The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau or CFPB has finalized a rule banning medical debt from credit reports. The move aims to relieve millions of Americans struggling with health care bills. The regulation removes $49 billion in unpaid medical debt from credit reports and boosts credit scores by 20 points on average for those affected. The ...
The U.S. has imposed sanctions on Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces leader Mohammad Hamdan Daglo, known as Hemedti. This is for his role in genocide and systematic atrocities. Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned the RSF and allied militias for targeting civilians based on ethnicity, committing mass killings, and using sexual violence as a ...
The White House has dismissed claims that Israel’s actions in Gaza amount to genocide. This is despite its recognition of genocide in Sudan. The Biden administration condemned Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces or RSF for systematic ethnic killings and brutal violence, declaring a genocide there. Secretary of State Antony Blinken also said the RSF ...
The New York Times has rejected an ad from the American Friends Service Committee or AFSC, a Quaker group, which has called Israel’s assault on Gaza a “genocide.” The ad also urges Congress to stop U.S. military aid to Israel. The AFSC claims the Times asked them to replace the word “genocide” with “war,” a […]...
“I am very concerned as an American, that America is supplying arms for a war that is unjustified,” a member of Doctors Against Genocide says -WASHINGTON- (AA) Doctors Against Genocide (DAG) have called for the US to halt aid to Israel after their colleagues were detained last month by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip. […]
Fire in coastal Pacific Palisades neighbourhood, the most destructive in LA history, according to the Wildfire Alliance, remains the largest of 5 blazes in LA -WASHINGTON- (AA) The Hollywood Hills became the scene of the latest Los Angeles area wildfire Wednesday night as firefighters struggled to contain out-of-control infernos that have clai...
The Biden administration is reportedly in secret negotiations with the Taliban for a prisoner swap. The deal could free three Americans held in Afghanistan in exchange for releasing a Guantanamo Bay detainee. Talks began in July and gained momentum in November, when Washington proposed freeing Muhammad Rahim al Afghani, an alleged aide to Osam...
President Joe Biden has banned steel sales to Japanese giant Nippon Steel. Japan’s Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya hosted outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Tokyo for talks amid tensions over the decision to block the acquisition of U.S. Steel. Iwaya called Biden’s move to block the $14.1 billion deal as “perplexing...
President-elect Donald Trump has hinted at using military force to acquire the Panama Canal and Greenland, citing economic and national security needs. During a Mar-a-Lago press conference, he also proposed “high-level” tariffs to pressure Denmark into selling Greenland. Trump ruled out military action to annex Canada, favouring ec...
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to quickly revoke outgoing President Joe Biden’s ban on offshore oil and gas drilling. Trump told reporters in Florida he would reverse it immediately in vast areas “on day one.” He said “we’re going to be drilling in a lot of other locations, and the energy costs are going to [&he...
