Railways likely to run 100 more trains soon

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Miami’s Remote-Learning System Crashed on the First Day of School

A lesson in edtech, brought to you by the numbers 4, 0, and 4.

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Twitter's 'Quote Tweet' changes make sussing out online drama easier

Twitter's incredibly handy "Retweets with comments" feature is getting a rebranding, as well as becoming a tiny bit more convenient to use.

Earlier this year, Twitter added the option to see retweets that include a comment without having to use an automated account such as @QuotedReplies. Now the feature has been renamed, ditching the descriptive but clunky "Retweets with comments" for the cleaner "Quote Tweets." 

Quote Tweets also appear between the Retweets and Likes on a tweet now, making the feature slightly less annoying to access. Previously, you had to click to see the Retweets, then click "Retweets with comments" from there. Now, you can just jump straight to the drama. Read more...

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TikTok's new commerce integration lets creators start milkin' content for cash

TikTok is making it easier for creators to turn looped video streams into pure American profit. 

The embattled social media company announced Monday that it had entered into a new partnership with the customized online merch platform Teespring. The integration will allow creators to include links to their Teespring products directly in their videos.

TikTokkers with hearty followings already frequently link to personal merchandise stores in their bios. Selling merch like clothing, as well as digital tutorials or templates, is a popular way for independent creators to earn cash from the people who consume their content for free. The new Teespring integration builds on what creators are already doing themselves with an official and more streamlined tool. Read more...

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Biden Condemned Violence. Why Won’t Trump?

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Trump Defends Kyle Rittenhouse

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A Long History of Language That Incites and Demonizes

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‘We Germans,’ Alexander Starritt by the Author: An Excerpt

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Unwitting Progressives for Trump

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Facebook Could Block Sharing of News Stories in Australia

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Frustrated by Election Boycott, Venezuela’s Leader Pardons 100 Opponents

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A Teacher and Congresswoman Confronts School Reopenings

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Trump Fans Strife as Unrest Roils the U.S.

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A 3D Printed Paint Mixer

To get the perfect mix for your paint, you need a good shake that is as random as possible. [Mark Rhodes] wanted to automate the process of mixing paint, so he built a 3D printed shaker to thoroughly shake small paint bottles. Using only a single motor, it shakes the bottle along three axes of rotation and one axis of translation.

A cylindrical container is attached to a U-shaped bracket on each end, which in turn is attached to a rotating shaft. Only one of these shafts are powered, the other is effectively an idler. When turned on, it rotates the cylinder partially around the pitch and yaw axis, 360 degrees around the roll axis, and reciprocates it back and forth. The design appears to be based on an industrial mixer known as a “Turbula“. Another interesting feature is how it holds the paint bottle in the cylinder. Several bands are stretched along the inside of the cylinder, and by rotating one of the rings at the end, it creates an hourglass-shaped web that can tightly hold the paint bottle.

The mechanism is mounted on a 3d printed frame that can be quickly clamped to a table. The Twitter post embedded below is a preview for a video [Mark] is working for his Youtube channel, along with which he will also release the 3D files.

Mixing machines come in all shapes and sizes, and we’ve seen a number of 3D printed versions, including a static mixer and a magnetic stirrer.

So I have been working on a little something to help me mix my paints. It is completely and utterly over engineered for the problem, and that is why it reminds me of the bottle opener that @donttrythis and @Laura_kampf made . It does look cool though! pic.twitter.com/2EatMGfC5j

— Mark Rhodes (@mrhodes) August 25, 2020

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No ‘ekla cholo', Pranab believed in ‘sabka saath’

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A President who could have been PM

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Trump defends supporters accused in deadly clashes

The US president suggests right-wing activists in Wisconsin and Oregon acted in self-defence.

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Hundreds of migrants still dying in Med five years since 2015

Five years on from the migrant crisis of 2015 hundreds are still dying in the Mediterranean.

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Still ill with coronavirus six months later: 'I have no idea how to get better'

For some people Covid just will not go away – one woman’s Instagram diary of her long-haul illness.

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Rival powers jockey for the lead in hypersonic aircraft

The US, China and Russia are pouring money into aircraft that can fly at five times the speed of sound.

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Prashant Bhushan: India finds an unlikely hero in lawyer-activist

Prashant Bhushan refused to apologise to the Supreme Court and got a symbolic one-rupee fine.

