In a bombing, the dust settles slowly over the strike zone. What emerges are grey images, living beings neutralized to monochrome. Bleeding from the ears, deaf, and dumb from the concussions the survivors walk about in a haze. These zombies are the first things you see staggering down the street away from the rubble behind [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld Monday a $10 billion class action settlement against Volkswagen for a 2015 emissions cheating scandal. Volkswagen has admitted to installing devices in certain models of their diesel vehicles to have them defeat US emissions tests. Anywhere from 10-40 times the legal amount of diesel fumes were being [...]
Within 24 hours, three cabinet members tasked with coordinating the UK’s leave from the European Union known as Brexit have resigned. The first, Secretary of State David Davis, who submitted his resignation late Sunday, was shortly followed by a junior secretary at the Department for Exiting the EU, Steve Baker. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson announced his [...]
The European Parliament voted down a highly-debated copyright bill Thursday, which would have made sweeping changes to the copyright regulation of online media. It was a bill big firms such as Google and Facebook argued would stifle creativity and sharing, as it aimed to regulate these companies’ monitoring more closely for infringements. License holders — publishers, [...]
France’s Constitutional Council ruled Friday that a farmer who aided migrants crossing France’s border with Italy was immune from prosecution because he operated on the principle of “fraternity” during the course of his actions. According to the council, this is the first time they have “held that fraternity is a principle with constitutional value,” citing [...]
Despite the fact congress seems uncomfortable with funding President Trump’s wall on the southern border, the administration has constructed a legal wall against asylum seekers. First, there was the announcement of the ‘Zero Tolerance’ policy of criminalizing any individuals who comes to America in ways not considered correct. While it is intended to apply only [...]
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency said Thursday it needs more time to accurately identify the parents of detained immigrant children. The response follows a June 26 court order in the US District Court for the Southern District of California . ICE wrote that they would be using DNA testing to identify the parents [...]
According to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) form first obtained by NBC News Tuesday, detained immigrant parents, even those with pending asylum claims, must choose between returning to their country with or without their children. The form is to be read to the parents in a language that they know and has them sign for either [...]
US President Donald Trump announced Thursday the resignation of Scott Pruitt as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency . “Within the Agency Scott has done an outstanding job, and I will always be thankful to him for this,” Trump said. Trump noted that current Deputy Adminstrator Andrew Wheeler will serve as acting administrator. “I have [...]
Judge John Mendez of the US District Court for the Eastern District of California on Wednesday blocked the enforcement of provisions of California’s Immigrant Worker Protection Act that would have fined employers who consent to immigration enforcement activities not mandated by federal law. The act prohibits employers from providing consent to an immigration officer to “enter any nonpublic [...]
