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Holocaust survivors use social media to show how words ‘stoke the fires of hate’

Campaign starting on Holocaust Remembrance Day comes after study found COVID lockdowns shifted anti-Semitic hate online, where conspiracists blamed Jews for pandemic’s devastation

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India’s Spinny raises $65 million to expand its online platform for selling used cars

Hundreds of thousands of used cars are sold in India each month. But buying one through the offline and traditional channel could prove to be a painstakingly long and high-risk process. A Gurgaon-based startup that is attempting to improve this

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Biden’s Tax Plan Aims to Raise $2.5 Trillion and End Profit-Shifting – The New York Times

Biden’s Tax Plan Aims to Raise $2.5 Trillion and End Profit-Shifting  The New York Times Biden says he wants a 28% corporate tax rate because he’s ‘sick and tired of ordinary people being fleeced’  Business Insider ‘Damn it … I’m sick and

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Norway’s Kolonial rebrands as Oda, bags $265M on a $900M valuation to grow its online grocery delivery business in Europe

Food delivery startups, and specifically those focused on grocery delivery, continue to reap super-sized rounds of funding in Europe, buoyed by a year of pandemic living that has led many consumers to shift to shopping online. Today, the latest of

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3 teens shot in Bedouin town of Rahat; 2 of them in critical, serious condition

Boys aged 13-14 are reportedly brothers and their cousin; police launch major manhunt to find attacker

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Podcast: Too soon? Israeli scholar explains why Holocaust humor is here to stay

Granddaughter of survivors Dr. Liat Steir-Livny says analyzing the use of Shoah jokes in contemporary Israeli society offers a window into sabra souls

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Georgia’s GOP lieutenant governor says Giuliani’s false fraud claims helped lead to restrictive voting law – CNN

Georgia’s GOP lieutenant governor says Giuliani’s false fraud claims helped lead to restrictive voting law  CNN Rudy Giuliani’s Son Andrew Considers Run For NY Governor  CBS New York Trump adviser Giuliani asks judge to throw out $1.3 billion lawsuit over his ‘big

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Myanmar activists hold shoe protests; another celebrity detained

(Reuters) – Myanmar security forces on Thursday arrested Paing Takhon, a model and actor who had spoken out against the coup, his sister told Reuters, as activists placed shoes filled with flowers in parts of Yangon to commemorate dead protesters.

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ShareChat valued at $2.1 billion in $502 million fundraise

ShareChat said on Thursday it has raised a new financing round that values it at over $2 billion, joining four other local startups in attaining the unicorn status this week. The Indian social network said it has raised $502 million

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Tiger Woods Was Driving More Than 80 mph When He Crashed His SUV

LOS ANGELES — Tiger Woods was driving more than 80 mph — nearly twice the posted speed limit — on a downhill stretch of road when he lost control of an SUV and crashed in a wreck that seriously injured

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