The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Saturday that several militants from Gaza have entered Israeli land. This comes just hours after a barrage of rockets killed one person and hurt at least three others. The terrorist Palestinian group Hamas said it was behind the rocket attack.President Muhammad Al-Deif of Hamas’ military said in a recorded…
People familiar with the situation say the ousted former speaker has made it clear that he plans to stay at least until the election for speaker before ending his time in the House. These people say that the ousted former speaker has made it clear that he wants to stay at least until the speakership…
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, president of Mexico, stated on Friday that the U.S. government does not want to construct new sections of wall along its frontier with Mexico and expressed skepticism that the planned construction would be carried out. “It’s pure publicity,” Lopez Obrador said at a routine morning press conference after the Biden administration…
Friday, the imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless advocacy for women’s rights, democracy, and against the death penalty. Mohammadi, 51, has maintained her activism despite multiple arrests by Iranian authorities and years spent in prison. The death of a 22-year-old woman in police custody prompted nationwide women-led…
Jon Fosse is a master of spare Nordic literature. He has written plays, stories, and children’s books. On Thursday, he won the Nobel Prize in literature for works that “give voice to the unsayable.” The head of the Nobel literature committee, Anders Olsson, said that Fosse’s work is based “in the language and nature of…
More than 75,000 unionized Kaiser Permanente employees, one of the nation’s largest non-profit health providers, walked off the job on Wednesday, marking the largest health care worker strike in U.S. history. The striking employees in California, Colorado, Washington, Virginia, Oregon, and Washington, DC are represented by a coalition of unions that account for 40 percent…
The founder of NewsClick website, Prabir Purkayastha, and another staff member were arrested after raids because they were accused of getting money from outside the country to spread pro-China lies. India’s police have caught a well-known writer and founder of a news website for allegedly getting money from abroad to spread pro-China propaganda. This was…
On Monday, Donald Trump and his family business are scheduled to stand trial in New York in a civil fraud case that could deliver a significant setback to the former president’s real estate empire. Letitia James, the Democratic attorney general of New York, accuses Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, of…
Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was released from a US prison on Wednesday after serving nearly two years for drug trafficking and money laundering. In November 2021, Coronel was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to charges related to her husband’s drug empire. In…