Uyghurs in the U.S. protested in front of the White House Saturday against the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. They criticized the Chinese government and accused it of carrying out “genocide” in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. In 2019, Human Rights Watch confirmed that the Chinese government has committed, and continues to commit, crim...
College campuses have been the site of 141 shootings so far during the 2021-22 school year, according to Everytown for Gun Safety. A 19-year-old former student was shot and killed after a high school basketball game a week ago in Beloit, Wisconsin. Three teens were hospitalized after a shooting Monday outside Chaparral High School in [&hellip...
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of downtown Minneapolis Saturday demanding justice in the fatal police shooting of a young Black man. Amir Locke was shot and killed by police who were executing a “no-knock” search warrant on an apartment last week. This allows law enforcement to enter private property without first alerting occupant...
When 33-year-old Syrian native Ahmad won the diversity lottery and a chance to get a visa to the United States in May 2018, he was in disbelief. It was his third attempt applying for the Diversity Visa Program, which gives up to 50,000 people a chance to apply for a U.S. green card every year. […]
Two progressive U.S. lawmakers on Thursday introduced a bill that would replace the expired federal child tax credit with more generous benefits. Millions of poor and working-class American families were affected by the recent lapse of the benefit. Democratic Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Mondaire Jones of New York introduced th...
Former Florida Republican Representative Dave Jolly called out Mike Pence and his top aide for not speaking out earlier about attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Attempts, he said, that were spurred at former President Donald Trump’s request. Jolly spoke with MSNBC host Alex Witt on Sunday after watching a clip of former Pence aide [&helli...
US Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Thursday Russia could stage a fake attack by Ukrainian forces on Russian territory or people to justify its actions near Ukraine’s border. Veteran Associated Press reporter Matt Lee grilled a US State Department spokesperson over the U.S. government’s refusal to provide direct evidence. Invoking the ...
Former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, who killed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in 2014 with 16 shots, was released from prison Thursday. Van Dyke served little more than three years of a nearly seven-year prison sentence for killing the Black teenager. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s office confirmed the release to CNN Thursday. Van Dyke’...
Republican Oklahoma City mayoral candidate Carol Hefner said during a debate she thinks Islam should be “eradicated” from the globe. Hefner defended her past Islamophobic social media posts during the debate. Debate moderator Storme Jones pointed out Hefner has previously called Islam “an evil culture and not a religion.” Hefner’s response was...
The U.S. Army said Wednesday it will begin separating soldiers who refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine from service. Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth asked commanders to initiate involuntary administrative separation proceedings against any soldier refusing the vaccine. The same rule applies to soldiers who do not have an approved or pendi...
