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Karen Read speaks with her attorney Alan Jackson during her murder trial in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham

Prosecutors present fired investigator’s sexist texts in Karen Read’s retrial as defense chooses not to read them

By Dakin Andone, Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — Jurors in the retrial of Karen Read on Monday heard a spate of sexist messages the lead investigator of the case sent his friends, after the judge ruled to allow the since-fired Massachusetts State Police trooper’s texts into evidence. “She’s a whack job c*nt,” Michael Proctor wrote

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A satellite image shows damage to aircraft at an airfield following the Ukrainian drone attack in Stepnoy

New footage reveals the impact of Ukraine’s audacious drone attack on Russian air bases

By Ivana Kottasová, Victoria Butenko, Svitlana Vlasova, Vasco Cotovio, Frankie Vetch, Eve Brennan, Benjamin Brown, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Mitchell McCluskey, Helen Regan, Tim Lister, Henry Zeris, Lou Robinson and Avery Schmitz, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s drone attack against Russian airfields was audacious and daring. But most of all, it was meticulously planned and flawlessly executed. New

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Starmer Defence Secretary John Healey unveiled a military overhaul in Scotland on June 2.

UK to build new attack submarines and ramp up ‘war-fighting readiness’ with an eye on Russia, Starmer says

By Rob Picheta and Joseph Ataman, CNN London (CNN) — Britain will build new attack submarines, invest billions on nuclear warheads and move toward “war-fighting readiness,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday, shortly before the publication of a landmark review of the future of the country’s military. Starmer’s government said it would build “up to”

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This photo taken on May 20

How protests over designer handbags threw Mongolia into political crisis and sparked a prime minister’s resignation

By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Mongolia has been thrown into fresh political crisis with the country’s prime minister announcing his resignation following weeks of protests sparked by his family’s lavish displays of wealth. Young Mongolians had taken to the streets of the capital putting pressure on Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai, who lost a vote

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Police are pictured on the scene in Boulder

Suspect in Boulder antisemitic attack is charged with a federal hate crime. Here’s what we know

KMGH, CNN By Karina Tsui, Holmes Lybrand, Chris Boyette, John Miller, CNN (CNN) — A man yelling “Free Palestine!” used incendiary devices and a makeshift flamethrower to attack people calling for the release of Israeli hostages Sunday in Colorado, in what authorities are calling a targeted antisemitic attack. Witnesses described seeing huge flames and people

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Police are pictured on the scene in Boulder

Suspect in Boulder antisemitic attack is charged with a federal hate crime. Here’s what we know

By Karina Tsui, Holmes Lybrand, Chris Boyette, John Miller, CNN (CNN) — A man yelling “Free Palestine!” used incendiary devices and a makeshift flamethrower to attack people calling for the release of Israeli hostages Sunday in Colorado, in what authorities are calling a targeted antisemitic attack. Witnesses described seeing huge flames and people pouring buckets

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Karol Nawrocki and Rafal Trzaskowski contested a head-to-head run-off election on May 31.

Populist Karol Nawrocki wins Polish presidential election, setting stage for more clashes with PM Tusk

By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — A historian and populist firebrand who boasted about his brawls with soccer hooligans has narrowly won Poland’s presidential election, in a political upset that could torpedo the centrist government’s efforts to unspool the legacy of authoritarianism in the country. Karol Nawrocki, the candidate aligned with Poland’s right-wing populist Law

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