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The Republicans are one step closer to fulfilling their obsession with seeing Anthony Fauci behind bars, the man who led the United States’ response to the coronavirus pandemic during Donald Trump’s first term. The Senate Homeland Security Committee adopted a resolution this Thursday declaring the doctor in contempt of Congress for refusing last week to answer the panel’s questions about the origin of the coronavirus and his actions as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

“Trust in peace.” The message printed on Keiko Ogura’s t-shirt, a survivor of the atomic bomb, summarizes the identity that Japan built after the United States’ nuclear attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

As a result of the Protestant Reformation and the Church of England becoming the official church of the country under the reign of Elizabeth I, Catholics were marginalized to the point of lacking full citizenship, having to pay additional taxes, being unable to vote, buy property, practice law, or hold public office, both civil and military, from university rector to prime minister.

Spain has become one of the main focuses of the Italian political debate. And the effect is also beginning to be felt at the airports.

A fragment of a SpaceX rocket that had been floating in space since last year crashed into the Moon on Wednesday, adding to the list of meteoroids, spacecraft, and other space debris that have been bombarding the lunar surface for a very long time, astronomers said.

After a tense and aggressive campaign, with Israel’s role at the center of the contest, progressive Abdul El Sayed has won tonight the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan against centrist Haley Stevens, current congresswoman in the House of Representatives. With 95% of the votes counted, Associated Press has projected his victory when they were only separated by 20,000 votes, by a margin of 0.90 points. The winner will face the Trumpist Republican Mike Rogers on November 3 in this contested state, where Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election by a narrow margin of 1.4%.

A video released by the National Police of Ukraine shows how a Russian first-person view (FPV) drone deliberately chased an unarmed street vendor in the Kherson region, in southern Ukraine, before exploding. The man survived the attack, although he was injured by shrapnel.

A new Russian bombing on Kyiv and the surrounding region of the Ukrainian capital caused at least 14 deaths, 27 injuries, and damage to several warehouses in the area in the early hours of this Wednesday, according to authorities and emergency services in Ukraine. Russia, for its part, confirmed that it had carried out a “massive attack” against several military logistics centers.

Going on vacation in August if you are the British Prime Minister carries considerable risk if one pays attention to precedents, and one must be prepared to interrupt or cancel them at the slightest sign of trouble. Keir Starmer – who was a bit unlucky, to be fair – had to give up his plans in 2024, shortly after winning the elections, due to the riots sparked across the country by the murder of some girls in Southport, and last year he was forced to cut them short to meet with Donald Trump in Scotland and talk about Ukraine.

There could not have been better publicity for the French far right, in a position to win the presidential elections next spring, than the shocking images of Ceuta from recent days. The migratory surge they have been denouncing for decades materialized on the screens of continuous news channels and the front pages of newspapers.