Does ‘cancel culture’ help or hinder free speech?
Today on The Stream: Has the line between accountability and censorship blurred with the rise of cancel culture?
Simultaneous explosions by Israeli military destroy buildings in the West Bank – NBC News
- Simultaneous explosions by Israeli military destroy buildings in the West Bank NBC News
- Israeli military sets off massive explosions, destroying buildings in Jenin The Washington Post
- Updates: Israel attacks Jenin buildings, Netanyahu to US for Trump talks Al Jazeera English
- IDF takes out 50 terrorists, arrests over 100 in West Bank op. The Jerusalem Post
- Live: Israel’s military destroys ‘several buildings’ in West Bank’s Jenin FRANCE 24 English
Labour attacks Badenoch ‘shambles’ after breach of corporate rules
Tory leader forgot to register as controller of party’s companies until error was pointed out last week
Labour has called Kemi Badenoch a “shambles” after it emerged she forgot to register as controller of the Conservative party companies in a breach of corporate rules.
Badenoch, a former business secretary, became Conservative leader on 2 November but her predecessor Rishi Sunak was still registered as the controller of the party’s companies until the party was notified of the error last week.
Continue reading...Tributes paid to two children killed in car collision in Essex
Police say man and woman arrested over alleged hit-and-run in Pitsea remain in custody
Tributes have been paid to two children who died after an alleged hit-and-run in Essex.
Police said officers received reports that a girl and a boy had been involved in a collision with a car on Ashlyns, in Pitsea, near Basildon, at about 6.25pm on Saturday, and that the car had failed to stop at the scene.
Continue reading...Thousands flee homes as floods hit Australia
Meteorologists say these could be the worst floods to hit northern Queensland in 60 years.
Israel and Hamas complete fourth prisoner-captive exchange
Israel and Hamas complete their fourth prisoner-captive exchange as part of phase one of the ceasefire agreement.
Israel carries out massive simultaneous explosions across Jenin
Israel has carried out several simultaneous explosions in the Jenin refugee camp, destroying as many as 20 homes.
Rafael Grossi: Is the world edging closer to nuclear conflict?
IAEA chief Rafael Grossi on nuclear threats, global tensions, and the future of atomic security.
Ghost of Campbell Newman haunts early days of Crisafulli government
Dumped commitments, lack of transparency and an absence of accountability are the hallmarks of the Queensland LNP government so far
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One hundred days on from the Queensland election, the new Liberal National party has a problem of its own making.
Two strategies won David Crisafulli’s party power in October. The first was to convince the state there was a youth crime crisis, then promise hardline responses.
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Continue reading...Trump’s order targeting pro-Palestinian protests mirrors rightwing blueprint
New fact sheet bears similarity to Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther, which aims to quash US support of Palestine
Critics warn that a new executive order from Donald Trump’s administration purporting to “combat antisemitism”, and a corresponding fact sheet suggesting deporting international students who protest Israel, could chill political speech on campuses.
The fact sheet released before Trump signed the order on Wednesday quoted the president as saying: “To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you. I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.”
Continue reading...Bloomberg: For the first time, Russia’s fuel output in doubt as Ukrainian drones hit three key refineries – Euromaidan Press
- Bloomberg: For the first time, Russia’s fuel output in doubt as Ukrainian drones hit three key refineries Euromaidan Press
- Ukrainian drone strikes trigger fires at major oil and gas facilities in Russia Reuters
- Ukraine strikes a major Russian oil refinery for a second time in 3 days, an official says ABC News
- Lukoil Refinery and Gazprom Plant Hit by Massive Ukrainian Drone Attack OilPrice.com
- Ukrainian Drone Surge Highlights Russian Oil Refining Risk Bloomberg
Watch: Punxsutawney Phil makes Groundhog Day weather prediction
People gathered for the annual Groundhog Day winter forecast in the town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.
Watch: Punxsutawney Phil makes Groundhog Day weather prediction
People gathered for the annual Groundhog Day winter forecast in the town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.
Luis Rubiales to go on trial in Spain over Jenni Hermoso kiss at World Cup
Spanish football federation’s former president is accused of sexual assault and coercion over incident in 2023
Spain’s former football chief Luis Rubiales will go on trial in Madrid on Monday over the unsolicited kiss he planted on the World Cup winner Jenni Hermoso, a gesture that stunned millions of TV viewers and unleashed a backlash against sexism in sport.
Rubiales, 47, is accused of sexual assault as well as coercion after allegations that he tried to force Hermoso, 34, into publicly declaring that the kiss, which occurred as she celebrated her team’s victory in the 2023 World Cup in Australia, was consensual.
Continue reading...‘Very retaliatory’: the federal workers caught up in Trump’s DEI purge
Employees condemn ‘unprecedented and scary’ effort to push out those who had worked on diversity programs
Jeremy Wood thought he was safe from the shuttering of federal government diversity initiatives that he expected to start as soon as Donald Trump was sworn in.
A Raleigh, North Carolina-based career civil servant in the US agriculture department, Wood had been among those tasked with implementing policies ordered by Joe Biden to curtail discrimination on the basis of race, sexual orientation and gender identity in the federal government.
Continue reading...Israel’s Netanyahu travels to US to discuss Gaza ceasefire with Trump
Trump, who has claimed credit for the Israel-Hamas deal, is expected to host Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday.
After US weapons ravaged Gaza’s hospitals, US doctors can’t remain silent
Gaza’s health care facilities have been targeted repeatedly, including with US-made 2,000-pound bombs. We must speak up.
Pressure grows on EU to freeze minerals deal with Rwanda over DRC fighting
Belgium leads calls for suspension of agreement after Rwanda-backed rebels captured city of Goma
The EU is under mounting pressure to suspend a controversial minerals deal with Rwanda that has been blamed for fuelling the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Calls to freeze the agreement have grown after fighters from the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group captured the city of Goma in the eastern DRC, escalating a decades-old conflict and raising fears of a regional war.
Continue reading...Netanyahu flies to US to discuss ‘victory over Hamas’ with Trump
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is on his way to Washington DC
Exonerated environmental defenders to face murder retrial in El Salvador
Critics decry ‘politically motivated’ decision to revisit civil war-era charges against leaders of anti-mining campaign
Five Salvadorian environmental defenders who were exonerated of bogus civil war charges will face retrial this week amid growing evidence of political interference.
Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García, Pedro Antonio Rivas Laínez, Antonio Pacheco and Saúl Agustín Rivas Ortega, were acquitted in October over the alleged killing of an army informant in 1989. The court in Cabañas in northern El Salvador ruled that the state had failed to prove a crime had taken place, or that the defendants, former leftwing guerrilla fighters, were linked to any wrongdoing.
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