Angelenos Warned over Toxic Ashes as Tens of Thousands Evacuate New L.A. Fires
In Southern California, another 31,000 people have received mandatory evacuation orders as a new wildfire north of Los Angeles broke out and quickly scorched through 10,000 acres Wednesday. Rights ...
DRC Files Criminal Complaint Against Apple in Europe over Conflict Minerals in Electronics
Belgium appointed a judge this week to investigate a criminal complaint brought last month by the DRC against Apple in France and Belgium, accusing the tech giant of using conflict minerals in their ...
U.N. Chief Warns Israeli Leaders Seeking to Fully Annex West Bank
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that Israeli leaders have turned their attention from Gaza to the West Bank, hoping to annex the territory once and for all. Guterres spoke ...
Trump Names Failed 2017 Labor Nominee Andrew Puzder as Ambassador to E.U.
Donald Trump has named former fast-food CEO and failed 2017 labor secretary nominee Andrew Puzder to be ambassador to the European Union. Puzder was forced to withdraw from consideration as labor ...
Thousands Flee M23 Rebels’ Advance in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, thousands more people have been displaced in recent days after M23 rebels seized the key eastern town of Minova, a main supply route for Goma, the capital of North ...
European Regulators Order Dutch Government to Cut Nitrogen Emissions by 2030
In the Netherlands, climate activists with Greenpeace celebrated Wednesday after a judge ordered the Dutch government to dramatically cut nitrogen emissions by 2030. Greenpeace successfully argued the ...
Palestinians Return to Gaza Neighborhoods Reduced to Rubble by Israel’s Bombs
Humanitarian aid groups in Gaza report more than 3,200 aid trucks have entered the Palestinian territory in the first four days since the ceasefire agreement took effect. Civil defense workers have ...
Trump Redesignates Yemen’s Houthis as Foreign Terrorist Organization
President Trump has redesignated Yemen’s Houthi movement as a terrorist organization. The move reverses Biden’s removal of the terrorist label in February 2021 and reinstates the label first imposed ...
Trump Revokes 6-Decades-Old Ban on Discrimination in Federal Contracting
President Trump has expanded his crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, revoking a 60-year-old executive order, signed by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson, banning hiring discrimination ...
Israeli Troops Surround Hospitals in Jenin, Fire on Medical Workers
In the occupied West Bank, residents of the Jenin refugee camp are reporting constant gunfire and explosions as Israel’s deadly raid entered its third day. Doctors and eyewitnesses say Israeli ...
Trump’s U.N. Ambassador Pick Elise Stefanik Says Israel Has a “Biblical Right” to West Bank
President Trump’s choice to become the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations refused to say Tuesday whether the ...
Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Child in Southern Gaza Despite Ceasefire
In Gaza, Israeli forces shot and killed a 12-year-old Palestinian child in the southern city of Rafah on Monday, in what ...