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Leonard Leo Vows $1B Investment to ‘Crush Liberal Dominance’
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Mark Hamill Leads Heartbreaking Tributes to James Earl Jones
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Hamill joined Kevin Costner, LeVar Burton, George Lucas, and other producers and film executives in paying tribute to the deceased legend.

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Norfolk Southern CEO Expected to Depart Amid Affair Rumors
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Alan Shaw was named CEO in 2022—just in time for the toxic train derailment in early 2023 and an activist investor campaign against his company earlier this year.

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Saudi Woman Spared Lashing

MIDDLE EAST

Updated Apr. 24, 2017 2:50PM EDT / Published Sep. 29, 2011 6:40AM EDT

Amena Bakr, Reuters / Landov

Sheima Jastaniah will not be lashed for breaking Saudi Arabia’s female driving ban after the country’s leader, King Abdullah, intervened to overturn her sentence. Originally sentenced to at least 10 lashings, Sheima was the first woman to face legal punishment for breaking the ban. The sentence came just one day after King Abdullah announced plans to extend voting rights to women in 2015.

Read it at Al Jazeera