ISTANBUL (AA) – Complaints about discrimination against Muslim children rose by 63 percent in 2022, according to a report by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Speaking to Anadolu, head of Research and Advocacy at CAIR Corey Saylor said it is the first recorded decline in civil rights complaints by Muslim Americans since t...
Less than a week after avoiding a trial regarding its election lies with a $787.5 million settlement, Fox News announced on Monday that its top-rated prime-time host, Tucker Carlson, is leaving the network effective immediately. Carlson’s final show was Friday evening, and he closed the broadcast by telling viewers, “We’ll be...
Harry Belafonte, the beloved singer and civil rights activist who never wavered from his commitment to a better and more just world, has died at the age of 96. A spokesperson said that Belafonte, who straddled the world between celebrity and progressive activism for over seven decades, died at his home on the Upper West […]
President Joe Biden made his reelection campaign official Tuesday morning as he evoked the threat to foundational and hard-won rights and freedoms posed by the increasingly fascist Republican Party. “Every generation has a moment where they have had to stand up for democracy. To stand up for their fundamental freedoms,” Biden decla...
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...
