Philadelphia filed suit on Thursday against the National Park Service (NPS), after it removed educational panels about slavery from Independence National Historical Park. The panels were located at the President’s House Site, and informed visitors about the slaves held by George and Martha Washington in Philadelphia, when it was the nation’s capital. The suit alleges [...]
US President Donald Trump, along with Trump-owned LLCs, sued JPMorgan Chase Bank (JPMC) and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, on Thursday. The lawsuit alleges that the bank improperly closed down several accounts that Trump either owned or was a beneficiary of. The complaint states: Plaintiffs suffered considerable financial harm and losses caused not only by the [...]
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said in a report on Thursday that it urgently needs USD $128 million to sustain its operations in Nigeria through June, warning that more than a million people in the country’s northeast could lose access to emergency food and nutrition aid within weeks as violence surges across the nation. [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned Thursday that recent reductions in donor support for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria risk undermining the right to health for millions of people worldwide. HRW said donors have pledged US$11.85 billion toward the Global Fund’s US$18 billion target for the 2026–2028 replenishment cycle, leaving a US$6.15 [...]
Denmark and Greenland began the year by rejecting any suggestion of US control over Greenland, stating that the island’s sovereignty remains absolute, despite comments by Donald Trump that referenced a proposed Arctic security framework with NATO. Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in a televised address January 5 condemned what she called threats, pressure and condescending [...]
A group of 73 South Korean nationals accused of participating in online scam operations in Cambodia were returned to South Korea on Friday. They will now face formal investigations in South Korea surrounding alleged “scam compounds.” Officials allege that the group is responsible for defrauding more than 800 South Koreans of approximately 33 million US [...]
Peru’s interim President José Jerí on Wednesday offered inconsistent explanations over unregistered meetings with two Chinese business owners who are subject to ongoing legal investigations. According to media reports, the meetings include an unregistered encounter with businessman Zhihua Yang in late December 2025 and in early January 2026, which took place at a “chifa” restaurant, [...]
Police and prosecutors from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname announced Thursday the arrest of nearly 200 individuals in a transnational operation to combat illegal gold mining in the Amazon. Backed by Interpol, the European Union through EL PACCTO 2.0, and a Dutch police unit specializing in environmental crime, “Operation Guyana Shield” involved over 24,500 [...]
US immigration enforcement faced mounting scrutiny Friday from international officials as well as congressional Democrats following a detainee death ruled a homicide by a county medical examiner in Texas. The disturbing development comes amid a dramatic spike in deaths in Homeland Security custody. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called on the US [...]
A Texas court found a former school police officer not guilty on charges stemming from the apparently delayed police response to the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. Jesse Rizo, uncle of a 9-year-old killed in the shooting, said the verdict “sends a signal that you entrust a school system, a school [...]
