TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The prominent Belarusian human rights group Viasna on Tuesday denounced an extension to the detention of a Roman Catholic priest who was jailed after displaying the Ukrainian flag in a social media post. Andrzej Jukhniewicz was arrested in early May and charged with conducting an unauthorized picket for displaying the flag. […]
Gov. Andy Beshear reiterated a call for Kentucky and Tennessee to add rape and fatal fetal anomaly exceptions to both state’s near-total abortion bans, saying “extremism pushes everybody off.” “Imagine somebody violated by a person in their family, somebody who is supposed to keep them safe,” Beshear said to a crowd at the Tennessee Justice […]
Community leaders came together on Saturday to denounce the alleged hate-motivated attempted murder of two children in Euless last month. District 92 Rep. Salman Bhojani, whose district includes part of Euless, said hate has no place anywhere in Texas. “The trauma and pain this has caused for the immigrant community broadly and Muslim community more […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has angrily condemned the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor for seeking arrest warrants for him alongside Hamas’s leaders over alleged war crimes in the Gaza conflict. Mr Netanyahu said he rejected with disgust that “democratic Israel” had been compared to what he called “mass murderers”. Mr Netanyahu’s comments have been echoed […]
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Israel’s Embassy to the Holy See issued a protest on Monday after a Yemeni Nobel Prize winner accused Israel of “genocide” in Gaza during an event hosted by the Vatican. The embassy said it felt “indignation and shock” over the comments from rights activist Tawakkol Karman made on Saturday evening during […]
A controversial political leaflet that hit mailboxes in Boone County this week has people picking sides – literally. It’s pitted the county’s GOP party chairman against the county’s top elected Republican official, who denounced the mailer as a “hit piece.” The back of the double-sided mailer lists 10 GOP candidates in two columns. On the […]
Southlake Carroll school board trustees voted unanimously Monday night to adopt a resolution denouncing the Biden Administration’s changes to Title IX, which call for expanding protections to include LGBTQ+ students. The board’s decision comes on the heels of a letter from Gov. Greg Abbott ordering the Texas Education Agency to ignore the changes, which are […]
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s influential former President Álvaro Uribe on Wednesday denounced as “political vengeance” a move by national prosecutors to bring him to trial in a case of witness tampering that has shadowed his legacy. Uribe insisted in a video message that there was no evidence against him, a day after prosecutors announced […]
Former CBS newscaster Dan Rather explained why he so strictly opposes the idea of Donald Trump once again becoming President of the United States. The journalist, who covered important historical events like the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal and many more during his four decades at the network, made it clear […]
Former CBS newscaster Dan Rather explained why he so strictly opposes the idea of Donald Trump once again becoming President of the United States. The journalist, who covered important historical events like the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal and many more during his four decades at the network, made it clear […]
Pope Francis has led thousands of people in a moment of silence to pray for the aid workers killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza and a young Ukrainian soldier named Oleksandre who was killed in “this madness of war”. Francis appealed anew for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages taken […]
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis led thousands of people in a moment of silence Wednesday to pray for the aid workers killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza and a young Ukrainian soldier named Oleksandre who was killed in ‘’this madness of war.” Francis appealed anew for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and the release […]