Author: Justin M. Larson
The families of “Heaven’s 27,” the children and counselors lost at Camp Mystic, pressed the Legislature to toughen flood rules over the objections of some Hill Country camp operators. Source link
Some of President Trump’s pressure tactics appear to have backfired, sending would-be allies into the embrace of China. Source link
Tess Ingram, Communication Manager for UNICEF’s Middle East and North Africa Regional Office, recently spent nine days there, describing it as “a city of fear, flight and funerals.” “The last refuge for families in the northern Gaza Strip is fast becoming a place where childhood cannot survive,” she said, speaking from the enclave to journalists in New York.Children ‘fighting for survival’Nearly a million people remain in Gaza City, where the collapse of essential services is leaving its youngest and most vulnerable residents “fighting for survival” as famine spreads and aid barely trickles in. Only 44 out of 92 UNICEF-supported outpatient nutrition…
While Supreme Court weighs the fate of the former president on charges of plotting a coup, Brazil’s government is preparing for more penalties. Source link
It’s the issue voters cared most about in 2024, and there are signs of trouble. Source link
Hegseth said the move was about “restoring the warrior ethos” in the military. Source link
The measures announced on Thursday target Al-Haq group, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) and Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, in relation to their support of the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, following other sanctions imposed by the US Government in June on renowned Palestinian non-governmental organization (NGO) Addameer.“For decades now, these NGOs have been performing vital human rights work, particularly on accountability for human rights violations,” that is “all the more important when international humanitarian and human rights laws are being violated systematically in Gaza and the West…
The Trump administration failed to tell lawmakers about a 2019 SEAL Team 6 incursion into North Korean territory that went awry. Source link
South Florida grandmother convicted in murder-for-hire killingA South Florida grandmother was convicted of murder on Thursday in the killing of her former son-in-law, a law professor who was shot and killed in 2014 while in a custody battle with his ex-wife.September 5, 2025 Source link
Prince William Charms in Hollywood Cameo; Expert Says Harry Looks ‘Lost’ in Celebrity World Source link
Jeanine Pirro, the top federal prosecutor for Washington, D.C., is embroiled in an ongoing war of words with a magistrate judge who has recently leveled biting criticism against prosecutors for bringing cases he says lack evidence in their attempt to support President Donald Trump’s aggressive crime crackdown in the district.Pirro took aim during a Friday news conference at Judge Zia Faruqui for comments Faruqui made during a Thursday hearing lambasting prosecutors for a recent spate of cases the U.S. attorney’s office has been forced to drop due to grand juries refusing to indict defendants charged with offenses ranging from weapons…
The president is reviving an idea to hold a major diplomatic event at one of his properties. Source link
The Chicago area is bracing for additional immigration enforcement, which could start as soon as Friday, according to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.At a press conference earlier this week, Pritzker said that U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement operations would ramp up in Chicago over the weekend — even as soon as Friday. There could be up to 300 ICE agents, according to local officials.Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker speaks during a press conference, Sept. 2, 2025, in Chicago.Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty ImagesIn response to the added ICE enforcement, city officials from neighboring communities are bracing for the impact of up to the…
“They burned everything,” said one witness of a shelling attack in the Zamzam displacement camp in war-torn Darfur. “They claimed they only wanted to fight soldiers, but they punished the whole community.”The war crimes and human rights violations perpetrated by all parties to the conflict between the military government and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia are documented in the latest report to the UN Human Rights Council, published by the UN’s investigative body probing violations in Sudan, known as the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission (FFM). The report, ‘A War of Atrocities” found that both the Sudanese army (SAF) and the RSF have directed…
Influencer Disappears on Lake Outing; Authorities Question What Really Happened in Her Last Hours Source link
A former Alaska Airlines pilot pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday for trying to shut down the engines of a passenger plane in midair from a cockpit jump seat, prompting an in-flight emergency.Joseph Emerson, 46, reached plea agreements in both his federal and state cases in Oregon stemming from the October 2023 flight, his attorney told ABC News.He pleaded guilty to interference with flight crew members and attendants in federal court in Portland, online court records show.In a court filing on the guilty plea, Emerson said he had used psilocybin, which is found in mushrooms, two days before the…
The dramatic liquidity crisis currently impacting the UN and its global partners has already prevented a high-level human rights probe into the DRC emergency created in February from getting underway.According to testimonies gathered by OHCHR investigators into widespread violence in DRC’s North and South Kivu since January, members of the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel paramilitary group “systematically” carried out widespread sexual violence, including gang rape and sexual slavery.And as M23 fighters captured major cities in North and South Kivu including Goma, “women and girls were disproportionately targeted,” explained OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani, in reference to a Fact-Finding Mission report into the DRC…
Two Democrats on the House China committee noted the use of A.I. by Chinese companies as a weapon in information warfare. Source link
The Jan. 6 rioter seen in photos wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” hoodie inside the U.S. Capitol building has been arrested in Virginia on charges stemming from a dog attack.Robert Keith Packer, 60, was arrested on Thursday “following an investigation into an animal-related incident” that had occurred on Monday in Newport News, a city spokesperson said.The booking photo for Robert Keith Packer.City of Newport NewsPacker was charged with one count of animal attack resulting from owner’s disregard for human life, a felony, the spokesperson said. He was also charged with attacking while at large and no city license, both misdemeanors.Civil charges…
The United States has deployed eight warships, several surveillance planes and one attack submarine to the region as tensions with Venezuela grow. Source link
The Trump administration will seek to remove Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador again if a judge grants his attorneys’ request to reopen his immigration case, according to a copy of a court filing obtained by ABC News.Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran native who had been living in Maryland with his wife and children, was deported in March to El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison — despite a 2019 court order barring his deportation to that country due to fear of persecution. The Trump administration claimed he was a member of the criminal gang MS-13, which his family and attorneys deny.He was brought…
US President Donald Trump during a dinner with tech leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. Will Oliver | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump on Friday threatened to launch a trade investigation to “nullify” what he said were discriminatory fines being levied by Europe against U.S. tech firms such as Google and Apple.”We cannot let this happen to brilliant and unprecedented American Ingenuity and, if it does, I will be forced to start a Section 301 proceeding to nullify the unfair penalties being charged to these Taxpaying…
After a bad employment report in August, President Trump fired the official in charge of the numbers. This month’s data was just as disappointing. Source link
President Donald Trump reacted to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Senate Finance Committee testimony, which came after a week of fast-moving shake-ups at Health and Human Services. Source link
