On federal death row they feared Biden would set up another Trump killing spree, then he commuted 38 death sentences

On federal death row they feared Biden would set up another Trump killing spree, then he commuted 38 death sentences

Since the re-election of Donald Trump, a rising chorus of activists, lawmakers and members of the legal community had been calling on President Joe Biden to commute the sentences of all 40 men on federal death row to life without parole.

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US Treasury accuses Chinese hackers of stealing documents in ‘major incident’

US Treasury accuses Chinese hackers of stealing documents in ‘major incident’

Tom Hegel, a threat researcher at cybersecurity company SentinelOne said the reported security incident “fits a well-documented pattern of operations by PRC-linked groups, with a particular focus on abusing trusted third-party services – a method that has become increasingly prominent in recent years,” he said, using an acronym for the People’s Republic of China.”

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Opposition MP among protesters arrested in Kenya as youths vow to force President Ruto to end abductions

Opposition MP among protesters arrested in Kenya as youths vow to force President Ruto to end abductions

President William Ruto on Saturday said the government would stop the abductions so that young people live in peace.

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Court issues arrest warrant for impeached South Korean President Yoon over martial law

Court issues arrest warrant for impeached South Korean President Yoon over martial law

The court issued the warrant due to the likelihood that Yoon will not respond to summons without a justifiable reason, and there being a substantial reason to suspect Yoon of a crime, Yonhap said. The court declined to comment.

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Leaked Trump’s tax returns: Whistleblower Charles Littlejohn at risk of revenge as Biden’s in office winds down

Leaked Trump’s tax returns: Whistleblower Charles Littlejohn at risk of revenge as Biden’s in office winds down

With Biden winding down his time in office, Littlejohn’s advocates, including tax code reformers from the groups Revolving Door Project and Patriotic Millionaires, are worried for the incarcerated IRS consultant. They’re calling on Biden to commute Littlejohn’s sentence before it is too late and he is forced to spend Trump’s second term in prison at risk of retribution.

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Street protests resume in Kenya to press for unconditional release of youths abducted by police

Street protests resume in Kenya to press for unconditional release of youths abducted by police

Initially aimed at overturning proposed tax hikes, the demonstrations eventually evolved into a movement that cut across Kenya’s traditional ethnic divisions, becoming the biggest threat to the incumbent President William Ruto’s government.

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Ugandans are so psychologically beaten that they believe China assembles plastic rice and eggs

Ugandans are so psychologically beaten that they believe China assembles plastic rice and eggs

One thing is true. If there can be fake rice and fake eggs, there can also be fake water melon, fake Avocado, fake banana, fake mango and fake everything which could find their way into supermarkets and markets as unscrupulous people try to maximise dishonest income from unaware customers. And there are unscrupulous people everywhere on the globe; not only in China.

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Sacred and the materialities of religion in Uganda: How God finds expression in different cultures and economies

Sacred and the materialities of religion in Uganda: How God finds expression in different cultures and economies

Anthropomorphic (i.e. the attribution of human characteristics or behaviour to a god, animal or object) positions about material cultures, offering relational theories (such as the new animism and the new materialism) that allow indigenous religious materialities to reveal new understandings about the ontological and other potentialities of so-called “things”.

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Government critics in Kenya are now an endangered species as human rights groups worry over abductions

Government critics in Kenya are now an endangered species as human rights groups worry over abductions

In October, nine European envoys raised concerns over enforced disappearances and urged Ruto to ensure justice. The envoys spoke after four Turkish nationals were abducted from Kenya and repatriated despite registering with the UN as asylum seekers, citing threats to their lives back home.

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He may have lacked political shrewdness but fallen former US president Jimmy Carter won hearts of many as a humanitarian

He may have lacked political shrewdness but fallen former US president Jimmy Carter won hearts of many as a humanitarian

Jimmy Carter lived longer than any US president and, after leaving the White House, earned a reputation as a committed humanitarian. He was widely seen as a better former president than he was a president – a status he readily acknowledged.

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