Amazon and tech giants are mounting a big-money push to tank bipartisan antitrust legislation its proponents say rightly takes on concentrated corporate power undermining small businesses and democracy. Introduced in October by lead co-sponsors Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa.), the American Innovation and Choice Onlin...
A leading peace group on Monday said a new report detailing the depth of U.S. support for Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen—hundreds of which have been called war crimes by international legal experts—shows the need for Congress to pass a recently introduced measure to end American complicity in one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. ...
Though Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar has already twice declared victory in Texas’ 28th District, progressive primary challenger Jessica Cisneros announced Monday that she plans to formally request a recount for the May 24 runoff election. The race has long garnered national attention given how close Cisneros came to ousting Cuella...
More than 40 civil rights and racial justice groups on Monday called on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to ensure that the U.S. Senate votes to reinstate the monthly enhanced Child Tax Credit, which last year was credited with slashing child poverty by 30%. Restoring the payments, which ended in December after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) [...
Low-wage workers, union presidents, and progressive faith leaders on Monday urged President Joe Biden to meet with a handful of the millions of Americans living in poverty before the Poor People’s Campaign rallies in Washington, D.C. on June 18 to demand an economy and democracy that works for everyone, not just the wealthy few. At the u...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US sanctioned on Monday two leaders of Bosnia and Herzegovina, alleging they have undermined regional stability and the country’s Dayton Peace Accords. Marinko Cavara, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina president, and Alen Seranic, the Republika Srpska health minister, are being added to the US blacklist...
NEW DELHI (AA) – India successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable, long-range ballistic missile on Monday, its Defense Ministry said. “A successful training launch of an Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile, Agni-4, was carried out at approximately 1930 hours on June 06, 2022, from APJ Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha (eastern India),R...
VIENNA (AA) – A mosque in Austria was subjected to an Islamophobic and racist attack on Monday. The words “Go back home” were written on the walls of the Yesil Mosque in Lower Austria by an unidentified individual who entered the area without permission, according to mosque officials. Türkiye’s Ambassador to Austria, Ozan Cey...
ANKARA (AA) – Israeli warplanes struck some targets in Syria belonging to Assad regime forces, Syria’s state news agency SANA reported early Tuesday. Israeli air elements carried out the attack from the direction of the Golan Heights on Monday night, said SANA, citing a military source. The attack targeted some locations in the western D...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Mali’s military government will lead the country for a two-year transition period before returning to democratic rule, junta leader Colonel Assimi Goita announced late Monday in a decree. The junta had initially promised to hold elections in February this year, but later changed its mind, saying they would be held in [&he...
