Global journalists’ associations have condemned the murder of Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif on Sunday in Kenya. The groups have called for immediate and speedy investigations into the case. Sharif was shot by Kenyan police officers at a roadblock in Kajiado County, about an hour’s drive from the capital Nairobi. Kenyan police have said t...
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, in his concurring opinion on the overturning of Roe v. Wade, said the court has no intention of stopping there. MoveOn Executive Director Rahna Epting warned the Supreme Court’s right-wing majority’s agenda “does not end at abortion.” Justice Thomas said previous rulings involving cas...
On Sunday Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York said right-wing U.S. Supreme Court justices who “misled” senators during confirmation hearings should be impeached for lying under oath. The justices testified under oath about whether they supported overturning Roe v. Wade. Speaking with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Ocasio-Cor...
On Monday, a former Washington high school football coach who lost his job over reciting a prayer on the 50-yard line after games won his Supreme Court appeal. Joe Kennedy was a junior varsity head coach and varsity assistant coach with the Bremerton School District in Washington from 2008 to 2015. He began to regularly […]
WASHINGTON – The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution requiring permanent members of the Security Council to come before the assembly to provide an explanation should they exercise their veto powers. The resolution was adopted by consensus, meaning individual member states did not have to cast votes. The veto power of the five pe...
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a Miranda rights case. Vega v. Tekoh, will determine whether a person can seek civil relief when an officer fails to read their Miranda rights. Miranda provides legal protections for potential criminal defendants against self-incrimination. Terence Tekoh was a nursing assistant at a ...
On Monday, a U.S. federal judge struck down the COVID-19 mask mandate for public transportation imposed by the Biden administration. Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle of the Middle District of Florida said the mask mandate exceeds the statutory authority of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The mandate requiring masks on airplanes, s...
The University of Michigan is adding a professorship in South Asian Art and launching a collaboration with the South Asia Institute in Chicago. The new position in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts’ Department of History of Art is made possible by a gift from Drs. Shireen and Afzal Ahmad. The $2.75 million […]
On Tuesday, U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law legislation finally making lynchings a federal hate crime It ends more than a century of delays in outlawing the symbol of what Biden calls “pure terror.” Anyone convicted under the new law will face up to 30 years in prison. Researchers say there were thousands of […]
U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar said on the House floor that establishing a no-fly zone over Ukraine “would mean the beginning of World War III.” Omar tweeted the U.S. must avoid “knee-jerk calls that risk nuclear war.” While the U.S. supports Ukraine in its fight against Russian invasion, “a no-fly zone is not simply declared, it […]...
