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Vox Populi – 11-11-2011

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The Daily Planet

Speakers' Corner Chernynkaya - November 7, 2011 4

There will be no Daily Planet for a few days. Please check back later in the week!

Weekend Music Thread – Daylight

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This Sunday, we set our clocks back to Standard time to put more daylight in our days and with all that's been going on, it's not a bad time at all to start lightening up with this weekend's music thread.

Vox Populi – 11-04-2011

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News and opinion from around US-opolis for Friday, November 4, 2011

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News and opinion from around US-opolis for Thursday, November 3, 2011

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News and opinion from around US-opolis for Tuesday, November 1, 2011

The Daily Planet, Vol. 161

News & Politics Chernynkaya - October 31, 2011 43

HALLOWEEN EDITION! News and opinion from around US-opolis for Monday, Halloween, 2011

Weekend Music Thread – Trick or Treat

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Halloween is nearly here, a time for ghouls and inhuman creatures living off the blood of the living...but enough about Wall Street. This weekend's theme...

Vox Populi – 10-28-2011

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Trump Threatens to Resume Nuclear Weapons Testing, Minutes Before Xi Meeting

Just minutes before he was scheduled to meet President Xi Jinping of China, the president threatened on social media to resume nuclear testing for the first time in 33 years. [...]

As Trump Weighs Sale of Advanced A.I. Chips to China, Critics Sound Alarm

The president signaled he would discuss the sale of Nvidia’s Blackwell chips in a summit on Thursday, a move U.S. officials warned would be a “massive” national security mistake. [...]

Geert Wilders’s Party for Freedom Loses Seats in Dutch Election

A center-left party was poised to become the country’s largest political party, according to exit polls. The anti-immigrant Party for Freedom, led by Mr. Wilders, was expected to lose 12 seats. [...]

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U.S. Military Kills Four More People Accused of Smuggling Drugs on Boats

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As Both Sides Remain Dug in, What Can Break the Government Shutdown Impasse?

Significant milestones over the next few weeks could shuffle the status quo. For now, both sides remain dug in as the closure heads into a fifth week. [...]

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Helen DeWitt’s New Novel Almost Drove Her To Despair

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Karine Jean-Pierre and a Book Tour Most Authors Would Not Dream Of

The Biden White House press secretary seems to be everywhere promoting her memoir, including an “absolute train wreck’’ of an interview with The New Yorker. [...]

How Kyrsten Sinema's decision makes Democrats' 2024 Senate map tighter

Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema decided to shake up the political world on Friday by becoming an independent. The former Democrat is still caucusing with the party in the Senate, so the Democratic caucus still has 51 members. Now, instead of 49 Democrats and two independents within their ranks, the caucus has 48 Democrats and three independents. [...]

Meet the woman steering Biden's bipartisan winning streak on Capitol Hill

The Biden administration managed to rack up a long list of major legislative wins in its first two years despite facing one of the most closely-divided Congresses in history. From bipartisan action on infrastructure, gun safety and same-sex marriage to party-line bills tackling climate change and expanding health care coverage, it's a record President Joe Biden and Democrats on the ballot were all eager to tout on the campaign trail during the midterms. [...]

CNN Political Briefing

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Margins of Error

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President Joe Biden's federal student loan forgiveness program, which promises to deliver up to $20,000 of debt relief for millions of borrowers, is on hold indefinitely as legal challenges work their way through the courts. [...]

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Jamaicans take stock after hurricane causes damage, flooding and power cuts

With communication networks in Jamaica crippled, the true scale of the disaster remains unknown. [...]

Two suspects partially admit involvement in Louvre heist, prosecutor says

The Paris prosecutor says the jewels are not yet recovered and there could be a bigger gang behind the theft. [...]

Centrist liberals head for shock victory in Dutch election, exit poll says

Rob Jetten's D66 party celebrates, two years after his party languished in fifth place in the last vote. [...]

France enshrines need for consent into rape law in wake of Gisèle Pelicot case

The debate over the change in legislation gained renewed urgency following the mass rape trial which shocked France last year. [...]

S Korea announces lowering of tariffs as part of new US trade deal

Seoul will also invest $350bn in the US as part of the deal, which Donald Trump says is "pretty much finalised". [...]

At least 132 killed in Rio police raid, officials say

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Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 104, health ministry says, after Hamas accused of killing soldier

US President Trump says "nothing" will jeopardise the two-week-old ceasefire despite the flare-up of violence. [...]

Investigation after woman left behind by cruise ship dies on island

Crew of Coral Adventurer only realised the 80-year-old Australian was missing hours after they left Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef. [...]

Sudan's military expels top UN food aid officials as conflict escalates

Two WFP officials are give 72 hours to leave without explanation - days after a key city falls to the RSF. [...]

US will reduce its troops on Nato's eastern flank, Romania says

Bucharest said between 900 and 1,000 American troops would remain stationed in Romania - down from 1,700. [...]

Vox Populi – 10-24-2025

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The 2nd No Kings Protest – 10-18-2025

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It was quite energizing to be among thousands of my neighbors in this city who reflect how informed, creative, and principled they are. It was a real antidote to the ignorance, bigotry, and hateful cruelty that oozes every day from Trump and his MAGA cultists.

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