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Month: February 2021

Putin critic Alexey Navalny has been transferred to a penal colony, Russian prison service says

Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny has been transferred from a Moscow detention center to a penal colony, state media reported on Friday. The exact location and name of the penal colony was not revealed but Alexander Kalashnikov of Russia’s federal penitentiary service (FSIN) told reporters: “According to the court’s decision, he left to where he

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British Gymnastics faces legal action over alleged ‘systemic physical and psychological abuse’

Seventeen former British gymnasts, including three Olympians, have notified British Gymnastics of their intention to take legal action, alleging coaches subjected them to “systemic physical and psychological abuse,” according to a statement from their law firm Hausfeld. “This is a landmark moment in our campaign for justice,” Claire Heafford, a former elite gymnast and one

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DHS mandates state and local spending on domestic terrorism prevention

The Department of Homeland Security will require state and local grant recipients to spend funding on domestic violent extremism prevention efforts, the department announced Thursday. For the first time, the department designated combating domestic violent extremism as a “National Priority Area” for two of its Federal Emergency Management Agency grant programs. FEMA operates several grant

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The suicide of the ex-USA Gymnastics coach who faced abuse charges was an ‘escape from justice,’ former gymnast says

The death of John Geddert, the US Olympic team coach who was charged with 24 felonies in connection with the abuse of young gymnasts, was an “escape from justice,” said Sarah Klein, one of the many athletes who reacted to his suicide on Thursday. “He tortured and abused little girls, myself included, for more than

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2 children dead in fire

Click here for updates on this story     Mills Township, Michigan (WNEM ) — A two-year-old and a five-year-old are dead, their parents badly burned, and three other kids were hurt in a Mills Township fire. “Just a horrible thing for those kids to die like that,” said Ryan Mills, a man who lived down the

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