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Heathrow: Sadiq Khan ‘remains opposed’ to third runway

Sadiq Khan has confirmed he “remains opposed” to a third runway at Heathrow Airport, putting him on a collision cour...

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Aberdeenshire nursery workers deny assaulting ‘disruptive’ four-year-old boy

Joseph Picker and Stacey Kerr insist they were trying to restrain the boy to stop him from hitting and biting other chil...

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Reeves backs Heathrow expansion to boost UK growth

The chancellor announces wide-ranging plans to get the UK's sluggish economy moving....

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves makes major announcement on £9billion Lower Thames Crossing

Chancellor Rachel Reeves addresses future of planned link between Kent and Essex in major speech on Wednesday...

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BREAKING: Acting PDP Chairman, Damagum Presides Over BoT Meeting In Abuja

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT) has officially started its meeting in Abuja, with Acting Nati...

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Highland paedophile snared by undercover officer posing as a child online

Neil Ross has been warned there's an "exceedingly high" chance he will be jailed after sending pictures of his private p...

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HUD nominee promises Van Drew he'll visit Stanley Holmes Village in Atlantic City

U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew said Tuesday that Scott Turner, the nominee for secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban...

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Abdelatty rejects plan to relocate Palestinians from Gaza in call with Rubio

Egypt has firmly rejected any plan to relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty reitera...

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Peter Mandelson backtracks on 'ill-judged' Trump criticism after being appointed US ambassador

Labour grandee, now Keir Starmer’s representative in Washington, described the Republican as a ‘danger to the world�...

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Tinubu Carrying On With Bad Policies Despite Implications On Nigerians –Ojo

Comrade Victor Ojo is a prodemocracy activist, who as a union leader, was member of the student wing of the National Dem...

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Robert Reich Spells Out 'Bigger Picture' Of Donald Trump's ‘Most Brazen Move Yet’

It's "deeper" than just attempting to sow chaos, warned the former labor secretary....

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What happens next for Heathrow expansion?

There are various steps to overcome and it is likely to be at least another decade before a new runway opens....

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There’s no faction in Ohanaeze Ndigbo –Chukwu

Nze Ozichukwu Chukwu is the immediate past President-General Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide. In this interview, he speaks on ...

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AI’s Musical Debut

The 97th Academy Awards nominations have only fueled the ongoing artificial intelligence debate. Artificial intelligence...

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Merit or Mob? Students Provide Input On Hiring Theology Professors

Fordham University’s theology department has begun inviting students to interview potential professors. Individual stu...

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Yes, the Panama Canal was built at a dear price — paid in Black lives

Trump is right to lament the lives lost for the creation of the canal. They were mostly Black Caribbean migrant workers,...

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No one polices men's bodies the way we police women's bodies

As President Trump takes a hammer to reproductive rights, a Mississippi legislator proposes making it illegal to ejacula...

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Stan Chu Ilo: I became an American citizen a day after Donald Trump’s inauguration

I became an American citizen because I believe in the enduring ideals of freedom, human rights and equality of the Unite...

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Mary Ellen Cullinan Reynolds

Mary Ellen Cullinan Reynolds, a devoted wife, loving mother, grandmother, and friend, passed away peacefully on Jan. 27,...

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Newton Jerrell Thigpen Jr.

Newton “Jerrell” Thigpen Jr., 75, passed from this life on Jan. 17, 2025, peacefully, with family by his side. He wa...

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Forced Labor Fighting Fires in California

Inmates in California are helping control the destructive wildfires for extremely minimal compensation, but their braver...

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Letters: Risks of not addressing Chicago’s leak-prone gas infrastructure are too high

Instead of sneering at hardworking union members, I wish the editorial board had acknowledged the facts....

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What are the infrastructure projects backed by Rachel Reeves?

The expansion of Heathrow is among the schemes backed....

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Trump’s Dream: The Sabotage of Sensitive Locations

Sensitive locations like schools, in particular, should be places where all students, regardless of their immigration st...

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Sen. Michael E. Hastings: We must protect Illinois families from unfair insurance premium hikes

Insurance companies regularly raise their rates, often with no prior insurance claim or other unforeseen event to warran...

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EXCLUSIVE: Trump To Defund Schools That Teach Critical Race Theory, Radical Gender Ideology

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Wednesday that will prohibit federal funding to K-12 sc...

