More than 300 advocacy groups and international organizations have written an open letter to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz opposing the possibility of holding asylum seekers in third countries for processing. “Please issue a clear rejection of plans to outsource asylum procedures,” the authors demand in the letter published on Wednesday. The signatories include Amnesty International […]
More than 300 advocacy groups and international organizations have written an open letter to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz opposing the possibility of holding asylum seekers in third countries for processing. “Please issue a clear rejection of plans to outsource asylum procedures,” the authors demand in the letter published on Wednesday. The signatories include Amnesty International […]
Jun. 7—State lawmakers closed session in Albany this week without coming to terms on a new gaming compact with the Seneca Nation of Indians. The state of compact negotiations isn’t sitting well with Seneca Nation leaders, including President Rickey Armstrong who said two years of talk is enough. “The pace and progress of the process […]
Plaintiffs and family members of plaintiffs in the Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court case, Cheryl Brown Henderson, second from right, John Stokes, second from left, and Nathaniel Briggs, right, speak outside the White House with NAACP President Derrick Johnson, left, after meeting with President Joe Biden on May 16, 2024. This week […]
PARIS (AP) — A Paris memorial honoring people who distinguished themselves by helping to rescue Jews in France during the country’s Nazi occupation in World War II was defaced Tuesday with painted blood-red hands, vandalism decried as “unspeakable” by the Paris mayor. The attack on the Wall of the Righteous comes in the context of […]
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas repeatedly pushed back on his critics during remarks Friday at a judicial conference in Alabama, lamenting what he described as the “nastiness” and “lies” directed at him and calling Washington a “hideous place.” Asked whether his jurisprudence required a degree of courage, Thomas said he didn’t view himself as courageous […]
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his Cabinet has unanimously voted to close broadcaster Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel. The move came after Israeli lawmakers recently approved a new media law – widely referred to as the “Al Jazeera law” – that gives the government powers to ban foreign broadcasters if they are deemed a risk […]
By Simon Lewis BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday protests at U.S. universities over U.S.-ally Israel’s war in Gaza are a hallmark of American democracy, but criticized what he called the “silence” about Palestinian militant group Hamas. Police have clashed with students critical of the war and the Biden […]
A New York appellate court on Monday partially granted former President Donald Trump’s request to stay the $454 million fraud judgment against him as he faced a Monday deadline to pay up or post bond. A five-judge panel of appellate court judges lowered Trump’s bond requirement to $175 million to appeal the ruling and gave […]
After Donald Trump voiced support for a 15-week national abortion ban, Joe Biden’s presidential campaign released an angry response from a Texas woman who nearly died due to that state’s anti-abortion measures, enduring a “nightmare” she said Trump created. “My family has been forever altered by the nightmare that Donald Trump created by overturning Roe,” […]
Viktoria Hazegh-Aazam sat in a Placer County courtroom Monday a few feet away from the man who killed her mother in a “hateful crime” that has left the teenager consumed by agony. “She wasn’t just my mom. She was my rock, my entire support system and my best friend. The woman who was meant to […]
Former President Donald Trump is visiting ground zero of the border fight between Texas and the federal government with a Thursday trip to Eagle Pass, a town of about 29,000 along the state’s border with Mexico. Trump, following the example of the many Texas Republican officials who have taken trips to the border in recent […]