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- Israel Launches Retaliatory Strike in Iran as U.S. Issues New Sanctions Against Tehran
- Columbia Protests Continue a Day After NYPD Arrests 100+, Dismantles Gaza Solidarity Encampment
- USC Students Rally to Demand Commencement Speech by Valedictorian Asna Tabassum Be Reinstated
- U.S. Vetoes Bid to Advance Full Palestinian Membership at U.N.
- New Report Refutes Israeli Account of 6-Year-Old Hind Rajab’s Killing by IOF
- Activists Prepare to Set Sail on a New Gaza Freedom Flotilla
- House Speaker Johnson Attaches TikTok Ban Bill to Ukraine, Israel Funding Package
- U.S. Deports 70 Haitian Asylum Seekers Despite Humanitarian and Security Disaster in Haiti
- U.S. Reinstates Venezuela Sanctions Ahead of July Elections
- Senate Advances FISA’s Contested Section 702, Which Has Led to Warrantless Spying on U.S. Citizens
- The Jury in Donald Trump’s NYC Criminal Trial Has Been Seated
- Israel Continues to Pound the Gaza Strip Amid Reports U.S. Approves of Rafah Land Invasion
- Palestinian Boy Who Narrowly Escaped Death in Nov. Israeli Airstrike Is Killed in Aid Airdrop
- ProPublica: Blinken Ignored His Agency’s Recommendation to Disqualify Some Israeli Units from Aid
- Detained U.N. Workers Accuse Israel of Obtaining False Confessions Through Torture
- Journalist Attempts Citizen’s Arrest of EU Leader Ursula von der Leyen for Enabling Gaza Genocide
- “McCarthyism Is Alive and Well”: Google Fires Employees for Protesting Contract with Israeli Military
- 29 Writers Withdraw from PEN Prizes to Protest “Complicity in Normalizing Genocide”
- “Stop Killing Palestinian Children!”: Activists Disrupt Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin Hearing
- Speaker Johnson Unveils 3 Separate Bills to Fund Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan
- Senate Democrats Dismiss GOP-Led Impeachment Against Alejandro Mayorkas
- Major Rains Lead to Death and Displacement Across the Gulf, in Kenya
- Police Evict Hundreds from France’s Largest Squat Ahead of Paris Olympics
- “This Is a Criminal Cover-Up”: Boeing Whistleblowers Slam Leadership for Ignoring Safety Issues
- U.N.: Israel Is Still Unlawfully Restricting Aid into Gaza
- Report: Israeli Assault on Gaza Has Left 19,000 Children Orphaned
- U.K. Tells Israel: Do “As Little as Possible to Escalate” Tensions with Iran
- Israel Urged to Stop Supporting Violent Jewish Settlers After Deadly West Bank Attacks
- Nine Google Workers Arrested at Sit-In Protesting Firm’s Work with Israel
- Columbia University Students Launch Gaza Solidarity Encampment
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