Aviation regulators briefly halted flights from U.S. airports on the West Coast as a precaution Monday, after North Korea launched a high-speed missile test. The ground stop paused departures from an unspecified number of airports for less than 15 minutes. North Korea’s hypersonic missile flew at nearly 10 times the speed of sound into waters ...
Virginia state senator Amanda Chase was criticized by Muslim and Jewish groups for comments against ending mask mandates. In a Facebook post on her personal page, Chase attempted to draw parallels between masks and the niqab – a face veil worn by some Muslim women. In her post, Chase claimed that the Muslim face-covering was […]
The United States set a record Tuesday for the number of people hospitalized with the coronavirus, shattering a previous high set in January 2021. Nationwide over 145,000 people were hospitalized with the virus, according to the US Health and Human Services Department. Cases have been spiking across the country as the omicron variant has led ...
In August 2021, Afghan taxi driver Hamid Safi found a two-month old boy alone in Kabul airport, amid the chaos of the US troop withdrawal. He and his wife took the baby in and cared for him, as a social media campaign to find the family was under way. Now, seven-month-old Sohail Ahmadi has been […]
Three Supreme Court justices in India are launching an investigation into threats by some Hindu extremists against the Muslim minority in the northern state of Uttarakhand. The announcement came after Anjana Prakash, a retired Supreme Court justice, filed a petition. The incendiary remarks were reportedly made at a Hindu Religious Parliament l...
Democracy defenders on Wednesday cheered a ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court that invalidated Republican-drawn state legislative district maps. A majority of the justices found these were unconstitutionally gerrymandered against the will of the state’s voters. In a 4-3 decision, they ordered the maps redrawn, as the GOP-controlled Ohio R...
