On Christmas day, a Nigerian military aircraft bombed two villages, killing at least 10 civilians and wounding many more. The airstrike in Nigeria’s northwest is the latest in a long-running series of lethal errant attacks by the government of Nigeria, one of the United States’ closest allies in Africa and the recipient of billions of […]
As Washington prepares for President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration, federal agencies are bracing for a wave of anticipated cuts — perhaps none more so than the Department of Education. Trump promised the total destruction of the long-standing federal agency in a September 2023 campaign videowith an announcement that he would be “sending all education and […]
European Union foreign ministers rebuffed a call to end arms sales to Israel last month, despite mounting evidence of war crimes — and, potentially, genocide — presented to them in an internal assessment obtained by The Intercept. The contents of the previously unknown 35-page assessment could sway future war crimes trials of EU politicians for […]
Donald Trump campaigned on the promise of carrying out the mass detention and deportation of immigrants. President Joe Biden spent most of his term widening the government’s ability to incarcerate and deport people; inflating the Immigration and Customs Enforcement budget by millions; increasing the number of beds in prisons; and expanding the use of private […]
When the identity of the person who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was a mystery, Americans grafted their own ideas about the gunman onto the little information available. Now that a person of interest in the case has been arrested, that imagined character is bumping up against the identity and writings of a named suspect, […]
On paper, Emil Bove is one of the better qualified people that President-elect Donald Trump wants for his next administration. Unlike Matt Gaetz, who was briefly floated to be U.S. attorney general, Bove has actual prosecutorial experience, which will come in handy if he’s confirmed as the Justice Department’s third-most-senior official. But during his last […]
The signs appeared on the university’s main quad during the week of October 7, 2024 — after a year of student protests springing up nationwide against Israel’s war on Gaza. The “Notice of Restrictions” posted at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill’s campus included a list of do’s and don’ts — mostly don’ts. Don’t wear […]
Most regulations from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration go unnoticed, but this one caught the public’s attention. As the Northern Hemisphere suffered through another hottest summer on record, OSHA issued draft rules meant to protect workers from extreme heat. The rules are three years in the making, so far, but are likely to stall […]
President Joe Biden meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 13, 2024. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images The leadership of the Democratic Party deserves significant blame for the return of Donald Trump to the White House. While there were multiple factors at play, it must be […]
LAST WEEK, police at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland arrested four students on felony vandalism charges in relation to protests against Israel’s war on Gaza. The students were transferred to the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, jail, a detention facility subject to calls for closure over inhumane conditions, abuse by jail staff, and the use of […]