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Rohingya crisis: Growing up in the world's largest refugee camp

Nayeem, 3, is one of 20,000 children born every year in the camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

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Why this black drive-in cinema is a big hit

Drive-ins are booming, of course. But this one is also responding to the other big story of the year.

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No Corrections: Aug. 31, 2020

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Quotation of the Day: As China Flexes, Taiwan Revamps Its Military

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How to Help Someone Who Lost Their Job

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Think You’re Making Good Climate Choices? Take This Mini-Quiz

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I’m Still Reading Andrew Sullivan. But I Can’t Defend Him.

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Sudden Death Rainbow Sorting Game Reveals Your True Colors

When [marzsman]’s eight-year-old daughter thought up a game they could play together involving rainbows, he was all ears. She is a certified rainbow expert, after all. They had a few R&D sessions and came up with a rainbow sorting speed trial game that looks fun to play and fairly easy to build.

Press that blue button on the side, and the RGB LEDs along the top are put in randomized order. The object of this game is simple — just sort the rainbow before the other player by pressing each LED’s corresponding arcade button. Whoever sorts faster is rewarded with a rainbow animation behind their set of way-cool clear buttons.

Inside the laser-cut box is an Espruino, which is a handy little microcontroller that speaks JavaScript. All of the arcade buttons are wired up as a key matrix. The astute among you have noticed there is six of everything, and that’s because indigo light is too hard to distinguish from blue. Check out the intense gameplay after the break.

If [marzsman]’s daughter wants to learn computer science, rainbows are good for that, too.

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BTS lit up the MTV VMAs with their debut performance of 'Dynamite'

It is the Bangtan Boys’ world, and we are just living in it. 

Global superstars BTS delivered their first ever live performance of "Dynamite" at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, debuting the full choreography of their brand new English track. Rocking ‘70s retro-styled suits and a bright, disco vibe, RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook's first ever VMAs performance was a burst of bubbly, goofy brightness.

BTS picked up the VMA award for Best Group earlier in the night, as well as the award for Best K-Pop Video for "On" — a category which was only established last year, and which they also won with "Boy with Luv." The group also nabbed Best Pop Video after their performance and are nominated for Best Choreography, which hasn't yet been announced. Read more...

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Portland Shooting Amplifies Tensions in Presidential Race

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Hit by Covid-19, Nashik currency press stops ops

The Currency Note Press (CNP) and India Security Press (ISP) in Nashik will suspend operations for four days from Monday as 40 workers from both facilities have tested positive for Covid-19 in the past two weeks. The CNP prints around 17 million currency notes of various denominations while the ISP prints revenue stamps, stamp papers, passports and visas. The CNP has 2,300 permanent employees and the ISP 1,700.

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Trump Is Visiting Kenosha on Tuesday. The Mayor Would Rather He Didn’t.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers wrote a two-page letter to Trump calling on the president to "reconsider" his planned trip to Kenosha.

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Norway bunker partygoers poisoned with carbon monoxide

More than 20 people were hospitalised after attending the party in the Norwegian capital Oslo.

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Trump, Vicar of Fear and Violence

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Jon Rahm Sinks a Big Putt to Win Playoff at the BMW Championship

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Stories of 2020: Five Lives Caught in a Year of Upheaval and Pain

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Jon Rahm beats Dustin Johnson to win BMW Championship

Jon Rahm beats Dustin Johnson on the first hole of a play-off in a thrilling climax to the BMW Championship at Olympia Fields.

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The importance of being Prashant Bhushan

From note-taker in the Emergency case to dogged crusader, TOI charts the career of the activist-lawyer against whom the SC will pronounce its quantum of sentence on Monday

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Covid hits 87k medics: IMA asks PM for better care

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has written to PM Modi drawing his attention to over 87,000 healthcare workers who have got infected with Covid-19 and another 573 who have lost their lives and called for more care for their welfare.

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Poll: Republican National Convention Did Nothing for Trump’s Favorability Rating

Americans didn't seem swayed by the criticism of Joe Biden during the RNC as his favorability rating remained steady, according to ABC News/Ipsos poll.

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Mauritius oil spill: 'We want to protect our island'

Young locals are helping to prevent environmental damage after an oil leak from a ship that ran aground.

