Australian Indigenous TV host quits program over racist backlash
Prominent Indigenous journalist Stan Grant will step away from television hosting duties after viewers responded with racist abuse to his comments on historic Aboriginal dispossession
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Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, enters the 2024 GOP primary
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott on Monday will formally enter the Republican presidential primary as he seeks to upend a contest that has so far been dominated by coverage of former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is expected to enter the fray in the coming weeks.
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UN agency: 2M killed, $4.3 trillion in damages from extreme weather over past half-century
The U.N. weather agency reported Monday that nearly 12,000 extreme weather, climate and water-related events over much of the past half-century around the globe have killed more than 2 million people and caused economic damage of $4.3 trillion
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Pakistan frees Imran Khan associate even as authorities plan to prosecute thousands of his followers
A Pakistani court has ordered the release of an associate of former Prime Minister Imran Khan from detention, even as authorities are pressing on with plans to prosecute thousands of his followers implicated in recent anti-government violence
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Koepka gets another major win at PGA, LIV gets a major champion
Brooks Koepka now has five major championships with his two-shot win at the PGA Championship
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TikTok and other social media trends are thrusting performance crimes into the US spotlight
A sharp uptick in thefts of Hyundais and Kias over the past two years has been linked to viral videos posted to TikTok and other social media platforms that teach people how to exploit a security vulnerability to steal the cars
1970-01-01 08:00
DR Congo leader to visit China this week, minerals trade deal signing expected
BEIJING The president of minerals-rich Democratic Republic of Congo, Felix Tshisekedi, will visit China from May 24 to
1970-01-01 08:00
This jet-propelled, self-inflating paddleboard is making a splash
Slovenian company SipaBoards created a high-tech paddleboard to make the sport more accessible.
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Futures flat as debt limit talks to continue, Micron slides
U.S. stock index futures remained nearly flat in the early hours of Monday, just ahead of the discussions
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C. Boyden Gray, former White House counsel and conservative legal mind, dies at 80
C. Boyden Gray, the former White House counsel to former President George H.W. Bush and ambassador to the European Union, has died. He was 80.
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Facebook given record $1.3 billion fine, given 5 months to stop EU-US data flows
By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN Meta was hit with a record 1.2 billion euro ($1.3 billion) fine by its
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Facebook parent Meta hit with record fine for transferring European user data to US
The European Union has slapped Meta with a record $1.3 billion privacy fine and ordered it to stop transferring user data across the Atlantic
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