Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell has died aged 84 of Covid-19 complications, his family has announced.

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Colin Powell: Former US secretary of state dies of Covid complications

 With sadness, the Reagan Foundation joins the American people in mourning the loss of Gen. Colin Powell. His life story was, in many respects,...

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Statement by Fred Ryan, Chairman of the Board of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute on the Death of Colin Powell

Workers picket outside the John Deere Harvester Works facility on Oct. 14, 2021, in East Moline, Ill.
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Shortly before midnight on Wednesday, production workers at a John Deere facility in Waterloo, Iowa, started shutting down the plant, quenching the furnaces in the foundry. The plant was already mostly empty, with Deere telling overnight workers to stay home.

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A college administrator pressured the campus paper to take down a pro-union article and revise it to feature management-friendly talking points.

Bates College Administration Censors Student Reporters Covering Staff Unionization

Baseless claims of anti-Semitism and allegations of hypocrisy have been leveled for decades at anyone who rejects the fiction that Israel is a normal state.

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Lies Are Being Told About Sally Rooney Because She Refuses to Ignore Israeli Apartheid

Fábio Souza Lima went from van collector to owner of a millionaire company – until he lost everything and was arrested.

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He sold his startup to PagSeguro for millions. He ended up stuck.

With the U.S. Capitol building seen in the background, a sign on a bus shelter asks the public for information about people involved in the Capitol insurrection, January 19, 2021.

A Florida Anarchist Will Spend Years in Prison for Online Posts Prompted by Jan. 6 Riot

“Do you want to continue with this medication?” asks an actor portraying a doctor in a new political ad, holding a pill bottle out to a fictional patient. When the patient nods, the fake doctor turns left to two people in dark suits, who frown and shake their heads. “I’m sorry,” the doctor tells the patient.

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Conservative Dark-Money Groups Push Deceptive Ads Against Biden’s Agenda

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has denounced the partnership between progressive Democrats and billionaire disrupter George Soros.

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In April 2019, Ivanka Trump told the AP she passed on leading the World Bank, expressing that she was "happy" with her work at the White House.

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Former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin intervened to block Ivanka Trump's appointment to the World Bank: report

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