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“The War Must Stop”: Detained Palestinian Green Card Holder Mohsen Mahdawi Calls for End to Gaza War
Vermont Senator Peter Welch met Monday with detained Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi, a green card holder from Palestine who ...
UNRWA Chief Condemns Israel’s Use of Aid to Gaza as a “Bargaining Chip and a Weapon of War”
Israel’s military has killed more Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip. Al Jazeera reports Israeli attacks have killed at ...
Hegseth Blames Press Over Reports of Second Signal Chat in Which He Shared War Plans with Family
President Trump is backing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after the former Fox News host shared sensitive information about U ...
ICE Denies Mahmoud Khalil’s Request to Join His Wife for Birth of Their First Child
Here in New York, a group of students and alumni chained themselves to the gates of Columbia University on Monday, demanding ...
Latest U.S. Airstrikes Hit Yemen’s Capital, Marib Governorate and Kamaran Island
The U.S. military is continuing its attacks on Yemen, a day after Houthi media reported U.S. strikes killed 12 people in a ...
Trump Administration Mulls “Perks” to Boost Birth Rate While Attacking Medicaid, Child Care
The New York Times is reporting the Trump administration is soliciting ideas from right-wing think tanks like the Heritage ...
Judge Sides with 6 Plaintiffs Challenging Trump’s Anti-Trans Passport Rules
Back in the United States, a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction ordering Trump’s State Department to allow six ...
Vatican Sets Saturday Funeral for Pope Francis
The Vatican has announced the funeral for Pope Francis will take place on Saturday in what is expected to be a scaled-down ...
Harvard Sues Trump Admin for Freezing Federal Funds
Harvard University is suing the Trump administration after it froze over $2 billion in federal grants for the Ivy League ...
Vijay Prashad: Historic 1955 Anti-Colonial Bandung Conference Inspired New Era in Global South
This week marks the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference, when 29 nations from Asia and Africa gathered in Indonesia for a historic anti-colonial conference that was meant to chart a new path ...
“The Doxxing-to-Deportation Pipeline”: Update on Abduction & Jailing of Tufts Student Rümeysa Öztürk
A federal judge has ordered Rümeysa Öztürk to be transferred to Vermont as she seeks to challenge what her lawyers call her “unconstitutional detention” in an ICE detention center in Louisiana. Öztürk ...
Remembering Pope Francis on Earth Day: How He Linked Capitalism, Climate & Catholicism
As the Vatican prepares the funeral for Pope Francis and church leaders begin to consider his replacement, we look at the late pontiff’s environmental legacy. Pope Francis frequently called for action ...