Burma on Monday urged the U.N.’s highest court to drop a genocide case brought against it by The Gambia for alleged persecution of Rohingya Muslims. Gambia dragged Burma before the International Court of Justice in 2019. The Buddhist-majority country is accused of genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority after a bloody 2017 military crac...
Researchers say state-level “stand your ground” laws “should be reconsidered to prevent unnecessary violent deaths.” Such laws are associated with hundreds of additional homicides each year in the U.S., according to new research by public health scholars. The study was published Monday in JAMA Network Open, a peer-reviewed medical journal. It ...
Two progressive U.S. lawmakers on Thursday introduced a bill that would replace the expired federal child tax credit with more generous benefits. Millions of poor and working-class American families were affected by the recent lapse of the benefit. Democratic Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Mondaire Jones of New York introduced th...
The United States National Archives on Monday issued a rare statement confirming that the White House turned over records including paper documents previously ripped up by former president Donald Trump. White House records management officials during the Trump Administration recovered and taped together some of the torn-up records, the archive...
German prosecutors filed charges against a Russian academic for spying for Russia. The suspect, identified as Ilnur N., is accused of passing information about aerospace projects to Russia’s foreign intelligence service SVR, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement. The prosecutors said the accused regularly met with a Russian spy i...
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Monday urged top Democrats and Republicans in the House to swiftly bring legislation banning Congress from owning or trading stock to the floor. The call came in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat who has faced criticism for defending her husband’s trades and existing […...
As the trials of J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao opened, prosecutors said none of the three intervened to prevent the murder of George Floyd in May 2020. The three Minneapolis police officers are charged with depriving Floyd of his civil rights and failing to provide or access any medical intervention as he […]
The US Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear challenges to two college admissions policies that take into consideration an applicant’s race. The practice, known as affirmative action historically, has been used to help minorities, particularly Black and Latino students, during college admissions processes. The high court decided to hear chal...
A Muslim-American advocacy group on Thursday urged any Pentagon official directly involved in a botched airstrike in Afghanistan last August to resign. The Council on American-Islamic Relations or CAIR called for the resignation of U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and “any military officials who had a direct role in approving the drone stri...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A bicameral group of Democratic lawmakers urged President Joe Biden on Thursday to overhaul the US’ international counterterrorism operations, including its drone targeting criteria, as he carries out a policy review. “We strongly urge your Administration to review and overhaul U.S. counterterrorism policy t...
