A trio of Democrats from the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Thursday accused Amazon of “obstructing” its investigation into the December 2021 collapse of a warehouse in Illinois that killed six employees. The collapse resulting from tornado damage at the Amazon fulfillment center in Edwardsville has heightened scru...
With Democrats decrying the proposal as “madness,” Republican state lawmakers on Thursday pushed through House Bill 99, which would allow school districts to send teachers and other staff to school with firearms. The legislation, which Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said he “looks forward to signing,” would let school empl...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud implored the international community to help Wednesday with the ongoing drought response as Somalia prolonged drought conditions escalate. Mohamud, who was elected May 15, visited internally displaced persons camps on the outskirts of Baidoa, one of the worst affected areas in the...
ANKARA / ISTANBUL (AA) – Turkiye and Pakistan are determined to increase cooperation at all levels, including on bilateral and international platforms, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, as he welcomed Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif at the presidential palace in Ankara. “We have achieved the annual b...
An independent watchdog group launched a probe into Trump-appointed Social Security Inspector General Gail Ennis and her staff this week after reporting shined light on the massive fines they have imposed on poor people and people with disabilities, ostensibly in an effort to punish “fraud.” The fines in question were levied as par...
Leading up to a vote on a pair of ordinances in California’s Ventura County, an environmental advocacy group on Wednesday accused the fossil fuel industry of trying to “hijack democracy.” That charge from Food & Water Watch (FWW) followed the Ventura County Star‘s new reporting on Big Oil spending millions of dollar...
PARIS (AA) – In the first initiative of its kind, the Catholic Church in France will begin the process of paying reparations to victims of sexual abuse in the church, offering financial compensation of up to €60,000 (about $64,000), an independent commission set up to investigate the criminal cases announced on Wednesday. Marie Derain de...
The Biden administration announced late Wednesday that it will wipe out $5.8 billion in federal loan debt held by half a million borrowers who attended Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit education business that shut down in 2015 after defrauding students across the country. The victory for an estimated 560,000 borrowers is a product of seven ye...
JENIN CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army killed a Palestinian and injured three others late Wednesday in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The agency said Belal Kab’ha, 24, came to the hospital in critical condition after being shot with live bullets. It said three others also were injured b...
RIYADH (AA) – Qatar has reiterated its readiness to contribute to every international and regional effort to find a peaceful solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Its pledge came during a meeting Wednesday held by Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in the ...
