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Bomb squad descends on a nondescript office in North Geelong after suspicious discovery | Daily ...
The Daily Mail 21 Mar 2025
The bomb squad has descended on a North Geelong office after two female protestors left a suspicious ...
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Maine state budget vote descends into debate over trans athletes and Laurel Libby's censure
Fox News 21 Mar 2025
The Maine state legislature voted on its biannual budget Thursday night, but the session was delayed by a prolonged debate over transgender athlete inclusion and the censure of Republican Rep ... \ .
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Investigators say a Delta jet descended too quickly before Toronto crash last month
National Public Radio 20 Mar 2025
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Delta plane that landed upside down in Toronto was descending at a high speed, right gear collapsed: Probe report
The Times of India 20 Mar 2025
The Delta plane that landed at the snow-clad Pearson Airport in Canada with its face up suffered a gear failure at the last moment and the plane was descending at a very high speed, the preliminary investigation released Thursday said ... in 2008 ... .
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2025 Palm Beach International Boat Show: Mega-yachts descend on West Palm Beach waterfront
The Palm Beach Post 20 Mar 2025
The 2025 Palm Beach International Boat Show kicked off Wednesday, March 19 along the West Palm Beach waterfront with just about every watercraft imaginable from eight-foot inflatable kayaks to nearly 300-foot-long super yachts ... and 713 S. Rosemary Ave.
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Front Row Seat: Duluth Playhouse star is descendant of theater builder
Duluth News Tribune 20 Mar 2025
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Experts say early report suggests Delta plane descended too fast before Toronto crash
Moosejaw Today 20 Mar 2025
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada released its report Thursday as it continues to investigate the Feb ... The TSB report says the aircraft got a boost of speed as it was descending, likely due to a wind gust ... J ... Paola Loriggio, The Canadian Press. .
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From erasing the stories of Navajo “code talkers” on the Pentagon website to demolishing a “Black Lives Matter” mural in Washington, President Donald Trump’s assault on diversity across the United States government is dismantling decades of racial justice programs. Delivering on a campaign promise, the Republican billionaire made it one of his first acts in office to terminate all federal government diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, which he said led to “illegal and immoral discrimination.” The crackdown on DEI initiatives at the Pentagon has been broad, ranging from a ban on recruiting transgender troops — a move stayed by a court this week — to removing vast troves of documents and images from its website. Earlier this month, Civil War historian Kevin M. Levin reported that Arlington National Cemetery had begun to wipe its website of the histories of Black, Hispanic and women war veterans. “It’s a sad day when our own military is forced to turn its back on sharing the stories of the brave men and women, who have served this country with honor,” Levin wrote on his Substack. “This insanity must stop.” – ‘Woke cultural Marxism’ – References to war heroes, military firsts, and even notable African Americans were among the swathe of images and articles marked for deletion, according to a database obtained by the Associated Press. Among the more than 26,000 items marked to be removed were references to the Enola Gay, the US aircraft that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945 — apparently because the plane’s name triggered a digital search for word associated with LGBT inclusion. Other content removed by the Pentagon included stories on the Tuskegee Airmen, who were the first African American military aviators, and baseball legend and veteran Jackie Robinson. Responding to a question on those and other removals, the Pentagon on Wednesday said it saluted the individuals, but refused to see “them through the prism of immutable characteristics.” “(DEI) is a form of Woke cultural Marxism that Divides the force, Erodes unit cohesion and Interferes with the services’ core warfighting mission,” said Pentagon Press Secretary John Ullyot. He added that in “rare cases” that content was removed that should not have been, it would be restored — as was the case with the articles on Robinson and on Navajo “code talkers” — but defiantly stood by the purge as a whole. – ‘Erase history’ – Not everyone has been convinced by the Pentagon’s explanations around the purge. Descendants of the Native Americans who played a vital role for US forces in World War II said they had been shocked to discover their ancestors’ heroic contributions had been effectively deleted from the public record. “I definitely see it as an attempt to erase the history of people of color in general,” said Zonnie Gorman, daughter of military veteran Carl Gorman. Carl Gorman was one of the young Navajo “code talkers” recruited by the US Navy in 1942 to test the use of their Indigenous language, whose complex structure made it an almost impossible-to-crack wartime code. Several web pages detailing the role of the group, whose contribution was key to the United States’ victories in the Pacific between 1942 and 1945 in battles such as Iwo Jima, recently disappeared from the Pentagon’s site. For Gorman, a historian, the action was an insult. “From the very beginning, we are very invisible in this country, and so to have a story that was so well recognized for us as Indigenous people, that felt good,” she told AFP. “And then this is like a slap in the face.” – Chilling effect – The US president’s move to end DEI programs has also affected more than just the federal government. Since he won last year’s election, several major US corporations — including Google, Meta, Amazon and McDonalds — have either entirely scrapped or dramatically scaled back their DEI programs. According to the New York Times, the number of companies on the S&P 500 that used the words “diversity, equity and inclusion” in company filings had fallen nearly 60 percent compared to 2024. The American Civil Liberties Union says Trump’s policies have taken a “‘shock and awe’ approach that upends longstanding, bipartisan federal policy meant to open doors that had been unfairly closed.” US federal anti-discrimination programs were born of the 1960s civil rights struggle, mainly led by Black Americans, for equality and justice after hundreds of years of slavery, whose abolition in 1865 saw other institutional forms of racism enforced. Today, Black Americans and other minorities continue to disproportionately face police violence, incarceration, poverty, homelessness and hate crimes, according to official data. - Jamaica Observer
Jamaica Observer 20 Mar 2025
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What’s at stake in Colorado’s school-funding fight as teachers descend on Capitol
Daily Camera 20 Mar 2025
When teachers rally at the Colorado State Capitol on Thursday, the message they intend to bring to Gov. Jared Polis and legislators scrambling to fill a $1.2 billion shortfall is this ... Polis’s budget proposal ... The impact on school districts ... Rep ... .
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Swimmers and divers from around the globe to descend on Tipperary for major expo
Irish Independent 19 Mar 2025
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SWAT teams descend on CIA headquarters after man fires gunshots
The Mirror 19 Mar 2025
Police have been called to the area surrounding the CIA headquarters in Fairfax County, Virginia with initial reports suggesting a man allegedly began shooting a shotgun in the air ... .
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Ryanair flight ‘descended 600ft and came close to a helicopter’ before pilots noticed
Metro UK 19 Mar 2025
The flight was carrying 172 passengers when the incident happened ....
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'Child sex abuser' moved from Fife home after angry mob descend on quiet street
Daily Record 18 Mar 2025
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"Never a good sign": After Khalil arrest, a "climate of fear" descends on Columbia University
Yahoo Daily News 18 Mar 2025
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LIVE: Police descend on street with large cordon in place
Manchester Evening News 18 Mar 2025
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