In every state where it was on the ballot on Tuesday, protecting abortion care received more votes than Vice President Kamala Harris. This was true regardless of whether the state ultimately went for Harris or for President-elect Donald Trump, and even in the three out of 10 states in which the abortion-related measure did not […]
Pro-Palestine demonstrators rally near the News Corp. building in NYC on Nov. 5, 2024. Photo: Jimin Kim/SOPA Images/Sipa via AP Images) I learned that Donald Trump would be president of the United States of America in 2016 while attending a memorial service for my friend, Clark Fitzgeraldwho had died in a car accident on his […]
Activists target the Elbit Systems offices in Merrimack, N.H., blocking entrances and painting the facility red, on Nov. 20, 2023. Photo: Maen Hammad In mid-November, four young women will start two-month jail sentences for an action attempting to halt operations last November at a weapons factory in Merrimack, New Hampshire, operated by Elbit Systems, Israel’s […]
It was a mild, crisp, and sunny Saturday afternoon, and the two doctors were on a mission. Flyers and stickers in hand, they made their way through the Columbus Square Park neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri, which sits just blocks south of the winding and muddy Missouri River. Iman Alsaden and Selina Sandoval, respectively the […]
Last Friday, 13 police officers gathered in the early morning hours outside an off-campus residential building in West Philadelphia. It was the home of several University of Pennsylvania students. Donning their full tactical gear, including riot helmets, and armed with assault rifles and handguns, the police threatened to break down the door with a battering […]
The chief legal officer of the European Union’s foreign service advised the department’s top official that a new opinion by judges in The Hague does not require EU states to ban goods imported from Israeli settlements, according to a leaked analysis. Legal experts said that the analysis contradicts the International Court of Justice, or ICJ, […]
On the witness stand in March 2000, Dr. Janet Squires was unequivocal: The injuries suffered by the 13-month-old girl were “absolutely classic” signs of shaken baby syndrome. Commonly referred to by its acronym, SBS is a diagnosis based on the belief that a certain combination of injuries found in a baby or toddler could only […]
One year since she introduced a resolution for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., said she hasn’t seen any indication that a Kamala Harris presidency would result in a different U.S policy toward Israel. “I have not seen anything different than, we continue to send the weapons to facilitate the violence,” Bush […]
State Department spokesperson Matt Miller isn’t sure of much when it comes to Israel’s war on Gaza. He doesn’t know how much military aid the U.S. has given to Israel during its war, even though his department oversees such assistance. He doesn’t know how many billions of dollars, above the annual baseline of $3.3 billion […]
Several county jails along Florida’s coast within the path of Hurricane Milton are choosing not to evacuate hundreds of incarcerated individuals as the storm makes landfall on Wednesday. Milton, which threatens to be among the most destructive storms in a century, is expected to bring storm surges as high as 15 feet and winds of […]
