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Early turnout appears strong in the Israeli election. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right coalition faces opposition parties loosely led by Gadi Eisenkot, a former military chief whose son was killed in the Israel-Hamas war. Follow live.

nyti.msIsrael Election Live Updates: Early Turnout Appears Strong as Netanyahu Faces Challenge Led by EisenkotThe election is Israel’s first since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right coalition faces opposition parties loosely led by a former military chief whose son was killed in the Gaza war.

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During the 2025 legislative session, the Mississippi Legislature passed and Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill into law prohibiting county election officials from changing polling places within 60 days of an election except in exigent circumstances. buff.ly/NFBoCed

buff.lyLocal Mississippi Officials Have Made 138 Polling Place Changes Ahead of the 2026 ElectionLocal election officials in Mississippi have made changes to 138 polling places since the 2024 election, including moving 112.

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A former psychiatric hospital in Detroit and a one-time funeral home in Toledo offer ghost-hunting expeditions. Visitors can embark on guided paranormal investigation tours of the facilities, or even set out on their own with rented equipment, such as a handheld electromagnetic field meter.

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Trump has influenced not just what the Republican Party does but what they actually believe is acceptable. “We need to understand how far they have shifted their thinking,” Marc Elias says, “and we need to adjust our tactics accordingly.” New rules, new fights. Follow us to keep up.

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RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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"Under Brazilian federal law, all legislators have immunity...To run for President, Bolsonaro decided not to run for his Senate seat. Now, after losing the Presidential election, he no longer has legislative immunity when his Senate term expires in January 2027." Very Special Episode of no amnesty

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Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...

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Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...

paydayreport.comBrazilian Federal Police Confiscate Flavio Bolsonaro’s PassportHe faces investigation for his ties to paramilitary gangs

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NEW: Maricopa County will restore 25 voters’ registrations after they were falsely flagged as noncitizens, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) announced. Mayes sued Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap (R) Thursday, demanding that he add the voters back to the registration rolls.

democracydocket.comMaricopa County will restore citizens’ voting registrations, Arizona AG says“It should not have taken litigation to make Justin Heap follow the law — that is his duty and the duty of all election officials.”

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"The fact that you have all of these parties that are advocating major war crimes and nobody is blinking says something very deep about Israeli society, but also about an international community that has fostered this and that has allowed this to brew for all of these years."

democracynow.orgWill Ousting Netanyahu Change Anything for Palestinians? Diana Buttu on Upcoming Israeli ElectionsIsraeli parliamentary elections are being held on Tuesday, the first since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack and Israel’s subsequent assault on Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is cu...

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Russia is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity by intentionally attacking civilian infrastructure – including vital energy systems – in Ukraine, an independent UN investigations panel said on Monday. https://cnn.it/4zcHNnm

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Most of the water that's pumped out of the Harney Basin aquifer gets used for commercial agriculture, but for the last three decades water in parts of the basin has been drying up. Now, a nonprofit partnership in the region is looking for solutions on how to keep farming with less water.

opb.orgHarney Basin experiment explores crops for a drier future This area’s economy largely depends on agriculture, and farmers will likely have less water in the years ahead.

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The lawsuit alleges the boys who shared the nude photos also had a public Instagram page where they discussed which of their teachers were the “loosest” and used racist language. One message read, “If [male student’s name] wasn’t dating [female student’s name], I would have raped her already.”

sltrib.comIn a Utah high school, boys shared nude and fake photos of them, young women say. They allege the school did little to stop it.A lawsuit filed this week alleges the school’s principal at one point told a girl and her parents they shouldn’t “ruin these boys’ lives.”

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María Corina Machado, Venezuela's opposition leader, returns to the country after months in exile.

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If she wins a full term in November, Fire Thunder would join a growing number of Indigenous women successfully seeking higher office across the country. In Montana, the success of these candidates is a result of decades of women-led organizing on the ground.

19thnews.orgKatie Fire Thunder’s campaign could help Montana seat a record number of Native womenThrough grassroots organizing, political leadership and behind-the-scenes mentorship, their wins have been decades in the making.

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María Corina Machado, the leader of the biggest opposition movement in Venezuela, returned to her country on Sunday after nearly a year in exile since slipping out to receive the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. Read more: nyti.ms/48eOrgV