Anti-Immigrant Rioters Set a UK Library on Fire. The Community Rallied.
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Anti-Immigrant Rioters Set a UK Library on Fire. The Community Rallied.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines When the rioters came for Spellow Library, they used the nonfiction section as kindling. Deborah Moore, then the library’s manager, arrived the next morning to find that the shelves and couches recently purchased as part of a refurbishment project had been stacked up…

South Korea’s President Yoon Is Indicted
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South Korea’s President Yoon Is Indicted

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines South Korea’s impeached and arrested president, Yoon Suk Yeol, was formally indicted on Sunday on charges of leading an insurrection last month when he briefly imposed martial law. Mr. Yoon’s indictment means that his trial is likely to start soon. It follows the…

Australia Day Protesters Vandalize Melbourne and Sydney Statues
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Australia Day Protesters Vandalize Melbourne and Sydney Statues

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Some Australians were in no mood to celebrate the country’s national day on Sunday because they had long seen it as a reminder of colonial oppression. A few protesters took that antipathy a step further — by vandalizing statues to British settlers and…

Trump Leaves Democrats Dazed, With Some Willing to Work With Republicans
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Trump Leaves Democrats Dazed, With Some Willing to Work With Republicans

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As President Trump pushes aggressively to reshape the federal government, Democrats have retreated into a political crouch that reflects their powerlessness in Washington. Far from rising up in outrage, the opposition party’s lawmakers have taken a muted wait-and-see approach as Mr. Trump tries…

U.K. Teenager Who Killed 3 Girls in Southport Stabbing to Be Sentenced Today
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U.K. Teenager Who Killed 3 Girls in Southport Stabbing to Be Sentenced Today

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The teenager who killed three young girls and wounded 10 other people in a knife attack on a dance class in Southport, England, last summer will be sentenced on Thursday. Judge Julian Goose, who is presiding over the case, told the attacker, Axel…

Opinion | Martin Luther King Is a Model of Hope Just When We Need It
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Opinion | Martin Luther King Is a Model of Hope Just When We Need It

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines On Monday we’re celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day and inaugurating Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States. That may seem like an odd pairing, especially to those of us who believe Mr. Trump has fueled a culture of skepticism,…

Mozambique at a Crossroads as New President is Sworn In
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Mozambique at a Crossroads as New President is Sworn In

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Decades ago, Mozambique’s liberation party, Frelimo, easily attracted adoring crowds. The promise of salvation from Portuguese colonizers, and a life with jobs and housing for all, was an easy sell in a southern African nation that was suffering under racist rule. But when…

Charles Person, Youngest of the Original Freedom Riders, Dies at 82
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Charles Person, Youngest of the Original Freedom Riders, Dies at 82

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders who traveled from Washington to Birmingham, Ala., in 1961 in an effort to integrate interstate bus terminals across the South — and who were nearly beaten to death for doing so — died…

Columbia Professor Katherine Franke Says She Was Forced to Retire Because of Activism
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Columbia Professor Katherine Franke Says She Was Forced to Retire Because of Activism

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Columbia University and one of its longtime law professors, Katherine Franke, have severed ties after an investigation stemming from her advocacy on behalf of pro-Palestinian students. It was the latest fallout from student and faculty activism related to the Gaza War on a…

South Korean Unrest Conspiracy Theories Are Spread by Social Media
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South Korean Unrest Conspiracy Theories Are Spread by Social Media

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Every day​ for the past week, Kim Kwon-seop, 72, has joined thousands of others gathered near the home of South Korea’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol​. They were determined to shield Mr. Yoon from prosecutors who wanted to detain him on insurrection charges…