Workers at an Apple store in Atlanta filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday, becoming the first to do so at any of the Silicon Valley giant’s 272 retail locations across the United States. Bloomberg Law reported that 70% of workers at an Apple store in Cumberland Mall in northwest Atlanta signed c...
JERUSALEM (AA) – More than 700 Israeli settlers forced their way into the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem on Thursday, according to a Palestinian agency. In a statement, the Jordan-run Islamic Waqf Department, which oversees the holy sites in Jerusalem, said 762 settlers stormed the site and stayed there for about ...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – At least seven people died and 19 got seriously injured after an explosive device went off at a bar in Nigeria’s northeastern Taraba state. An eyewitness, Fanen James, said Wednesday that they counted seven bodies before they were transported to a hospital. The police said earlier that three people were dead [&hellip...
Since the pandemic began, the United States has spent 7.5 times more money on nuclear weapons than on global vaccine donations. Stated another way, the money put towards global vaccine donations has amounted to just 13% of the money put toward nuclear weapons. The comparison shows that, even during a shared international crisis, in which an ou...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday directed the relevant officials to provide foolproof security to former premier Imran Khan after reports of threats to his life. According to an official statement, Sharif directed Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah to ensure Khan’s security. The government h...
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least five people were killed and many others injured in a blast that hit a mosque in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, local media reported. The explosion occurred at the Seh Dokan mosque located in a busy area of Mazar-e-Sharif, Tolo News quoted sources as saying. Quoting an official from the local […]
Parents forcibly separated from their children during then-President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration crackdown continue to suffer enduring trauma and should be justly compensated by a Biden administration that’s instead defending its predecessor in court, according to a report published Tuesday by a prominen...
The Biden administration on Wednesday appealed a federal judge’s ruling that struck down a mask mandate for public transportation. Following the ruling of a Florida-based judge appointed by former President Donald Trump that terminated the mask mandate on Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said has said that it would appeal the...
The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday granted a temporary stay of execution to a condemned prisoner who was set to be the first in the state to be killed by firing squad. The Associated Press reports the Columbia court paused the state’s scheduled April 29 killing of 57-year-old Richard Bernard Moore, who was found guilty of the ...
More than five dozen advocacy groups on Wednesday pressured Congress to cut off U.S. military support for the Saudi-led war and blockade on Yemen, highlighting that it “has helped cause the deaths of nearly half a million people and pushed millions more to the edge of starvation.” The groups’ letter to Congress — led by Churc...
