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Hunting in Yemen: The war must end
Apr 16, 2021 03:53Since March 29th, in Washington, D.C., Iman Saleh, age 26, has been on a hunger strike to demand an end to the war in Yemen. She is joined by five others from her group, The Yemeni Liberation Movement. The hunger strikers point out that enforcement of the Saudi- led US- backed coalition blockade relies substantially on U.S. weaponry.
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Rights advocates concerned over Biden push to increase militarization of borders in Central America
Apr 15, 2021 15:06Human rights defenders have expressed concern after the Biden administration announced it reached agreements with Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala for those countries to boost their deployments of military forces to stop the flow of migrants trying to make their way to the United States.
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Calls mount for Biden to end US complicity in starvation of Yemen
Apr 15, 2021 14:45Calls grow for US President Joe Biden to end all U.S. support for Saudi Arabia which is preventing food, medicine, fuel, and other aid from reaching starving Yemenis.
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Residents of Minneapolis suburb rise up against police killing of Daunte Wright
Apr 15, 2021 14:09There is vast support across the US for defunding police departments and shifting funding to nonviolent alternatives to policing. A Data for Progress poll published earlier this month, for example, found that 65 percent of voters in the U.S. would support “reallocating some of law enforcement budgets to support such non-police first responder programs.”
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Fauci admits PPE shortages under Trump increased COVID death toll of frontline healthcare workers
Apr 15, 2021 14:02Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert in the U.S., admitted in an interview with The Guardian recently that major shortages of masks, gloves, and other personal protective equipment under the Trump administration contributed to the deaths of more than 3,600 healthcare workers during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Biden strikes international deal in bid to stop migrants reaching US border
Apr 15, 2021 13:47The Biden administration has struck an agreement with Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras to temporarily increase border security in an effort to stop migrants from reaching the US border. The agreement comes as the US saw a record number of unaccompanied children attempting to cross the border in March, and the largest number of Border Patrol encounters overall with migrants on the southern border – just under 170,000 – since March 2001.
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Biden to withdraw all combat troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11
Apr 14, 2021 12:01US President Joe Biden will withdraw American combat troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, declaring an end to the nation’s longest war and overruling warnings from his military advisers that the departure could prompt a resurgence of the same terrorist threats that sent hundreds of thousands of troops into combat over the past 20 years.
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The Derek Chauvin trial: George Floyd’s brother testifies
Apr 14, 2021 11:57The third week of the Derek Chauvin trial began just hours after a crowd of protesters gathered outside Minneapolis and clashed with police officers, in protest of a fatal police shooting on Sunday (11 Apr 2021).
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Police say officer who shot and killed unarmed Daunte Wright intended to fire Taser
Apr 14, 2021 11:54Police in a Minneapolis suburb said an officer accidentally shot and killed a 20-year-old Black man on Sunday afternoon (11 Apr 2021) during a traffic stop, releasing graphic body-camera footage they say shows the officer intended to use a Taser not a handgun during the death of unarmed Daunte Wright.
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More than 3,600 US health care workers have died in the pandemic’s first year
Apr 14, 2021 10:08More than 3,600 U.S. health care workers perished in the first year of the pandemic, according to “Lost on the Frontline,” a 12-month investigation by The Guardian and KHN to track such deaths.