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Alpine skiing: Race director received death threats after parallel events
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Men's race director Markus Waldner received death threats following the parallel giant slaloms at the Cortina d'Ampezzo Alpine skiing world championships, the organising committee said on Thursday. Fondazione Cortina...
Falsehoods and death threats haunt local election workers weeks after Capitol siege
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His staff endured racist taunts. His voicemail overflowed with threats and wild conspiracy theories. And then one day, a caller warned that the Christmas Day bombing in Nashville "was a practice run for what was com...
Premier League referee and family receive online death threats
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A leading English referee and his family have been subjected to online death threats following two erroneous decisions in successive games he took charge of. Mike Dean had received criticism for sending off West Ham...
Biden taps Lisa Monaco as homeland security adviser to inauguration amid rising threats
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President-elect Joe Biden has asked Lisa Monaco, his deputy attorney general nominee, to temporarily step away from those duties and serve as a homeland security adviser to his inauguration team, a Biden transition ...
‘People can’t afford to wait’: Biden and allies push for quick confirmations of nominees, citing security threats
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President-elect Joe Biden is on course to lag behind his recent predecessors who had Cabinet nominees confirmed on the day of inauguration, causing concern that Biden's administration could be hampered in its early ...
Congress briefed on new threats facing lawmakers and Capitol, Lamb says
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Washington Members of Congress were briefed late Monday on a series of new threats against lawmakers and the US Capitol ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, Rep. Conor Lamb said on CNN Tuesday. The brie...
A mayor received so many threats after supporting a mask mandate that she resigned
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A Kansas mayor has resigned after backlash to comments she made in support of a mask mandate in her city. Dodge City Mayor Joyce Warshaw submitted her letter of resignation Tuesday. It was effective immediately and...
Trump’s threats to democracy are going nowhere in court
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The repetitive and meritless legal challenges to the November 3 election results from President Donald Trump and his allies have sent one fundamental message: Millions of votes cast by their fellow Americans are wor...
Man accused of making online threats to kill law enforcement and people celebrating results of the presidential election
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Federal prosecutors have charged a Staten Island, New York, man with making threats to kill and ordering others to kill politicians, law enforcement and people who were celebrating the results of the presidential el...
She received death threats for playing football. Now she’s changing lives
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In a remote village in Pakistan's Chitral Valley, about 1500 meters above sea level, wi-fi is intermittent. It is among these mountains bordering Afghanistan that Karishma Ali is changing lives -- and trying to tell...
Sally’s two biggest threats are inland flooding and storm surge
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Hurricane Sally could possibly cause historic flooding "with extreme life-threatening flash flooding likely through Wednesday," the National Hurricane Center says. Hurricanes are commonly thought of as strong, power...