U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is operating a digital surveillance dragnet through which the agency is able to access information about nearly every person in the United States, a two-year investigation by researchers from the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law revealed Tuesday. The study—entitled American Dragnet: ...
With the U.S. Supreme Court at the forefront of the nation’s attention as justices appear ready to overturn Roe v. Wade, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Pramila Jayapal introduced legislation Tuesday that spotlights the powerful judicial body’s complete lack of binding ethics rules—and proposes a number of solutions to tackle the hi...
Two years ago, mass protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police galvanized Americans to confront the disparate impact that a broken system of policing, arrest, and incarceration had on Black and Brown communities. For the first time in a generation, nearly all Americans favored the change to the criminal justice system....
Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders announced Monday that there will be a hearing on Medicare for All this Thursday. “We spend twice as much per capita on healthcare as any other nation but with worse health outcomes for our people,” Sanders (I-Vt.) tweeted Monday. “Does that make sense to anyone? It’s time for...
More than a dozen Nobel laureates and former heads of state urged U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday to help “lead the world out of the pandemic” by supporting a bold patent waiver and committing at least $5 billion to the global fight against Covid-19, which has ravaged poor nations. In a letter to the White House […]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) – About a dozen women protested in the Afghan capital on Tuesday against the Taliban’s new edict that females must fully cover their faces and bodies when in public. Afghanistan’s supreme leader and Taliban chief Hibatullah Akhundzada issued a mandate over the weekend ordering women to cover up fully,...
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – The United States has said that President Vladimir Putin was “absurd” and insulting history by casting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a defensive operation on the anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany. “To call this a defensive action is patently absurd,” State Departmen...
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) – The European Union’s coordinator for talks between Iran and world powers over restoring a 2015 nuclear deal will visit Tehran this week, Iran’s foreign ministry has said. “The agenda for talks (with Enrique Mora) in Tehran is nearly finalised. “He will meet with Ali Bagheri, the Islamic Republ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli soldiers injured at least eight Palestinians during raids early Tuesday in the northern city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. Jewish settlers, who headed by bus to Joseph’s tomb in Nablus under the protection of the Israeli army, attacked Palestinians in the area, according to information rece...
ANKARA (AA) – Australia did not invite China or Russia to a major international naval conference that began on Tuesday in Sydney, local media reported. This is the first time the biannual three-day event is taking place in the country since the outbreak of COVID-19. Forty nations and over 700 defense companies from around the […]
