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  • Trump Administration Revoked Award for Female Journalist Who Criticized Him, Says Watchdog

    The Trump administration revoked an International Women of Courage Award for Finnish journalist Jessikka Aro after she criticized the president, according to a new report from the Office of the Inspector General.The report also says State Department officials gave a false explanation for why it rescinded the award.The inspector general’s office obtained meeting notes that showed senior U.S. officials saying Aro’s invitation to the State Department’s International Women of Courage Awards should be withdrawn. The acting director of the Office of Global Women’s Issues noted that Aro had made social media posts criticizing Trump and the “media could highlight the tweets and Facebook posts during the ceremony.”Also Read: Trump Lashes Out at Fox News After Poll Shows Him Down in Key StatesThe reasoning was that if the posts were highlighted, it would embarrass the department, as well as first lady Melania Trump, who was involved with the awards.The press highlighted the posts anyway: Foreign Policy reported last year that Aro’s award had been canceled due to her criticism.A State Department spokesperson said in an email to Foreign Policy at the time that Aro was “incorrectly notified” that she would be getting the award, calling it a mistake caused by “a lack of coordination in communications with candidates and our embassies.”The IG report found that Aro’s work on Russian propaganda had been selected, but, as Foreign Policy reported in 2019, she was booted from the list after her social media posts were discovered.Aro told Foreign Policy that the withdrawal left her feeling “appalled and surprised.”“The reality in which political decisions or presidential pettiness directs top U.S. diplomats’ choices over whose human rights work is mentioned in the public sphere and whose is not is a really scary reality,” she said at the time.Read original story Trump Administration Revoked Award for Female Journalist Who Criticized Him, Says Watchdog At TheWrap
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    California braces for power shutoffs and warm, windy weekend

    Firefighters and officials at California's largest utility company braced for hot, dry and windy weather in northern and central areas of the state this weekend that may fan the flames of several major wildfires or ignite new ones. Pacific Gas & Electric warned Friday it may cut power from Sunday morning to Monday, potentially affecting 97,000 customers in 16 counties, during which forecasters said a ridge of high pressure will raise temperatures and generate gusts flowing from the interior to the coast. PG&E initially warned that approximately 21,000 customers in three counties would lose power beginning Saturday evening but expanded the potential shutoff when the forecast changed.
  • USA TODAY

    5 things you need to know about Amy Coney Barrett, Trump's likely Supreme Court nominee

    Amy Coney Barrett, an Indiana law professor and appeals court judge, is the favorite to replace U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Protecting Nature is Entirely Within Humanity’s Reach: The Work Must Start

  • Inger Andersen is UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) The

Fight Fire with Trade: How Europe Can Help Save the Amazon

  • The EU is thinking about agreeing to a €4 billion trade deal with Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay (

UNESCO launches the “Li Beirut” initiative to support education, putting

  • The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, on Thursday 27 August launched an international fund

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The Difference Between the US and China’s Response to COVID-19 is

  • Vijay Prashad, John Ross A medical worker guides people at a nucleic acid testing site in Tongzhou District

Israeli Human Rights Group Highlights How Israel Makes Fishing in Gaza

  • Kathryn ShihadahThe Gaza Strip, just six miles wide, boasts a twenty-five-mile coastline on the

Prime Minister of Eastern Libya’s Government Resigns While Fayez al-Saraj

  • Libyan youth block a road with burning tires in Libya’s eastern coastal city of Benghazi on September

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Crop Breeding for High Production, Water Use Efficiency & Albedo

  • It's a good way to confront mankind's growing need for food and the water needed to produce it

Biospheric Productivity (Global: The Recent Past) -- Summary

  • Since 1980 the Earth has weathered three of the warmest decades in the instrumental temperature record, a

Catastrophic Floods of Dartmoor, South West England

  • Are they few and far-between? ... or are they growing ever more frequent ... and ferocious?

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Argentine lawmaker resigns after filmed kissing a woman's breasts

  • An Argentine lawmaker resigned on Thursday after he was shown kissing his partner

Mercosur deal is "parked indefinitely", agree German and Irish

  • Ireland dairy industry has praised the German Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner

If Covid-19 is addressed with the same disunity and disarray as climate

  • The United States, China and Russia fought on Thursday during a United Nations

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Andra vindkraftsolyckan pĂ¥ kort tid – blad slets sönder i Tönsen #SWE

  • [On Thursday, a blade was torn from one of the turbines in Tönsen. This is the second time this has

Decision on future of Inuvik’s wind turbine expected soon #CAN

  • A decision on a request by the Nihtat Gwich’in Council to prevent the construction of a wind turbine

Updated agreement for removal of turbines #ON

  • An updated Road Users Agreement (RUA) for the decommissioning of industrial turbines in the White Pines

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The life and times of Alexander Hamilton

  • Alonso Campos explores Alexander Hamilton's legacy and the lessons the EU can learn from it

Ireland appoints a new Commissioner after Hogan's problematic departure

  • Conor Ryan assesses why domestic pressure on a Commissioner to resign is problematic. - Current Affairs

Handshake, backtrack: Boris Johnson's renegation threat explained

  • What does the UK's threat to renege on the Withdrawal Agreement mean? - Brexit

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