The Biden administration on Tuesday sued two corporations behind a petrochemical plant in Louisiana, arguing that the facility poses “unacceptably high cancer risks” to the low-income and predominantly Black residents of nearby communities and demanding significant cuts in toxic pollution. On behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protec...
Hundreds of people who were trapped, beaten, and wrongfully arrested by New York City police officers during a nonviolent 2020 racial justice protest in the Bronx will each receive $21,500 if a judge approves the terms of a settlement filed in federal court late Tuesday. Around 300 people were arrested, many of them brutally, on June […...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has welcomed the Brussels-facilitated talks between Serbia and Kosovo to normalize ties. “The United States welcomes the leaders’ talks under the EU-facilitated Dialogue on February 27 and strongly supports the process of normalization of their relations,” State Department Spokesman Ned Price said in ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution mourning the loss of the life in the earthquakes that hit Türkiye and Syria and condemning Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime for blocking UN aid through its border. The resolution, which cleared the House floor in a 412-2 vote, also expressed its deep condolences [&he...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – US Special Representative for Palestinian Affairs Hady Amr on Tuesday visited the Palestinian town attacked by Israeli settlers this weekend. Amr visited the town of Huwara and listened to local residents about Sunday’s attack by Israeli settlers on their properties, leaving dozens of houses burnt down. The American ...
Washington, United States (AFP): An Israeli who was killed amidst violence in the West Bank city of Jericho on Monday was also a US citizen, State Department spokesman Ned Price said. “We condemn the horrific killing of two Israeli brothers near Nablus and the killing today of an Israeli near Jericho, who we understand was […]
Immigrant rights groups celebrated a historic victory late Monday as a federal judge handed down what is believed to be the first-ever class action settlement over a workplace immigration raid in the United States, awarding $1.17 million to nearly 100 people who were targeted by the Trump administration in 2018. Most of the plaintiffs will [&h...
Borrowers, advocates, and lawmakers converged on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday night and Tuesday morning to defend President Joe Biden’s stalled student debt relief plan as justices prepared to consider a pair of right-wing challenges to the popular proposal. Attendees argued that Biden’s move to erase up to $20,000...
The leading Conservative and Orthodox Jewish organizations in the United States on Monday issued rare condemnations of Sunday’s deadly rampage by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the illegally occupied West Bank, joining U.S. and Israeli human rights groups in decrying the violence. The Rabbinical Assembly, the New York-based int...
Progressives on Tuesday applauded as U.S. President Joe Biden nominated Julie Su to succeed outgoing Labor Secretary Marty Walsh—a choice the nation’s largest federation of unions said will “continue the Department of Labor’s historic legacy of pro-union leadership.” “Julie Su is a leader who stands up for dignity...
