On Tuesday, the U.S. House Intelligence Committee received a classified briefing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and Unidentified Flying Objects. It’s the first time in a half-century the two are being addressed as potential foreign threats to the nation. Committee member Congressman Rick Crawford said intelligence agencies must prevent poten...
A recent report by the Massachussets chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations found that bullying and harassment of Muslim schoolchildren that was rife before the pandemic has returned. During the pandemic’s remote learning phase, reports of school bullying essentially went down to zero. With classes now back in person, cas...
Nearly 47 million more people worldwide are at risk of malnutrition and starvation, according to an analysis by the United Nations’ World Food Programme. That’s due to food and fuel supply disruptions because of Russia’s war in Ukraine. There are 323 million acutely food insecure people in 81 countries this year. Ukraine and Russia are [&hell...
COVID-19 cases have risen in four of the six World Health Organization regions in the last week, the WHO chief said Tuesday. Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said drops in testing and sequencing in many countries make it “increasingly difficult” to track the virus and how it’s mutating. He said North Korea announced its first outbreak of [&...
On Monday, human rights activists hailed a “historic” U.S. House of Representatives resolution recognizing the Nakba introduced by Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib. Six progressive House co-sponsors supported Tlaib’s resolution recognizing the ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign against Palestinians perpetrated by Israel. Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat, ...
Keeping global warming below the 1.5°C threshold by the end of the century will require halting construction of new fossil fuel infrastructure and closing many existing sites. That’s according to a new study published Tuesday in the journal Environmental Research Letters. “Some existing fossil fuel licenses and production will need to be revok...
For the 3rd year in a row, the bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom or USCIRF has asked the US government to designate India as a “country of particular concern” of CPC. The CPC designation is used for nations that engage in egregious violations of religious freedom. This year, USCIRF also called for it […]...
Muslim Americans filed over 6,000 complaints last year with the Council on American-Islamic Relations — a 9% increase from 2020, according to a new report. Complaints include bullying in schools, freedom of speech concerns, hate crimes, physical assaults or placement on a federal terrorist watchlist. Researchers documented a 28% rise in hate a...
Three in five reported COVID-19 deaths in the United States since June 2021 could have been prevented by vaccination, according to new analysis. The Kaiser Family Foundation estimated about 234,000 lives could have been saved with timely vaccination. Vaccine-preventable deaths represent 60% of all U.S. adult coronavirus fatalities since last ...
Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohamedou Ould Slahi has filed a $35 million lawsuit against the Canadian government for his 14-year detention, the CBC reports. The court filing says authorities took actions that “caused, contributed to and prolonged (Slahi’s SILA HAI’S) detention, torture, assault and sexual assault at Guantanamo Bay.” The 51-...
