Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Bus carrying migrants arrives in front of Kamala Harris’ home

Bus carrying migrants

Busloads of undocumented migrants began arriving in liberal strongholds without warning. Thousands of migrants have since arrived in New York, Washington, Chicago and beyond. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have used the tactic to call attention to their states’ failed border policies. For the second time this week, a bus from … Read more

Colorado baker challenges gender transition cake ruling

Colorado baker

Jack Phillips won a partial Supreme Court victory after refusing to bake a gay couple’s cake. He is challenging a separate ruling he violated the state’s anti-discrimination law. A transgender woman requested a birthday cake that had blue frosting on the outside and pink inside. A Colorado baker who won a partial Supreme Court victory … Read more

17-year-old man arrested in connection with the deaths of 2 high school students

17-year-old man arrested

Lyric Woods, 14, and Devin Clark, 18, were found shot to death in September. Their bodies were discovered by two men riding four-wheelers off a road. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office filed a juvenile petition for the suspect to be tried as an adult. The 17-year-old man accused of murdering two high school students in … Read more

Kidnapped California family, including an 8-month-old child, was found dead

Kidnapped California family

The family had been missing since Monday. They were “taken against their will” from a business in California’s Central Valley. One of the victim’s ATM cards was used at a bank in Atwater, eight miles west-northwest of Merced. Authorities said all four bodies of a missing California family were discovered late Wednesday. After a masked … Read more

Plane crashed in Arundel, then bursts into flames

Plane crashed 

Eldon Morrison, 81, and Paul Koziell, 55, died in the crash. The plane crashed near Sam’s Road, a dead-end street off Route 1 south of Log Cabin Road. The National Transportation Safety Board has opened an investigation into the accident. Arundel plane crash killed two people. According to the York County Sheriff’s Office, Eldon Morrison, … Read more

Annie Ernaux, a French writer, is awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature

Annie Ernaux

The 82-year-old French writer Annie Ernaux has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in literature. Ernaux is known for works that blur the line between memoir and fiction. Her first book, Cleaned Out, was an autobiographical novel about obtaining an abortion. Annie Ernaux, a French writer, has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. … Read more

Israeli soldiers kill one Palestinian and injure two journalists

palestine

Alaa Zaghal, 21, died of a bullet wound to the head fired by the occupation [Israeli] army. At least six other Palestinians, including two journalists, were wounded by Israeli fire. Violence was the latest to hit the north of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Israeli forces killed one Palestinian man and injured at least two others … Read more

Oklahoma governor signs bill to withhold hospital funding over transgender youth care

Oklahoma governor signs bill

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill Tuesday that will withhold funds from one of the state’s largest hospital systems. Unless it stops providing gender-affirming medical care to minors. The bill authorizes more than $108 million in federal funds for health services at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed legislation … Read more

Officer fired by Vallejo Police after he killed Sean Monterrosa in 2020

Officer fired by Vallejo Police

Vallejo Police Department did not name the officer in a news release Monday. An attorney with the family of the man who died, Sean Monterrosa, identified him as Jarrett Tonn. The department has not publicly named Tonn nor the other officers involved. An independent investigation concluded that a police detective in the San Francisco Bay … Read more

Killing of a refugee shows the difficulties that Syrians face in Turkey

Syrians face in Turkey

As Turkey’s economic crisis worsens, resentment towards refugees continues to increase. In Istanbul’s working-class districts, such as Bagcilar, large refugee populations live. Locals say tensions between different groups existed in low-income areas long before Syrian refugees arrived. As Turkey’s economic crisis worsens, so does resentment of refugees, with tensions boiling over into violence, particularly in … Read more

Abortion rights activists in the US launching a mobile abortion clinic

Abortion rights

Yamelsie Rodriguez is the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the St Louis region. She says there is an increasingly urgent need for abortion services in a post-Roe v Wade US. Abortion remains legal in Illinois, but patients are travelling long distances to access care. Yamelsie Rodriguez calls it a “act of defiance.” More … Read more

Protests continue, Iran organises more counter-demonstrations

Iran

Pro-government demonstrations in northern Tehran begin on Wednesday. They are expected to last several hours and condemn “recent riots and the crimes of seditionists”. Counter-demonstrations formed after death of Mahsa Amini, 22, in police custody on September 16. Another round of counter-demonstrations in support of the Iranian state have been organised as the protests that … Read more

Putin mobilisation and the possibility of political repercussions

Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced first large-scale military mobilisation since World War II. Announcement triggered demonstrations and attacks on draft centres across the country. Hundreds of thousands of Russians have looked for a way out, fleeing to neighbouring countries. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the first large-scale military mobilisation since World War II on September … Read more

US citizen was killed by gunfire in the Turks and Caicos Islands

US citizen

The U.S. citizen was killed after people fired indiscriminately into a vehicle, police say. Another person from a local business was also killed, and three other people were wounded. A third body, that of a man, was found later; police think he was killed in a shootout. An American tourist and two other people were … Read more

After 6 years in detention, American citizen Baquer Namazi flew out of Iran

Baquer Namazi

One of Baquer Namazi’s sons was granted a one-week furlough for the first time in seven years. Namazi, 85, will undergo urgent surgery to clear a “severe blockage” of an artery. He has been held more than six years in detention in Iran. After more than six years in detention in Iran, an American citizen … Read more

US and South Korea respond to North Korea missile test

US and South Korea

The explosion and subsequent fire panicked and confused residents of the coastal city of Gangneung. No injuries were reported from the explosion, which involved a short-range Hyumoo-2 missile. South Korea’s military acknowledged the malfunction hours after internet users raised alarm about the blast. A malfunctioning South Korean ballistic missile exploded as it slammed into the … Read more

UK Truss defends the ‘disruption’ agenda in a speech

UK Truss

Prime Minister Liz Truss pledges to ride out the turmoil unleashed by her tax-cutting economic agenda. The four-day gathering saw policy U-turns from the government and open rebellion from lawmakers who fear the party is doomed. The government’s stimulus package alarmed financial markets when it was announced Sept. 23. U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss pledged … Read more

Burkina Faso president resigns on guaranteed safety condition

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso’s self-declared military leader Captain Ibrahim Traore accepts president’s resignation. President Paul-Henri Damiba deposed in coup on Friday. Traore will continue to act as president until a transitional civilian or military president is designated in the coming weeks. Captain Ibrahim Traore, the self-proclaimed military leader of Burkina Faso, has accepted President Paul-Henri Damiba’s conditional … Read more