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NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia canceled in-person classes, dozens of protesters were arrested at New York University and Yale, and the gates to Harvard Yard were closed to the public on Monday as some of the most prestigious U.S. universities sought to defuse campus tensions over Israel’s war with Hamas. The various actions followed the […]
Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Getty Images; Business Insider An illegal trade in greenhouse gases is threatening US climate goals. Refrigerant smuggling has persisted since the 1990s, when regulations arose to close the ozone hole.
CORPUS CHRIST, Texas – The United States Coast Guard stopped three lanchas and seized 2,160 pounds of illegally caught fish off the southern Texas coast. Authorities found 13 fishermen from Mexico illegally fishing north of the Maritime Boundary Line, a press release said. The U.S. Coast Guard arrested the fishermen and seized 2,160 pounds of […]
Nick Starichenko/Shutterstock Ksenia Karelina, 33, was arrested while visiting her parents in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg. CNN — A US-Russian dual citizen was arrested in Russia on charges of treason for allegedly donating just $51 . . .
Pro-Palestine protestors carried out rallies and marches across the US during Christmas. Thousands of demonstrators waved the pan-Arab-colors flag and chanted “Christmas is canceled here,”, “Long live the intifada,” and yelled rabic word for “rebellion” or “uprising”. The protest which began mildtly, turned violent by night on Sunday and Monday. “While Ur Shopping Bombs are […]
Protests over the cost of living, like this one last November in Accra, have become increasingly frequent in Ghana. Police arrested 49 protesters on Thursday, during fresh demonstrations against the cost of living and the economic crisis gripping the country. Once an African success story, Ghana has become locked in a cycle of economic crisis […]
A judge has ordered Starbucks to pay an additional $2.7 million in lost wages and tax damages to a former regional manager who was earlier awarded more than $25 million after alleging she and other white employees were unfairly punished following the high-profile arrests of two Black men at a store in 2018. In June, […]
A judge has ordered Starbucks to pay an additional $2.7 million in lost wages and tax damages to a former regional manager who was earlier awarded more than $25 million after alleging she and other white employees were unfairly punished following the high-profile arrests of two Black men at a store in 2018. In June, […]
Graphic by Kasey Turman Although only 6% of Oxford residents identified as Black in the U.S. Census, about 12% of pedestrians stopped, but not arrested, in Oxford last year were Black. Source: Oxford Police Community Relations and Review Committee Although only 6% percent of Oxford residents are Black, nearly 10% of arrests by the Oxford […]
Eight-year-old A’Miyah Hughes, 9-year-old Zi’Ariel Robinson-Oliver, and 5-year-old Te’Mari Robinson-Oliver (Courtesy of the Oliver family) Three young Black girls were strangled and left in a pond last summer in east Texas, and no arrests have been made in a case that advocates and experts believe has been severely mishandled by local authorities. Nine-year old Zi’Ariel […]