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Report Says World’s Biggest Arms Producers Increased Revenue By 5.9% Last Year To Record Level

Report Says World’s Biggest Arms Producers Increased Revenue By 5.9% Last Year To Record Level

The world’s biggest weapons-producing companies saw a 5.9% increase in revenue from sales of arms and military services last year as demand was fed by the wars in Ukraine and Gaza as well as countries’ rising military spending, according to a report released Monday. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, or SIPRI, said the revenues of the 100 largest...

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Netanyahu Requests A Pardon To End His Ongoing Corruption Trial In Israel

Netanyahu Requests A Pardon To End His Ongoing Corruption Trial In Israel

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday asked the country’s president to grant him a pardon from corruption charges, seeking to end a long-running trial that has bitterly divided the nation. Netanyahu, who has been at war against Israel’s legal system over the charges, said the request would help unify the country at a time of momentous...

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Suspect In National Guard Attack Struggled With ‘Dark Isolation’ As Community Raised Concerns

Suspect In National Guard Attack Struggled With ‘Dark Isolation’ As Community Raised Concerns

The Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard members blocks from the White House had been unraveling for years, unable to hold a job and flipping between long, lightless stretches of isolation and taking sudden weekslong cross-country drives. Rahmanullah Lakanwal’s behavior deteriorated so sharply that a community advocate reached out to a refugee organization for help,...

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Michael Jordan’s Fight Against NASCAR Heads To Court, Could Shake Up Motorsports

Michael Jordan’s Fight Against NASCAR Heads To Court, Could Shake Up Motorsports

Michael Jordan’s bitter fight against NASCAR heads to federal court Monday in a jury trial that could rip apart the top motorsports series in the United States. The antitrust allegations leveled by Jordan-owned 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports has exposed salacious personal communications, NASCAR’s finances and a deep contempt between some of the top executives in the sport...

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Investigators Plead For Tips After 3 Children, 1 Adult Killed In Shooting At Child’s Birthday Party

Investigators Plead For Tips After 3 Children, 1 Adult Killed In Shooting At Child’s Birthday Party

 Authorities in California appealed to the public for tips, cellphone video, witness accounts and even rumors as they searched Sunday for a suspect in the killing of three children and an adult during a mass shooting at a child’s birthday party. Someone opened fire at a banquet hall in Stockton where 100 people or more...

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Bangladesh’s Ex-Leader Hasina And Niece, British Lawmaker Tulip Siddiq, Found Guilty Of Corruption

Bangladesh’s Ex-Leader Hasina And Niece, British Lawmaker Tulip Siddiq, Found Guilty Of Corruption

A court in Bangladesh’s capital sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to five years in prison and her niece, British Labour Party lawmaker Tulip Siddiq, to two years in prison Monday for corruption involving a government land project. Rabiul Alam, the judge of Dhaka’s Special Judge’s Court, said Hasina misused her power as prime minister while Siddiq...

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Conservatives Ahead Of Governing Party In Honduras Presidential Vote, Early Results Show

Conservatives Ahead Of Governing Party In Honduras Presidential Vote, Early Results Show

Conservatives Ahead Of Governing Party In Honduras Presidential Vote, Early Results Show  With votes from about 43% of polling places counted early Monday in Honduras’ presidential contest, preliminary and partial results showed two conservative challengers leading the race. The vote came just days after U.S. President Donald Trump intervened in a close race by endorsing a candidate and announcing that...