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More than 1 million foreign nationals, including people from nations reeling under terrorism, have been granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) under the Biden administration. As of Sept. 30, roughly 1,095,115 foreign nationals from Afghanistan, Haiti, Venezuela, and Lebanon, among others, were granted TPS, according to a new report by the Co...
President Joe Biden has designated the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania as a national monument. The move aims to highlight the painful history of Native American boarding schools in the U.S. The Carlisle School, which operated from 1879 to 1918, was the first federally funded off-reservation boarding school. It aimed ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump named Caleb Vitello as the new acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), signaling a strong push to begin mass deportation efforts immediately upon taking office. ICE welcomed the appointment, citing Vitello’s extensive experience and Trump’s focus on addressing illegal imm...
A Manhattan court has acquitted former U.S. Marine Daniel Penny in the choking death of Jordan Neely aboard a New York subway. After a grueling seven-week trial and extensive deliberations, Penny was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide, a charge stemming from an incident caught on a video that went viral. Neely’s death in [&helli...
The Department of Justice has accused the Memphis Police Department of consistently breaching constitutional rights, specifically discriminating against Black people, and using excessive force. This conclusion follows a detailed investigation sparked by the violent arrest and subsequent death of Tyre Nichols in January 2023. Assistant U.S. Att...
Nay San Lwin, co-founder of the Free Rohingya Coalition, has appealed for international intervention to establish a safe zone for the Rohingya. His appeal comes amid fresh threats issued by the Arakan Army in Myanmar’s Rakhine State against the Rohingya. Despite long standing persecution by Burma’s military, the Arakan Army, an ethnic Buddhist...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – President Joe Biden announced more than $1 billion in humanitarian support Tuesday “for Africans displaced by historic droughts.” Speaking after touring Angola’s slavery museum in the southern African nation’s capital Luanda, Biden said that throughout his presidency, it has been his goal to create a strong, t...
Houston Texans player Azeez Al-Shaair has apologized to Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence after a controversial play resulted in a concussion for the latter. Al-Shaair said the tackle was not intentional, and that his aim in football is always fair competition, not to injure others. As well, the Muslim player said he was disapp...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Indonesian fishermen rescued 116 Rohingya refugees, mostly women and children, on Saturday after their boat sank off the coast of Aceh province, according to a local daily. Jakarta Globe reported that the group had fled Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar refugee camp, hoping to reach Indonesia or Malaysia. “They look very wea...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AA) – The Copenhagen City Court has convicted far-right Islamophobic politician Rasmus Paludan finding him guilty of racism based on a statement he made during a demonstration in 2019, the official Danish broadcaster reported. According to DR TV, Paludan was seen in the video saying that the average IQ in Somalia is 68 [&h...
