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Damascus is expected to fall, three U.S. officials told CBS News, as Syrian insurgents have surrounded the capital in a swiftly moving offensive. Iranian forces who’d been defending Syria’s President Bashar Assad have “pretty much” evacuated from Syria, the U.S. officials said. Syrian insurgents reached the suburbs of Damascus on Saturday as part of a […]
As undocumented immigrants show up at the southern border, many may be fleeing gun violence perpetrated with weapons that originally came from the United States. New research shows that nearly half coming across the border had previously been threatened by guns, while earlier research shows that the vast majority of guns in some of those […]
After U.S. Bank’s investor day in September, analysts covering the company largely had a “show me” reaction to the bank’s growth projections. Stephen Philipson, U.S. Bank’s head of wealth, corporate, commercial and institutional banking, said the bank’s executives have taken heed. “A lot of the feedback we got was, ‘This is a great strategy. We […]
African Union member-states are facing a critical conjuncture as the looming threats of global conflict against imperialism threatens world peace. This article was originally published in Borkena. Note: These remarks were prepared and delivered in part to a webinar entitled “AFRICOM, Corporate Dominance, Neo-Colonialism: How Do People Assert Their Humanity and Choices.” The event was […]
Police officers in Trenton, N.J., systematically violate the constitutional rights of the city’s residents, conduct illegal searches and needlessly escalate peaceful interactions into violence, the U.S. Department of Justice found in a report published Thursday. Even as former prosecutors and experts in civil rights law question whether President-elect Donald J. Trump will suspend federal efforts […]
CNN — Two jets from US-based airlines were struck by bullets on Monday while flying over Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, forcing Haitian authorities to suspend all flights in and out of the capital amid escalating gang violence. A Spirit . . .
Wall Street has been flying high as an expected Republican sweep in the election drives hopes for lower taxes and deregulation, and that makes U.S. financial markets more attractive to the rest of the world, a top economist said. In an
Ace Bennett-Fludd has bad memories of what happened last time Donald Trump lost an election, and fears a similar aftermath in Georgia if the latest White House race doesn’t go the former president’s way. “I would not want to hear another story about riots happening and people being hurt,” Bennett-Fludd, a married resident of Hapeville, […]
This story was originally published by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. New research published earlier this month found Atlanta is the best city for Black people who want to get on the housing ladder. But it also reinforced findings on the gulf between white and Black homeownership in the U.S. The report published by Columbia, Missouri-based Mortgage Research […]
A characteristic that sets apart the United States, world’s largest economy, is its “Freedom to Fail” concept, and India closely aligns with this mindset as it positions itself as a burgeoning global economic leader, said private equity firm Black Dragon Capital’s CEO