US prosecutors keep charging women with ‘pregnancy-related crimes’

The pregnancy police are racking up arrests Every 74 seconds, someone in the US is sexually assaulted. And every nine minutes that ‘someone’ is a child, according to statistics collated by the anti-sexual violence non-profit Rainn. Instead of...

Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage is Alleged to Have Coordinated CIA Drug Trafficking Network in Southeast Asia that Financed Black Operations

Richard Armitage in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2004. [Source: nytimes.com] The New York Times and other obituaries predictably left this out Richard Armitage, the number two official at the State Department from 2001 to 2005, died on April 13. The New...

A history of government shutdowns: 14 other times funding has lapsed since 1980

Washington — The U.S. government shut down Wednesday morning after President Trump and congressional Republicans at odds with Democrats over the path forward were unable to avert a lapse in federal funding. Mr. Trump had said Sunday that a...

Who Supports Putin? Nations That Side With Russia

President Vladimir Putin, a former intelligence officer, was first elected president of Russia in 2000. (He was prime minister from 2008–2012, while Dmitry Medvedev held the presidency. He returned as president in 2012 and has remained since.) A...

This Day in History: What Happened Today in History – 05 October

Every day has a history attached to it — but do we always pause to ask why? What whispered events, triumphs, tragedies, or surprises lie hidden behind a seemingly ordinary date? Today, on October 5, many such stories unfold. On this day in 1813,...

Shielding Stories: Young Minahasan Journalists Are Reclaiming Their Heritage

By Hendro Karundeng, Kelung Contributor, Tontemboan Tribe, Minahasa Nation In the misty hills of Kolongan, a group of young Minahasan men and women gathered with a shared purpose: to reclaim their ancestral stories and traditions through the power...

REPORT: Trump Planning to Slash Refugee Admissions to 7,500 Annually — Most Spaces Reserved For Persecuted White South Africans

The Trump administration is reportedly planning to dramatically cut the admission of refugees from around the world. According to a report from Reuters, the White House is preparing to set a new admission cap of 7,500 refugees per fiscal year,...

Mask off US empire: War secretary tells military to commit war crimes, as Trump threatens ‘enemy within’

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gathered top generals and encouraged the military to commit war crimes and ignore international law. “You kill people and break things for a living”, Hegseth proudly told the military commanders, calling for...

On This Day: Curse of the Billy Goat placed on Chicago Cubs

Oct. 6 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1853, Antioch College opened in Yellow Springs, Ohio, as the first non-sectarian school to offer equal opportunity for both men and women. In 1889, Thomas Edison debuts his first motion picture. In 1908,...

Bullets flying, Belizeans falling—too many guns in our country

In the age when Belize was a tranquil haven, a time when Belizeans slept with their windows open and walked the streets any hour of the night, there were few guns in the country. Some people who worked in the forests, surveyors and loggers, had...

Why declare Caribbean a zone of peace

Commentary Newsday 3 Hrs Ago Smokes rise to the sky following Israeli military strikes in Gaza City. AP Photo - Network of NGOs for the Advancement of Women "COME GET me, come get me, please mama," the child called. His mother found him on the...

Hostages and hijacking – how the Seventies became a decade of terrorism

“They made a handsome couple, witnesses later said. She petite and pretty in her faux Hispanic outfit complete with bolero waistcoat and sombrero, he much taller wearing a grey suit, hair brushed back in a thick dark wave.” These are the glamorous...

Iveland Elementary in Overland honors its students’ diversity during Hispanic Heritage Month

In the auditorium of Iveland Elementary School in the Ritenour School District, students gathered at tables decorated with flags of countries including Guatemala, Mexico and Honduras. At the El Salvador table, students squealed as white foam meant...

Lawmakers’ Health Care, Government Shutdown Claims

Democrats and Republicans have sparred over Democratic demands to address health care issues in a government funding bill, with the standoff leading to the first government shutdown since 2019. We’ll provide the facts on two talking points each...

Brian Stewart’s ‘On the Ground’: The Power of Observation

On the Ground: My Life as a Foreign Correspondent By Brian Stewart Simon & Schuster, September 2025/352 pages Reviewed by Don Newman October 5, 2025 Almost from its inception, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was known for the exceptional...

MAGA Podcaster Slams Trump Admin for Using Him in ICE Videos

MAGA-friendly podcaster Theo Von was overcome with emotion as he tore into the Department of Homeland Security chiefs for using his video clips to promote the Trump administration’s latest deportation drive. Von, one of the podcasters credited...

Charlie Kirk vs. elite Black women: A case of insecurity or racism?

Charlie Kirk infamously stated the following: “If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called racists. Now they’re coming and they’re...

What Dirty Tricks Does the Grandson of Former CIA Director William Colby—a Key Man Running U.S. Foreign Policy in the Trump Administration—Have in Store for Us?

[Source: aol.com] Elbridge Colby, President Donald Trump’s Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and the man running the U.S. proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, is the grandson of Nixon’s CIA Director William Colby, son of Jonathan Colby, a...

US Supreme Court lets Trump strip temporary status from Venezuelan migrants 

By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court again cleared the way on Friday for Donald Trump’s administration to revoke a temporary legal protection for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants in the United States, backing a key...

Letter to the Editor: Most Inland Empire residents say they are struggling, surveys find

UC Riverside studies reveal low well-being but highlight paths for improvement RIVERSIDE, CA— A pair of UC Riverside studies paints a revealing picture of life in Southern California’s Inland Empire—a fast-growing region east of Los Angeles where...