World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday that the WHO is “extremely disturbed” by reports of airstrikes near Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, the largest in the region. Hours earlier, the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said the hospital was hit by Israeli Defense Force (IDF) airstrikes, killing at least one person and trapping [...]
Amnesty International urged the Pakistani government to stop detentions, deportations and harassment of Afghan refugees on Friday. Since the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, over 600,000 Afghans have fled the country and resided in Pakistan without proper documentation. In response, the Pakistani government imposed a deadline of November 1 for all “illegal immigrants” to voluntarily leave [...]
Louisiana’s political landscape faces a critical deadline as a US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Friday set a January 15 deadline for the state legislature to draw up a new congressional map. The urgency stems from a previous ruling of a lower court last year that deemed the current political boundaries as [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled on Thursday that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) lacked authority to adopt a final rule aimed at limiting “ghost guns,” weapons parts kits that can be put together to create a firearm without having to register it. The case is an [...]
A federal jury in Maryland convicted Baltimore’s former top prosecutor Marilyn Mosby on Thursday on perjury charges. The jury found Mosby was guilty of falsifying financial duress claims in order to withdraw funds from a retirement fund. A jury in the US District Court of Maryland convicted Mosby on two federal perjury counts after she [...]
Israel has agreed to daily humanitarian pauses in its assault on Hamas in northern Gaza, according to a Thursday press briefing from a US national security spokesperson. John Kirby, the President’s National Security Council (NSC) Coordinator for Strategic Communications, said that “the Israelis have announced some potentially important steps” and “there will now be two [...]
“The man who laughs has simply not yet heard the horrible news.” Berthold Brecht An Existential Task Until the end of his presidency – and even after his open complicity in subverting the United States Constitution on January 6, 2021 – Donald J. Trump held effectively unchecked nuclear command authority. Now, after multiple criminal [...]
An Indonesian court sentenced former Malaysian Youth and Sports Minister Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman to seven years in prison and two lashes of the whip after being found guilty of abetting in criminal breach of trust, misappropriation of funds and money laundering, according to a Thursday article from state news agency Bernama. The charges [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that Apple will pay $25 million to settle claims that the tech giant participated in discriminatory hiring and recruitment practices on the basis of citizenship. The settlement agreement resolves the determination by the DOJ’s Immigration and Employee Rights Section that Apple violated 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(A)(1)(B), an [...]
Human Rights Watch stated on Wednesday that Burkina Faso’s junta is intensifying its assault on dissent by notifying 12 journalists, civil society activists and opposition party members that they were required to participate in government security operations across the country. The interim military authorities in Burkina Faso claim that the conscription orders are justified under [...]
