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"Each child belongs to all of us, and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them." - Maya Angelou
In the 1990s, writer and civil rights activist Maya Angelou served as a Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF Ambassador, lending her voice to a campaign that has inspired generations.
Her words still ring true today. #ToT4UNICEF
On the precipice of winning next week’s New York mayoral contest, Zohran Mamdani cast himself in an interview with NBC News as the city’s bulwark against Trump.
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The Justice Department’s decision to sideline two US attorneys and remove mentions of Donald Trump and the US Capitol attack from court papers before the sentencing of a pardoned January 6 rioter is being viewed by former and current career prosecutors as an alarming whitewashing of history.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says that the Pentagon carried out another "lethal kinetic strike" at President Trump's direction on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing four men.
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The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits annually into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be White South Africans, a dramatic drop after the United States previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution from around the world.
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President Trump’s comments suggesting the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons upends decades of American policy in regards to the bomb, but come as Washington’s rivals have been expanding and testing their nuclear-capable arsenals. https://to.pbs.org/3JE26Wb
31.10.2025 00:46 — 👍 61 🔁 25 💬 21 📌 5Sonya Massey’s father delivered a powerful message after the guilty verdict in Sean Grayson’s trial. We now hope the court will impose a meaningful sentence that reflects the severity of these crimes. We will continue to fight for Sonya’s family and for reforms that protect everyone.
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Israel killed at least 104 people in Gaza, including 46 children, in overnight strikes on the Palestinian territory.
The attacks came after Israel claimed its soldiers came under attack by Hamas militants, though the group denied responsibility.
"It's basically Groundhog Day," Palestinian writer Muhammad Shehada says of Israel's latest attacks across Gaza that killed over 100 people. He says Israel has a long history of signing ceasefire agreements only to immediately and repeatedly violate them.
29.10.2025 12:25 — 👍 150 🔁 96 💬 7 📌 3"From the very moment the ceasefire went into effect, Israel has been killing, on average, about eight people per day. If that happens in the U.S., you would call it a mass shooting or a massacre. In Gaza, it doesn't even make headlines."
29.10.2025 12:27 — 👍 143 🔁 85 💬 1 📌 2As Hurricane Melissa batters Jamaica, climate justice activist @mikaelaloach.bsky.social says "this has been caused by the climate crisis, by fossil fuel companies." She also suggests naming storms after oil company executives to highlight their role.
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President Donald Trump: "I don't think we're going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we're just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country, okay? We're going to kill them, you know? They're going to be, like, dead, okay?"
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Lt. Col. Rachel VanLandingham (Ret.) told @pbsnews.org:
If the Trump administration can target, bomb and kill alleged drug smugglers at sea "extrajudicially, they can interdict them, detain them and prosecute them." She called the administration's actions "abominable."
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When Tish James walks into a courthouse tomorrow — the target of a political prosecution demanded by a President obsessed with revenge — she does not walk in alone.
New York has her back.
Grateful to Governor Hochul for bringing us together tonight.
Al Schmidt, Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth who is a Republican, told PBS News: "In the United States of America, it's the states who run elections, not the federal government."
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BREAKING: Trump says he is terminating trade talks with Canada because of TV ads protesting tariffs.
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US Vice President Vance decries 'political stunt', says Trump would not back annexation of occupied West Bank.
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