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UN food chief: Billions needed to avert unrest, starvation

By EDITH M. LEDERER today UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Without billions of dollars more to feed millions of hungry people, the world will see mass migration, destabilized countries, and starving children and adults in the next 12 to 18 months, the head of the Nobel prize-winning U.N. World Food Program warned Friday. David Beasley praised increased funding from the United States and Germany last year, and urged China, Gulf nations, billionaires and other countries “to step up big time.” In an interv ...

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Sharon Acker, Actress in 'Point Blank' and 'Perry Mason,' Dies at 87

Story by Mike Barnes • 3h ago Sharon Acker, the Canadian actress who portrayed Lee Marvin’s unfaithful wife in the 1967 neo-noir classic Point Blank and the right-hand woman Della Street opposite Monte Markham on a rebooted Perry Mason in the 1970s, has died. She was 87. Acker died March 16 in a retirement home in her native Toronto, her daughter Kim Everest, a casting director, told The Hollywood Reporter. Star Trek fans know Acker for her January 1969 turn as Odona, a desperate woman from a ...

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US says far-right activist convicted over 2016 voter suppression scheme

A social media influencer who once had 58,000 Twitter followers was convicted by a federal jury of election interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential race over a voter suppression scheme, the Justice Department said late on Friday. Douglass Mackey, also known as “Ricky Vaughn,” was convicted of the charge of conspiracy against rights stemming from his scheme to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote, the Justice Department said in a statement. Mackey faces a maximum of 10 ye ...

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Arizona governor must appear in court on pause of executions

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs must appear in court Thursday in her effort to halt pending executions because of questions about the rights of death row prisoners Via AP news wire 1 hour ago Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has been ordered to appear in court Thursday in her efforts to halt pending executions because of questions about the rights of death row prisoners. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Frank Moskowitz said late Friday that Hobbs and Ryan Thornell, the state's prison director, must sho ...

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No handcuffs but a mug shot: Trump to be arraigned Tuesday

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump will be formally arrested and arraigned next Tuesday in his hush money case, court officials said — an announcement promising the historic, shocking scene of a former U.S. commander in chief forced to stand before a judge. As the Manhattan court confirmed the timing on Friday, the streets outside had calmed from earlier in the week. There were no large-scale demonstrations for or against Trump, though tourists stopped to take selfies and throngs of ...

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Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman discharged from hospital

Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania has been discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, his office announced Friday. Fetterman had been undergoing treatment for clinical depression at Walter Reed since checking himself into the hospital in February at the recommendation of the attending physician of the U.S. Congress. "I am so happy to be home. I'm excited to be the father and husband I want to be, and the senator Pennsylvania deserves. Pennsylvanians have always had m ...

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Dozens hurt when tornado strikes Little Rock as dangerous storms spread across 15 states

A tornado plowed through Arkansas' capital and surrounding areas Friday afternoon, reducing rooftops to splinters, toppling vehicles and tossing debris on roadways as people raced for shelter. Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott, Jr. reported on Twitter Friday evening that at least 24 people had been hospitalized with storm-related injuries. He added that officials were "not aware of any fatalities...at this time." He described the property damage as "extensive." The Little Rock ...

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Dominion's historic defamation case against Fox News will go to trial, judge rules

New York CNN -- Dominion Voting Systems' historic defamation case against Fox News will proceed to a high-stakes jury trial in mid-April, a Delaware judge ruled Friday, in a major decision that dismantled several of the right-wing network's key defenses. The judge's decision is a painful setback for Fox News and sets the stage for an agonizing, weekslong trial, where the network's highest-ranking executives and most prominent hosts could be called to the stand to testify about the 2020 electio ...

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Minnesota's 21-year age minimum for handgun carry permits struck down

(Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday struck down a Minnesota law requiring a person to be at least 21 before obtaining a permit to carry a handgun in public, finding it violated the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The order by U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez in St. Paul is the latest in a series of legal defeats for state gun control measures following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year expanding gun rights nationwide. The state's 21-year age ...

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Trump Goes On Manic Posting Bender After Indictment

(Mediaite) Former President Donald Trump went on a manic posting bender following his indictment that extended into the wee hours of the morning with an all-caps reference to Hunter Biden. The media went into overdrive when News broke on Thursday afternoon that Trump has been indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s grand jury investigating the circumstances around hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. But so did Trump, who reacted in short order with a lengthy statement lashing out in familiar language about persecution and attacking Bragg, as well as President Joe Biden.

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Harris peeks at peppers on farm with climate change in mind

5 hrs ago - By CHRIS MEGERIAN LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday traveled down a dirt road to tour a farm outside Zambia’s capital that’s using new techniques and technology to boost its vegetable crop as she highlighted ways to secu ... (AP)

Arizona governor must appear in court on pause of executions

10 hrs ago - Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs must appear in court Thursday in her effort to halt pending executions because of questions about the rights of death row prisoners Via AP news wire 1 hour ago Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has been ordered to appear in court T ... (Independent/Associated Press)

US says far-right activist convicted over 2016 voter suppression scheme

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UN food chief: Billions needed to avert unrest, starvation

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Sharon Acker, Actress in 'Point Blank' and 'Perry Mason,' Dies at 87

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Friday - An economic slowdown, persistent inflation and weaker productivity growth will hurt Social Security’s finances, draining its reserves one year earlier than previously estimated, the government said Friday. Social Security won’t have enough money to ... (Wall Street Journal)

Minnesota's 21-year age minimum for handgun carry permits struck down

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No handcuffs but a mug shot: Trump to be arraigned Tuesday

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Dominion's historic defamation case against Fox News will go to trial, judge rules

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