U.S. President Joe Biden is committed to naming a Black woman to the Supreme Court, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Wednesday. Her remarks came hours after multiple reports that Justice Stephen Breyer is stepping down from the top court at the end of the current term. Breyer served as an appeals court judge from […]
An attorney for the former Louisville Metro Police detective awaiting trial for his role in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor, is seeking to close part of the court proceedings. Stew Mathews filed a motion trying to bar journalists and the public from watching individual voir dire, which is the questioning of potential jurors. Mathews [&hel...
U.S. Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman, who saved the lives of lawmakers during the January 6 2021 insurrection, broke his yearlong silence on Monday. Goodman appeared on the podcast “3 Brothers No Sense.” He said the insurrection “could have easily been a blood bath.” Goodman led rioters bent on attacking US lawmakers up the ...
The World Health Organization or WHO issued a statement Wednesday warning that Afghanistan’s health system is on the verge of collapse. According to the statement, over 2,000 medical centers in the country are either closed or facing closure due to international aid drying up. Healthcare providers in Afghanistan, especially COVID-19 hospitals,...
IDLIB, Syria (AA) – Braving harsh winters, Syrian fathers stay awake at night to make sure their children do not to freeze to death in opposition-held Idlib. Hundreds of tents in the internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Idlib along the border between Turkey and Syria were destroyed recently by heavy snowfall and downpour. The [&he...
ANKARA (AA) – Spain’s maritime security agency on Thursday rescued 131 asylum seekers trying to reach the Canary Islands, according to local reports. The asylum seekers, including eight minors, were on board three vessels. Citing a spokeswoman, Spanish news agency EFE reported that the first vessel was an inflatable boat with 37 pe...
A man who allegedly sold a firearm to the suspect in a hostage-taking crisis at a Texas synagogue earlier this month was charged Wednesday with a federal firearm crime. Henry “Michael” Williams was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm, the Justice Department announced in a statement. He allegedly sold the gun […]
Amid tensions with Russia over Ukraine, NATO is trying to consolidate its presence in eastern Europe. In December 2021, Russia presented a proposal to NATO and the US, according to which guarantees were to be provided for the fact that the military alliance would not expand further east. Furthermore, it demanded that no military bases [&hellip...
The Jordanian army has said that troops killed 27 drug smugglers trying to enter the country from neighboring Syria. The operation, the largest of its kind since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011, was carried out simultaneously at several points on the Jordan-Syria border. Jordanian forces thwarted several attempts to smuggle drugs [&h...
Russia reported over 88,000 coronavirus cases on January 27, hitting the highest single-day jump for the ninth day in a row. Daily coronavirus infections have begun to surge with the emergence of the highly contagious omicron variant, infecting thousands of people across the country. In the last 24 hours, 88,816 new cases have been detected, [...
