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  • WorldReuters

    Hungary's sovereignty law threatens free debate, says rights watchdog

    Hungary's new sovereignty law could have "a chilling effect" on free and democratic debate in the country, a panel of constitutional law experts from the Council of Europe, a human rights watchdog, said on Tuesday. Hungary's parliament passed a law in December which the ruling right-wing Fidesz party said would prevent undue interference in national politics by foreign persons or groups. The new law set up an authority, the Sovereignty Protection Office, to explore and monitor risks of politic

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  • USNBC News

    Michigan school shooter’s father threatened to destroy the prosecutor in case against him, sources confirm

    The convicted father of the Oxford High School shooter said in jailhouse phone calls that he wanted to ruin the prosecutor in the case against him and that she would be going to hell soon, sources confirmed.

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  • USUSA TODAY

    Years after her stepdad shot her in the face, Michigan woman gets a new nose

    In Chapter 5 of Amedy Dewey's story, Amedy undergoes another surgery, this one to reconstruct her nose, after being shot in the face six years ago.

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  • USAssociated Press

    Images taken deep inside melted Fukushima reactor show damage, but leave many questions unanswered

    Images taken by miniature drones from deep inside a badly damaged reactor at the Fukushima nuclear plant show displaced control equipment and misshapen materials but leave many questions unanswered, underscoring the daunting task of decommissioning the plant. The 12 photos released by the plant's operator are the first from inside the main structural support called the pedestal in the hardest-hit No. 1 reactor’s primary containment vessel, an area directly under the reactor's core. Officials h

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  • USThe Daily Beast

    Trump Golf Club Settlement Hangs Alina Habba Out to Dry

    Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyDonald Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, paid $82,500 last week to settle a lawsuit alleging that it had silenced a sexually harassed waitress by tricking her into an unfair hush money deal, according to the ex-employee’s lawyer.But the curiously worded contract left the former president’s own attorney Alina Habba—a rising star in his orbit—wide open to getting sued herself.Trump and his top advisers are already a magnet fo

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  • USWOFL

    Georgia couple accused of child neglect after being found 'heavily intoxicated,' asleep on Daytona Beach

    A young couple from Georgia was arrested Saturday afternoon after Volusia County deputies say they found them drunk and asleep in the sand in Daytona Beach, and their children were nowhere to be found.

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  • WorldAssociated Press

    Germans thought they were immune to nationalism after confronting their Nazi past. They were wrong

    When Sabine Thonke joined a recent demonstration in Berlin against Germany's far-right party, it was the first time in years she felt hopeful that the growing power of the extremists in her country could be stopped. Thonke, 59, had been following the rise of the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, with unease. If an election were held today, the AfD would be the second largest party, according to polls.

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