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Nashville explosion: Lone bomber or false flag?
Dec 30, 2020 10:18On Christmas day, a recreational vehicle exploded in downtown Nashville, Tennessee outside an AT&T transmission building — one block from the company’s office building. What happened knocked out communications and 911 emergency call centers over a wide area, including parts of neighboring Kentucky and Alabama. Was the motive behind what happened what official reports claimed? Or was something else responsible for the blast? Was it a false flag?
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Great hero, general of hearts (1)
Dec 30, 2020 10:10Special feature on the 1st martyrdom anniversary of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.
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Nashville blast: Officials identify Anthony Warner as the bomber
Dec 29, 2020 16:12Authorities in Tennessee on Sunday (27 Dec) named a 63-year-old Nashville resident as the perpetrator of the Christmas morning bombing that injured three people and destroyed sections of the city’s historic downtown.
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Trump signs pandemic relief bill after unemployment aid lapses
Dec 29, 2020 15:53President Trump on Sunday (27 Dec) abruptly signed a measure providing $900 billion in pandemic aid and funding the government through September, ending last-minute turmoil he himself had created over legislation that will offer an economic lifeline to millions of Americans and avert a government shutdown.
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US states say they’re decarcerating, yet 1 in 5 prisoners has had COVID
Dec 28, 2020 12:05The failure to meaningfully decarcerate jails and prisons in the US has led to increased cases in the community as staff travel between work and their home communities on a daily basis. Between California, Florida and Texas, mass incarceration contributed to a quarter million new COVID cases — or 20 percent of new cases in these states — from May 1 to August 1.
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'Shameful': Trump golfs, tweets election lies as 14 million set to lose unemployment benefits just after Christmas
Dec 28, 2020 11:58After threatening to blow up a $900 billion coronavirus relief package over several eleventh-hour demands—one of which is being blocked by his own party—President Donald Trump spent Christmas Eve golfing in Florida and tweeting election lies as millions of desperate Americans were left worrying that they will soon be deprived of their few remaining economic lifelines.
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Trump is destroying his own party on the way out the door
Dec 28, 2020 11:55This holiday season, President Donald Trump has wreaked havoc on US Congress, its so-called democracy and its judicial system by pardoning political associates and convicted murderers.
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Trump continues to block pandemic relief package as shutdown looms
Dec 27, 2020 17:57As unemployment benefits were due to expire for millions of Americans on Saturday (26 Dec), Donald Trump, who spent Christmas playing golf in Florida, continued to block a $900bn pandemic relief bill that would extend them.
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Iraqis ought not to trust the US anymore after Trump’s latest crime
Dec 27, 2020 17:46The Iraqis are again decrying the rampant injustice in the US, and as admitted by the New York-based Human Rights Watch, Trump’s pardons "show contempt for the rule of law.”
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With winter comes more stagnant air, intensifying COVID-19 risks in US
Dec 27, 2020 06:38A study published in November estimated that the COVID-19 death rate increased by 11 percent with an increase in the long-term average concentration of fine particulate matter of one microgram per cubic meter. Overall, approximately 15 percent of global COVID-19 deaths could be attributed to long-term exposure to air pollution, according to another paper published in December.