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John Thune offers to tweak controversial phone records language Donald Trump

John Thune offers to tweak controversial phone records language

Senate Majority Leader John Thune offered Thursday to amend the controversial provision he slipped into last week's government funding package that could award GOP senators hundreds of thousands of dollars for having their phone records seized without their knowledge as part of an investigation into President Donald Trump's effort to…
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November 20, 2025
Catholic clergy, nuns sue Trump admin over Communion access for ICE detainees Christianity

Catholic clergy, nuns sue Trump admin over Communion access for ICE detainees

(RNS) — Taking a cue from the pope and American Catholic bishops, a group of Chicago-area Catholic priests, nuns and advocates filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration, claiming the government is encroaching on their religious freedom by barring them from providing religious rites and services to immigrant detainees.…
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November 20, 2025
UK Covid-19 Inquiry Report: Long Covid and Disabled Communities Still Erased Pandemic

UK Covid-19 Inquiry Report: Long Covid and Disabled Communities Still Erased

Long Covid Advocacy responds to the UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry’s second report on political governance and core decision-making. The report confirms what disabled people, chronically ill people, and Long Covid patients have known for years: the UK government’s pandemic response was too little, too late, and largely indifferent to the lives…
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November 20, 2025
COSEYL Commends Orji Kalu For Back-To-School Initiative In Abia North NATO

COSEYL Commends Orji Kalu For Back-To-School Initiative In Abia North

The Coalition of South East Youth Leaders (COSEYL) has commended Senator Orji Uzor Kalu for his impactful “Back to School” initiative, benefiting 100 schools in Abia North. In a statement jointly signed by Comrade Goodluck Ibem, President General, and Comrade Okey Nwaoru, Publicity Secretary, COSEYL praised the initiative, which includes…
bubmag
November 20, 2025
JUST IN: Nnamdi Kanu’s sentence a foreseen plot against IPOB leader – Abaribe NATO

JUST IN: Nnamdi Kanu’s sentence a foreseen plot against IPOB leader – Abaribe

Former Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, has described the life sentence handed to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu for terrorism as a foreseen plot against the IPOB leader. Speaking through a statement in Abuja by his media adviser, Uchenna Awom, Abaribe said the outcome was not surprising to the Igbo nation…
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November 20, 2025
What the Health? From KFF Health News: The GOP Circles the Wagons on ACA Pandemic

What the Health? From KFF Health News: The GOP Circles the Wagons on ACA

  Julie Rovner: Hello from KFF Health News and WAMU Public Radio in Washington, D.C., and welcome to “What the Health?” I’m Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent for KFF Health News, and I’m joined by some of the best and smartest health reporters in Washington. We’re taping this week on Thursday, Nov. 20, at 10 a.m. As always, news happens fast, and things might have…
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November 20, 2025
Syria sends first Swift message to New York Fed, central bank governor says Syria

Syria sends first Swift message to New York Fed, central bank governor says

(Reuters) -The Syrian central bank on Thursday sent its first Swift message to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, central bank Governor AbdulKader Husrieh told Reuters. "We sent (a) greeting message to all our international correspondent banks. We started with the Federal Reserve," Husrieh said. "We're telling them that…
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November 20, 2025