Nigeria Is Freeing Children From Boko Haram, Then Locking Them Up
Source: The New York Times MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — It had been more than a month, and Dije Ali was still locked in a military prison with her seven children. She […]
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Dwindling Amazon Jewish community keeps faith despite religious exodus
Source: The Guardian By Ryan Schuessler in Iquitos The sudden barrage of a tropical downpour on a tin roof almost drowns out the small congregation, before they lift their voices and the […]
Indigenous Australians fight nuclear dump plan on ‘sacred land’
Source: Reuters By Timothy Large HAWKER, Australia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Enice Marsh remembers the black clouds of “poison stuff” that billowed from the northwest after British atomic bomb tests in the 1950s spread fallout across swathes of South Australia. Now a new kind of radioactivity could head to her […]
Why Police Departments Don’t Always Release Body Cam Footage
Source: Time By Josh Sanburn It would seem like a given. After a police officer’s body camera captures a fatal shooting, law enforcement should release the footage of the incident to […]
Apple’s Smart Home Vision Is Finally Taking Shape
Source: Time By Lisa Eadicicco The upcoming iPhone update is exactly what the smart home needs Imagine this: You’re just getting home from a long day at work. But instead of […]
Raped for speaking out against rape
Source: BBC By Lucy Ash A Colombian woman who denounced armed groups for sexually abusing women and girls was abducted by the militants and subjected to a terrible punishment. Her […]
Cisco to cut up to 5,500 jobs
Source: BBC US tech giant Cisco Systems is cutting up to 7% of its global workforce, or 5,500 jobs, starting this summer. A report had suggested earlier in the day […]
The dinosaur that never existed
Source: BBC By Alex Riley 17 August 2016 About 67 million years ago, in what is now north-west Montana in the United States of America, a dinosaur died. How it […]
A little-known Pakistani tribe that loves wine and whiskey fears its Muslim neighbors
Source: The Washington Post By Tim Craig KALASH VALLEY, Pakistan — Hidden up in the mountains near Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, the Kalash tribe loves homemade wine and whiskey, dances […]
Portraying Muslims as a Threat to Women, Donald Trump Echoes ‘Us vs. Them’ Refrain
Source: The New York Times By AMANDA TAUB WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump, reiterating his call to restrict Muslim immigration to the United States, has adopted a tactic that has long been a mainstay of strongmen and sectarian provocateurs: portraying outsiders as a threat to women’s safety. In a foreign […]
Students: BYU Honor Code leaves LGBT victims of sexual assault vulnerable and alone
Source: The salt lake tribune By ERIN ALBERTY Andy wanted a blessing. He had awoken in a haze after a suicide attempt with painkillers and began to panic. He didn’t want to die. But he didn’t know if he could live. Andy’s first, secret boyfriend had raped him and dumped […]
Oklahoma man jailed in killing accused of anti-Muslim rants
Source: Associated Press ULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma man suspected of fatally shooting a male neighbor was accused of harassing and shouting anti-Muslim slurs at the man’s family, who […]
Victims of Rabbi Freundel, who videotaped women, ask for $100 million in lawsuit
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer The victims of a D.C. rabbi who was convicted of illegally recording naked women as they prepared for a ritual bath are demanding […]
Doctors at Catholic hospitals may be unable to refer women for services
Source: Reuters By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – According to interviews with U.S. physicians, some Roman Catholic hospitals not only refuse to provide some women’s health services like abortion, but may also prevent doctors from referring women to facilities that would provide them. Services including sterilization, contraception and fertility services […]
Why the World’s Best Athletes Can’t Stop Eating McDonald’s
Source: Time By Sean Gregory/Rio de Janeiro The line snakes out of the door and into the Olympic athlete village in Rio de Janeiro, a United Nations of track-suits and warm-up […]
Trump Hires Breitbart News CEO in Another Campaign Shakeup
Source: Time By Jill Colvin and Julie Pace (TETERBORO, N.J.) — Republican Donald Trump has shaken up his campaign again, it was revealed Wednesday, bringing in Breitbart News’ Stephen Bannon as CEO and promoting pollster Kellyanne Conway to campaign manager. The move comes just 82 days before the November election and […]
The World Is Failing Refugees from Nauru to the U.S.
Source: Time By Ian Bremmer As history buffs and film fans know, there weren’t enough lifeboats for passengers aboard the Titanic. As the boats, some less than full, pulled away from the sinking ship, debate began among the lucky few about whether to return to pluck the drowning from the water. […]
How Anjem Choudary’s mouth was finally shut
Source: BBC By Dominic Casciani Home affairs correspondent For 20 years Anjem Choudary stood on street corners, in shopping precincts, outside mosques, embassies and police stations and used his megaphone to drive a wedge between Muslims and the rest of Britain. Now he has been convicted of inviting others to support […]
What Trump’s hand gestures say about him
Source: BBC “New Yorkers tend to use a lot of hand gestures,” and Donald Trump is no exception. Body language expert Mary Civiello breaks down the top five gestures Donald Trump uses when he speaks. Video by Jasmine Taylor-Coleman and Anna Bressanin video
11 Tweets That Sum Up The Absurdity of The Burkini Ban
Source: Huffington Post BY Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post There’s a full-fledged political debate going on in France over, well, proper swimming attire. On Sunday, a small town on the island of Corsica became the third city in France to outlaw burkinis, a form of modest swimwear worn by […]