WASHINGTON – A new Senate report has found that American taxpayers pay more for health care than other countries. According to a report by Sen. Bernie Sanders who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP), a Johnson and Johnson treatment costs $25,000 to $56,000 in the U.S., compared with $4,000 to $10,000 ...
CHICAGO, Illinois – Volunteers have reported that stale food was distributed to migrants housed at various locations in Chicago. They also said that their access to migrants has been restricted. One volunteer, Sorsha Urquiza, told local media that she was not allowed to deliver donations to the shelters. Recently, media representatives h...
NEW DELHI – India had reportedly threatened to shut down Twitter if it does not follow orders to block accounts critical of the government. According to Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s co-founder, the threats were made during year-long 2020-2021 farmers’ protests. The government wanted to block accounts that were critical of the gover...
WASHINGTON – A report released Monday by an American Muslim group shows that more than 98% of the entries on the FBI watch list are Muslim names. The report titled “Twenty Years Too Many, A Call to Stop the FBI’s Secret Watchlist,” prepared by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), sheds light on the targeting [&he...
SACRAMENTO, California – A bill to ban caste-based discrimination in the U.S. state of California is headed to the state Assembly for debate. Advocacy groups fear the Senate-passed bill could be overturned or amended in the Assembly. Senator Aisha Wahab, a Democrat from Fremont who is in office for the first time, had introduced the [&he...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. State Department has called for the immediate release of a 19-year-old Uighur student currently imprisoned in China. A spokesperson told the media that the U.S. has called on China to immediately release Kamile Wayit, a preschool education student who has been detained since December for posting a video on a social ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh – Bangladesh on Sunday defended its plan to repatriate Rohingya refugees to their homeland Myanmar. However, it assured that they will be brought back if they feel unwell or face danger. Speaking to reporters in the capital Dhaka, Bangladesh Deputy Foreign Minister Shahriar Alam said the Rohingya would return voluntaril...
GENEVA – Nuclear-armed countries have increased their spending on maintaining 12,500 nuclear weapons to $82.9 billion in 2022. That’s 3% more than what was spent in 2021. According to a report released Monday by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), the U.S. remains the biggest spender on nuclear weapons. It...
COLOGNE, Germany – A professor in Germany is under fire for racially insulting a female Muslim student. Gulsen Kurt, a Muslim student, said the professor insulted her because she wore a headscarf. Attorney Faith Zingal, who represents the student, said the incident occurred during an economics class on the campus of Bonn-Rhein-Sieg Unive...
ROME, Italy – A right-wing party in Italy’s ruling coalition has proposed a law banning Muslims from praying outside officially designated mosques. The Brothers of Italy (FDL) party is part of the government led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The bill is currently being discussed in Parliament’s Environment Committee. It a...
