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Alexei Navalny, Russia's most outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, is fighting for his life in a hospital, and his spokeswoman says she believes Navalny was poisoned as he was flying from Siberia back to Moscow. Navalny is unconscious and on a ventilator, spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh, who had been traveling with the opposition leader, said via Twitter. Navalny drank some tea at the airport in Tomsk, Yarmysh said, and he began feeling unwell shortly after his commercial flight took off. His deteriorating condition prompted the plane's pilots to make an emergency landing at Omsk, some 550 miles away. A doctor...

Alexei Navalny, the man seen as one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top critics in the country, was allegedly poisoned during a flight from Siberia to Moscow and has since been hospitalized. The 44-year-old is said to be in a coma and on a ventilator in a hospital intensive care unit after falling ill on a flight back to Moscow from Tomsk, a city in Siberia.

FULL TITLE: Jeffrey Epstein's guards 'did NOT check his cell according to procedure' the night he hanged himself - as pictures show his body being wheeled into hospital amid outrage he has escaped justice Guards at Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan jail did not follow procedure and check on prisoners every 30 minutes the night the pedophile took his own life, a source has revealed. The former financier, 66, was found hanging in his prison cell shortly before 7am and was rushed to nearby New York Presbyterian-Lower Manhattan hospital where he was pronounced dead. A photo has emerged of the pedophile's body...

Jeffrey Epstein's guards 'did NOT check his cell according to procedure' the night he hanged himself - as pictures show his body being wheeled into hospital amid outrage he has escaped justice Jeffrey Epstein was found hanged in his prison cell at Metropolitan Correctional Center on Saturday morning Source has claimed guards at the jail did not follow procedure and check inmates every 30 minutes overnight Epstein, 66, was briefly hospitalized on July 24 after being found semi-conscious on the floor of his jail cell He had been removed from suicide watch by the time of his death, which has...

Former Trump campaign adviser Rick Gates, who has pleaded guilty in Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation, sought proposals from an Israeli company in 2016 to create fake online identities in an effort to aid President Trump's campaign, The New York Times reported Monday. Gates sought a proposal from a company staffed by former Israeli intelligence officers, Psy-Group, to use fake identities to sway 5,000 Republican National Convention delegates by attacking Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), an opponent of Trump's at the time, according to the Times. Mark Mazzetti, one of the Times reporters who authored the story, said Monday on CNN...

Quiet Riot Singer Died of Overdose 1 day ago LAS VEGAS (AP) — The death last month of Kevin Dubrow, lead singer for the 1980s heavy metal band Quiet Riot, has been ruled an accidental cocaine overdose. Clark County coroner spokeswoman Samantha Charles confirmed the cause Monday after toxicology results were received Monday. Dubrow was found dead Nov. 25 at his Las Vegas home. He was 52. Quiet Riot was perhaps best known for its 1983 cover of "Cum on Feel the Noize." The song, featuring Dubrow's powerful, gravelly voice, appeared on the band's album "Metal Health" — which was...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - The son of a Los Angeles-area congresswoman was sentenced to 41 months in prison for an extortion scheme involving municipal contracts in the city of Carson. R. Keith McDonald, 41, a former president of the West Basin Municipal Water District board, was convicted in October of receiving kickbacks and paying off three Carson City Council members for their support of a $6 million public bus service contract. McDonald and his mother, Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald, D-Torrance, asked for leniency, with the congresswoman writing in a letter to the court that her son was in an "unfortunate...

Top Ten Reasons to Defeat Bush - Downloadable Flyer (English & Spanish) Search Archive Current Issues Author: CPUSA Political Action Commission First published 21.05.2004 19:36 by {article_topic_desc}   Click PDF file link below to download the flyer. Then print on double-sided paper (best at a union print shop) and cut in half. The result is a handy voter education piece -- the front has our Top 10 Reasons to Dump Bush and the back shows what Congress will look like when the Republicans lose their majority. Top Ten Reasons to Defeat George W. Bush 10 Grandes Razones Para Derrotar a...

The European Commission called yesterday for the abolition of the national veto in all constitutional matters. The demand was in proposed changes to the draft European constitution unveiled yesterday by Romano Prodi, the commission's president, supposedly in the name of the entire body. Dismissing the current text drafted by Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the former French president, as "unworkable" and "absurd", Mr Prodi said member states retained far too much power to block decisions. It would inevitably lead to gridlock once the European Union expanded to 25 next year. Mr Prodi said the veto must be eliminated on all future changes...

LOS ANGELES - An Egyptian immigrant's deadly attack on an Israeli airline ticket counter last year has been ruled a terrorist attack related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an FBI spokesman said Friday. "Given his political views and the fact that El Al is an Israeli government-owned airline, that met the criteria for a terrorist attack," said Matthew McLaughlin, a spokesman for the Los Angeles field office of the FBI. Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, 41, opened fire at Los Angeles International Airport's El Al ticket counter on July 4 last year, killing two people before being shot dead by an airline security...

Touching off hoots and boos, a top Iraqi official snubbed an Israeli journalist Friday, refusing to answer the correspondent's question about whether Baghdad might attack Israel in a case of a U.S. military strike on Iraq. Correspondent Menachem Gantz, based in Rome for the Israeli newspaper Maariv, asked Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz at a news conference in the Italian capital: "Are you considering any kind of attack as a possibility against Israel in case of an American attack?" Aziz, invited by the Foreign Press Association to give the news conference, responded: "When I came to this press conference...