Literacy and civil liberties defenders on Wednesday excoriated Republican state lawmakers in Missouri after they gave their final approval to a budget that would completely defund the state’s public libraries and other essential services. In addition to cutting the $4.5 million allocated for public libraries in Missouri’s $45.6 bil...
Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein is facing fresh calls to resign in the wake of news reports detailing how her extended absence from the Senate since being diagnosed with shingles earlier this year is impacting her party’s ability to confirm President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees. With Feinstein out, the Senate Judiciary Committee...
Officials in the city of Richmond, Indiana said Wednesday that a fire that broke out at a plastics facility Tuesday is expected to continue burning for several days, sending huge plumes of black smoke—that doubtlessly contain toxins—into the environment there. Authorities have not released the name of the business owner or company, but The New...
Three unions representing faculty members and graduate student workers at Rutgers University in New Jersey on Tuesday rejected the school president’s accusation that their strike, now in its second day following nearly a year of contract negotiations, is disrespectful of Rutgers students. “Let’s be clear: Our picket lines hav...
Lawyers for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, who as chair of the House Judiciary Committee has launched numerous attempts to interfere with the prosecution of former Republican President Donald Trump. The lawsuit was filed a week after Bragg’s office charged Trump wi...
On the fourth anniversary of Julian Assange’s arrest, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib led six other progressive lawmakers in calling on U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to “uphold the First Amendment’s protections for the freedom of the press by dropping the criminal charges” against the Australian WikiLeaks founder an...
TORONTO (AA) – US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman spoke by phone Tuesday, according to a statement by the White House. Sullivan and the crown prince discussed a number of global and regional matters including the ongoing diplomacy related to the war in Yemen, said the statement. Thanks [...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) released a report Tuesday covering nationwide incidents of civil rights complaints by Muslim Americans in 2022. It revealed a 23% decrease. Last year, the Muslim advocacy group received 5,156 complaints nationwide. “This is a 23 percent decrease in total complaints ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US said Tuesday there is no evidence to suggest that Egypt is supplying Russia with lethal weapons after a leaked American document claimed Cairo secretly planned to supply rockets to Moscow. Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi planned to manufacture 40,000 rockets for Russia, according to the Washington Post, wh...
NEW YORK (AA) – An imam in the US state of New Jersey was stabbed during morning prayer on Sunday. Sayed El-Nakib, imam of the Omar Mosque in Paterson, was stabbed by an attacker who hid in the congregation. The attacker, Serif Zorba, 32, was caught on the mosque’s security camera jumping over the congregation […]
