A number of scholars, politicians and advocates have condemned the United States Senate’s passage this week of a foreign funding bill that would provide billions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan while American social programmes are in need of funding. It is unclear when – or…
DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Police take two armed people into custody for investigation after shooting during parade. A parade in the United States to celebrate the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory has been interrupted by gunfire, with local police declaring that “multiple people” had been struck. Fire Department Battalion Chief…
The oppression and atrocities inflicted against Palestinians in Gaza have left us horrified. And indeed, we should be. Everything they have suffered has gone against human dignity, there is no doubt about that. And yet, something else has been on full display in this very horrific time of genocide and…
The United States House of Representatives has narrowly voted to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas after Republican politicians blamed him for unprecedented arrivals of migrants and asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border. Mayorkas has been accused of “willfully refusing” to enforce border laws and a “breach of the…
The Republican frontrunner had questioned the United States’ willingness to support its NATO allies if they were attacked. United States President Joe Biden has condemned comments about NATO by his likely 2024 election opponent and former President Donald Trump as “dangerous” and “un-American”, and said they raised the stakes for…
Nearly two-thirds of American Jews feel less secure in the United States than they did a year ago, according to a new national survey. The American Jewish Committee (AJC), a prominent advocacy organisation, conducted the survey just as Israel’s war on Gaza began on October 7. The number of American…
Republican Mike Johnson says the bill does not address the ‘most pressing’ issue of security at the US-Mexico border. United States House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson has cast doubt on the fate of a $95.3bn aid package for countries including Ukraine and Israel as the Senate voted to advance…
Joe Biden is getting frustrated with Israel. That is what unnamed sources have been telling media outlets in the United States, as the president faces widespread condemnation over his support for Israel’s war in Gaza. But as Israel presses on with its military campaign, Biden is nearing “a breach” with…
It is an image that could belong to a film that is part horror, part sci-fi: US President Joe Biden standing against a murky background, bright-red laser beams emanating from his eyes, his United States flag brooch shining prominently against his lapel. Yet, it was no meme page or troll…
First, she heard a ping, then the sound of something hitting her boat. It was 1975, and Norma Cagey, only 18 years old at the time, was alone with her husband on the calm waters of the Hood Canal, a tree-lined fjord in Washington state. A member of the Skokomish…
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