Its role is to expose wrongdoing, illuminate facts, and draw the world’s attention to crimes committed in the name of false causes and manufactured justifications.
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Andy J. Semotiuk,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2026
Lawsuits and hearings The independent journalist Katie Phang is currently suing the Department of Justice to force it to provide justifications for many of the redactions and release additional documents.
Zelensky said in his daily address late Wednesday that Russia is moving more air defenses to the capital as well as to Valdai, a town some 300 miles northwest of Moscow and the site of a residence for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Illia Novikov,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2026
Once relying on its massive missile arsenal, advances in Israeli intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance have neutered its previous strategy of relying on simultaneous barrages of missiles to overwhelm Israeli missile defenses.
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Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
24 June 2026
Attorneys posed dueling accounts of Payton and Martin’s roles in the deadly 2022 K Street shootings as closing arguments resumed Wednesday in the pair’s murder trial in Sacramento Superior Court.
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Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
25 June 2026
Even during the high court arguments in April, advocates for children worried that these impacts were being overlooked.
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