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As he pushed for Congress to approve $350 billion in new spending requested by the Pentagon, House Speaker Mike Johnson suggested Tuesday…
In a change of course, the Trump administrationās plans to detain tens of thousands of immigrants in Amazon-style warehouses have been massively…
I danced among a sea of my people at a nightclub in Center City, Philadelphia, to celebrate Haitian Independence Day. Earlier, while…
The massive demonstrations of popular solidarity following the earthquakes that shook the country on June 24 have once again shown us that…
U.S. human rights lawyer, professor and journalist Daniel Kovalik was detained by three counter-terror police officers at Liverpoolās John Lennon Airport on…
After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trumpās attempt to redefine birthright citizenship through executive order on Tuesday, Trump demanded…
āOther than hexing the man, I really wasnāt surprisedā. This is how Leona Kamio, known as Ellie, describes what was going through…
With the 2026 midterm elections just four months away, the Supreme Court upheld a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots to be…
Earlier today, the Supreme Court declared war on U.S. democracy. It also declared war, basically, on modern society, on everything it takes…
On June 12, 2026, a UK judge at Woolwich Crown Court convicted four Palestine Action activists as terrorists and sentenced them to…
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