gatheredContinue Reading

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“Sheep in the Box,” the latest film by Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, opens with a title card informing us that we are “sometime in the not so distant future.” In this unspecified moment, Otone (Haruka Ayase) and Daigo (Kensuke Komoto) live a quiet life that looks a lot like domesticityContinue Reading

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British politics is in a convulsive state. After 14 years in power, the Conservative Party has lost public support, and the Tony Blair version of the Labor Party is out of gas. Centrist Keir Starmer has just resigned to make way for Andy Burnham, a former mayor of Manchester andContinue Reading

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At a rally in Georgia Wednesday, Traitor 47 singled out a group of his supporters who consistently attend his speeches and sit in the front row known as the “Front Row Joes.”  “I don’t know what the hell they do, I think they make a lot of money, too. I’mContinue Reading

Israel acts to ease Palestinian banking crisis it helped create, but is it moving too late?  The Times of IsraelIsraeli Banks Threaten to Cut Off Palestinian Economy, Deepening Crisis  The New York TimesConcerns of Palestinian economic crisis grow as Israeli banks prepare to cut ties  ReutersIn the Israeli-occupied West Bank…Continue Reading

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From frequent burnout, increased workload and student behavioral problems, America asks a lot of its teachers. It’s little surprise the nation is grappling with a massive educational labor crisis. More than 400,000 teaching positions across the country are either vacant or filled with underqualified staff, according to data from theContinue Reading