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View More NewsNew York, August 5, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the immediate release of freelance journalist Alrayah Isam Gaksa, a contributor to local news website Hekaiyat and Baankhi Press, who was detained by the Sudan Shield Forces, an armed group allied with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), while returning from a work assignment in central Sudan’s Wad Madani. According to a statement by the Sudanese Journalists Syndicate (SJS), members of the armed group led by Commander Abu Aqla Keikel, which operates as a component of the Sudanese Armed Forces-aligned security coalition, stopped Gaksa at the entrance to Wad Madani…
At a press conference on July 2, Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said she had “tremendous evidence” proving that David Hearn had deliberately caused more than $1,000 in damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, making him guilty of a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. That was not true, Pirro admitted last Friday, when she withdrew the charge against Hearn, a 67-year-old former competitive canoeist. Pirro’s embarrassing reversal, which enraged President Donald Trump, could be seen as evidence of her courage in contradicting her boss’s claim that damage to the reflecting…
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Editor’s note: the following essay discusses Lars von Trier’s film Breaking the Waves in detail and contains spoilers throughout. Tolling for the deaf and blind, tolling for the mute,For the mistreated, mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute.~Bob Dylan I.It has been thirty years since the release of Breaking the Waves, Danish director Lars von Trier’s film about the self-annihilation of a deeply religious but mentally damaged Scottish girl who loves not wisely but too well. Although hardly popcorn fare, and vehemently criticised by some feminists for creating a heroine defined by passivity and suffering, the film was an arthouse hit, grossing…
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Guadalajara, May 25, 2026—Authorities in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí should immediately release journalists Eréndira Reyes and daughter Alejandra Hermosillo, and drop…
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In brief BitMine Immersion Technologies is set to join the large-cap Russell 1000 Index on June 26, comfortably clearing a $5.7 billion large-cap threshold.…
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In brief George Hotz, the hacker behind the first iPhone jailbreak and PlayStation 3 crack, published a blog post Sunday calling AI coding agent…
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