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California says it will monitor the Trump Justice Department's election watchers.

State Attorney General Rob Bonta says California will deploy its own election observers after Pam Bondi said the DOJ would monitor polls in five counties.

The screening of Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s fact-based drama 'The Voice of Hind Rajab' marked the first edition of the Gaza International Festival for Women’s Cinema. The festival started on Oct 26 coinciding with Palestinian National Women’s Day and will continue until October 31.

Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

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Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

Israel kills two medical personnel every day, Gaza media office says <article data-history-node-id="429812" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-kills-two-medical-personnel-every-day-gaza-media-office-says" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-kills-two-medical-personnel-every-day-gaza-media-office-says" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel kills two medical personnel every day, Gaza media office says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Israeli military has killed, on average, two medical personnel and a journalist every three days since the start of the genocide, Gaza’s government media office said in a statement.</p> <p>The statement said, the military is also injuring around 230 Palestinians, half of them children and women, every day, and on average, 13 Palestinians are having their limbs amputated as a result of ongoing Israeli attacks on the Strip.</p> <p>One health facility is targeted by the military every day, the statement said.</p> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Medical staffers at the Ahli Arab Hospital mourn by the shrouded body of their colleague, a nurse who was killed during Israeli bombardment the previous night at the Shati refugee camp, at the hospital premises in Gaza City on June 14, 2024" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="2253ada3-4911-4e46-8d06-e6a4047e7700" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/000_34WP6G4.jpg" width="1024" height="682" alt="Medical staffers at the Ahli Arab Hospital mourn by the shrouded body of their colleague, a nurse who was killed during Israeli bombardment the previous night at the Shati refugee camp, at the hospital premises in Gaza City on June 14, 2024" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Medical staffers at the Ahli Arab Hospital mourn by the shrouded body of their colleague, a nurse who was killed during Israeli bombardment the previous night at the Shati refugee camp, at the hospital premises in Gaza City on 14 June, 2024. (AFP)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

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the treasures you find when you clear out a storage unit after 5 years

Violent thugs are terrorizing Americans and they were sent by the White House.

This is what integrity looks like. 😳👇

Oregon AG Rayfield: The first thing that might’ve told you the federal government wasn’t doing so hot was when they started off some of their arguments by talking about Truth Social as their source of facts.

Actually got a comment from the judge: “Is this really how you’re going to move forward?”

Jane Goodall, famed primatologist, anthropologist and conservationist, dead at 91 Goodall's field research changed the understanding of humans' closest relative.

This one is hard to take. I followed her for 50 years

Jane Goodall, famed primatologist, anthropologist and conservationist, dead at 91
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Breaking News: Jane Goodall dies at 91. Her long-term study of wild chimpanzees led her to see them as individuals.... 💔💔💔

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

Trump diagnosed with bone spurs as 'favor' to dad, daughters of podiatrist claim

The daughters of a New York based foot doctor said that their late father diagnosed President Trump with bone spurs to help him avoid the Vietnam War draft.

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

DelBene: He’s the president of the United States, and instead of talking about standing up for our communities or what’s best for the country, he’s talking about inflicting pain if he doesn’t get what he wants. He’s been inflicting pain on the American people since he went into office in January

Spain condemns Israeli raid on Gaza aid flotilla <article data-history-node-id="429527" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/spain-condemns-israeli-raid-gaza-aid-flotilla" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/spain-condemns-israeli-raid-gaza-aid-flotilla" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Spain condemns Israeli raid on Gaza aid flotilla</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="675" data-start="463">Spain’s labour minister and deputy prime minister, Yolanda Díaz, has condemned Israel’s raid on the Gaza aid flotilla as “a crime against international law” and demanded the immediate release of those detained.</p> <p data-end="771" data-start="677">Writing on Bluesky, Díaz added: “The EU needs to break off relations with Israel right now.”</p> <p data-end="1299" data-start="773">Spain’s foreign ministry issued a statement late on Wednesday, highlighting that the flotilla was “a peaceful and humanitarian civil society initiative” and calling for the “physical integrity and rights” of Spanish citizens onboard to be respected. The statement concluded: “Spain will continue to demand an end to the war in Gaza, the massive entry of humanitarian aid, the release of all Israeli hostages, and the implementation of the two-state solution: Palestine and Israel, living side by side in peace and security.”</p> </div> </div> </article>

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Our generals serve the country, not an ex-Fox News clown looking for headlines.

Israeli navy intercepts Gaza-bound aid flotilla carrying activists, including Greta Thunberg The Global Sumud Flotilla, with Greta Thunberg, Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Mandla Mandela, and several European lawmakers aboard, consists of nearly 50 boats and 500 activists and is carrying a sym…

Activists on board a flotilla of vessels sailing toward Gaza said late Wednesday that the Israeli navy had intercepted three of its boats as they approached the besieged Palestinian territory.

Fulton County inmate in critical condition after assault, sheriff says A Fulton County inmate is in critical condition after being assaulted inside the jail, according to the sheriff’s office.

Fulton County inmate in critical condition after assault, sheriff says

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and most inhuman."

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1966

The image is a screenshot of an X post from the account @Re... (Really American) dated 11 hours ago, claiming that Speaker Johnson has refused to swear in newly-elected Democratic Rep. Grijalva, who is described as the decisive 218th vote needed for a discharge petition to release the Epstein files. The post questions the reason for the delay. The image also includes a video still labeled "EXCLUSIVE" from Meidastouch Network, featuring Rep.-elect Grijalva, with text stating she is ready to sign the discharge petition. The background shows campaign materials with her name and slogans like "Se hizo historia!"

They are so afraid of this they won’t seat a newly elected Congresswoman from AZ to keep it from happening.

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

ICE just chased everyone off the public road by the Broadview facility. They yelled for people to move and immediately began firing gas into the crowd, which included legal observers, press, and medics.

Former FBI Deputy Director McCabe says he hasn't been contacted "at all" by the FBI about Comey and adds, "if my interactions with Comey was gonna be the basis of this entire prosecution, it's unbelievable that prosecutors wouldn't at least want to sit down and hear what I have to say about it."