After Visits With Loved Ones, Some in ICE Custody Face Invasive Strip Searches

Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. After Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a woman from Venezuela following her immigration court hearing, her friends visited...

Authoritarians Embrace ‘Foreign Agent’ Laws to Crush Civil Society

Foreign agents laws are proliferating, increasingly threatening the civil society worldwide, finds CIVICUS report ‘Cutting civil society’s lifeline: The global spread of foreign agent laws,’ released today. Russia’s 2012 foreign agents law...

Theo Von Explains Clip of Him Used By DHS in Deportation Video

Comedian Theo Von addressed the Department of Homeland Security and said their use of an old video clip in a DHS anti-immigration video without his permission was “fucked up.”He continued: “So I have tons of thoughts about it, but this was just...

Decolonising Democracy in International Relations: Liberalism, the Global Order, and Post-colonial Sovereignty in the Global South

Modern democracy, as it has emerged within the liberal international order, still bears traces of its colonial legacy: it relies institutionally and conceptually on Western norms of recognition, political participation, and global leadership,...

Roberto Clemente added to Pittsburgh Walk of Fame

The City of Pittsburgh announced it’s first-ever Walk of Fame class at The Terminal in Pittsburgh’s Strip District, with one noteable member of the Pittsburgh Pirates. All-time great Roberto Clemente was one of the headlining names for this...

Dem governor in hot seat after whistleblower rips disturbing sentencing pattern for illegal child rapists

Jon Fetherston, a former Massachusetts migrant shelter director, revealed that he was grabbed and attacked by an immigrant after Fetherston and a state official confronted him about raping and impregnating his own daughter. NEWYou can now listen...

Communist Party’s Jeannette Jara leads Chile’s presidential polls

The CP's Jeannette Jara, presidential candidate of the “Unidad por Chile” coalition [Photo: PCCh]In Chile’s 2025 presidential race Jeannette Jara, a member of the Communist Party and presidential candidacy for the alliance “Unidad por Chile”...

What does Hispanic Heritage Month mean to students, faculty?

The flags of Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Guatemala and Nicaragua represent the diverse group interviewed. (Image by Jo Douglas) Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated annually from Sept. 15 through Oct. 15. This is due to the multiple...

Guyana ready to host FIBA Women’s Caribbean Championship

Oct 21, 2025 Sports (Kaieteur Sports) – President of the Guyana Basketball Federation (GBF), Michael Singh, has reaffirmed Guyana’s readiness to host this year’s FIBA Women’s Caribbean Championship, scheduled for November 12–16 at the Cliff...

Guyana ‘ready’ to host FIBA Women’s Caribbean Championship

GUYANA Basketball Federation (GBF) President Michael Singh has confirmed that the nation is ready to host this year’s FIBA Women’s Caribbean Championship, set for November 12-16 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall in Georgetown. The tournament is a...

Chris Hedges: The Speech a Press Club Banned

The National Press Club of Australia in Canberra canceled an engagement with journalist Chris Hedges after it was announced on its website. Hedges delivered the banned speech on Monday in Sydney. This is the speech Chris Hedges was to have...

Fabian Lopez Joseph

“Angel” Fabian Lopez Joseph was born to Adolfina “Elpina” Joseph Lopez in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, also known as Bilwi on Dec. 26, 1977. He passed away on Oct. 9, 2025. On Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025, he re-dedicated his life to Jesus Christ at Greater...

People in ICE custody face invasive strip searches after visits with loved ones

The Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego. Photo: Jason Doiy/Getty Images. JasonDoiy After Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a woman from Venezuela following her immigration court hearing, her friends visited her at Otay Mesa...

Bolivia Elects 'Capitalism for All' Candidate Rodrigo Paz President, Ending 20 Years of Socialism

Bolivian centrist Senator Rodrigo Paz became the president-elect of Bolivia after defeating conservative former President Jorge Quiroga in Sunday’s runoff election. Paz will succeed outgoing socialist President Luis Arce on November 8, ending two...

Prominent Cuban opposition leader arrives in Florida after opting for exile over continued Cuban imprisonment 

José Daniel Ferrer García, a Cuban activist widely recognized by international media as the leader of the dissident movement inside Cuba and the founder of the anti-communist, pro-democracy Unión Patriótica de Cuba (UNPACU), left the Caribbean...

From the Vatican to the Shrine

MIAMI | The first time that Mike Fernández saw the sculpture Angels Unawares was four or five years ago in the Vatican. He was moved by the fact that “it depicts all the immigrant groups in the history of the world, starting with the Neanderthals...

Strong demand, strategic growth highlighted at Sunwing Vacations Group Amplify event

It’s all about momentum and that’s what the Sunwing Vacations Group is seeing these days and was a highlight of its third annual Amplify leadership event – sponsored by NexusTours – which brought together 160 EPIC leaders from across its vacation...

Costa Rica’s Guanacaste Makes Forbes’ Best Places to Visit in 2026

Forbes has spotlighted Guanacaste as one of the top six spots for travelers in 2026. The list also includes Nikko in Japan, Kona in Hawaii, Versailles in France, Antarctica, and Marrakech in Morocco. Travelers today seek out spots that mix...

Mural of the ‘doctor of the poor’ inspires faith

WESTON | The main entrance of St. Katharine Drexel Church in Weston has been transformed into a gallery of faith. Above its arches, Venezuelan artist Eduardo “EDO” Sanabria has captured multiple dimensions of Blessed José Gregorio Hernández, who...

Background Briefing: October 19, 2025

Resistance to Trump is Growing With 2,600 No Kings Protests Across America We begin with the 2,600 No Kings rallies held on Saturday across the country from Maine to the Marianas which peacefully displayed the growing resistance to Trump...