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Month: June 2024

Attorney General Merrick Garland calls attacks against Justice Department ‘dangerous for our democracy’

By Colin McCullough and Michelle Shen, CNN (CNN) — Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a Washington Post op-ed published Tuesday that rising “baseless, personal and dangerous” attacks on the Justice Department have become “dangerous for our democracy.” “We will not be intimidated by these attacks. But it is absurd and dangerous that public servants,

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Elizabeth Holmes, Silicon Valley’s most famous convict, makes her long-shot appeal

By Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Lawyers for Elizabeth Holmes, the convicted Silicon Valley grifter, presented her appeal before a California court Tuesday, revisiting a case that exposed the shortcomings of the tech world’s fake-it-till-you-make-it startup culture. Holmes was sentenced to 11 years in prison for defrauding investors in her failed blood-testing company,

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What it means to be queer

By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — For most of its early history, the word “queer” meant unusual or out of the ordinary. Then it was co-opted as a homophobic insult for much of the 20th century before people from LGBT communities reclaimed the term. Then, LGBTQ activists who identified as queer showed that they were proud to be different. LGBTQ activist groups like

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MLB: ‘Jump on the wagon,’ says Phillies star Bryce Harper as baseball fever hits UK – with a little help from Rob McElhenney

By Thomas Schlachter, CNN London Stadium, London (CNN) — As the sun descended in east London, so did tens of thousands of baseball fans as America’s pastime once again made its way across the Atlantic Ocean to England’s capital. The newish tradition has become a much-anticipated part of the Major League Baseball (MLB) calendar and

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UN says Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups may have committed war crimes in a deadly raid

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office is citing possible war crimes by Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups in connection with a deadly raid by Israeli forces that freed four hostages over the weekend and killed hundreds of Palestinians. Office spokesman Jeremy Laurence expressed concerns about possible violations

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