International News (Page 1,168)

These days the news is dominated by reporting on the Russian threat to Ukraine, by increasing fatigue with COVID restrictions across the United States, and by the continuing rise of inflation. All of those are indeed newsworthy, but another newsworthy subject — the mess on the U.S.-Mexico border — is receiving relatively little attention.Read Full…Continue Reading

Caitie McMekin, Knoxville News Sentinel via APHow the University of Tennessee–Knoxville did an end-run around state legislators to implement a radical antiracist agenda.Read Full Article »Continue Reading

(Olivia Sun/The Colorado Sun via AP)There is a long tradition of Black educators fighting attempts to keep America’s true history out of the classroom—one we can all learn from.Read Full Article »Continue Reading

Brian Echevarria, a father in North Carolina seeking local political office, speaks at his school board meeting about parents taking back control. “I’m biracial. I’m bilingual. I’m multicultural. The fact is in America, in North Carolina, I can do anything I want and I teach that to my children. And the person who tells my…Continue Reading

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The founder of the far-right Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, will remain in jail until his seditious-conspiracy trial for allegedly helping plot the assault on the US Capitol, a US judge said, calling him a “clear and convincing danger”.The US district judge Amit Mehta said during a Friday court hearing that Rhodes spent thousands of dollars…Continue Reading

A year after a hunger strike brought national attention to a potentially toxic metal shredder in a majority Latino neighborhood in Chicago, the city has announced it will not issue the final permit necessary for the plant to open, calling it an “unacceptable risk”.“In an already vulnerable community, the findings from the [city’s health impact…Continue Reading

4.24pm EST 16:24 Afternoon summary Good afternoon. We’re closing our US politics liveblog a little earlier than normal today. Please turn to our Ukraine liveblog for the latest on the situation there. Here’s a look back at what’s happened so far today: The National Archives confirmed that it discovered classified material among the documents Donald…Continue Reading

A convenience store clerk who killed himself minutes after shooting a customer who refused to wear a mask and walked out without paying for three bags of chips would have faced criminal charges if he had survived, a police report said.The 6 February shootings on the north-west edge of Las Vegas came four days before…Continue Reading