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Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security confirmed the arrest of Australian citizen Tran Hiep and two other activists who disappeared in Cambodia in September. Vietnamese officials accuse the three men of attempting to 'cross illegally' from…
2026-10-02 · 4 MIN READJagtar Singh Johal, a 39-year-old Scottish Sikh activist, was released from an Indian prison on Thursday after nearly nine years of detention without a conviction, according to United Press International. The release followed a Sept. 18…
2026-10-01 · 3 MIN READThe U.S. Department of Justice filed a judicial misconduct complaint Wednesday against two named federal judges and six unnamed colleagues in Minnesota who spoke to The New York Times about the Trump administration's immigration operations…
2026-09-30 · 3 MIN READVice President JD Vance delivered a prime-time address at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on Thursday night, with the crowd greeting portions of his remarks with chants of "48" — an apparent reference to a potential 2028…
2026-09-11 · 5 MIN READNine activists with the youth-led group Protect Trans Futures were arrested Wednesday at Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell's Boston office building after occupying the lobby and refusing to leave without a commitment to…
2026-09-05 · 4 MIN READG-20 finance ministers and central-bank chiefs meeting in Asheville, N.C. issued a joint statement Tuesday calling on countries with persistent trade surpluses to end policies that fuel overreliance on exports — language implicitly aimed…
2026-09-02 · 5 MIN READA federal judge in San Jose, California ruled Friday that the Trump administration is unconstitutionally using deportation powers to silence critics of Israel's war in Gaza. U.S. District Judge Noël Wise struck down portions of the federal…
2026-08-29 · 4 MIN READU.S. immigration officials arrested British commentator Milo Yiannopoulos on Thursday at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Immigration officials announced on Friday that…
2026-08-28 · 3 MIN READMohan Bhagwat, chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, is scheduled to address about 5,000 members of Indian American groups at Madison Square Garden on Saturday at an event titled "Universal Oneness Celebration." The gathering,…
2026-08-28 · 3 MIN READA Chinese court sentenced artist Gao Zhen to three years in prison after convicting him of insulting Chinese heroes in artworks from the early 2000s that lampooned Mao Zedong and other leaders. Gao, 70, is a U.S. permanent resident, and…
2026-08-26 · 4 MIN READThe Legal Accountability Center filed bar complaints on Tuesday against U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and two subordinates, alleging the prosecutors violated ethical duties by seeking federal charges against six Democratic lawmakers for…
2026-08-25 · 4 MIN READSecretary of State Marco Rubio designated U.S. citizen Min Zin as wrongfully detained in China on Thursday, the State Department announced. Zin, the founder and executive director of the Institute for Strategy and Policy – Myanmar and a…
2026-08-20 · 4 MIN READUltra-Orthodox Jewish communities are growing in numbers and political and cultural clout in Israel, bringing their vision of faith and civic practices into conflict with other Israelis. Mass protests have erupted over proposed changes to…
2026-08-19 · 3 MIN READFederal agents seized electronic devices from former Rep. Eric Swalwell and searched his home as part of an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READ
Salt Lake City prosecutors cited an engraved bullet inscription reading "Hey Facist! CATCH!" in arguing that defendant Tyler Robinson targeted Charlie Kirk for how the defendant perceived his politics. The dueling filings also dispute…
2026-08-19 · 3 MIN READFlorida voters head to the polls Tuesday to choose nominees to succeed term-limited Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and to fill the remainder of Secretary of State Marco Rubio's unexpired U.S. Senate term. The state will also hold its first…
2026-08-17 · 3 MIN READLawyers from the U.S. Attorney's office in Washington, D.C. argued in federal court earlier this month that ICE agents did not violate the First Amendment by tracking a Rochester, New York man to his home, an airport and a hotel to…
2026-08-17 · 6 MIN READThe Democratic National Committee on Saturday approved two competing resolutions on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at its summer meeting in Austin, Texas — one calling to abolish the agency and another backing 'concrete reforms.'…
2026-08-15 · 3 MIN READFederal agents launched an undercover surveillance operation earlier this year targeting progressive organizations, labor unions and other groups protesting federal immigration enforcement operations then underway in Minneapolis, according…
2026-08-14 · 3 MIN READA Meta Platforms oversight board report published last month found that artificial-intelligence models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta were significantly less likely to criticize governments with restrictions on political…
