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"Not a single Republican in the United States Senate has the courage to even debate whether we should protect American democracy or not."

Apple Daily, a 26-year-old newspaper critical of Beijing, will cease print and digital operations by the end of Thursday.

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Rep. Mondaire Jones said Sinema is effectively arguing that "we should let Republicans destroy democracy now because at some indeterminate time in the future they may try again."

The legislation - which sought to make it easier for Americans to vote by post - fails in the Senate.

GOP Sen. James Lankford (Okla.) on Tuesday vocalized opposition to making Washington, D.C., the 51st state in the union, arguing that the nation’s capital has not had voting representatives in Congress for some time and that “no one's compelled to actually” live there.

A GoBankingRates survey found the majority supports blanket student-debt cancellation, and 20% think the government should stay out of loan forgiveness.

The civil rights activists say the two senators are "threatening our democracy."

A majority of people surveyed in a new poll believe that in-person early voting should be made easier, and that voters should be required to show photo identification before casting ballots.

In an op-ed for The Washington Post, Katie Hobbs touted the For the People Act as a step to stop the "dismantling of voting rights."

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said his government will pardon the nine jailed leaders of Catalonia's failed 2017 independence bid on Tuesday, saying that seeking reconciliation with the region was in the public interest.

Author: Panos  | Published: June 21, 2021

Three Turks were arrested by Special Police Forces & were handed over to the NIS as all the evidence shows that this is a very serious case.
They were moving around in the center of Athens with Interpol IDs. They spoke five languages, had thousands of euros in cash and lived in an expensive house.
... These are the three Turks who were arrested by Special Police Forces and were handed over to the Greek National Intelligence Service (NIS) as all the evidence shows that this is a very serious case on an international level on the trafficking of illegal migrants.
They themselves do not say much. One claims to be a Turkish policeman but the others keep their mouths shut refusing to even reveal how long they have been in Greece and how they found the money.
In the ghettos of  illegal immigrants in Athens, it was known lately that there were three strange guys pretending to be police officers and promising everything from travel documents to air tickets to anyone who wanted to enter or leave Greece illegally.

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China’s Deputy National Security Minister left his country via Hong Kong and sought refuge in the US
A high-ranking Chinese official, who fled to the United States last February with his daughter through Hong Kong, has revealed to the Biden government information about the “leak” of the coronavirus from a science laboratory in Wuhan, which prompted the White House to investigate again the origins of the deadly virus.
... The theory that the coronavirus “leaked” from the Institute of Virology in Wuhan or another science laboratory in the Chinese city has been described as a “conspiracy theory” by many, although it is known that in Wuhan’s laboratories scientists researched coronaviruses coming from the bats.
The official is the 57-year-old Dong Jingwei, a deputy minister in China’s Ministry of National Security, which practically is the country’s Secret Services. Jingwei had been assigned many cases since April 2018.
News that the top Chinese official had surrendered to the United States has come to light in recent days, following rumors circulating on Chinese social media.
It all started with a tweet from Han Lianchao, a former Chinese Foreign Ministry official, who surrendered to the United States after the bloody protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989.


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