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Alaska

To Build Ships That Break Ice, U.S. Must Relearn to Cut Steel | #alaska | #politics

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Alabama

Alabama Asks Supreme Court to Reinstate GOP-Drawn Congressional Voting Map | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Alabama asked the US Supreme Court to reinstate a Republican-drawn congressional map, saying the state doesn’t have to create a second near-majority Black district even after losing a high court ruling earlier this year. The request aims to reopen a Supreme Court fight over the Voting Rights Act, the 1965 law that protects the rights […]

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City Council

Birmingham City Council: How an equal pay claim took down Britain’s second-biggest city | #citycouncil

London CNN  —  Birmingham — the biggest British city after London — is in dire financial straits. The city’s council is one of a growing number of local government authorities in the United Kingdom making, or considering, painful spending cuts as a result of insufficient funds. Birmingham’s effective bankruptcy is uniquely tied to hefty compensation […]

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Mayor

Russia downed three drones en route to Moscow, says Mayor

Russian defenses shot down three aerial drones in the western regions of Moscow, Kaluga and Tver, authorities said on Tuesday morning. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is planning to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and discuss the possibility of Pyongyang supplying Moscow with weapons. Follow our live blog for the latest updates on the war […]

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Mayor

Danish Mayor Urges Tourists to Stop Buying Pot on Pusher Street

The mayor of Denmark’s capital has sent a public appeal to tourists and foreign students asking them to refrain from buying cannabis on Christiania’s Pusher Street in a bid to stop the ongoing gang violence in Copenhagen’s free town. Buying weed for a party on a Friday night “may seem innocent,” but the money will […]

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Mayor

Ryyan Alshebl: From Syrian refugee to mayor of a German town | Refugees

Video Duration 25 minutes 10 seconds 25:10 Talk to Al Jazeera The 29-year-old who fled war in Syria eight years ago shares his journey from being a refugee to mayor of Ostelsheim. Read more In 2015, a 21-year-old asylum seeker from Syria made it to the Greek island of Lesbos in a rubber boat. Ryyan […]

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Mayor

Russia shoots down two Ukrainian drones headed for Moscow, mayor

03:02: Moscow’s mayor says two combat drones headed for the capital were shot down Two Ukrainian combat drones headed for Moscow were shot down, Russian officials said on Wednesday, the latest in a surge of drone attacks targeting the capital. The attempted attack comes a day after the death toll from strikes on the eastern […]

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Mayor

Copenhagen’s Mayor Blasted U.S. Counterpart Over Anti-LGBTQ+ Moves

To the Danish, something is rotten in the United States. More specifically, the Danes are unhappy with the anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment put forth by the city council of California’s “Danish capital,” Solvang. One would be forgiven if one mistook a photo from Solvang as a postcard from Copenhagen. The town has all the similarities to the […]

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Mayor

After house set on fire, French mayor resigns amid local battle over hosting asylum-seekers

PARIS (AP) — The mayor of a small French town whose home was set on fire amid a bitter battle over bringing in migrants is resigning from his job of overseeing an increasingly divided community. Yannick Morez, a doctor who became mayor of Saint Brevin-les-Pins in 2017, said in a letter to the prefect of […]

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