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The New York Times OAN, a Dependable Trump Promoter, Faces a 'Death Blow' Jeremy W. Peters and Benjamin Mullin Wed, July 27, 2022, 2:55 PM The headquarters of One America News in San Diego on Monday, April 5, 2021. (The New York Times) The headquarters of One America News in San Diego on Monday, April 5, 2021. (The New York Times) The future of One America News, which established itself as a powerful voice in conservative media by promoting some of the most outlandish falsehoods about the 2020 election, is in serious doubt as major carriers drop it from their...

Workers at two plants in southern Iran went on strike this week to demand unpaid wages, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports. An employee at Kaghaz Pars Haftapeh, a paper mill in southwestern Iran, told RFE/RL on October 7 on condition of anonymity that workers had not been paid for three months. "Our production remains at a normal level, we produce and distribute paper, but we don't receive our salaries," he said. "I don't know where the money is going." He added that "the plant's retired workers have not received their pensions since last year -- they live in absolute poverty." A...

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will unveil as early as Monday a slimmed-down energy bill seeking to make offshore drilling safer and convert trucks to run on domestic natural gas. The full Senate could begin consideration of Reid's bill on Tuesday and Democrats would like to pass it by the early part of the following week...Democrats abandoned efforts last week to put climate-control measures in the bill. Reid said then that he had no Republican votes for items such as carbon caps... Reid said Congress could revisit climate legislation in September but lawmakers and analysts doubt there will be...

"This is not an attack on Jeremiah Wright," said Rev. Jeremiah Wright this morning at the National Press Club, explaining why he was emerging before a national audience, regardless of what harm it might do to the candidacy of one of his parishioners, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois. "This is an attack on the black church." With that justification -- however sincere or self-serving -- in mind, Wright continued his publicity blitz, arguing that he's compelled to speak out because he does not operate in the world of politics. "On November 5 and on January 21, I will still be a...

Do you need some motivation to get you to the polls today? I do. And here's mine. As you know, I've been extremely disappointed by the Republicans who have been in control of Congress and the presidency since 2001. They waited far too long to act on border security. They increased spending beyond imagination. Far too often, they talked and acted like Democrats. I've been a strong advocate of not voting for the lesser to two evils as a means of stimulating more competition in the political marketplace. But I'd like to present the other side of that story today,...