The nearly 20 years of Middle East wars have devastated Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. At least 9.7 million people seek refuge in European countries where they hope to find jobs and start new lives. European governments have made the refugees’ lives...
This past Friday, September 11, at least 50 miners died when heavy rains flooded “artisanal” mining shafts in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The miners drowned in a torrent of muddy water that poured into the shafts too quickly and powerfully for them to escape....
Recently, nine of the biotech and pharmaceutical companies working on vaccines for COVID-19 pledged that they’ll only ask the FDA for approval when the vaccines they’re working on are proven to be safe and effective. This is clearly a response to the level of fear the...
Did Trump call the soldiers sent to fight in the U.S.’s endless wars “suckers,” as former Trump associates have claimed? Knowing how “Cadet Bone Spurs” avoided the draft, the charge is certainly believable. Far worse than his despicable language, are the hardships...
Daniel Prude, a Black man visiting relatives in Rochester, New York, died at the hands of Rochester police after being arrested on March 17, 2020. His family has been trying to get justice ever since. It took nearly six months for Prude’s family to obtain a copy of...