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Trump pardoned a lot of bad apples. Now he and Republicans own the barrelful

Republicans have long styled themselves as the party of law and order and "backing the blue," but Trump freed people who...

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Column: Beat the winter blues: Know when it’s more

Winters are tough for many of us. When I see Facebook posts of people laughing in the middle of a blizzard up north, I w...

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I’m Sick of Sensationalism

Sensationalism, the use of manipulative and shocking stories and language to draw audience interest, has overtaken the c...

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The Power of Political Comedy

In a world where political conversations are becoming increasingly unavoidable, we need to use comedy as a vehicle to ad...

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Editorial: Are Illinoisans paying more for insurance due to California and Florida disasters? More transparency, please.

The California wildfires will cost insurers more than $30 billion; Allstate is hiking homeowners rates in Illinois by 14...

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The $9 Toll Isn’t Destroying NYC

New York City has joined several cities throughout the world and finally implemented a congestion charge on Jan. 5, beco...

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Laura Washington: Walgreens is closing stores and creating pharmacy deserts on Chicago’s South and West sides

The five local Walgreens stores to be closed are all on the city’s South and West sides, serving African American and ...

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Ceasefire in Gaza: A Never-Ending Cycle

The ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas might slow the immediate fighting, but it doesn’t address the underlying i...

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John Abe Daigle

John Abe Daigle, 91, of Sulphur, La. passed away on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025 in Jennings, La. He was born on May 29, 1933 i...

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Don't scapegoat Malibu for L.A. County's bad water supply planning

Did Malibu hinder water upgrades to halt development? A former mayor, council member and city planner for Malibu says no...

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National Security Risk or Public Forum: The Politics of TikTok

The recent ban of the Infamous social media platform, TikTok, has sparked many debates. The United States government ena...

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First Day Scaries

The first 100 days of presidency are crucial and the most productive of a president’s term, but these first 100 hours ...

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"Trump is trying to collapse our economy": War on "woke" revealed as a war on all Americans

Christian nationalists behind the spending shutdown aim to punish everyone, not just imaginary Marxists...

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LILLEY: Canada is simply not serious about our democracy

We don't take foreign interference in our elections or picking our next PM seriously. Nor should any other country....

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Democrats can't just rage at Trump for the next four years

Trump may be wrong about a lot, but he's the president. Democrats can't just ignore him, nor can they rage constantly at...

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Solution to homelessness is homes, not handcuffs

Ford's approach to the homeless is cold and uncaring...

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What My Black Mother’s Involuntary Sterilization in 1965 Reveals About America Today

This piece is adapted from Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope by Catherine Coleman Flower...

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The Madness of Robert F. Kennedy. Jr.

The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of ...

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Trump Tells Elon Musk To ‘Go Get’ NASA Astronauts On ISS Since June

NASA has said for months it plans to bring the pair of astronauts home soon....

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Delhi Election 2025: 3 lakh ration card applications await nod; 84,000 issued in last 5 years, shows RTI reply

Delhi Election 2025: The RTI reply also mentioned category-wise data. It said 73,697 applications under the Antyodaya An...

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Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange's health worsens on 5th day of hunger strike as he refuses intravenous fluids

Manoj Jarange Patil's health has reportedly begun to deteriorate, yet he remains resolute in refusing intravenous fluids...

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BREAKING Rachel Reeves gives major update on Heathrow Airport third runway

Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced the expansion of Heathrow Airport in a major speech on growth in Oxfordshire t...

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2027: I’m not against coalition – Peter Obi clarifies media report

From Idu Jude Abuja Writing in his X handle, the Labour Party leader, Peter Obi, has clarified his misrepresented interv...

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Robert B. Reich: Trump’s first week, the real story

Trump's first week was a catastrophe for many vulnerable people. But the biggest story was his startling initial moves f...

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"Carte blanche to enact violence": Expert warns that Trump's pardons will fuel anti-LGBTQ+ extremism

"We have to prepare ourselves for a much more turbulent and disturbing future," said extremism expert Imara Jones...

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JPC adopts amended Waqf bill as Oppn slams its provisions as 'unconstitutional'

In its 655-page draft report, the Joint Committee on Waqf Amendment Bill made it clear that the provisions to omit the '...

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Opinion: Connecticut must build a cleaner, more equitable future

Community advocacy makes me hopeful that we will achieve climate justice and safeguard our right to a livable future....