WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken has determined that an Israeli army battalion committed grave human-rights abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank before the war in Gaza. But he said in a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson that he is postponing a decision on blocking aid to the unit to give […]
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — Temporary farmworkers will have more legal protections against employer retaliation, unsafe working conditions, illegal recruitment practices and other abuses under a Labor Department rule announced Friday. Each year about 300,000 immigrants, mostly from Mexico, take seasonal jobs on U.S. farms. The new rule, which takes effect June 28, will target […]
The Biden administration is reviewing whether to restrict aid to an Israeli military battalion after determining that it was one of three battalions credibly implicated in gross human rights violations against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank prior to Hamas‘ Oct. 7 attack, according to a letter obtained by NBC News. Two of those Israel […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former senior U.S. official who until recently helped oversee human-rights compliance by foreign militaries receiving American military assistance said Wednesday that he repeatedly observed Israel receiving “special treatment” from U.S. officials when it came to scrutiny of allegations of Israeli military abuses of Palestinian civilians. The allegation comes as the Biden […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Mark Keel spent most of the workday Wednesday testifying — under oath — before a subcommittee of the South Carolina Senate. Keel, who is currently the interim chief of the State Law Enforcement Division, is hoping senators vote to confirm him to serve another six year term as the […]
Two Pennsylvania parents are facing charges after their twin infants were found near death with signs of abuse, officials say. “The actions of these defendants are incomprehensible in their heinousness,” District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said in a March 11 news release announcing the charges against the 23-year old mother and 18-year-old father. McClatchy News is […]
A nurse in California was arrested after being accused of sexually abusing an unconscious patient, officials said. And police believe there may be more victims. A woman who was admitted into Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Riverside in mid-January reported she’d been sexually assaulted by the nurse taking care of her, according to a March 1 […]
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Mass violence and gross human rights violations in South Sudan continue unabated ahead of landmark elections due to take place in December, a report by the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan has warned. Patterns of violence, violations and entrenched impunity continue to blight the lives of an […]
German chemical company BASF said that it was speeding up the sale of stakes in two joint ventures in China after its local partner was accused of human rights abuses in media reports. BASF said in a news release that the market for the industrial chemicals made at the production sites in Korla in China’s […]
About 100 Israeli hostages, kidnapped by Hamas during the terrorists’ October 7 assault on Israel, have been released after more than 50 days in captivity. Dr. Itai Pessach (whose team at Sheba Medical Center, near Tel Aviv, interviewed and examined many of them) describes to CBS News’ Lesley Stahl the harrowing physical and psychological abuses […]