Headlines- According to US President Donald Trump, he may issue an order "very soon" to strike Iran's Pickaxe Mountain, which is reported to host nuclear facilities.
- The war in Iran, US President Donald Trump said, is "small potatoes" and "not a big thing" for the United States, as the US has "essentially" taken over Iran.
- In a post on his X account on Thursday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei accused that the US was "deliberately attacking civilian targets".
- According to a Nigerian environmental NGO, an attempt to illegally tap oil from a cargo vessel in the country's south resulted in at least 37 deaths.
- The Israeli police has blocked humanitarian aid from reaching an occupied West Bank village that has been under siege by settlers for weeks, while Israeli police have killed a Palestinian man in Jerusalem.
Tag: US Hate Crime
Hate Crime Investigation into Anti-Semitic Attack
An antisemitic assault on restaurant diners in Los Angeles is being investigated as a hate crime, as analysts worry about recent violence targeting a variety of ethnic and religious groups
Defund NYPD Police
Hundreds of protesters continue to camp out at New York’s City Hall demanding massive budget cuts to the police department. The movement to “defund the police” was ignited by the death of George Floyd in police custody. Floyd‘s death has become a flash point in a larger debate about policing and race
Why Black Lives Matter is Personal...
The death of African Americans while in police custody and the ongoing protests demanding racial justice have had a major impact on most Americans, including immigrants many of whom have had experiences with racism
NYC Roosevelt Statue
Amid anti-racism protests that have been going on in the United States, several controversial statues have been taken down by localities or forcibly removed by protestors. One of the next ones to go will be NYC’s statue of Theodore Roosevelt that has been in front of the American Museum of Natural History since 1939