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Today's Top Political and Coronavirus News Compilation - Sunday, September 26, 2021

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Senator Tim Scott says police reform talks collapsed because Democrats supported "defunding the police"
Senator Tim Scott is blaming Democrats' push to cut funding to law enforcement for the collapse of bipartisan police reform negotiations on Capitol Hill. Earlier this week, President Biden blamed the failure of the deal on Republicans in Congress and claimed they had "rejected enacting modest reforms, which even the previous president had supported."




























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US soldier charged in Japan for rape of minor

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The case is likely to stoke the long-standing local opposition to US military presence.
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Kanye and Summer's estate reach copyright settlement

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The rapper was being sued for using an uncleared sample the 1977 hit I Feel Love on his album.
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Rahul Gandhi's big test as India's opposition leader

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The post has been empty for a decade and he will have to lead from the front.
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Australian rugby star Hayne will not face new rape trial

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Prosecutors have dropped rape charges against Jarryd Hayne having "carefully considered" the public interest.
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Assange hugs wife and father on arriving in Australia

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has landed in Canberra, after walking free from a US court in Saipan.
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Australia turned its back on Assange. Time made him a martyr

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Assange was met by a large crowd as he returned home, but there was initially little sympathy for him in Australia.
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Assange lands in native Australia after pleading guilty in US court

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Julian Assange arrived on Wednesday in his native Australia, with the WikiLeaks founder stepping off the plane in Canberra and hugging his wife, Stella.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returns to Australia after US legal battle ends

  • News source: Rick Rycroft and Rod McGuirk | Associated Press
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned to his homeland Australia aboard a charter jet on Wednesday, hours after pleading guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that concludes a drawn-out legal saga.

The criminal case of international intrigue, which had played out for years, came to a surprise end in a most unusual setting with Assange, 52, entering his plea in a U.S. district court in Saipan, the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands. The American commonwealth in the Pacific is...
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Biden pardons potentially thousands of ex-service members convicted under now-repealed gay sex ban

  • News source: Zeke Miller | Associated Press
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President Joe Biden pardoned potentially thousands of former U.S. service members convicted of violating a now-repealed military ban on consensual gay sex, saying Wednesday that he is “righting an historic wrong" to clear the way for them to regain lost benefits.

Biden's action grants a pardon to service members who were convicted under the Uniform Code of Military Justice's former Article 125, which criminalized sodomy. The law, which has been on the books since 1951, was rewritten in 2013 to prohibit only forcible acts.

Those covered by the...
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More info out about 8 Tajikistani men arrested in U.S. for suspected ISIS ties

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More information has emerged about eight Tajikistani men arrested earlier this month by federal law enforcement for suspected ties to ISIS.

Federal law enforcement had acquired intelligence information indicating the eight men were inside the U.S. and had possible ties to ISIS, according to two sources familiar with the information. The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force opened an investigation into the men, and investigators monitored their communications, the sources said, including following their activities on social media like chat rooms and...
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NATO appoints outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as its next secretary-general

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NATO has appointed Mark Rutte as its next secretary-general, putting the outgoing Dutch prime minister in charge of the world’s biggest security organization at a critical time for European security as war rages in Ukraine
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Gunman allegedly kills 5, critically injures teen in shootings at 2 apartments

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A man allegedly killed five people and critically injured a 13-year-old in shootings at two apartments in North Las Vegas, Nevada, authorities said.
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5 things to watch in the first 2024 general election debate

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President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will face off in-person Thursday for the first of two presidential debates this year.
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Biden pardoning LGBTQ+ service members convicted for sexual orientation

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President Biden is pardoning LGBTQ+ service members who were convicted of a crime under military law based on their sexual orientation, he is expected to announce Wednesday. The Biden administration estimates the move will affect "thousands" of service members convicted over the six decades that military law formally banned consensual homosexual conduct, senior administration officials told reporters on a call Tuesday.

"Today, I am righting an historic wrong by using my clemency authority to pardon many former service members who were convicted...
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Biden Expected to Pardon Veterans Convicted of Having Gay Sex

  • News source: Katie Rogers
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President Biden is expected on Wednesday to pardon American veterans who were convicted of engaging in gay sex under a military code that outlawed the behavior for more than 60 years.

Mr. Biden’s proclamation would grant clemency to some 2,000 people who were charged between 1951 and 2013, addressing a “historic wrong,” as the president said in a statement the White House released ahead of the announcement.

“Today, I am righting an historic wrong by using my clemency authority to pardon many former service members who were convicted simply for...
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