5 h. ago ‘A club nobody wanted to be a part of’: Families of Americans killed by Israel face uphill climb to justice

Dozens of American citizens have been killed by Hamas and Israel – but the US government has taken a very different approach to the latterWithin hours after they were told that Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi had been killed by an Israeli sniper while at a protest in the West Bank last year, her family was on a phone call with the parents of Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza more than two decades ago.The families were introduced by a mutual contact in Washington state, where both Corrie and 26-year-old Eygi had lived. There were other parallels in their stories: Corrie was protesting against the demolition of a Palestinian family’s home in Rafah when a soldier drove over her; Eygi was at a protest against settlement expansion near Nablus. Both had traveled to the region with the International Solidarity Movement, a group that for years has brought foreign activists to stand with Palestinians against Israel’s occupation. An Israeli ...

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6 d. ago As US warships prowl the Caribbean, our region must hold fast against Trump’s gaslighting

American attacks have killed more than 14 people they claim were drug traffickers in our waters. Now our islands are at risk of being dragged into a manufactured conflict we are ill-equipped to endureFor decades, the Caribbean has been caught in the slipstream of other people’s wars – from cold war proxy battles to Washington’s “war on drugs” and “war on terror”. Our islands have too often been turned into the frontlines for policies scripted elsewhere but fought in our waters, our communities, and on the backs of our most vulnerable.The recent US naval strikes against alleged “drug boats” leaving Venezuela, and the decision of Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, to grant access to territorial waters without first consulting the Caribbean collective of developing countries, Caricom, risk dragging our islands into yet another manufactured storm. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Transgender Americans are seeing a wave of hate unleashed by Charlie Kirk’s killing | Erin Reed

In the aftermath of Kirk’s death, the far-right and Trump administration have turned up attacks on transgender peopleOn the day anti-LGBTQ+ activist Charlie Kirk was shot, fear rippled through the left that the far right would seize the moment to consolidate power. Nowhere was that fear more acute than in the transgender community.Within hours, Republicans were already blaming trans people; one commentator even claimed the bullets carried “transgender symbols”, a claim investigators quickly debunked. But the deeper fear wasn’t misinformation – it was the crackdown that would follow. With fragile rights hanging by the thread of court rulings and blue-state protections, trans people braced for the worst. And they were right: The right has seized on the shooting as its own Reichstag fire, accelerating a campaign to target transgender existence – now with the full weight of the Trump administration behind it.Erin Reed is a transgender journalist based in Washington DC. She tracks LGBTQ+...

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1 week ago Heart health breakthrough as experts discover everyday lifestyle factor is linked to world's No. 1 killer

A common disease killing hundreds of thousands of Americans every year could be tied to a type of bacteria lurking in the mouth, researchers in Finland have discovered in a new study.

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1 week ago Monster worse than Jeffrey Dahmer was found with a bullet in his head. A coroner questions if his death was a suicide

Hamilton County Coroner Jeff Jellison has raised doubts about the cause of death of one of the most prevalent serial killers in American history.

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2 w. ago Aberdeen crime: Man charged after woman killed in American Bulldog attack at Aberdeen flat

The American Bulldog was put down following the incident.

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3 w. ago Ruben Amorim considered for shock new job as Man Utd boss faces sack pressure

Ruben Amorim is under increasing pressure at Manchester United following their 3-0 defeat to Man City, with a club familiar to him reportedly considering the Portuguese as their next manager

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3 w. ago Is this Charlie Kirk's killer? Video shows figure lurking on rooftop as American conservative firebrand shot dead

Footage shared online appears to show someone lying near where the Turning Point USA founder was killed

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4 w. ago As Covid surges in the US, Americans can’t get vaccinated: ‘terrified I might kill somebody’

The FDA is allowing the vaccine for people 65 and older, but younger people need to have an underlying conditionFor many Americans, the new Covid vaccine guidelines from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), spearheaded by health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr and his highly controversial Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, have added another layer of stress to an increasingly inaccessible healthcare system.The agency authorized Covid vaccines for people 65 and older, who are known to be more at risk from serious illnesses from Covid infections, but younger people will only be eligible if they have an underlying medical condition that makes them particularly vulnerable. Continue reading...

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last month College professor dies in devastating accident when cable car broke loose in Portugal

A South Carolina college professor was confirmed as the sole American killed in a shocking cable car crash in Portugal, which claimed the lives of 16 people.

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