Some of the country’s largest firms are scrambling to distance themselves from last week’s insurrection at the US Capitol by freezing or reassessing their political donations — sending tremors through a political system that has relied for decades on the predictable flow of corporate financial support.
Boston-based political scientist accused of acting as an unregistered agent of Iran
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A Boston-based political scientist and author has been arrested and charged with acting as an unregistered foreign agent of the Iranian government. Federal prosecutors said Kaveh Lotfolah Afrasiabi, 63, was to make...
The world will take away a tragic truth from Biden’s inauguration
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This was excerpted from the January 15 edition of CNN's Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers. Click here to read past editions and subscribe. There'll be no arguments about crow...
‘Extraordinary’ research finds electric eels hunt in packs
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Electric eels have been found to hunt in packs in the first documented case of its kind, which researchers have called an "extraordinary discovery." Scientists working in the Brazilian Amazon River basin were surpri...
Russian woman who swam under Siberia’s ice may have broken the world record
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Wearing nothing but a bathing suit, a swimming cap and an underwater mask, the 40-year-old woman plunged into a carved-out section of a frozen Siberian lake, before diving under the ice to swim in water estimated to...
Lawyer for Trump campaign withdraws after saying election cases were used to commit crime
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A Pennsylvania lawyer who represented the Trump campaign in one of its early election challenges told a federal judge Thursday "the client has used the lawyer's services to perpetrate a crime," one day after a mob o...
How Josh Hawley’s political ploy backfired massively
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Josh Hawley looked like he had seen a ghost. The 40-something Missouri Republican senator was clearly shaken and uncertain of himself Wednesday night as he spoke on the Senate floor -- decrying the violence that had...
Already free of coronavirus, this Pacific Islands country could become the first in the world to be vaccinated
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A cluster of islands in the Pacific Ocean that's one of the few places on Earth entirely free from Covid-19 could become one of the first countries vaccinated against the disease. The Republic of Palau, an archipela...
Rep. Jamie Raskin honors late son in emotional tribute: ‘A radiant light in this broken world’
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Rep. Jamie Raskin and his wife, Sarah, published an emotional tribute to their late son, Tommy, who died by suicide at 25 years old last week, describing him as "a radiant light in this broken world." "Tommy Raskin ...
A ring with 12,638 diamonds sets a Guinness World Record
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How many diamonds can fit in a single ring? The answer, according to the new Guinness World Records book, is 12,638. Harshit Bansal, founder of Renani Jewels in Meerut, India, set the record with his impressive de...
A Wendy’s manager is trying to change the world one ‘I love you’ at a time
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In a year of despair and a world full of hate, one fast food manager is doing what she can to spread a message of love. April DiDonna told a customer that she loved him after he ordered at the Wendy's drive-thru whe...
A family of 12 siblings now holds the Guinness World Record for highest combined age
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A family of 12 siblings broke the Guinness World Record for highest total combined age, with the oldest at 97 and the youngest at 75. The D'Cruz family has a combined age of 1,042 years and 315 days, and their reco...
‘We Can Be Heroes’ gives the kids of superheroes a shot at saving the world
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Writer-director Robert Rodriguez offers an odd mashup of two movies from the 2000s with "We Can Be Heroes," basically the offspring of his "Spy Kids" and "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl." The result is a li...