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Bakeries are reopening in Gaza City, starting with Ajjour Bakery (a-Shawa) tomorrow, Saturday, with 3 production lines, producing 250,000 pita breads an hour. The bakery will be distributing to several points of sale in various parts of the city. The opening is coordinated with IDF. 5 more bakeries are expected to open in Gaza City on Sunday. #TheGazaYouDontSeehttps://www.facebook.com/story.php/?id=61550934214280&story_fbid=122160585140031140 3:24 AM · Mar 8, 2024

A jury in federal court in Wisconsin ordered Walmart to pay $125m in punitive damages to a former employee with Down’s syndrome in a disability discrimination lawsuit, US employment officials announced. Marlo Spaeth, who began working as a sales associate in 1999, was fired by the retail giant in 2015 for what they said was excessive absenteeism after she repeatedly asked Walmart to return her to normal work hours.

Decades of authoritarian one party rule have perhaps reduced one man's ability to question authority as a Chinese bloke awaiting the birth of his child was erroneously whisked in for a haemorrhoidectomy. Doctors at Shenyang Hunnan Xinqu Hospital mistook Mr Wang for another chap with a bad case of the pink grapes and whisked him into the operating theatre, according to a report in Bandao City News. Wang thought he was going to help his wife with the delivery of their child but then medics asked him to drop his pants and jump onto the operating table. “It felt strange,...

Sarah Palin has begun to get on the nerves of Republican senators who say the former GOP vice presidential nominee is taking her own White House aspirations entirely too seriously. But those same senators may have their eye on a 2012 White House run or be friends with senators with presidential ambitions. And Palin, who does not have a lot of Washington connections, energized the party’s grass roots in 2008 while bucking the D.C. establishment, leaving much of the party’s elite grumbling about her appeal to the conservative base. Several GOP senators offered searing criticism of the Alaska governor when...

Ron Paul won big earlier today in Alabama. He also won big in New Hampshire this afternoon. Dr. Paul received 208 votes (73%) for a landslide victory against Mitt Romney today at the Strafford County, New Hampshire straw poll. Romney received 26 votes. Mike Huckabee came in third with 20 votes. Tancredo (8 votes), McCain (7 votes), Cox (5 votes), Hunter (5 votes), Thompson (5 votes), Giuliani (3 votes) and Brownback (1 vote) finished the field. As noted earlier, Ron Paul received 216 votes for a commanding first-place finish in a straw poll today sponsored by the West Alabama Republican...

ESCONDIDO ---- An outdoor exhibit on the human costs of the conflict in Iraq called "Eyes Wide Open" will come to Grape Day Park in Escondido Wednesday. The main feature will be rows of boots representing the lives of American soldiers lost in Iraq. The boots will be tagged with the soldiers' name, rank and home state. The exhibit will also feature a 24-foot wall of names and incidents identifying Iraqi civilian deaths. Sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, the exhibit will be held from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the park, 321 N. Broadway in Escondido. Speakers...

For Immediate Release: Taxpayers Against Agendas in Public Schools Plans Protest. Sacramento, California. October 26, 2003: In response to the first meeting for the Humane Education Learning Community Public Charter School, Taxpayers Against Agendas in Public Schools will be protesting this exploitation of our tax dollar. The term "Humane Education" originates from the animal rights movement. This new charter school is designed for the sole purpose of indoctrinating children into the philosophy of Speciesism and Animal Rights. The main petitioner of this Charter School is Yale Wishnick, Board Member of Psychologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Numerous animal protection...