IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. UP NEXT Politicized Supreme Court oblivious to rulings’ consequences for Americans 02:17 Abortion providers scramble to help women as state bans spread 06:12 Despair won’t stop Republicans seeking national abortion ban:...
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Around 2,000 migrants try to cross border separating Spain’s Melilla enclave from Morocco; 18 die in border raid
Migrants climb the fences separating the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco in Melilla, Spain Photo : AP KEY HIGHLIGHTS Last year, Spain permitted Brahim Ghali, the leader of Western Sahara’s pro-independence Polisario Front, to receive treatment for COVID-19 in a Spanish hospital This led to...
Continue reading...Joyce Vance: ‘Women are being left to the whims of the states’
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Molly Jong-Fast: This is about women’s bodies belonging to legislators 11:52 Now Playing Joyce Vance: ‘Women are being left to the whims of the states’ 13:03 UP NEXT ‘Gut punch’: Ohio...
Continue reading...After 15 years, Afghan national freed from Guantanamo Bay; Taliban, US thank Qatar for assistance
Asadullah Haroon Gul | Pic courtesy: @Reprieve Photo : Twitter KEY HIGHLIGHTS After Asadullah Haroon Gul’s release, there is only one Afghan left at Guantanamo Bay, Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani is accused of working for Osama bin Laden as a “procurement specialist” The Pakistani...
Continue reading...The woman who brought down Roe vs. Wade
ATLANTA — Perhaps more than any other woman, Marjorie Dannenfelser is responsible for the fall of Roe v. Wade. The president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, a nonprofit group that works to end abortion in the United States by electing antiabortion politicians, Dannenfelser has dedicated her...
Continue reading...Trump’s vanity could end up being a major gift to the Jan. 6 committee
Over the past six years, Americans have seen Donald Trump utter so many seemingly self-incriminating things in the open, you’d be forgiven for thinking he’s immune to punishment. But the House Jan. 6 committee’s hearings appear to pose the gravest danger to Trump in terms of...
Continue reading...Russia-Ukraine war: Ukrainian troops forced to cede strategic city of Severodonetsk in Luhansk
Ukrainian troops in Severodonetsk (File image) Photo : AP Kyiv: After weeks of fierce battle, Ukrainian troops on Friday were forced to retreat from the strategic city of Severodonetsk in Luhansk in eastern Ukraine. It will consolidate Russia‘s position in the region. The development came shortly...
Continue reading...‘Distraught,’ ‘hurt,’ ‘fed up’: America keeps failing Brittney Griner
There are two people Cherelle Griner would like to talk to: her wife Brittney Griner, the Women’s National Basketball Association superstar wrongly detained by the Russian government for over 140 days, and President Joe Biden, whose administration claims to be trying to get Brittney Griner released....
Continue reading...The end of Roe is only the beginning for Republicans
Republicans are celebrating the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade as a win for the anti-abortion movement that was decades in the making. After a draft version of the opinion was leaked to Politico in May, Republicans expressed optimism, but largely withheld expressions of...
Continue reading...U.N. chief warns of ‘catastrophe’ from global food shortage
BERLIN — The head of the United Nations warned Friday that the world faces “catastrophe” because of the growing shortage of food around the globe. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the war in Ukraine has added to the disruptions caused by climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and...
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