2026-08-13 · 4 MIN READHasan Piker, a 35-year-old left-wing livestreamer with 3.1 million Twitch followers, has become a political litmus test for the Democratic Party as the candidates he backed notch primary wins and prompt criticism from establishment voices.…
2026-08-13 · 5 MIN READMore than 60,000 Canadians have signed an online petition calling for the expulsion of U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, whom the petition accuses of repeated interventions in Canadian politics and of normalizing President Donald Trump's…
2026-08-12 · 3 MIN READDemocratic voters across a series of closely watched primaries this month delivered a clear message about the party's path forward: they want change. Progressive candidates defeated two members of Congress in Senate primaries in Michigan…
2026-08-12 · 3 MIN READThe State Department has canceled more than 175,000 visas since Donald Trump returned to office, according to a tally the department released this week that quadruples the pace of revocations in Joe Biden's final year in the White House.…
2026-08-11 · 6 MIN READPresident Donald Trump announced a crime emergency in Washington 12 months ago, pledging to make the city 'safe and beautiful' and deploying the National Guard. The mission, which initially seemed temporary, has been extended through…
2026-08-10 · 3 MIN READProgressive candidates for governor in Wisconsin and U.S. Senate in Minnesota are making their final pushes ahead of Tuesday's election, according to the Associated Press. The primaries come one week after Abdul El-Sayed narrowly defeated…
2026-08-10 · 3 MIN READWill Rosenzweig, a federal prosecutor dismissed last year after critical comments he had made about President Donald Trump as a private citizen were publicized online, sued the Justice Department on Friday, alleging the firing violated his…
2026-08-07 · 3 MIN READTibetan activist Lobga Rangzen died in July after setting himself on fire outside the United Nations headquarters in New York, an act that has prompted demonstrations across several countries. Rangzen left a video manifesto criticizing…
2026-08-06 · 3 MIN READSuper PACs tied to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee have spent more than $5 million in recent weeks in the California race for Eric Swalwell's former congressional seat, backing former Dublin mayor Melissa Hernandez against…
2026-08-06 · 4 MIN READIstanbul prosecutors investigating allegations of publicly disseminating misleading information obtained a court order requiring social media platform X to block jailed Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu's presidential candidacy account within Turkey. X…
2026-08-05 · 3 MIN READImmigration and Customs Enforcement has deployed a round-the-clock digital surveillance program that scours social media for speech that could endanger the agency's mission, paying millions to private contractors and prompting the…
2026-08-04 · 6 MIN READA federal judge in Virginia has ordered the Trump administration to provide evidence of what border patrol agents did with two cell phones seized from journalist Max Blumenthal at Dulles International Airport, escalating a legal battle…
2026-08-01 · 3 MIN READErik Davis, a professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, was arrested June 16 on federal charges of conspiring to obstruct Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. Davis and 14 other defendants face a 94-page indictment…
2026-07-28 · 3 MIN READDemocratic National Committee chair Ken Martin is facing heightened scrutiny over the party's financial condition and his leadership, with new reporting revealing a cash-flow deficit, an internal human resources inquiry into his conduct,…
2026-07-27 · 3 MIN READIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is "fomenting hate" by calling the prime minister a war criminal who should be arrested over the war in Gaza if he visits the city for the United…
2026-07-26 · 4 MIN READFormer 60 Minutes correspondent Cecilia Vega said Thursday that CBS News executives pressured her to insert political bias into segments for the program, describing the interference as unlike any editorial pressure she had faced in 25…
2026-07-25 · 3 MIN READVance Boelter was sentenced Thursday to two consecutive life terms plus 40 years in federal prison for the murders of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, and the shootings of state Sen. John Hoffman and his…
2026-07-23 · 3 MIN READThe U.S. Department of Justice is attempting to prosecute an Atlanta resident in connection with the movement against the police training center known as Cop City after his phone appeared to erase itself using GrapheneOS, an open-source…
2026-07-23 · 4 MIN READVance Boelter, the Minnesota man who pleaded guilty to killing House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark and wounding two others, is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday in federal court.
