WASHINGTON/LONDON (REUTERS, AFP, XINHUA) – US President Joe Biden on Thursday (May 20) pledged humanitarian and reconstruction aid for Gaza as he hailed a deal to end 11 days of fighting between Israel and Hamas in which he was criticised by fellow Democrats for not speaking out more forcefully against Israeli actions. Biden, appearing briefly […]
LOS ANGELES — Helen Jones grew up in Watts in a time of gang wars and a crack epidemic, when the police used battering rams to knock down the walls of suspected drug houses and Black people were routinely profiled or beaten by street cops. Then and now, her life has been shaped by violence: […]
Luis and Florinda Argueta were fed up, according to court documents. Their son, Joe Argueta, 19, had been feuding with another teenager and his friends who had been harassing the family for weeks, slashing their car tires and shooting at their house in Houston, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office and a lawyer for the younger […]
An eviction in East Jerusalem lies at the center of a conflict that led to war between Israel and Hamas. But for millions of Palestinians, the routine indignities of occupation are part of daily life. By David M. Halbfinger and Adam Rasgon JERUSALEM — Muhammad Sandouka built his home in the shadow of the Temple […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Two people were killed and several wounded in a shooting in the US city of Minneapolis late on Friday (May 21), police said. Local law enforcement said one man was left in critical condition following the attack in the downtown area of the city, which was where Mr George Floyd was murdered […]
Mark Levitan, who was instrumental in providing New York City officials with a more realistic measure of poverty, and in persuading the federal government to follow suit, died on Thursday at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 73. His son, Dan, said the cause was complications of leukemia. Dr. Levitan lived in Brooklyn. The results […]
Police officers in New York could only use physical force as a last resort, would have to meet a higher threshold for using deadly force and would face new criminal penalties for violating those guidelines under a sweeping legislative proposal unveiled on Friday. If adopted, the changes could drastically alter the nature of law enforcement […]
Back in 1998, bookstores in English-speaking Canada suddenly looked like their counterparts in France, with their windows and floor displays dominated not by novels or popular nonfiction but by dictionaries. More precisely, piles of the first edition of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary. It rapidly became a best seller and the talk of the nation. Until […]
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5video Shocking surveillance footage shows several police officers restraining and kneeling on an inmate who repeatedly cried ‘I can’t breathe’ – and responding that he ‘shouldn’t be able to breathe’. William Jennette, a 48-year-old father of five, died minutes later. Video […]
“Women cannot reach their full potential without a reimagining of care.” — Care Economy Business Council In Her Words is available as a newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. In mid-February, Time’s Up, an advocacy organization, began reaching out to executives at about a dozen U.S.-based companies with a proposal: […]