Donald Trump 2024: Signs of a comeback bid for the presidency

In the days after the United States Congress decided to impeach Donald Trump over his role in inciting the January 6 insurrection, it seemed the possibility of his running for the presidency again was slim. Eleven months later, those odds have tumbled. Although the former president has yet to launch an official, or non-official bid to run in the 2024 […]

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Owl habitat cuts by Trump appointees used 'faulty' science

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Political appointees in the Trump administration relied on faulty science to justify stripping habitat protections for the imperiled northern spotted owl, U.S. wildlife officials said Tuesday as they struck down a rule that would have opened millions of acres of forest in Oregon, Washington and California to potential logging. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reversed […]

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Officials probe whether fentanyl played a role in Astroworld tragedy

Astroworld investigators are probing whether bad batch of illegal drugs laced with fentanyl played a role in deadly Travis Scott concert: Numerous concertgoers who survived were given naloxone which reverses opioid overdoses Police are probing whether illegal drugs laced with fentanyl led to any of the eight deaths at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival on Friday in Houston Multiple unconscious concertgoers […]

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Auckland Council releases images of Labour and National’s intensification plans

Auckland Council is ratcheting up its opposition to Labour and National’s radical plans for greater intensification with the release of diagrams showing the visual impact on the city. The plans have been described as “Soviet-style” blocks by one local politician and brought a warning from Mayor Phil Goff that they will create slums in poorer suburbs. Housing Minister Megan Woods […]

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Probe launched into morgue monster's crimes to prevent more bodies being sexually abused

AN independent probe into the crimes of depraved David Fuller has been launched to prevent more dead bodies being sexually abused. The hospital electrician, 67, admitted murdering then sexually assaulting two women in Kent bedsits before carrying out dozens of sex attacks on corpses in mortuaries. Health Secretary Sajid Javid appointed NHS executive Sir Jonathan Michael to lead the probe. […]

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Oscar Pistorius, Olympic runner convicted of murder, is up for parole

JOHANNESBURG (NYTIMES) – Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympic sprinter who garnered global headlines after killing his girlfriend in 2013, may soon be paroled from prison, South African corrections officials said Monday (Nov 8). Pistorius shot his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, through a locked bathroom door in February 2013. He claimed that her death was an accident, and that he had fired […]

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