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‘Too big to rig’: No Kings movement heads to the polls to boost early voting

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Coalition has planned more than 3,000 events on Saturday to encourage voting before election day The coalition that has drawn millions of Americans into the streets to fight for democracy over the past two years is shifting its strategy this weekend. On Saturday, No Kings organizers and partners will hold thousands of events across all 50 states and Washington DC to get people to the polls early for the US midterm elections . With high-stakes races that will determine control of Congress , organizers say getting out the vote before election day can ease…

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Museum releases historical photos of island where Amelia Earhart may have crashed

Images from New Zealand aerial survey of Nikumaroro in 1938 offer new clues over aviator’s disappearance A New Zealand museum has released nearly 50 photos from a 1938 aerial survey of the island where Amelia Earhart is believed to have crash-landed, offering amateur sleuths new evidence to scour for traces of the pioneering aviator and her plane. The black-and-white images were published by the Air Force Museum of New Zealand after renewed interest in one of the biggest mysteries of the 20th century, spurred by a US expedition to the Pacific atoll of…

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