Oklahoma prepared to execute a man Thursday whose transfer to state custody was expedited by the Trump administration. John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, is set to receive a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. Hanson was sentenced to die after he was convicted of carjacking, kidnapping and killing a Tulsa woman in 1999. Hanson, whose...
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UN Refugee Agency Says More Than 122 Million People Forcibly Displaced Worldwide
The U.N. refugee agency says the number of people forcible displaced by violence and persecution around the world has risen to more than 122 million, up by about 2 million from last year and a near-doubling over the last decade. UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi nonetheless pointed to some “rays of hope” over the last six...
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Female Athletes Appeal Landmark NCAA Settlement, Saying It Violates Federal Antidiscrimination Law
Eight female athletes filed an appeal Wednesday of a landmark NCAA antitrust settlement, arguing that women would not receive their fair share of $2.7 billion in back pay for athletes who were barred from making money off their name, image and likeness. U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken approved the settlement last week, clearing the way for direct...
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‘I Made The Sign Of Victory For Siwar’: Mother’s Relief As Malnourished Gaza Baby Evacuated To Jordan
The cry was frail but I could hear Siwar Ashour even before she was carried out of the coach. It was the cry of a voice that won’t give up, of a child born in this war and who has now, for a while at least, managed to escape it. In person six-month-old Siwar is...
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Attorneys For Kilmar Abrego Garcia Argue He Isn’t A Flight Risk And Should Be Release
Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man arrested by the government and sent to an El Salvador prison in error and then returned to the United States last week, argue in a court filing Wednesday that he man should be freed from jail pending trial. “Mr. Abrego Garcia asks the Court for what he has...
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“OSHIO BABA NEVER SHUT DOWN LAGOS AIRPORT OVER A MISSED FLIGHT—HE DEMANDED ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY.”
By Hon. Bright Omorogieva In the age of viral misinformation, the easiest thing to share is a lie, and the hardest thing to defend is the truth. Once again, those with empty hands but loud voices have taken to social media with false claims that Senator Adams Oshiomhole – fondly known as Oshio Baba –...
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President Tinubu Assures FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, Of Acceptance If He Choose To Change From His Political Party To APC
“We Have Somebody In Nyesom Wike,He Is Not A Member Of My Party, Not Yet, But The Day He Changes His Mind And Registers With The Progressives, We Will Welcome You” — President Tinubu.
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Ukrainians Welcome Back Home Prisoners Of War
For Olga Serhichuk, the sight of dozens of her countrymen returning home from brutal Russian captivity is bittersweet. Like hundreds of desperate others, she had come to a hospital in Chernihiv, north of Kyiv, not only to welcome the shaved, beaten-up Ukrainian prisoners of war who were coming home as part of a prisoner exchange with Russia. Serhichuk, who turns...
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