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In the face of growing international concern about reported detentions and killings of gay men in Chechnya, Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman says the Kremlin does not have confirmed information on the targeted violence. The respected Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported this month that police in the predominantly Muslim republic rounded up more than 100 men suspected of homosexuality and that at least three of them have been killed.
In two strongly worded letters to the new Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, almost 80 United States legislators on Friday expressed their grave concern at the risks facing activists who defend their land and the environment in Honduras. A recent Global Witness report exposed how more than 120 land rights defenders have been killed since 2010.
The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles denied Chris Bontrager's first request in February without citing a specific reason. The bureau's denial letter to Bontrager noted the agency could refuse a personalized plate if it had a connotation offensive to good taste or decency, was misleading or deemed improper.
Fifty years ago, give or take a few weeks, subscribers to the quarterly Leftist journal Partisan Review were just settling down with the Winter 1967 edition - accompanied, one imagines, by a nice dry martini and a freshly-opened pack of Chesterfields . That edition of Partisan Review featured a symposium in which sixteen luminaries of the period offered their answers to the question: "What's happening to America?" Among those luminaries was Lefty activist, writer, and lesbian Susan Sontag.
Here is something you don't see every day; the truth about the horrors of communism and the evil Cuban dictatorship being told on an American college campus. Though most consider communism to be a thing of the past, speakers from "Castro's Legacy and the Future of Cuba," a luncheon panel that was open to all University students on Wednesday in the LSU Student Union, pushed this idea aside.
To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: FILE - In this March 6, 2017 file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks in Washington. Christopher Anders, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a complaint against Sessions with the Alabama State Bar over his testimony during his Senate confirmation process regarding contact he had with Russia.
A career in journalism and advocacy that spans half a century has not only equipped 82-year-old feminist icon Gloria Steinem with a trove of accomplishments and wisdom, but also with a disarming sense of humor. Despite the seriousness of her decades-long fight for women's rights and gender equality, Steinem drew outbursts of laughter and applause from the some 400 people gathered Monday morning at the Mission's Brava Theater.
Berta Caceres's mother, Austra Berta, a powerful woman is pictured here with the author. Berta Caceres was shot and killed in the middle of the night by assassins for opposing an illegitimate hydroelectric project which threatened her people's way of life and violated international human rights law.
Bill Ayers first achieved notoriety as a leading voice in 1960s radical-left groups such as Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground. Now 72, he's spent his life involved in activism, particularly eduction reform, while teaching at the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Dying in foreign lands in the service of a nation that enshrines freedom of religion in its Constitution doesn't cut any mustard with the irreligious Left. Alarmed by the presence of a crche complete with three Wise Men last Christmas on the grounds of the U.S. Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, the American Civil Liberties Union has joined forces with the oxymoronically-named Military Religious Freedom Foundation to put the camp's commanders in hot water.
Today, February 25th marks the 23rd commemoration of the Ibrahim Mosque Massacre in Hebron. "On February 25 1994, a US-born Israeli military physician walked into the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron armed with a Galil assault rifle.
Inside one of America's raucous town hall events, where Republican Senators are feeling the heat from anti-Trump organizers Republican U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy speaks during a town hall meeting in Metairie, Louisiana, U.S. February 22, 2017. Many in the 200-strong crowd packed into a library meeting room in Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans, on Wednesday weren't listening to Cassidy plod through PowerPoint slides about his new Patient Freedom Act of 2017, a "comprehensive replacement" bill for the Obama administration's Affordable Care Act, co-written with three other GOP senators.
Fox News personalities are attempting to downplay the huge number of constituents that are attending town hall events held by their members of Congress as "manufactured" and "paid-for," and advocating for the cancellation of events because progressive groups are "activating people to turn out and cause a raucous." Wall Street Journal : "Members Of Congress Are Preparing To Confront A Wave Of Activism When They Return Home To Their Districts."
Over the past decade, the U.S. supplied an industrial chain said to involve slave labor, human rights violations and environmental destruction in Africa with $315 million in taxpayer-supported credit . Between 2007 and 2015, the US Export-Import Bank provided 48 insurance policies to the New Jersey-headquartered Connell Company to pursue deals with at least 17 mining companies in seven sub-Saharan countries.
These days it's virtually impossible to log on to Facebook or Twitter without a discussion unfolding around politics. In fact, it's become common for people to take "breaks" from social media to limit their exposure to constant political controversies and social issues.
Trump's pick to safeguard the environment may seem more normal than his boss but he still holds anti-science views With the nonstop drama regarding President Donald Trump's Russia connections hogging the headlines, it's easy to overlook the fact that Senate Republicans are still rubber-stamping the den of crooks and conspiracy theorists Trump is drawing from to stock his Cabinet. Early nominees like Betsy DeVos and Jeff Sessions, who managed to sneak in before stories about secret phone calls to Russia took over the headlines, encountered some pushback and protest, and were confirmed by narrow party-line votes.
He was the same guy we've watched since he came down that escalator on June 16, 2015. Heck, he was the same guy we watched at WrestleMania 23, body slamming Vince McMahon and shaving his head in front of 80,000 screaming fans at Michigan's Ford Field.
The developer of the Keystone XL pipeline said Thursday that it is once again seeking state approval for a route through Nebraska. The Canadian company's previous attempts to start construction in Nebraska have been thwarted by activists and some landowners who worry that it could damage property and contaminate groundwater supplies.
It's a pattern that experts say will likely continue with the revelation this past week that, since 2011, officials at a military prison in Syria have summarily executed as many as 13,000 people by hanging. Amnesty International, which documented the killings, concluded that they were part of a systematic government policy, and constituted crimes against humanity.
The American Civil Liberties Union advises not opening your door unless the agents can show a warrant signed by a judge. What to do if immigration officers come knocking at your door The American Civil Liberties Union advises not opening your door unless the agents can show a warrant signed by a judge.