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Iran convicts facing ‘abhorrent’ finger amputation, activists say

Eight men face disfigurement for robbery; rights group blasts ‘cruel and inhuman punishment’

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Judge blocks Texas from investigating families of trans youth

A Texas judge has temporarily blocked the state from investigating families of transgender children who have received gender confirming care.

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Stock Markets Recoil as Investors React to Inflation Increase

The data suggested that policymakers would need to take aggressive steps to cool the economy, spooking investors.

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America’s Best Astrophysicists Are Taking UFOs Seriously. Maybe You Should Too

NASA has spent more than 60 years flying UFOs. Every spacecraft that ever visited the moon, landed on Mars, buzzed by Jupiter, orbited Saturn, or reconnoitered Pluto would be a decidedly unidentified flying object to any alien intelligence that might

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Prosecutors request life sentence for main suspect in 2015 Paris terror attack

Demand that Salah Abdeslam, 32, not have possibility of parole is extremely rare in France; verdict due on June 29; 19 others also on trial, accused of assisting killers

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‘Trump Was at the Center’: Jan. 6 Hearing Lays Out Case in Vivid Detail

The House panel investigating the attack led its public sessions with video testimony from people close to the former president about his actions before and during the riot.

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Iran’s nuclear tactics push Biden further from elusive JCPOA revival

IAEA censure of Islamic Republic gives opponents of return to agreement even more ammunition, while angering Iran, which responds by shutting off 27 cameras at its nuclear sites

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Must-see art from Senegal’s Biennale: Sculptures of sugar, paintings of old postcards

Sidelined by the pandemic, the Dakar Biennale is back. The theme of this year’s festival is “Ĩ Ndaffa” — meaning “out of the fire,” as artists forge bold visions of the world. (Image credit: Pierre Vanneste for NPR)

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Stocks tumble after inflation worsens, raising rate fears

Stocks fell sharply on Friday following Wall Street’s cold realization that inflation got worse last month, not better, as investors had been hoping.

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Lapid warns rebel MKs ‘will pay a price’ as polls show Netanyahu strength

Latest surveys have former PM’s current opposition bloc at 60 seats; Yamina’s Orbach said to give Bennett ultimatum to solve voting problems with Meretz, Ra’am within a week

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