Dreams sold, lives shattered: Nepalis spend millions to reach the US, only to be deported

KATHMANDU, Oct 18: Reports of Nepalis being deported from the United States have been surfacing almost daily. Despite the high risks of entering the US illegally, hundreds of Nepalis have spent millions of rupees to reach the country through...

Women’s Rights Are the First Casualty of Authoritarian Power

President Donald Trump after signing the No Men in Women’s Sports executive order—the third EO he signed that specifically targets transgender people—in the East Room of the White House on Feb. 5, 2025. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images) Originally...

Donald Trump Steals Straight From Ronald Reagan’s Playbook

In his escalating war against drug cartels, President Donald Trump is taking a cue straight from President Ronald Reagan. But, as was the case with Reagan’s administration, there is something deeper going on behind the fight against drug...

News 15 Investigates: ICE detaining mostly non-criminals

(NEWS 15) — The Trump administration's immigration crackdown is affecting people across the United States, with many being held in Louisiana ICE facilities. News 15 Investigates has found that most detainees in these facilities do not have...

Play It Again Sports Scoreboard - Wednesday, Oct. 8, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9 PLAY IT AGAIN SPORTS SCOREBOARD BOYS SOCCER Breese Central 2, Trenton Wesclin 1 Southwestern 4, Waterloo Gibault Catholic 1 Columbia 8, Maryville Christian 0 Triad 2, Waterloo 1 Highland 1, Mascoutah 0 Belleville Althoff...

10 things I learned from one year on Duolingo

Photo by ERIN THOMPSON Celebrating 365 days on the Duolingo app.Just about 14 months ago, I committed myself to embarking on what many would describe as an unconventional adventure. I booked a flight to San José, Costa Rica, with intentions of...

The incandescent and the immovable

I went to Ometepe in search of a view, but found something closer to a memory. The island floats inside Lake Nicaragua, its twin volcanoes rising like ancient lungs out of the water. The air was still, but the lake moved, breathing slowly. It’s...

How to conduct post-atrocity research – key insights from practitioners in the field

By Christopher P. Davey Lecturer in Political Science, Binghamton University, State University of New York Claudine Kuradusenge- McLeod Professorial Lecturer and Department Chair, Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations, American University...

Gov. Little: 53 criminals in the U.S. illegally have been transported from Idaho jails to federal custody for deportation

Idaho State Police have transported more than 50 convicted criminals in the country illegally from Idaho county jails to federal custody for deportation under a new state program. Gov. Brad Little’s Operation No Return uses emergency funds to...

10 Reasons Venezuela Isn’t Nation-Building

For months —long before the MSM caught on — I've been writing about how the Donald Trump administration seemed ready to take down the illegitimate Nicolás Maduro regime in Venezuela. All of the signs were there if you paid attention, and I know...

A right-wing run-off: What to know about Bolivia’s presidential election

As voters in Bolivia prepare to go to the polls for the final round of the country’s presidential election, there is no left-wing candidate on the ballot for the first time in nearly two decades. Since the last election, the current governing...

Russell M. Nelson, Latter-day Saint prophet of change and pandemic, dies

Few expected the blast of energy, enthusiasm and ingenuity that swept through The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when then-93-year-old Russell M. Nelson ascended to the faith’s presidency in January 2018. After all, the former heart...

US Control Of The Caribbean And Its Multiform War Against Venezuela

Above photo: US military presence in Latin America. Granma. For centuries, the peoples of the Central American isthmus have had to face the consequences of the ambitions of European and US ruling elites for control of the Caribbean region. Since...

Who knew ICE could be so funny? Just check out videos of their fails

Crank up the Benny Hill theme song and let the belly laughs commence. As President Trump’s summer of immigration raids turns into a fall of occupation, I need some — and who knew his deportation machine could bring them? To watch videos of...

The Caribbean Tinderbox: Oil, Drugs, a Nobel Prize, and the ...

The sun dipped below the horizon, casting a golden glow over the Caribbean Sea. But beneath the tranquil surface, a cauldron of tensions simmered. Some 200 nautical miles from the coast of Venezuela, a fast-moving vessel believed to be carrying...

“Politically Motivated Order” Is the Leading Motive in Samcam’s Murder

Q COSTARICA (Confidencial) An “order” for “political reasons” is the motive gaining the most “traction” each day in the investigation into the murder in Costa Rica of Nicaraguan ex-military officer Roberto Samcam. Randall Zúñiga, director of Costa...

Some Trump podcast allies change their tone: ‘I voted for none of this’

Adin Ross called it the most important stream of his life. When the then-23-year-old online star went live with then-candidate Donald Trump amid the presidential campaign last August, it was a flashy mix of pop culture and politics that instantly...

Judge blocks fast-track deportation of Haitian women in Ohio case

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A federal judge in Youngstown stopped the government from quickly deporting two Haitian women who legally entered the United States under a humanitarian aid program. U.S. District Judge Benita Pearson’s late Thursday ruling said...

Strained bedfellows: Moulton vs. Markey, Mills vs. Collins

As an older person myself, now 68, I find that we seem to be one of the last groups against whom it’s OK for progressive folks to discriminate. Looking for younger faces in government seems to be OK for many, including Moulton. But it’s not OK...

‘Diversity is how we become more humane’

Tables were covered with Latin American clothing and handmade musical instruments, and the PowerPoint was ready to go. But before Charito Calvachi-Mateyko even started her Oct. 14 presentation on “Diversity in Latin America,” she wanted to show...