The Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report Wednesday night detailing the struggles of unaccompanied refugee children in Greece. The report found that Greek authorities have failed to adequately protect refugee children by falsely registering them as adults. The HRW talked to twenty minors, some as young as fifteen, who […]
On Thursday night, Federal Judge Derrick K. Watson of Honolulu struck down the Trump administration’s latest guidelines for their infamous Muslim ban that kept grandparents from entering the United States. The guidelines come after the Supreme Court allowed for a limited reinstatement of the Muslim ban for people from Iran, […]
On Wednesday, July 5, 2017, at least fourteen men were killed in a shootout between rival gangs in northern Mexico. The state of Chihuahua, where the shootout occurred, is a highly contested area for drug cartels due to its proximity to the United States. According to a spokesperson for Chihuahua’s […]
The National Rifle Association (NRA) in the United States is causing controversy yet again over their latest advertisement. The ad, just a minute long, stars NRA spokesperson and right-wing talk radio host Dana Loesch. Loesch speaks over footage of protests and street violence while accusing “them” of threatening America. The […]
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) released a report detailing the statistics surrounding displaced persons in 2016. The report, released just before World Refugee Day on June 20, showed that 2016 was a record year for the number of displaced persons. A total of 65.5 million people were […]
On Wednesday, June 14, 2017, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette officially charged five former and current government officials with involuntary manslaughter as a result of their involvement in the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Nick Lyon, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ director, Darnell Earley, Flint’s former […]
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS, claimed responsibility for the terror attack in Iran’s capital city, Tehran on Wednesday, June 6, 2017. So far seventeen people are reported dead and over forty others are injured. The attack began mid-morning when four of the six terrorists […]
The death toll in Kabul continued to rise after an explosion on Wednesday. This issue shocked the entire country. At 8:30 in the morning, a truck that had been transporting water or human waste exploded near Zanbaq Square in Kabul’s tenth district. This area, where various foreign embassies live in, is […]
On Tuesday, May 23, 2017, the United States’ Supreme Court ruled against the 2010 voter redistricting in North Carolina. This was the fifth time the case reached a court and the Supreme Court upheld earlier lower-court rulings. In a 5-3 ruling, Justice Clarence Thomas disagreed with his fellow conservative justices, […]
On May 17, 2017, Chelsea Manning took her first steps as a free woman after serving seven years in an all-male military prison in Kansas. Manning was charged in 2011 for leaking classified United States military information to Wikileaks, including a video of Apache helicopters killing 12 civilians in Bagdad. […]