2026-07-23 · 3 MIN READThe Okefenokee Swamp is poised to join the Grand Canyon and the Everglades as the United States' 27th World Heritage Site when a United Nations committee votes Saturday in South Korea, but the designation faces opposition from residents of…
2026-07-23 · 3 MIN READOne in 10 Americans identified politics as the greatest threat to their personal safety in an open-ended global survey, a share 10 times the international average and the highest recorded in any country, according to the Lloyd's Register…
2026-07-22 · 3 MIN READSalah Sarsour, president of Wisconsin's largest mosque, said his more than 80 days in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody were marked by "dehumanizing" treatment that recalled his imprisonment by Israeli authorities. Sarsour,…
2026-07-21 · 3 MIN READPresident Daniel Ortega announced Sunday that Nicaragua will no longer hold elections, eliminating the possibility of an electoral challenge when his current term ends and further entrenching the 19-year rule he shares with his wife, Vice…
2026-07-21 · 3 MIN READNearly a year after President Donald Trump deployed thousands of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., under a crime emergency declaration, the order was extended through January 2029, prolonging a military presence that residents…
2026-07-18 · 3 MIN READU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested Wu Shaoping, a Chinese human rights lawyer who fled a state crackdown in late 2019 and is awaiting an asylum decision, after stopping him while he was delivering packages as an Amazon…
2026-07-17 · 3 MIN READDong Guangping, 68, a former Chinese police officer who has been jailed multiple times in China for his activism, fled the country by rubber boat in May and resettled in Canada. Dong described a 40-hour crossing of the Yellow Sea before…
2026-07-15 · 3 MIN READMahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University graduate student and lawful permanent resident facing deportation, filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit Tuesday alleging that senior Trump administration officials and three private…
2026-07-14 · 3 MIN READChinese authorities have charged Youlin Chen, a 54-year-old American seismologist who researched underground nuclear tests, with espionage after detaining him in late 2024, according to his supporters. The State Department earlier this…
2026-07-14 · 3 MIN READOver the past four months, The Guardian interviewed more than three dozen current and former Department of Homeland Security officials who described a climate of fear under the Trump administration, including polygraph examinations…
2026-07-11 · 4 MIN READAs the Calgary Stampede drew over a million visitors this month, political leaders used the annual rodeo and fair as a stage to argue the future of Alberta — the province will vote in October on whether it wants to hold a binding…
2026-07-11 · 3 MIN READMaine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner suspended his campaign Wednesday after a woman who dated him alleged he forced her to have sex while she told him to stop, an allegation he denies. The suspension ends a rapid political rise…
2026-07-10 · 3 MIN READMore than 1,200 former Justice Department employees have sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee urging lawmakers to reject Todd Blanche's nomination as attorney general, arguing his leadership has prioritized loyalty to President…
2026-07-07 · 3 MIN READFederal agents visited a Rochester, N.Y., man's home and later tried to confront him at a hotel after he sent a critical email to the former acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to a federal lawsuit filed…
2026-07-07 · 4 MIN READBruce Schneier, a security technologist at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Jon Penney, an associate professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, warned in a Guardian op-ed published Monday that AI-powered surveillance systems combining facial…
2026-07-06 · 3 MIN READHundreds of masked members of Patriot Front, which The Guardian describes as a neo-fascist, white supremacist organization, marched through Washington DC on July 4 carrying Confederate flags and chanting "Reclaim America!" The group,…
2026-07-04 · 3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump opened America's 250th birthday weekend Friday night with a half-hour speech at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, in which he described a resurgent "communist menace" as a "greater threat" to American liberty than both…
2026-07-04 · 4 MIN READProgressive candidates defeated two incumbent House Democrats in primary elections in New York and Denver this week, underscoring internal party divisions as Democrats aim to reclaim the House majority this fall, NPR reported.
