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For some, the president’s efforts to undermine the justice department and the Mueller investigation represent a threat to democracy Ask people with deep knowledge of the US justice department about the damage Donald Trump might be doing to the country, and the conversation quickly flips back to Watergate. Following Richard Nixon’s failed attempt to pull …
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This is the Deputy Commissioner of Police Yetunde Longe, the tough policewoman who is working hard to give the Lagos State Criminal Intelligence Investigation Department (SCIID), Panti, Yaba, a new image. Since she was appointed four months ago as head of the department, she had ensured that suspects are no longer detained more than necessary …
Troops have been fighting the militants for almost a decade Nigerian soldiers have raped women and girls who fled the insurgency by militant Islamist group Boko Haram, Amnesty International has said. Troops separated women from their husbands and raped them, sometimes in exchange for food, in refugee camps, the rights group added. Thousands of people …
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A prosperity gospel televangelist who already owned three private planes said God told him he needs a Falcon 7X, and he's holding out for his supporters to give him the $54 million necessary to add a fourth jet to his fleet. Jesse Duplantis is based in Destrehen, Louisiana. In a video posted online last week, …
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