On Wednesday, human rights advocates condemned Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for sending a bus of migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to the nation’s capital. The bus arrived outside an office building housing Fox News, which provided glowing coverage of the bus’ arrival. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior policy counsel at the American Immig...
On Tuesday, U.S. President Joe Biden unveiled a new plan allowing homegrown biofuels to mitigate the adverse effect of rising oil prices due to Russia’s war on Ukraine. The Biden administration aims to encourage the development of homegrown biofuels to provide an affordable alternative in the short term. The U.S. Department of Agriculture will...
The U.S. State Department on Monday ordered non-emergency U.S. government workers and their family members to leave Shanghai. The order comes in response to rising COVID-19 cases and restrictions related to the Chinese government’s response. China and Hong Kong have a zero-tolerance approach to COVID-19, which severely impacts travel and acces...
On Wednesday, Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Ryabkov threatened to deploy nuclear weapons in and around the Baltic Sea region if Finland and Sweden join NATO. But Bloomberg reports that Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment on that possibility. Foreign Minister Ryabkov also said U.S. and NATO arms shipments in Ukraine will be ...
China is working as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “silent partner” in his war against Ukraine, CIA Director William Burns said Thursday. Burns did not elaborate on China’s support, but he said Beijing presents the CIA with “the most profound test” it has faced in its 75-year history. On Russia’s war against Ukraine, Burns said the [&helli...
During Ramadan, many Muslims fast from dawn until sunset. To break the fast, Muslims often gather together for communal meals, known as iftar. But iftars can sometimes generate a lot of waste such as disposable silverware and serving items. To combat that problem, a group of 15 Muslims in Washington, D.C., decided to throw an […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – El Shafee Elsheikh, a British man, better known as one of the ISIS group’s “Beatles,” was reportedly found guilty Thursday on all eight charges by a jury in the US state of Virginia. Elsheikh faces a sentence of up to life in prison. He was brought to the US in 2020 alongside […]
HOUSTON, Texas – Austin Tice was abducted near Damascus, Syria on August 14, 2012, while covering the country’s civil war as a freelance journalist for multiple US news organizations. Almost 10 years later, he has yet to be released and returned to his hometown of Houston, Texas. “He was only there 83 days before he […]
WASHINGTON – China is working as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “silent partner” in his war against Ukraine, CIA Director William Burns has said. Burns, speaking in his first public address since assuming the agency’s top role, did not elaborate on China’s support but said Beijing presents the CIA with &...
NEW YORK (AA) – Muslim young men who caught Frank James, the suspect in the New York City subway shooting, testified in a police station on Wednesday. A young man named Mohammad told the press after leaving the police station that they had seen James in Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood with his cousin and friend […]
