Among a president’s most profound responsibilities is the power to grant clemency. Now, as President Joe Biden’s first term winds down, he faces mounting calls to use that authority to commute the sentences of the 40 men on federal death row. Donald Trump’s final months in office marked a stark shift in federal execution policy. […]
While Syrians celebrated the toppling of the Assad regime following a swift operation by rebel forces on Sunday, Israel moved in. The Israeli military launched half a dozen airstrikes on Syrian targets and parked tanks inside Syria’s borders, in violation of a 50-year ceasefire pact. Israeli airstrikes on Sunday targeted apparent missile and chemical weapons […]
After a shock offensive by rebels brought an end to Bashar al-Assad’s regime, Syria is at a crossroads. Rebuilding Syria from the ashes of the devastating civil war is sure to be a long road. For Syrians looking to offer their compatriots relief and begin to reconstruct a new Syria, however, cash is in short […]
Five days after Orlando Hall was executed in November 2020 in the federal death chamber, Donald Trump appeared in the White House Rose Garden for the annual Thanksgiving turkey pardon ceremony. The enormous white birds, Corn and Cob, stood ridiculously as Trump wished them a “very long, happy, and memorable life.” At the Special Confinement […]
A bill that would give President-elect Donald Trump broad powers to target his political foes has passed a major hurdle toward becoming law. The House of Representatives on Thursday passed the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act in a 219-184 vote largely along party lines, with 15 Democrats joining the Republican majority. […]
The nation’s largest private prison company, the GEO Group, has seen its stock soar in the weeks since Donald Trump’s election in anticipation of new contracts linked to mass deportation. Trump’s new choice for U.S. attorney general, Pam Bondi, worked as GEO’s lobbyist as recently as 2019. Her list of corporate clients also includes Amazon, […]
Typically, appointees for the job of U.S. attorney general have had long careers working in law and law enforcement. But that’s not the case for Matt Gaetz, who resigned from Congress on Wednesday after being tapped as President-elect Donald Trump’s new attorney general. Aside from being the subject of a recent criminal investigation himself, Gaetz […]
Parastou Hassouria California voter living in Egypt, has often voted in years past via absentee ballot. She’s one of nearly 3 million Americans eligible to vote from overseas — with some 300,000 citizens living in the Middle East and North Africa, according to federal estimates. But this election, she won’t be casting a vote. Since […]
Faculty from seven University of California campuses took a stand against the repression of protest over Israel’s war on Gaza on Thursday, taking the historic step of filing a joint unfair labor practice charge against their employer. The professors from the top-tier California public university system alleged that their schools targeted them for speaking out […]
