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Crew of New Zealand navy ship that sank off Samoa lacked training and experience, inquiry finds

A lack of training, qualifications and experience among the crew on board a New Zealand navy ship that ran aground, caught fire and sank off the coast of Samoa have been identified by a military Court of Inquiry in a final report into the disaster released Friday

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Yoon Suk Yeol impeachment verdict live: South Korea on edge as court to rule on president’s fate

Security high in capital as constitutional court to decide whether to remove or reinstate president months after he imposed martial law and triggered country’s worst political crisis in decades

In today’s lead-up to the constitutional court ruling – scheduled to begin in under half an hour – large crowds of Yoon Suk Yeol’s supporters and detractors have gathered in Seoul.

Live footage showed many of his backers near the presidential residence waving South Korean or US flags as roused voices addressed them over loudspeakers in what resembled a festival atmosphere amid music, horns, clattering objects and group singing.

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Judge Boasberg suggests Trump admin is acting in ‘bad faith’ — hints at contempt proceedings in Alien Enemies Act case 

Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign was pressed by Judge James Boasberg during the hearing in Washington, DC, about who in the Trump administration was involved in ordering three deportation flights to El Salvador, carrying more than 250 migrants, and whether the government ignored his verbal order for the planes to be turned around. 

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Amtrak Train Strikes and Kills 1 in Pennsylvania

Amtrak said it had temporarily suspended rail service from Penn Station in New York City and Philadelphia’s main station.

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A still image from live television coverage of police inspecting a halted Amtrak train in Bristol Borough, Penn., Thursday.
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John Thornton, Venture Capitalist Who Founded The Texas Tribune, Dies at 59

An idealist, he founded The Texas Tribune, a model for nonprofit grass-roots news organizations nationwide, and the American Journalism Project, which supports them.

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John Thornton in the newsroom of The Texas Tribune in 2009. He founded it as a nonprofit organization to fill a void in local and regional news coverage.
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Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv solving its troop shortages, says top US general in Europe

Gen Christopher Cavoli says Russia has lost 4,000 tanks, comparable to whole US fleet; Kremlin goes to war against Elton John. What we know on day 1,136

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