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Jillian Lauren treated for non-life-threatening wound after incident where officers searched for hit-and-run suspects | |
Submitted at 04-10-2025, 04:58 PM by Wreckard | |
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Advocacy group says the firm has doubled the number of methane gas burning turbines it’s using without permits | |
Submitted at 04-10-2025, 04:45 PM by sleeppoor | |
Just under four years ago, New York’s third-term governor, Andrew Cuomo, resigned from office in disgrace, forced out by a looming impeachment inquiry led by his own Democratic Party over sexual harassment and Covid mismanagement scandals.
Shockingly, however, Cuomo has entered the New York City mayoral race and catapulted directly into the polling lead, with the help of his widespread name recognition—and some journalists willing to lend a hand to his image rehabilitation campaign. While some local papers have been scathing in their coverage of the ex-governor, the New York Times seems to be largely buying what Cuomo’s selling. | |
Submitted at 04-10-2025, 03:34 PM by sleeppoor | |
Ekko Astral’s Liberation Weekend aims to fight eroding support for the community, even as some companies “don’t want to be associated with this.” | |
Submitted at 04-10-2025, 04:05 AM by sleeppoor | |
Budget carrier Avelo Airlines says it has signed an agreement to fly deportation flights from Arizona starting in May | |
Submitted at 04-10-2025, 02:23 AM by sleeppoor | |
Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home. | |
Submitted at 04-10-2025, 02:37 AM by sleeppoor | |
The U.S. government’s expressed commitment to human rights is routinely undermined by its actual commitment to maintaining America’s global military primacy.
Since the 1970s, Washington has cast itself as a defender of global human rights, when Congress passed laws to bar the U.S. from providing security assistance to human rights violators.
Yet America’s interest in human rights has long been sublimated to the logic of hegemony, from Cold War containment to the Global War on Terror and beyond. Congress has still never successfully voted to block a weapons sale. Today, the myth that American power upholds human rights lies buried beneath the rubble of Gaza.
This research brief traces the emergence of human rights within U.S. foreign policymaking in the waning decades of the Cold War — alongside Washington’s rise to the top of the global arms trade — and surveys the various U.S. government efforts to codify human rights considerations in the practice of U.S. foreign policy, particularly arms sales, through the Biden administration. This history reveals how American leaders, regardless of political party, have consistently instrumentalized human rights concerns to target perceived adversaries, while tossing aside such concerns when they apply to U.S. partners. | |
Submitted at 04-10-2025, 01:55 AM by sleeppoor | |
China tariffs will go up to 125 percent while other countries get a 90-day reprieve. | |
Submitted at 04-09-2025, 09:24 PM by Mordant | |
A retired judge from São Paulo, Brazil, has been indicted on suspicion of ideological falsehood and use of a forged document. According to the charges, the deception of Edward Albert Lancelot Dodd-Canterbury Caterham Wickfield—who claimed to be of British descent—lasted more than four decades.
The state Public Prosecutor’s Office maintains that the judge’s real name is José Eduardo Franco dos Reis. He had been using documents under the false name since 1980, gaining admission to law school at USP and passing a judicial exam under that identity. He retired in 2018. | |
Submitted at 04-09-2025, 08:42 PM by sleeppoor | |
Forty-one anti-protest bills in 22 states have been introduced since start of 2025, according to law tracker | |
Submitted at 04-09-2025, 07:19 PM by sleeppoor | |
The administration has increased surveillance flights over Mexico as it tries to track the powerful cartels that dominate the fentanyl trade. | |
Submitted at 04-09-2025, 06:28 AM by sleeppoor | |
A decade ago, it was easy to believe US identity was a settled question. Now, as our institutions acquiesce to barbarism, the US’s promise has been traded for chaos | |
Submitted at 04-09-2025, 04:09 PM by sleeppoor | |
Submitted at 04-09-2025, 02:14 AM by sleeppoor | |
Businesses were already bracing for a crash. Then came another 50% tariff on Chinese goods. | |
Submitted at 04-09-2025, 01:59 AM by sleeppoor | |
U.S. President Donald Trump signed executive orders on Tuesday that aim to boost coal production in his latest action that runs counter to global efforts to curb carbon emissions.
