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Trump postpones deadline to strike Iranian power plants amid hope for peace deal

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In the middle of the latest wave of the air strikes across Iran, there was a sudden about-face from President Trump, postponing for five days a deadline to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants in order to break the country’s siege on the Strait of Hormuz. Charlie D’Agata has the latest. Source link

Secretive deal leaves deportees from the US stuck in Equatorial Guinea with ‘no more hope’

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DAKAR, Senegal — When a U.S. immigration judge told a 28-year old refugee from East Africa that he was free to leave detention in California after 13 months, he was overjoyed. Though an asylum request was denied, the judge ruled he could not be deported home because it would put him in danger. “He told … Read more

Mullin presents a different vision for FEMA, sparking cautious hope

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President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security presented a softer approach on federal emergency management in his Senate confirmation hearing, rejecting the idea of eliminating FEMA and pledging to undo some of his predecessor’s unpopular policies. The remarks by Markwayne Mullin on Wednesday raised hopes among disaster response managers that a … Read more

In Tehran, hope for change turns to panic: ‘They are turning the country into ruins’

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Since the war started, the U.S. and Israeli military have targeted multiple locations across the country, but it is in Tehran, a bustling, densely packed metropolis of some 10 million people, where the strikes have been felt the most. As of Thursday, more than 1,200 people had been killed by Israeli and American strikes, according … Read more

Watch Live: Rev. Jesse Jackson funeral services at House of Hope in Chicago

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  10m ago Sen. Dick Durbin: “He was a force in politics” Illinois Senator Dick Durbin called Jackson a “force in politics” as he stopped to reflect on his way into House of Hope. “When you think of the people that he inspired to public service and to help others, the legacy is still there … Read more

‘Hope Street’ actor Finnian Garbutt in the ‘last stages’ of life following years-long cancer battle

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Finnian Garbutt, a popular young actor from Northern Ireland, asked fans on Wednesday to support his wife and child as he enters the “last stages” of a years-long bout with cancer. Garbutt had announced on Monday that he’d been in considerable pain in the past month and that “scans have shown that the cancer has … Read more

Surprise birth of a boy brings hope for Amazon tribe facing extinction with just 3 women left

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Sao Paulo — Pugapia and her daughters Aiga and Babawru lived for years as the only surviving members of the Akuntsu, an Indigenous people decimated by a government-backed push to develop parts of the Amazon rainforest. As they advanced in age without a child to carry on the line, many expected the Akuntsu to vanish when … Read more