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Europe's migrant crisis: The year that changed a continent

More than a million people arrived in Europe in 2015. Five years on, we reflect on what's changed.

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The search engine boss who wants to help us all plant trees

Christian Kroll is the boss of Ecosia, which donates 80% of its profits to tree-planting projects.

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Letter from Africa: Why Kenyans are no longer cheering their constitution

It is a time of reflection 10 years after the country was promised a rebirth, writes Waihiga Mwaura.

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Belarus protest: Dozens arrested at mass rally

The country's been gripped by mass protests since the August election, widely thought to have been rigged.

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Amid Tennis’s Swirling Storms, a Stubborn Djokovic Claims a Title

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Blog: Education for Muslims needs a little self-help

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SDR Transmitting Gets the Power

Most hobby-grade software defined radio setups don’t transmit. Of the few that do, most of them put out anemic levels around one milliwatt or so. If you want to do something outside of the lab, you’ll need an amplifier and that’s what [Tech Minds] shows how to do in a recent video. (Embedded below.)

The video covers LimeSDR, HackRF, and the Pluto SDR, although the amplifiers should work with any transmitter. The SPF5189Z module is quite cheap and covers 50 MHz to 4 GHz, amplifying everything you throw at it. The downside is that it will amplify everything you throw at it, even parts of the signal you don’t want, such as spurs and harmonics.

There are other modules, depending on your needs. The CN0417 covers a very narrow range from 2.4 GHz to 2.5 GHz. (If you can call 100 MHz bandwidth “narrow”.) The RF2126 will cover from 400 Mhz to 2.7 GHz.

None of these are powerhouses. The maximum 20 dB gain will only give you a watt or so out with the minimal drive from most SDR transmitters. But for very many applications, that’s plenty, especially with some filtering.

Unfortunately the gain isn’t stable, and we wonder about the linearity which would affect some modulation modes. There are datasheets for these devices around, such as this one for the SPF5189Z.

If you are really into SDR, the SDR Academy went virtual this year. You might also enjoy this book.

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PM to address nation through 'Mann Ki Baat' today

Earlier on August 18, Prime Minister Modi had asked people to share their inputs and ideas for the 68th edition of his monthly radio programme 'Mann ki Baat'.

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How to Build a Catapult From Newspaper

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Phoenix Settles With Black Family After Police Drew Guns Over Reported Doll Theft

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Live: Bars, restaurants can serve booze from Sept 1

The govt of India on Saturday rolled out new Unlock 4 guidelines. According to the new rules, metro services will be operational from September 7, as schools and colleges will continue to remain shut. On Saturday, India recorded a recovery rate of 76.74%. Till now 26 lakh people have recuperated from Covid-19. Stay here for all updates.

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Conservative Student Group at ASU Is Raising Money for Kenosha Protest Shooter

Arizona State University College Republicans condemned the fundraiser that is being carried out by College Republicans United.

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‘It Was Challenging’: Bucks Return, Balancing Basketball and Activism

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Coronavirus Around the World

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Lewis Hamilton's Belgian GP pole position meant more to him than most

Lewis Hamilton's spectacular pole position in Belgium was achieved within an air of sadness, in an already difficult year.

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Donny van de Beek: Manchester United interested in Ajax midfielder

Manchester United are interested in Ajax's Netherlands midfielder Donny van de Beek.

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Novak Djokovic resigns as ATP player council president

Novak Djokovic quits as president of the ATP player council to front a new association aiming to increase the power of the players.

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Transfer rumours: Messi, Guardiola, Rodriguez, Aurier, Ndombele, Holding

Manchester City hope for high-profile double signing, Everton close in on Real playmaker, Spurs defender rejects move, plus more

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BMW Championship: Dustin Johnson & Hideki Matsuyama share lead

Dustin Johnson and Hideki Matsuyama lead the BMW Championship by two shots with Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm both three strokes back.

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Hollie Doyle sets female jockey record with five wins at Windsor

Hollie Doyle records an 899-1 quintuple at Windsor and becomes the first female jockey to ride five winners on the same UK card.

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Emma Hayes: Chelsea expect 'huge battles' with Man City after Community Shield win

Chelsea manager Emma Hayes says there will be "huge battles ahead facing Manchester City" this season.

