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Putin’s visit to Mongolia defies ICC warrant and tests neutral nation’s ‘third neighbor’ diplomacy
Vladimir Putin arrived in Mongolia on Sept. 2, the first time the Russian president has visited an International Criminal Court (ICC) member country since the body issued a warrant for his arrest in 2023. While officially commemorating a Soviet-Mongolian military victory in World War II, Putin’s visit will test the small central Asian country’s policy of neutrality and the reach…
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Unusually cold storm that frosted West Coast peaks provided a hint of winter in August
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ski season is still at least several months away, but the unusually cold storm that frosted West Coast mountain peaks late last week brought a hint of winter in August. The calendar briefly skipped ahead to November as the system dropped out of the Gulf of Alaska, down through the Pacific Northwest and into California. Mount…
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Georgia governor doubles down on Medicaid program with work requirement despite slow start
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Monday defended and doubled down on his signature Medicaid program — the only one in the nation with a work requirement — further dimming chances the state could adopt a broader expansion of the taxpayer-funded low-income health plan without a work mandate any time soon. Georgia Pathways requires all recipients to show that…
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Infamous San Francisco Towing Company Raided By The FBI
Read the full story on Backfire News Infamous San Francisco Towing Company Raided By The FBI Earlier in the year we covered a shocking story out of San Francisco of a tow truck that tried snatching a vehicle sitting at a red light with a family inside. Bystander cellphone video documented the unbelievable incident, including the name of the tow…
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Wife of banker jailed for fraud must hand over luxury house and golf club
The wife of a jailed banker has forfeited her London Knightsbridge home and a golf club in Ascot after spending more than £16 million on shopping trips to Harrods. Zamira Hajiyeva, 61 whose husband Jahangir Hajiyev, 62, is serving a 16-year jail sentence in Baku for fraud and embezzlement, had been pursued by the National Crime Agency (NCA) over the…
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Magnitude 4.9 earthquake shakes Southern California
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck California’s Mojave Desert Monday, sending shaking that was felt all the way to Los Angeles. The earthquake, which occurred at 1 p.m., was centered about 13 miles northeast of Barstow, located roughly halfway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Seismologist Lucy Jones, an expert in California’s earthquakes, said that many quakes of a similar magnitude…
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Delta Airlines taking steps to ‘make it right’ for customers after global tech outage
Delta employees are “working 24/7″ to get the airline’s global operations back on track after cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike’s faulty Windows update rendered IT systems of companies across the globe inoperable. “We’ve got everyone around the company working around the clock to get this operation where it needs to be,” Delta CEO Ed Bastian said in a video message to employees…
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Three hikers die in Utah parks as temperatures hit triple digits
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Three hikers died over the weekend in suspected heat-related cases at state and national parks in Utah, including a father and daughter who got lost on a strenuous hike in Canyonlands National Park in triple-digit temperatures. The daughter, 23, and her father, 52, sent a 911 text alerting dispatchers that they were lost and had…
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Parkinson’s expert visited White House 8 times in 8 months, met with Biden’s doctor
An expert on Parkinson’s disease visited the White House eight times over an eight-month span between last July and March of this year, including one visit with the president’s personal physician, according to White House visitor logs. The doctor, Kevin Cannard, is a neurologist and “movement disorders specialist” who works at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. According to the…
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Mexican government to drop planned import ban on genetically modified US corn
Mexico was the No. 1 market for U.S. corn in 2023, importing $5.39 billion worth of the grain, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (Photo: Shutterstock) Mexico’s incoming president will end the government’s plan to ban imports of genetically modified (GM) yellow corn from the U.S., according to Reuters. Julio Berdegue, named to be Mexico’s President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum’s agriculture…
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