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Scientists tested bottled water from three different brands sold in the U.S. and found they contained up to 400,000 tiny plastic particles per litre.

U.S. officials on Saturday ordered the immediate grounding of some Boeing 737-9 Max jetliners after an Alaska Airlines plane suffered a blowout that left a gaping hole in the side of the fuselage.

This is why I don't fly.

Letter to attorney general and state prosecutor demands action to stop ‘explicit calls to commit atrocious crimes’

The Supreme Court, by the narrowest of margins, rejected a law pushed by Netanyahu allies that limited its authority to review government decisions.

As the death toll for U.N. workers ticks above 136, Israel has announced it will no longer grant automatic visas to U.N. workers, after accusing the organization of being “complicit partners” with Hamas after months of U.N. officials repeatedly calling for a ceasefire and the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza. Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, calls Israel’s accusations “baseless” and part of a long pattern of smearing and obstructing the U.N.’s operations in Israel and Palestine.

A Times investigation uncovered new details showing a pattern of rape, mutilation and extreme brutality against women in the attacks on Israel.

Moscow takes its tactic of hitting cities and suppressing Ukraine's population to a deadly new level.

Forecasters are warning of an "exceptionally dangerous" wave event along California's coast that "has not occurred in many years."

The move to Western calendar is seen as a further shift away from Moscow's influence.

Cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/10509518

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Territory hit by ‘catastrophic’ hunger crisis while resolution for aid flows remains mired in disagreement at security council

Police chief says ‘premeditated violent attack’ at Charles University appears to have been inspired by massacres abroad

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Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in jail in 2019, was known to associate with powerful figures. Now a list of 170 associates of Epstein will be made public after being sealed by the court in previous trials.

DENVER (AP) — A divided Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday declared former President Donald Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause and removed him from the state’s presidential primary ballot, setting up a likely showdown in the nation’s highest court to decide whether the front-runner for the GOP nomination can remain in the race.

A federal judge in New York has ordered a vast unsealing of court documents in early 2024 that will make public the names of scores of Jeffrey Epstein's associates.

The documents are part of a settled civil lawsuit alleging Epstein's one-time paramour Ghislaine Maxwell facilitated the sexual abuse of Virginia Giuffre. Terms of the 2017 settlement were not disclosed.

In addition to mentioning the Nazi death camp, David Azoulai said in a radio interview that Israel should forcibly send Palestinians to refugee camps in Lebanon.

US Steel has agreed to be bought by NIppon Steel, Japan’s largest steelmaker, in a $14.1 billion deal.

Medical neutrality was never intended to be anything except a means to an end.

(This is a really great long-read.)

In an interview with NBC News’ Hallie Jackson, Alon Shamriz’s father expressed his dismay with the Israeli government: ‘They are thinking only of themselves.’

Major shipping lines and oil transporters suspended their services through the Red Sea as vessels came under attack at the start of the Israel-Hamas war.

Parler was removed from Apple's and Google's app stores after it was used by participants of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

A 4-year-old boy was fatally shot in front of his parents in a Southern California road rage incident, authorities said.