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My earliest memories of childhood involve hugging my dad, and also punching him. Let me explain. My father, who moved from Hong Kong to New York in the late 1960s, was a professional artist and a black belt in karate. When my brother and I were kids, he trained us up in his studio, to […]
CNN — It wasn’t long after landing in Bangkok, Thailand, in the summer of 2023 that Jalil Muyeke realized that something was terribly wrong. He knew that the city – where he was planning to start a new data entry and online . . .
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most of the 80,000 federal workers responsible for researching diseases, inspecting food and administering Medicare and Medicaid under the auspices of the Health and Human Services Department were emailed an offer to leave their job for as much as a $25,000 payment as part of President Donald Trump’s government cuts. Workers cannot […]
PANAMA CITY (AP) — After weeks of lawsuits and human rights criticism, Panama on Saturday released dozens of migrants who were held for weeks in a remote camp after being deported from the United States, telling them they have 30 days to leave the Central American nation. It thrust many like Hayatullah Omagh, a 29-year-old […]
What does it really mean to be a peacemaker? To work for justice? To get into “good trouble” for the sake of love? How do we form a happy, holy world? That’s what National Catholic Reporter columnist and Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister asks in the final part of my three-part conversation on “The Nonviolent Jesus […]
Handcuffed and shackled, the men appear in government propaganda photos being herded towards military cargo planes that will carry them to an uncertain future in an infamous land. “These individuals are the worst of the worst that we have pulled off of our streets,” Donald Trump’s homeland security chief, Kristi Noem, thundered against the supposedly […]
On this day 76 years ago, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), subsequently marking December 10th as International Human Rights Day. But nearly eight decades later, historically marginalized communities across the U.S. – particularly people of African descent – are still fighting for their very lives, for basic […]
The U.S. has recorded its first human death from bird flu, a grim milestone that comes as at least 66 cases have been recorded in the country. The patient, who was over age 65 and had underlying medical conditions, was hospitalized in Louisiana in December; the case was considered the country . . .
Amnesty International says Guantanamo Bay prison camp is a ‘glaring, longstanding stain’ on human rights record of the United States. Two Malaysian men held at the United States military prison in Guantanamo Bay for 18 years have been returned home, Malaysia’s state news agency reports. Malaysia’s Inspector General of Police Razarudin Husain said Mohammed Farik […]
Twenty-nine prisoners remain at the US detention facility in Cuba after the transfer of Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu. The United States has released Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu to Kenya, bringing the number of prisoners at the facility to 29. The Pentagon announced Bajabu’s release on Tuesday, saying Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin […]