The Israeli government has announced it will refuse to comply with a ruling by the country’s Supreme Court — a move without precedent in Israel’s modern history, and one that has sent the country’s already fractured political establishment into open…
A Relationship Fraying at the Edges In a brief phone interview with Axios, US President Donald Trump offered a characteristically blunt assessment of his relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We get along very good,” Trump said. “[Netanyahu] knows…
A Structural Accountability Failure The central fact is stark and demands sustained attention: of the 751,861 children currently facing removal proceedings in U.S. immigration courts, 425,093 — 57 percent — have no legal representation whatsoever. This is not a marginal…
The ink on the framework agreement had barely dried before the explosions resumed. In the weeks following the ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel, residents across southern Lebanon reported continued Israeli airstrikes — a pattern that cast an immediate shadow over…
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco has reached a $395 million settlement resolving more than 500 lawsuits filed by survivors of child sexual abuse committed by church clergy, plaintiffs’ attorneys announced on Monday. The agreement, which concludes a bankruptcy…
On a late June day in Turkey, thousands of Kurdish demonstrators filled public squares to call for the release of Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, known by its Kurdish acronym PKK. The gatherings, reported on…
Mortality Rate More Than Doubled Since Start of Trump’s Second Term, Human Rights Watch Says At least 52 people have died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody between 20 January 2025 and 4 June 2026, according to a new…
Netanyahu Declares Open-Ended Israeli Military Presence in Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that Israeli forces will remain deployed across three neighbouring territories — southern Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza — for as long as he…
Brazil’s Federal Police Detain Spanish Citizen at Guarulhos Airport Brazil’s federal police arrested a Spanish national at São Paulo’s Guarulhos international airport on Wednesday after she allegedly directed racially abusive remarks at baggage handlers, the latest in a series of…
Syrians Push Back Against Trump’s Demand to Take on Hezbollah Residents in Damascus have rejected a proposal by US President Donald Trump that Syria should take military action against Hezbollah in Lebanon, warning that their country must not be pulled…