Trump Briefly Mentions Buffalo Violence, Jumps To Imagined Great Job In Afghanistan
The former president also failed to offer any condolences or express sadness about the racist mass shootings in Buffalo, New York.
The former president also failed to offer any condolences or express sadness about the racist mass shootings in Buffalo, New York.
“No community seemingly is safe from these mass shootings,” said Mayor Byron Brown, who urged lawmakers to tackle what has become a “uniquely American phenomenon.
Finland’s president and prime minister say they plan to end decades of neutrality and join NATO. Sweden is also expected to seek NATO membership. The Kremlin says Russia sees the expansion of NATO on its borders as a threat. “People on both sides will suffer,” says Reiner Braun, executive director of the International Peace Bureau, who warns Russia will escalate in response and move more nuclear weapons near the 830-mile-long Finland-Russia border.
Three journalists were killed within a three-day span this week in Mexico, bringing the toll to 11 so far this year and making Mexico the deadliest country in the world for journalists, behind Ukraine. Most of the murders have gone unsolved. This week journalists across Mexico took to the streets protesting the murder of their colleagues and called for accountability.
Calls are growing for President Biden to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier, the 77-year-old imprisoned Native American activist who has spent 46 years behind bars for a crime he says he did not commit. Amnesty International considers Peltier a political prisoner, and numerous legal observers say his 1977 conviction for alleged involvement in killing two FBI agents in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation was riddled with irregularities and prosecutorial misconduct.
The Interior Department has documented the deaths of more than 500 Indigenous children at Indian boarding schools run or supported by the federal government in the United States which operated from 1819 to 1969. The actual death toll is believed to be far higher, and the report located 53 burial sites at former schools. The report was ordered by the first Indigenous cabinet member, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, whose grandparents were forced to attend boarding school at the age of 8.
A spokesperson now claims she meant “children” grifters, not pedophile grifters, which still makes no sense.
Doug Mastriano and Kathy Barnette wouldn’t allow reporters into their rally three days before the election.
Conservative anti-abortion activists have maimed and murdered their opponents for decades, despite what the Supreme Court justice may think.
The Texas Republican talked about GOP candidates having Trump tattooed on their rear ends and received some blunt reminders in response.
“Parent Plaintiffs have a fundamental right to direct the medical care of their children,” ruled the Trump-appointed U.S. District judge.
The New York Republican also argued against providing formula for migrant’s babies and saw no contradiction with describing herself as “pro-life.
In Justice Alito’s draft opinion, “a sin within a certain set of religious beliefs is to be made a crime for all,” she writes, evoking her novel of enslaved women.
A top aide to President Ronald Reagan, McFarlane pleaded guilty to charges for his role in an illegal arms-for-hostages deal known as the Iran-Contra affair.
Finland’s president and prime minister say they plan to end decades of neutrality and join NATO. Sweden is also expected to seek NATO membership. The Kremlin says Russia sees the expansion of NATO on its borders as a threat. “People on both sides will suffer,” says Reiner Braun, executive director of the International Peace Bureau, who warns Russia will escalate in response and move more nuclear weapons near the 830-mile-long Finland-Russia border.
Three journalists were killed within a three-day span this week in Mexico, bringing the toll to 11 so far this year and making Mexico the deadliest country in the world for journalists, behind Ukraine. Most of the murders have gone unsolved. This week journalists across Mexico took to the streets protesting the murder of their colleagues and called for accountability.
Calls are growing for President Biden to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier, the 77-year-old imprisoned Native American activist who has spent 46 years behind bars for a crime he says he did not commit. Amnesty International considers Peltier a political prisoner, and numerous legal observers say his 1977 conviction for alleged involvement in killing two FBI agents in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation was riddled with irregularities and prosecutorial misconduct.
The Interior Department has documented the deaths of more than 500 Indigenous children at Indian boarding schools run or supported by the federal government in the United States which operated from 1819 to 1969. The actual death toll is believed to be far higher, and the report located 53 burial sites at former schools. The report was ordered by the first Indigenous cabinet member, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, whose grandparents were forced to attend boarding school at the age of 8.
Amazon has fired two workers who helped organize the first successful U.S. union at Amazon’s Staten Island JFK8 warehouse. This comes as the National Labor Relations Board on Monday upheld a complaint that Amazon violated labor law in the Staten Island union vote by holding mandatory worker meetings to dissuade employees from voting to unionize.
The Infowars host, who has lined his pockets by spreading fear and lies, said, “If you don’t support us, you’re helping the enemy.
Conservative commentator Kathy Barnette is nipping at the heels of Trump’s pick in the Pennsylvania race for a Senate seat.
“The use of AI is compounding the longstanding discrimination that jobseekers with disabilities face,” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke told reporters Thursday.
The president held a meeting with retailers as lawmakers clamor for Biden to do something about the formula crisis.
GOP lawmakers blasted the Biden administration for providing baby formula to detained undocumented immigrants during a shortage.
We speak with Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, which recognized his “uncompromising and compassionate” writing about colonialism and the refugee experience. He is the first Black writer to win the award since Toni Morrison almost 30 years ago and the first Black African writer to win the prize since 1986. Gurnah discusses his work, which explores displacement, migration and “historical moments that create us.
We speak with renowned Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov, president of PEN Ukraine, about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, now in its third month. “The war looks like the war against Ukrainian culture, Ukrainian history and Ukrainian identity,” says Kurkov. He says daily life in Kyiv is “coming back but very fragile” as Russia is said to be preparing a second attempt to occupy the capital.
Palestinians are holding a state funeral in Ramallah for Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, a veteran journalist who was one of the best-known television journalists in Palestine and the Arab world. Abu Akleh, who was a U.S. citizen, was wearing a press uniform and covering an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank when she was fatally shot in the head on Wednesday.
“Why do we have laws in place that protect the eggs of a sea turtle or the eggs of eagles?” Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) asked.
Clinton-era Cabinet member Robert Reich likened the accelerating split between GOP and Democratic states to an unhappy marriage.
The ex-president attacked the former governor and two current GOP governors as “RINOs.