What is Donald Trump’s family-separation endgame?
Source: BBC By Anthony Zurcher For months we’ve been heading toward this moment, a political conflagration on the border over immigrant policy. But what is Donald Trump’s endgame – and […]
US leaving UN Human Rights Council — ‘a cesspool of political bias’
Source: CNN By Laura Koran, CNN Washington (CNN)US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced the United States is withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council Tuesday, accusing the […]
Church suspends talks to ease Nicaragua political crisis
Source: Associated Press MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua’s Roman Catholic hierarchy has suspended a dialogue with the government aimed at ending a two-month political crisis. The Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua […]
Hundreds of members at Sessions’s church write formal complaint over immigration policy
Source: The Hill By Brooke Seipel More than 600 members of the United Methodist Church signed on to a letter Monday condemning Attorney General Jeff Sessions for the Trump administration’s […]
Why many white evangelicals are not protesting family separations on the U.S. border
Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein and Julie Zauzmer At pulpits across the country, pastors, priests, rabbis and imams delivered impassioned sermons over the weekend, fiercely denouncing the morality of […]
Thousands of Migrant Children Are Being Separated From Their Families at the Border. Here’s How to Help Them
Source: Time By Alix Langone Nearly 2,000 migrant children have been separated from their parents at the border as part of the Trump administration’s controversial “zero tolerance” policy on border […]
Trump Administration Withdraws U.S. From U.N. Human Rights Council
ImageNikki R. Haley, the American ambassador to the United Nations, speaking to the General Assembly last week in New York.CreditDon Emmert/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By Gardiner Harris June […]
CNN Opinion: Ivanka’s deafening silence
By Anushay Hossain, who is a writer and political commentator based in Washington. For more, visit AnushaysPoint.com. The views expressed are her own. (CNN) — When Ivanka Trump took the […]
US child migrants: First ladies speak out on Trump separation policy
Source: BBC News The former US First Lady Laura Bush has condemned a controversial policy that splits up families who illegally enter the country at the Mexican border. Writing in […]
President Trump’s Family Separation Policy Is Dividing Republicans
SOURCE: TIME By JILL COLVIN / AP 5:00 AM EDT (WASHINGTON) — The emotional policy of separating children from their parents is also starting to divide Republicans and their allies as […]
Sessions cites Bible to defend separating immigrant families
Source: Associated Press By COLLEEN LONG WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions cited the Bible on Thursday in his defense of his border policy that is resulting in hundreds […]
Sessions at odds with his church on immigrants
Source: Baltimore Sun By Dan RodricksContact Reporter The Baltimore Sun Attorney General Jeff Sessions appears determined to inflict as much pain as possible in his efforts to deter immigrants from gaining entrance […]
AI gives silenced radio journalist his voice back
Source: BBC News By Mary-Ann RussonTechnology reporter, BBC News Image copyrightJAMIE DUPREEImage captionRadio journalist Jamie Dupree will be able to broadcast again thanks to artificial intelligence A US radio journalist […]
Parents Are Facing a Nightmare at the U.S. Border
Source: Time By HALEY SWEETLAND EDWARDS June 14, 2018 Earlier this year, a young Honduran woman named Mirian gathered her 18-month-old son into her arms and walked across the bridge between […]
Drowning Is the No. 2 Cause of Death for Young Children. Here’s How to Keep Your Kids Safe Around Pools
Source: Time By GINA MARTINEZ The tragic death of Olympic skier Bode Miller’s 19-month-old daughter on Sunday has cast new light on the dangers of drowning – which is the […]
Most Americans express positive views of country’s growing racial and ethnic diversity
Source: Pew Research Center BY HANNAH FINGERHUT (Joana Toro/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images) A majority of Americans continue to say the United States […]
On Islam, Trump Takes a Different Approach at Home and Abroad
Source: The New York Times By Catie Edmondson June 13, 2018 WASHINGTON — The White House’s guest list last week for President Trump’s first dinner celebrating the Muslim holy month of […]
President Trump Says He Can Pardon Himself. Most Voters Disagree
Source: Time By Abigail Simon June 13, 2018 President Donald Trump has asserted that he has the “absolute right” to pardon himself if charged with a crime, but a new […]
London Breed Becomes the First African-American Woman to be Elected San Fransisco’s Mayor
Source: Time By Janie Har / AP (SAN FRANCISCO) — San Francisco Supervisor London Breed emerged victorious a week after Election Day to become the city’s first African-American woman elected […]
#MeToo Has ‘Tripled’ Web Traffic For the Federal Agency That Investigates Harassment
Source: Time By Maya Rhodan June 12, 2018 The federal agency tasked with investigating sexual harassment in the workplace has seen its web traffic triple since the #MeToo movement began […]
