Families who lost loved ones in the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, said the Thursday arrest of former school district police chief Pete Arredondo is not a “happy moment” and are calling for more indictments. Arredondo, 52, was arrested on an indictment charging him with 10 counts of abandoning/endangering a child in connection […]
(EADS, Colo.) — Two and a half hours from Colorado Springs, a grassy valley was witness to one of the worst tragedies of the American West. The Central Plains, which stretch from the Missouri River to the Rockies, were home to thousands of Plains Indians, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, Lakota, and others. They adopted the horse […]
In the chaotic context of this week’s violence on the streets of the Kenyan capital and a government accused of responding brutally to protests, rumours began to take on a life of their own – feeding into public anger and further stoking a situation that was already tense. On Tuesday citizens watched in horror as […]
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — In the months since Hamas’ surprise attack sent them scattering across fields or hiding in desert brush, thousands of survivors of a massacre at a trance festival in Israel have come together as a community to heal. They have found solace in massage therapy, ice baths, yoga or surfing with […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The most severely wounded survivor of the 2018 massacre at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School now owns shooter Nikolas Cruz’s name, and Cruz cannot give any interviews without his permission, under a settlement reached in a lawsuit. Under his recent settlement with Anthony Borges, Cruz must also turn over […]
A Hamas squad commander and sniper who took part in the Oct. 7 massacre in southern Israel was killed in a strike in northern Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Thursday. Ahmed Hassan Salame Alsauarka was killed in a “precise and targeted” strike conducted by the Israeli Air Force in the Beit Hanoun area, […]
Today (June 12), the New York Times revealed that the Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The decision dealt a blow to advocates seeking justice for one of the most egregious acts of violence against Black Americans in United States history. The ruling, which […]
The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a lawsuit brought by the last known survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, a setback in the pursuit of justice for one of the most destructive single acts of mass violence against Black people in modern U.S. history. In an 8-1 ruling, the state Supreme Court affirmed […]
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – Oklahoma’s highest court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by the last two known living survivors of the Tulsa race massacre in 1921 seeking reparations for the violence and destruction that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Black people. The Oklahoma Supreme Court upheld a judge’s decision last year to […]
French President Emmanuel Macron has emphasized Franco-German reconciliation as the foundation of a common Europe at the site of the worst Nazi massacre by SS troops in France during the World War II. “In this reconciliation lies the friendship between Germany and France and our Europe,” said Macron on Monday at a commemoration in Oradour-sur-Glane […]
French President Emmanuel Macron has emphasized Franco-German reconciliation as the foundation of a common Europe at the site of the worst Nazi massacre by SS troops in France during the World War II. “In this reconciliation lies the friendship between Germany and France and our Europe,” said Macron on Monday at a commemoration in Oradour-sur-Glane […]
The BBC has defended giving airtime to a retired Egyptian army general who hailed the Hamas attacks on October 7 as a “month of victory”. Samir Ragheb has been interviewed by BBC News Arabic nine times since the war began despite sharing anti-Semitic material and pro-Palestine posts online, analysis claims. They include mocking Israeli civilians […]