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California needs constitutional change to get serious about homelessness 2024-05-10
The Mercury News

I’m fortunate I wasn’t sexually assaulted while living on the streets of Los Angeles County. Many unhoused women are, and some repeatedly — though being attacked three times helped me qualify for a shelter bed. On any given night in Los Angeles County, more than 22,300 women are homeless. When...

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Police disband pro-Palestinian student encampments across the US 2024-05-10
AOL

Police moved in to disband several pro-Palestinian student encampments on US campuses on Friday morning as the foment over protests against academic ties with Israel over the war in Gaza continued to roil academia. Tent encampments at the University of Pennsylvania, the Massachusetts Institute of...

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No more bear hugs: Biden gives up on Netanyahu embrace 2024-05-10
Raw Story

Days after the October 7 attack, Joe Biden walked onto the tarmac in Tel Aviv and offered a warm bear hug to Benjamin Netanyahu, a sign both of solid support for Israel and the US president's long, if not uncomplicated, relationship with the prime minister. Seven months into the devastating...

photo: AP / Evan Vucci

Iranians vote in parliamentary runoff election after hard-liners dominate initial balloting 2024-05-10
Wtop

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranians voted Friday in a runoff election for the remaining seats in the country’s parliament after hard-line politicians dominated March balloting. People in 22 constituencies across the country...

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How far has Spain moved past Catalonia's secession crisis? Voters will decide in regional election 2024-05-10
Newsday

BARCELONA, Spain — Carles Puigdemont, Catalonia’s fugitive former leader, stares confidently out the backseat window of a car, the sun illuminating his gaze in a campaign poster for Sunday’s critical elections in the northeastern Spanish region. The image plays on another one imagined from six years...

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Tension with Israel represents only one of Biden’s immense election challenges 2024-05-10
CNN

If Joe Biden wins a second term later this year, he will have defied one of the most complex political environments for a president seeking reelection in years. At home and abroad, he is facing the kind of headwinds that would normally cast severe doubt on his chances of convincing voters that they...

photo: AP / Stephanie Scarbrough

Israel strikes Rafah as talks yield no breakthrough 2024-05-10
Dawn

SMOKE billows from a building which caught fire after fresh Israeli attacks in the Zaytoun neighbourhood of Gaza City, on Thursday.—AFP CAIRO: Israeli tanks and warplanes bombarded areas of Rafah on Thursday, Palestinian residents said, after President Joe Biden said the United States would...

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Maui to hire expert to evaluate county’s response to deadly wildfire 2024-05-10
Wtop

WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — Nine months after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century struck Maui, Mayor Richard Bissen says the county will hire an outside expert to assess how its emergency management...

photo: AP / Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources

Stock market today: Wall Street limps toward second straight day of losses before the bell 2024-05-09
The Call

Wall Street’s lull threatened to stretch into a second day Thursday as more corporate earnings are released ahead of the government's weekly layoffs data. Futures for the S&P 500 ticked down 0.1% and futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell less than 0.2%. Airbnb tumbled 9.6% in...

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Which bombs has the United States stopped shipping to Israel? 2024-05-09
Al Jazeera

The United States has halted the shipment of some types of heavy bombs to Israel and US President Joe Biden has also pledged to halt the supply of some offensive weapons and artillery shells to the country if it goes ahead with its assault on Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah. Here’s what we know so...

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