2026-07-03 · 3 MIN READA man identified by Tibetan exile media as activist Lobga Rangzen died Thursday evening after setting himself on fire outside the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan, police said. Rangzen self-immolated following what Voice of Tibet,…
2026-07-03 · 3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump told an interviewer this week that "there are no limits" to his presidential power, a declaration that has reignited the nation's founding debate over how much authority a single executive should wield as the United…
2026-07-02 · 3 MIN READVenezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado's attempt to return to Venezuela was halted mid-flight on June 26 after U.S. officials intervened, according to people familiar with the matter. Machado's private jet was ordered to turn…
2026-07-02 · 3 MIN READTucker Carlson, the former Fox News host and conservative podcast host, said in an interview published Wednesday that he plans to help build a new political party in the United States, though he offered few details and said he has no…
2026-07-02 · 3 MIN READA San Francisco jury on July 2 convicted seven pro-Palestine protesters of misdemeanor charges for blocking traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge during an April 2024 demonstration, but deadlocked on the most serious felony conspiracy charge.
2026-07-02 · 3 MIN READSeven more people were sentenced to prison Wednesday for their roles in a July 4, 2025, shooting outside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, that wounded a police officer, with penalties ranging from nearly two years to 50…
2026-07-01 · 3 MIN READSang Hea Kil, a tenured justice studies professor at San José State University who was fired last November over her pro-Palestinian activism, has been ordered reinstated by an arbitrator who found the California State University system…
2026-06-29 · 3 MIN READThe Venezuelan government blocked exiled opposition leader María Corina Machado from returning to the country Monday as she sought to assist with earthquake relief efforts, and U.S. officials urged her to delay her trip. Machado, a Nobel…
2026-06-29 · 4 MIN READThe District of Columbia has agreed to pay $50,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by Sam O'Hara, who was detained by police after he followed an Ohio National Guard patrol while playing Darth Vader's theme song on his cellphone, according to a…
2026-06-29 · 3 MIN READProminent Democratic figures are calling for a formal split with the party's left wing after a string of primary victories by Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates, according to The Guardian. Veteran strategist James Carville…
2026-06-29 · 4 MIN READA network of conservative foundations funds at least 20 of the 23 largest donors to campus "civil discourse" initiatives, according to a new analysis by the research consortium Uncivil, fueling a $200 million-per-year industry that critics…
2026-06-28 · 3 MIN READChildren-centered organizing is on the rise across New York City, as progressive churches, family groups and advocacy coalitions integrate young children into activism instead of separating them into a small Sunday school room during…
2026-06-28 · 3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump previewed a Republican midterm election strategy on Friday, seizing on progressive wins in New York to portray Democrats as "godless communists" who pose an existential threat to the nation, as he addressed religious…
2026-06-27 · 3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump, speaking Friday to religious conservatives at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s annual Road to Majority conference in Washington, cast the Democratic Party as a hostile force under the influence of "godless…
2026-06-26 · 5 MIN READThe District of Columbia has settled a First Amendment lawsuit filed by Sam O'Hara, a protester who was detained and handcuffed after playing Darth Vader's 'Imperial March' theme music behind National Guard troops last September. The…
2026-06-26 · 4 MIN READFormer National Park Service employees, calling themselves Resistance Rangers, held a teach-in at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park on Juneteenth to draw attention to Black history exhibits removed under President Donald Trump's…
2026-06-26 · 3 MIN READTwo years after Joe Biden's exit from the 2024 presidential campaign accelerated a reckoning over aging leadership in the Democratic Party, a generational battle is playing out in congressional primaries across the country, pitting older…
2026-06-23 · 3 MIN READA small group of Memphis residents is documenting the activities of a federal anti-crime taskforce ordered by President Donald Trump nine months ago, alleging widespread intimidation, wrongful arrests, and violations of First Amendment…
2026-06-21 · 3 MIN READHillary Clinton said June 15 that Joe Biden's decision to seek a second term was "a terrible mistake" that cost Democrats the 2024 presidential election, arguing that a genuine Democratic primary would have produced a nominee capable of…
2026-06-16 · 3 MIN READFifteen people in Minnesota have been charged with conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers for their alleged involvement in antifa groups that opposed the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement crackdown, federal…
2026-06-16 · 3 MIN READPrinceton professor and Guardian columnist Jan-Werner Müller has argued that Americans should consider adopting the Argentine tactic of peaceful "escrache" protests to hold unaccountable officials and former officials to public account,…
2026-06-15 · 4 MIN READA federal judge on Thursday acquitted former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander of a misdemeanor charge stemming from his arrest last year at an immigration court facility, ruling that video footage showed he did not intentionally block…
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