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US Supreme Court overturns New York handgun law in bitter blow to gun-control push
Jun 26, 2022 08:28The New York law struck down on Thursday June 23 required anyone wanting to carry a handgun in public to prove that they had a “proper cause” to do so. The decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v Bruen renders the law an unconstitutional violation of the second amendment right to bear arms.
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Largest ever US-NATO naval war drills in Pacific a threat to both peace and marine life
Jun 25, 2022 22:02While the world's attention is focused on the crisis in Eastern Europe, half-way around the world, in the Pacific Ocean, competition/confrontation of the U.S. and NATO toward China and North Korea is taking an increasingly military turn. The US military's Indo-Pacific command headquartered in Honolulu, Hawai'i, Rim of the Pacific or RIMPAC 2022, military war games, will have 38 ships from 26 countries, 4 submarines, 170 aircraft and 25,000 military personnel practicing naval war maneuvers.
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Faith, unity, resistance thwarts US devilish designs
Jun 25, 2022 09:03There is some grain of truth when former Pakistan Prime Minister, Imran Khan Niyazi, says that it was US meddling which shoved him out of office last April.
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Study shows excess corporate profits in the US have become 'widespread'
Jun 24, 2022 15:15A new research paper finds that the US corporate price markups and profits jumped to their highest levels in seven decades last year.
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UN climate chief warns Trump win in 2024 would spell disaster for planet
Jun 23, 2022 10:38The outgoing United Nations climate chief warned that a victory by Donald Trump—or any other ally of the fossil fuel industry—in the 2024 U.S. presidential election would represent a fatal setback for efforts to limit global warming to 1.5°C by the end of the century.
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Biden's policy increasingly looks like Trump's West Asia strategy
Jun 22, 2022 12:13The US leader is reportedly planning to offer a security pact—similar to the Abraham Accords finalized under his predecessor—to the autocratic regimes in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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'Poverty is violence!' Thousands of Americans demonstrate in DC to demand economic justice
Jun 21, 2022 08:17Led by the Poor People's Campaign, advocacy groups and low-income individuals gathered in Washington, D.C. to demand that policymakers "fight poverty, not the poor."
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From Operation Fly Formula to Biden’s popularity plunge: Welcome to US 2022
Jun 19, 2022 09:27By late May, the situation had become so critical that some American states, including New York, declared a state of emergency due to the shortage of infant formula, which compelled the US president to order the import of the basic commodity with military aircraft from countries such as Germany.
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Global markets plunge as US Fed mulls biggest rate rise in decades
Jun 18, 2022 08:31US investors fret about possible recession as S&P 500 plummets into bear territory and global markets feel aftershocks
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Medicare for all could have prevented more than 338,000 US Covid deaths: Study
Jun 17, 2022 07:36Covid-19 has killed more than one million people in the United States over the past two years, but more than 338,000 of those lives could have been saved if the country had a universal single-payer healthcare system such as Medicare for All.