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Searching for the lost dogs of the Beirut blast

Many pets ran away after a massive explosion in Beirut, leaving Leila Molana-Allen pining for a missing puppy.

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'They wanted to drown me at birth - now I'm a poet'

Kuli Kohli has always used writing as a means of escape from the prejudice she has experienced as an Asian woman with cerebral palsy.

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Begum Rokeya: The forgotten 19th Century feminist

Begum Rokeya was a writer, educationalist and reformer who tirelessly fought for women's rights.

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Algeria's lessons from The Plague in the age of coronavirus

Finding parallels between the famous novel and how Algeria is coping with coronavirus amid political upheaval.

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Migrant rescue: Dozens evacuated from overloaded Banksy ship

The Louise Michel had sought help saying it had rescued so many people it was unable to move safely.

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ICYMI: Aquarium art and crop portraits

Plus a newborn puma and pioneering women statues in our round-up of stories you may have missed this week.

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Generic Rivalry

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Rory McIlroy and Patrick Cantlay Tough It Out, Sharing BMW Lead

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Hurricane Laura Was Powerful, but Louisiana Was Prepared

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After You’ve Said Her Name, Then What?

Black America and false choices.

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Elon Musk parades about Neuralink-wired pig, and this is apparently the future

Well that had to be the oddest job-recruitment pitch ever streamed to YouTube. 

Late Friday afternoon, Elon Musk took the stage to update the world on Neuralink — his effort to link the human brain to computers — and to implore engineers, animal care professionals, and robotics experts to join him. At the heart of the demo was a pig by the name of Gertrude, which he claimed has been linked up to some form of Neuralink for the past two months. 

Repeatedly emphasizing that the goal of the presentation was recruitment, Musk described the Neuralink device as "a Fitbit in your skull, with tiny wires." Specifically, those tiny wires are one-twentieth the thickness of a hair, and 43 millimeters long. But it's possible to make them even longer to reach regions deeper in the brain, a Neuralink employee said. Read more...

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Amazon fires: Are they worse this year than before?

Blazes are continuing to rage in the Amazon rainforest, despite the Brazilian president's fire ban.

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Cloud gaming: Are game streaming services bad for the planet?

Remote streaming services may be the future but could cause a sharp rise in emissions, a study shows.

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Week in pictures: 22-28 August 2020

A selection of remarkable images taken around the world this week.

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Bihar: Destroyed lives and submerged homes in flood-hit India

Homes and livelihoods have been swept away by monsoon rains in India's Bihar state.

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Sarah Palin’s Suit Against New York Times Will Go to Trial, Judge Rules

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Stephen Miller’s Dystopian America

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Corrections: Aug. 29, 2020

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Quotation of the Day: ‘Panting for Air’ Under Smoky Western Skies

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Workers will have to pay any deferred payroll taxes by April.

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Rival Themes Emerge as Race Enters Final Weeks: Covid vs. Law and Order

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Dead Dolphins Wash Ashore After Oil Spill Off Mauritius

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Returning to the campaign trail, Trump unloads baseless attacks on Biden.

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Jacob Blake Was Shackled in Hospital Bed After Police Shot Him

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Lute Olson, Who Put Arizona on College Basketball Map, Dies at 85

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El legado de Shinzo Abe, el primer ministro de Japón que anunció su dimisión

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India now No.3 in Covid toll; 1,000+ deaths for 4 days running

India’s Covid-19 death toll surged to the third highest in the world after overtaking Mexico on Friday, even as the pandemic numbers continued to swell in the country with the daily count of fresh cases staying above 76,000 for third day running and fatalities over 1,000 for the fourth straight day.

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This Was the Week American Fascism Reached a Tipping Point

The troubling developments of the past week are almost too many to count.

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Jejoen Bontinck: I escaped a life of Islamic terror - now I rap about it

Jejoen Bontinck, an ex-member of Islamist group Sharia4Belgium, wants to use music to move on from his past.

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Kyle Rittenhouse charged over Wisconsin protest deaths

Kyle Rittenhouse is charged with killing two people and injuring another amid protests in Kenosha.

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Jackson Heights, Queens: Walk Where the World Finds a Home

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Franklin Graham, key to Trump’s support among evangelical voters, makes the case for his re-election.

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Suspect in Kenosha Killings Ardently Promoted Blue Lives Matter

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