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FBI raids home of New York mayors top campaign fundraiser | New York

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New York This article is more than 2 months oldFBI raids home of New York mayor’s top campaign fundraiserThis article is more than 2 months oldBrianna Suggs questioned by corruption squad as Eric Adams cancels several Washington DC meetings The home of a consultant with ties to the New York city mayor, Eric Adams, was raided by the FBI on Thursday. Brianna Suggs, Adams’s top campaign fundraiser, was questioned by the FBI’s public corruption squad as they searched her house in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, the New York Times reported. Read More...

Greta Van Fleet on critics: Theyre pissed off that were doing something | Music

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MusicInterviewGreta Van Fleet on critics: ‘They’re pissed off that we’re doing something’Jim FarberThe Grammy award-winning rock band have received commercial success yet critics haven’t been quite as receptive – can their new album change that? Talk to Josh Kiszka, lead singer of the band Greta Van Fleet, about his time growing up in a small town in the American midwest and you’d think he was describing the life of Huckleberry Finn. Read More...

UN warns of rise of 'cybertorture' to bypass physical ban | Torture

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Torture This article is more than 3 years oldUN warns of rise of 'cybertorture' to bypass physical banThis article is more than 3 years oldRapporteur warns against trivialising psychological torture as states exploit internet to target individuals Psychological torture is being exploited by states to circumvent the more widely understood ban on physically inflicting pain and may open the way to a future of “cybertorture”, the UN torture rapporteur has said. Read More...