
Turkey convicts human rights activists on terror charges
A Turkish court sentenced four Amnesty International activists to between two and six years in prison on terrorism charges in a high-profile trial…
Continue ReadingA Turkish court sentenced four Amnesty International activists to between two and six years in prison on terrorism charges in a high-profile trial…
Continue ReadingTwo police officers in Kansas City, Missouri, were shot in separate incidents on Thursday that left one of them in critical condition. The officers…
Continue ReadingFort Hood Pfc. Vanessa Guillen was bludgeoned to death with a hammer in the armory room where she worked, an attorney for Guillen’s family said…
Continue ReadingWhile you can still attend in-person church services in California, you can’t sing. The state, to curb a rapidly worsening pandemic, has…
Continue Reading“Lift Every Voice and Sing” is not so much a song as a hymn — a call to action that honors African Americans’ long, painful…
Continue ReadingSince its origin three years ago, QAnon has festered in the darker corners of the internet. Now the group’s followers, who call themselves…
Continue ReadingProminent pro-democracy activist Nathan Law pledged Friday to continue to fight for Hong Kong’s democratic future, despite fleeing the city for…
Continue ReadingNathan Law, a former lawmaker and prominent pro-democracy activist, has fled Hong Kong, he announced Thursday on Facebook. The news comes days after…
Continue ReadingCalifornians living in several key Golden State cities could incur hundreds of dollars in fines if they venture out in public without masks.…
Continue ReadingAs America prepares to celebrate a Fourth of July unlike any other, another Covid-19 record has been set: 52,291 new cases were confirmed yesterday.…
Continue ReadingWhen Valeri Hedges was delivering her daughter, Adrienne, she didn’t really notice the face mask she had to wear to protect herself and the…
Continue ReadingAdam Perry is still waiting for the day he can tap dance for eight minutes straight again. The Broadway actor and dancer tested positive for…
Continue ReadingThis October, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov will launch to the International Space…
Continue ReadingA Catholic priest in Indiana has been suspended from public ministry following an incendiary church bulletin that likened protesters to…
Continue ReadingNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un has praised what he described as his country’s “shining success” in curbing the novel coronavirus…
Continue ReadingSouth Korean police have admitted using violence to extract a false confession from a man who spent 20 years in prison for the rape and murder of a…
Continue ReadingIndia has opened one of the largest hospitals in the world to help fight coronavirus, as health authorities announced the country’s biggest…
Continue ReadingAn Alabama pastor has shut down his church after several staff and members tested positive for the coronavirus. Rev. Derek Allen, pastor of First…
Continue ReadingAn Ohio priest who allegedly pretended to be a woman on social media to entice minor male victims has been indicted on child pornography, child…
Continue ReadingAt least 162 people have died and others are feared trapped after a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar’s Kachin State, according to…
Continue ReadingRichard Stitely had spent nearly 30 years on death row when the pandemic hit California’s San Quentin State Prison. Last week, Stitely, 71, was…
Continue ReadingA woman who lost her engagement ring the in waters of Rockaway Beach, New York, thought she would never see it again until she asked for help from…
Continue ReadingThe city of Somerville, Massachusetts, will now recognize polyamorous relationships after the city council voted in favor of a new domestic…
Continue ReadingA 13-ton shipment of beauty products such as weaves suspected to have been made out of human hair was seized on Wednesday by US Customs and Border…
Continue ReadingOne San Antonio police officer repeatedly used the n-word as he arrested a Black man for trespassing at a mall. Another told a man he could go free…
Continue ReadingGhislaine Maxwell, the onetime girlfriend and alleged accomplice of accused sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, was arrested Thursday morning and charged…
Continue ReadingAt least 152 cases of coronavirus are linked to a bar in East Lansing, Michigan, health officials said. The current cases that were traced to…
Continue ReadingAn Aurora, Colorado, police officer under investigation for photos taken near the site where Elijah McClain was placed in a chokehold last August has…
Continue ReadingThe San Francisco Police Department will stop releasing most booking photos, or mug shots, to avoid perpetuating racial bias, San Francisco police…
Continue ReadingA groom died two days after his wedding in eastern India after becoming infected with coronavirus, with 80 people linked to the ceremony testing…
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