Canada will end its bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria this month and refocus its efforts in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) on supporting long-term stability in the region, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday. During a press conference Monday night alongside Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan, International Development Minister Marie-Claude…
“Repeal Dominion’s permits!” protesters shouted in unison on Monday during an hours-long occupation of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) in Richmond. The state regulator has come under fire for issuing a permit to Dominion Power in January that will allow the utility company to release millions of gallons of toxic coal-ash water into…
As European Union ministers in Brussels on Friday accepted a controversial plan described as a direct assault on the “very principle of international protection for those fleeing war and persecution,” advocates for refugees and human rights condemned not only the deal’s specifics but the deplorable deterioration of values it represents. “The deal with Turkey has…
On Monday, Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill that makes it legal for therapists and other counselors to reject LGBTQ patients because of “sincerely held religious beliefs,” jeopardizing hundreds of thousands’ access to medical care. Art Terrazas, director of government affairs for the American Counseling Association, told ABC that the bill was an “unprecedented attack” on…
Setting up a likely veto fight and opening a potential Pandora’s Box, the U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that allows victims of 9/11 to sue Saudi Arabia for any role the government may have played in the attacks. The bipartisan Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act was approved by unanimous consent, despite protest…
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President Trump’s voter fraud commission met for the first time Wednesday to carve out a path forward amid a firestorm of controversy. The commissioners and Trump spent part of the meeting defending the panel’s very reason for existing, saying the country needs an investigation to uncover the “full truth” about the extent of illegal voting….
Privacy advocates are warning that if the FBI does not let Apple know how it hacked into the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, not only would the government be going against its own policy on such matters, it will be putting people’s “lives at risk.” On Monday, the FBI backed down from its controversial legal battle…
North Carolina officials have dismissed warnings from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that the state’s anti-LGBTQ legislation violates civil rights, making clear that Governor Pat McCrory has no intention of repealing the law by the DOJ’s deadline of May 9—despite the threat of federal sanctions. “We will take no action by Monday,” Tim Moore,…
A scathing report issued Sunday accuses the Mexican government of stonewalling an international probe into the disappearance of 43 students in September 2014, and Mexican police of torturing suspects in the case. The 608-page report from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights—the fruit of an oft-obstructed, year-long investigation—was unveiled “at an emotional press conference on…