Trump urges Iran to help with missing agent’s case
President Donald Trump on Sunday used Twitter to urge Iran to turn over former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who disappeared in 2007 on an unauthorized CIA mission. “If Iran is able to turn over to the U.S. kidnapped former FBI Agent Robert A. Levinson, who has been...
Nikki Haley: Top aides ‘told ex-UN envoy to undermine Trump’
Nikki Haley, former US ambassador to the UN, has said two top White House aides encouraged her to undermine President Donald Trump. In a new book, Ms Haley says then-Chief of Staff John Kelly and then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told her to resist some of Mr...
In Seeking to Join Suit Over Subpoena Power, Mulvaney Goes Up Against the President
Even in a White House of never-befores, this may be one of the more head-spinning: The president’s chief of staff is trying to join a lawsuit against the president. Mick Mulvaney works only about 50 steps from the Oval Office as he runs the White House staff, but...
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Hell on earth: The horrors of North Korean torture camps
Beatings, rape, starvation and sick public executions are a daily reality for thousands of North Koreans, according to years of witness testimony. Now, the death of Otto Warmbier has brought fresh scrutiny to the regime’s brutal torture camps under leader Kim...
The Arab world in seven charts: Are Arabs turning their backs on religion?
The Arab world in seven charts: Are Arabs turning their backs on religion? Arabs are increasingly saying they are no longer religious, according to the largest and most in-depth survey undertaken of the Middle East and North Africa. The finding is one of a...
Sen. Cruz: America Must Always Stand With the People of China
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement recognizing the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre: “Thirty years ago thousands of Chinese protestors...
Sadiq Khan Has A Strong Message For Donald Trump (VIDEO)
Today, June 3, Donald Trump, President of the United States of America, begins his three-day state visit to the UK. The state visit – which includes a welcome to British culture by way of afternoon tea with Prince William and Kate Middleton and an inspection of...
Judiciary Democrats to DHS: Don’t Conduct ‘Show of Force’ Raids on Immigrant Families
Washington—Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats called on the Trump administration not to conduct mass arrests of immigrant families and children, including asylum seekers, as a show of force. These arrests would likely separate families and force children to spend...
China must release Uighurs immediately, UN says amid ‘alarm’ at reports of 1m Muslims kept in detention centres
China must immediately release Uighur Muslims being held in alleged political re-education camps on the “pretext of countering terrorism”, a committee of UN human rights experts have said. Up to one million Uighurs, a largely Muslim minority, may be held involuntarily...
Feinstein Opposes Saudi Arabia Arms Sale
Washington—Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) released the following statement on President Trump selling arms to Saudi Arabia without congressional approval and outside the standard review process: “President Trump circumventing Congress to sell more weapons to...
Saudi Arabia to behead author, journalist and cleric on terrorism charges
Saudi Arabia will execute three prominent scholars who are being held on multiple charges of “terrorism” shortly after the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. One of the men was arrested in September last year shortly after he tweeted a prayer for reconciliation...
How Kamala Harris would solve the gender wage gap
Sen. Kamala Harris pledged Monday to eliminate the gender wage gap, releasing a campaign proposal billed as “the most aggressive equal pay proposal in history.” “This has got to end, and it is an outrage,” Harris (D-Calif.) told a crowd in Los Angeles on Sunday....
Gay Imam hopes to open Australia’s first LGBTI-friendly mosque
Australia’s only openly gay Imam is pushing for the country’s first LGBTI-friendly mosque that would also act as a safe house and counselling centre. Nur Warsame said he is dealing with an “avalanche of misery” among LGBTI Muslims who have no...
Sen. Warren: “Basic health care includes safe, legal abortion.”(VIDEO)
Basic health care includes safe, legal abortion. Alabama’s backdoor abortion ban is an unconstitutional attack on women—an attack happening all across America. Let’s be very clear: We’re going to fight this ban. And we’ll win.Related news: Trump. Barr. McConnell. They...
Senator Warren has long advocated for greater accountability for corporate criminals.
Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) today released a new report, “Rigged Justice 2.0: Government of the Billionaires, by the Billionaires, and for the Billionaires.” The...
Tulsi Gabbard: “We need leaders who’ll stand up against bigotry. “
We as a country must stand up and condemn hatred, bigotry & violence, whether it be based on your religion, color of your skin, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or where you come from. We need leaders who’ll stand up against bigotry. And that leadership needs to...
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