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CNN — In late 2022, the US began “preparing rigorously” for Russia potentially striking Ukraine with a nuclear weapon, in what would have been the first nuclear attack in war since the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki nearly eighty years before, two senior administration officials told CNN.
Members of Congress have written a letter to the Biden-Harris administration requesting President Joe Biden grant Mauritanians Temporary Protected Status (TPS) due to “ethnic cleansing” in the Northwestern African country. U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fl., told theGrio that more than half of the Mauritanian population is “vulnerable to enslavement-like conditions.” The U.S. Capitol building is shown […]
MIAMI (AP) — A secret memo obtained by The Associated Press details a yearslong covert operation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that sent undercover operatives into Venezuela to surreptitiously record and build drug-trafficking cases against the country’s leadership – a plan the U.S. acknowledged from the start was arguably a violation of international law. […]
Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Lee of California and several other Congressional Black Caucus members have written a letter to Julie Su, the acting secretary of the . . .
In 2001, acclaimed filmmaker Spike Lee coined the phrase “magical, mystical negro” to describe a saintly Black character designed solely to enrich the lives of white people. The term criticized yet another stereotypical characterization of Black people onscreen. But now, over 20 years later, the trope serves as the inspiration for actor-writer-director satirical debut film, […]
Ashraf Amra/Anadolu/Getty Images An aerial view of a destroyed residential area as Palestinians try to collect usable items under the rubbles of a building, demolished following the Israeli attacks, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on December 12. CNN — Nearly half of the air-to-ground munitions that Israel has used in Gaza in its
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