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Soros Fund Management is positioned to become the biggest shareholder of Audacy Inc. when the radio and podcast company emerges from bankruptcy. The investment firm founded by billionaire George Soros has scooped up more than $400 million of Audacy’s highest-ranking debt‚ bankruptcy court filings show. That makes it by far the biggest member of a group of lenders planning to swap their loans for stock in the broadcaster.

President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman informed Russians this week that the “special military operation” that Putin launched in Ukraine in February 2022 was set to go on much longer because it is now “a war against the collective West.” That’s right: a war. It was remarkable to hear that word from Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Journalists were explicitly banned from using it as the invasion began and thousands of Russians have been detained‚ fined and imprisoned for telling the truth...

Most of the Spanish-language misinformation about immigration that Latinos see on social media or listen to on the radio seems to largely mirror the falsehoods spread by right-wing media outlets in English‚ according to two groups tracking misinformation in Spanish. Researchers monitoring Spanish-language misinformation found that anti-immigrant rhetoric and false narratives increased as coverage of the Senate’s border security and foreign aid bill gained traction in...

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Friday publicly revealed the identities of 12 UNRWA staff members who Israel says “actively participated” in the Hamas-led October 7 onslaught on southern Israel. The attack saw some 3‚000 Hamas-led terrorists burst across the border into Israel from Gaza by land‚ air and sea‚ killing some 1‚200 people and seizing 253 hostages of all ages — mostly civilians — under the cover of a deluge of thousands of rockets fired at Israeli towns and cities. The US and...

Tens of thousands of people in Hungary have protested following a presidential pardon in a child sexual abuse case that has shocked the nation. Demonstrators packed the historic Heroes' Square in the capital Budapest in solidarity with abuse victims. President Katalin Novak and two senior figures in Prime Minister Viktor Orban's ruling Fidesz party last week resigned over the controversial pardon. Separately‚ a bishop who advised the right-wing PM has now also quit. Zoltan Balog...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was willing to take U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump‚ a long-time skeptic of Washington’s support for Kyiv‚ to the war-battered front lines of Ukraine. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference‚ Zelenskyy on Saturday said that he had already welcomed the Republican frontrunner to see first hand the impact of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine‚ but that the decision to come rests in Trump’s hands. “I invited him [Trump] publicly‚...

The Arizona House Rules Committee is scheduled to discuss legislation on Monday that would prevent cities from decreasing funding to their local police departments. Rep. David Marshall‚ R-Snowflake‚ is the sponsor of House Bill 2120‚ and it has already passed the House Military Affairs &; Public Safety committee in an 8-7 party-line vote this past Monday. The bill would prevent a city or town from spending less than the amount it did the year prior for its "annual operating budget" for...

Potentially damning text messages detailing when Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis’ affair with Nathan Wade began won’t be considered by a judge when he rules on whether the top prosecutor should be thrown off the Trump election fraud case — in a blow to former president’s case. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee said Friday text messages between Wade’s former divorce attorney Terrence Bradley and another defense lawyer couldn’t be admitted as evidence because...

Several moderate House Republicans and Democrats are hoping to revive stalled military aid for Israel‚ Ukraine and Taiwan‚ introducing a $66 billion bill that pairs the funding with Trump-era border security policies.  The latest attempt to send aid to allies comes as two Senate foreign spending packages‚ one with border security and one without‚ have been killed by Republicans.  It also underscores the urgency in Congress to push aid for Ukraine in...