Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Multiple nations have scrambled to evacuate embassy staff and citizens by road, air and sea from chaos-torn Sudan, where fighting between the army and paramilitaries has killed hundreds. Rescue operations intensified Tuesday as a 72-hour ceasefire took effect, but gunfire still rang out in the capital Khartoum. Some evac...
LONDON (AA) – The Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, the US military detention facility, opened by the then-President George W. Bush to hold “terrorism” suspects captured abroad after the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, is still operating as a remnant of the so-called “War on Terror.” Earlier t...
Research published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association estimated that poverty was linked to at least 183,000 deaths in the United States in 2019 among people aged 15 or older, making inadequate income the nation’s fourth-leading mortality driver that year behind heart disease, cancer, and smoking. “Poverty kills ...
Almost 120 million people–or more than a third of the U.S. population–are exposed to unhealthy levels of ozone or particulate matter pollution where they live. That’s the latest number from the American Lung Association’s (ALA) annual State of the Air report, released Monday. And while it’s smaller than the number in last yea...
As corporate interests continue to attack Julie Su, dozens of progressive organizations on Wednesday pressured a U.S. Senate panel to swiftly advance the labor secretary nominee, who “has devoted her life to fighting for workers’ rights, holding exploitative employers accountable, leveling the playing field for high-road employers,...
Two dozen House and Senate lawmakers led by Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley introduced legislation Tuesday that would ban members of Congress, their spouses, and their dependent children from trading individual stocks, reprising an effort that gained momentum last year before fizzling out ahead of the November midterms. “Congressional stock...
Labor unions and other progressives on Tuesday said a new slate of executive actions unveiled by U.S. President Joe Biden demonstrated the political power of caregivers and their supporters who have spent years advocating for fair wages, affordable childcare, and an extension of labor protections across the care economy. Biden signed an order ...
Moments before Fox News was set to face a jury regarding the false claims repeatedly made on air about Dominion Voting Systems and the 2020 election, the right-wing media corporation announced it had reached a settlement with the company. The settlement amounted to $787.5 million and Dominion CEO John Poulos said in a press conference outside ...
ANKARA (AA) – A US diplomatic convoy came under fire in Sudan amid clashes between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF), the US secretary of state said Tuesday. “I can confirm that yesterday we had an American diplomatic convoy that was fired on,” said Antony Blinken, who is currently in Japan for […]
Karuizawa, Japan (AFP): Britain and the United States have called for an “immediate cessation” of violence in Sudan, where fighting between the army and paramilitaries has killed nearly 100 people. “There is a shared deep concern about the fighting… the threat that it poses to civilians, to the Sudanese nation and poten...