Have to power A.I. somehow. | |
Submitted at 04-09-2025, 01:52 AM by Grief Bacon | |
Submitted at 04-08-2025, 08:28 PM by sleeppoor | |
Attorneys for student Yunseo Chung asked a judge to make public materials related to a federal search warrant to determine whether government officials “provided incorrect or false information” to obtain it. | |
Submitted at 04-08-2025, 08:27 PM by sleeppoor | |
The festival was scheduled for April 27, expected to draw the estimated 15,000 revelers who have made it one of the largest carnavals on the East Coast. | |
Submitted at 04-08-2025, 08:24 PM by sleeppoor | |
Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from a spring break trip with his family. | |
Submitted at 04-08-2025, 03:49 PM by sleeppoor | |
Submitted at 04-08-2025, 03:28 PM by sleeppoor | |

Jillian Lauren treated for non-life-threatening wound after incident where officers searched for hit-and-run suspects
Advocacy group says the firm has doubled the number of methane gas burning turbines it’s using without permits
Just under four years ago, New York’s third-term governor, Andrew Cuomo, resigned from office in disgrace, forced out by a looming impeachment inquiry led by his own Democratic Party over sexual harassment and Covid mismanagement scandals.
Shockingly, however, Cuomo has entered the New York City mayoral race and catapulted directly into the polling lead, with the help of his widespread name recognition—and some journalists willing to lend a hand to his image rehabilitation campaign. While some local papers have been scathing in their coverage of the ex-governor, the New York Times seems to be largely buying what Cuomo’s selling.
Ekko Astral’s Liberation Weekend aims to fight eroding support for the community, even as some companies “don’t want to be associated with this.”
Budget carrier Avelo Airlines says it has signed an agreement to fly deportation flights from Arizona starting in May
Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.
The U.S. government’s expressed commitment to human rights is routinely undermined by its actual commitment to maintaining America’s global military primacy.
Since the 1970s, Washington has cast itself as a defender of global human rights, when Congress passed laws to bar the U.S. from providing security assistance to human rights violators.
Yet America’s interest in human rights has long been sublimated to the logic of hegemony, from Cold War containment to the Global War on Terror and beyond. Congress has still never successfully voted to block a weapons sale. Today, the myth that American power upholds human rights lies buried beneath the rubble of Gaza.
This research brief traces the emergence of human rights within U.S. foreign policymaking in the waning decades of the Cold War — alongside Washington’s rise to the top of the global arms trade — and surveys the various U.S. government efforts to codify human rights considerations in the practice of U.S. foreign policy, particularly arms sales, through the Biden administration. This history reveals how American leaders, regardless of political party, have consistently instrumentalized human rights concerns to target perceived adversaries, while tossing aside such concerns when they apply to U.S. partners.
China tariffs will go up to 125 percent while other countries get a 90-day reprieve.
A retired judge from São Paulo, Brazil, has been indicted on suspicion of ideological falsehood and use of a forged document. According to the charges, the deception of Edward Albert Lancelot Dodd-Canterbury Caterham Wickfield—who claimed to be of British descent—lasted more than four decades.
The state Public Prosecutor’s Office maintains that the judge’s real name is José Eduardo Franco dos Reis. He had been using documents under the false name since 1980, gaining admission to law school at USP and passing a judicial exam under that identity. He retired in 2018.
Forty-one anti-protest bills in 22 states have been introduced since start of 2025, according to law tracker
The administration has increased surveillance flights over Mexico as it tries to track the powerful cartels that dominate the fentanyl trade.
A decade ago, it was easy to believe US identity was a settled question. Now, as our institutions acquiesce to barbarism, the US’s promise has been traded for chaos
Businesses were already bracing for a crash. Then came another 50% tariff on Chinese goods.
U.S. President Donald Trump signed executive orders on Tuesday that aim to boost coal production in his latest action that runs counter to global efforts to curb carbon emissions.
Have to power A.I. somehow.
Attorneys for student Yunseo Chung asked a judge to make public materials related to a federal search warrant to determine whether government officials “provided incorrect or false information” to obtain it.
The festival was scheduled for April 27, expected to draw the estimated 15,000 revelers who have made it one of the largest carnavals on the East Coast.
Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from a spring break trip with his family.