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A bill being drafted in the Senate would allow U.S. courts to try war crimes cases even if neither the perpetrators nor the victims are American, in the latest response to Russia’s apparent targeting of civilians in Ukraine.
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Amber Heard testified on Monday that she filed for divorce and for a restraining order against Johnny Depp in 2016 after two fights that made her fear for her safety.
“I knew I had to leave him,” she said. “I knew I wouldn’t survive it if I didn’t.”
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A cache of online postings suggests months of preparation and planning preceded Saturday’s shooting in Buffalo and shows how the suspect evaded a New York law that could have prevented him from owning a gun.
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Workers at a Buffalo supermarket were helping customers on Saturday when a car pulled up, and a man began shooting. This is how they survived.
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The suspect in the Buffalo shooting bought his gun legally. The same is true of most mass shooters, according to data compiled by the National Institute of Justice.
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In Opinion
“Replacement theory is an attack on democracy,” writes the editorial board. “It privileges the purported interests of some Americans over those of others, asserting, in effect, that the will of the people means the will of white people.”
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After the deadly mass shooting in Buffalo, Representative Elise Stefanik, Republican of New York, is facing scrutiny for echoing the racist “great replacement” theory in campaign advertisements.
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For many Black residents across Buffalo’s East Side, the Tops supermarket filled a crucial need in a “food desert” — an area with little access to low-cost, healthy selections. Now, many residents fear the effects of its closure may ripple for months.
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The New York Times Retweeted
NEW: On Friday, the day before the attack, the accused
#BuffaloNY
gunman dropped off five boxes of ammunition at a friend's, saying “he needed space to rearrange his house.”
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@chelsiamarcius
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@Jonesieman
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@andylocal
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In the past decade, hate crimes against Black Americans, who are 12% of the population, have far exceeded those reported against any other group, federal data shows. In 2020, more than half of the victims of hate crimes based on race were Black people.
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One way of looking at rapidly rising prices — or a high rate of inflation — is as an imbalance of supply and demand. By raising short-term interest rates, and by influencing rates elsewhere, the Fed is making it more expensive to borrow money.
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Russian forces in Ukraine have underperformed to a degree that has surprised most Western analysts, raising the prospect that President Vladimir Putin’s military operation could end in failure.
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The New York Times Retweeted
THREAD: I’ve wanted to write this story for a while. It is one of those campaign schemes that insiders know well (some privately talk about drafting hundreds (!) of such boxes).
But the public doesn’t know or understand at all what is happening.
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Senator Chuck Schumer on Monday reprimanded hard-right Republicans, along with Fox News and pundit Tucker Carlson, for amplifying the white supremacist “replacement theory” that motivated the mass shooter who killed 10 Black people in Buffalo on Saturday.
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