President Joe Biden has extended Temporary Protected Status or TPS for immigrants from El Salvador, Ukraine, Sudan, and Venezuela. The move grants 937,000 people an additional 18 months of legal protection. TPS protects immigrants from deportation, provides work authorization, and ensures temporary legal status. The decision comes amid ongoing...
Vice President-elect JD Vance has clarified his stance on pardoning Capitol rioters. He said those responsible for violence during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack should not be pardoned. On “Fox News Sunday,” Vance distinguished between peaceful protesters, who he believes deserve pardons, and those who engaged in violence. More than 1,50...
The Supreme Court appears to be in favor of the sell-or-ban law approved by Congress to restrict access to social media platform TikTok. The nine justices listened to oral arguments from lawyers of TikTok, who appealed against a lower court’s rulings rejecting their argument. TikTok’s attorneys say the ban violates free speech rights protected...
On his first day in the White House, President-elect Donald Trump is preparing to sign more than 100 executive orders. These orders will cover border security, deportations, and other key political priorities, American news website Axios reports. Trump and his top advisors outlined these plans during a meeting with Senate Republicans Wednesday...
In an unprecedented moment in U.S. history, Donald Trump will take office as the first president convicted of felonies. On Friday, just days before his second inauguration, Trump was sentenced after being found guilty of 34 felonies related to hush money payments during the 2016 election. The New York State Supreme Court hearing concluded with...
The death toll in the Los Angeles wildfires has climbed to 24 as relentless blazes continue to rage for a fifth consecutive day, authorities said. Five of the deaths were attributed to the Palisades fire and 11 resulted from the Eaton fire, the LA County medical examiner’s office confirmed. At least four wildfires are burning […]
Peace activists protested in front of the New York Public Library on Saturday, marking the 23rd anniversary of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp’s establishment. The prison, which opened Jan. 11, 2002, currently holds 35 detainees, with 20 cleared for release. Protesters condemned its ongoing operation, citing violations of human rights and Ca...
President Joe Biden has urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to a cease-fire in Gaza in return for prisoners. The White House said in the call with Netanyahu, Biden also discussed regional developments, including the cease-fire deal in Lebanon. Last week, Biden told reporters “some progress” is being made in prisoner excha...
Primary goal of gender neutralization policies is ‘family, sanctity of family institution’, said the Turkish premier -ISTANBUL, Turkiye- (AA) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that gender-neutralization policies that use LGBT as a “battering ram” are harmful primarily to “the family and the sanctity of the fami...
Justice For All’s Save Uyghur Campaign is calling on the Thai government to immediately halt any potential plans to deport 48 Uyghur asylum seekers to China. This decision would endanger these individuals’ lives and contravenes international human rights standards. Justice For All’s Save Uyghur Campaign has also issued an urgent call to the go...
