Powell helped to build case for 2003 invasion of IraqGeorge W Bush pays tribute to ‘great public servant’ Colin Powell, the former US secretary of state who played a pivotal role in attempting to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq, has died from complic…
UN experts condemn Texas abortion law as sex discrimination ‘at its worst’
Exclusive: human rights lawyer criticizes the supreme court and says new law will ‘make abortion unsafe and deadly’United Nations human rights monitors have strongly condemned the state of Texas for its new anti-abortion law, which they say violates in…
The children of 9/11: haunted by their fathers’ last hours, some dread the anniversary
Children who lost a parent that day share a burden of grief, prying questions and ubiquitous footage of the disaster that killed their parentsRobyn Higley has always hated September. It’s the month when everything bad happens, when her spirits, general…
‘Panic made us vulnerable’: how 9/11 made the US surveillance state – and the Americans who fought back
It took Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers to reveal the staggering extent of the government’s spying on its own people as institutional checks failedOn the morning of 11 September 2001, an 18-year-old was driving his white Honda Civic on the way …
Andrew Cuomo tries to battle on as demands pour in for him to quit
New York governor found to have sexually harassed 11 womenSupport crumbles as state impeachment cogs begin to turnAndrew Cuomo, the governor of New York who was found by the state’s top prosecutor to have violated the law by sexually harassing 11 women…
Andrew Cuomo teeters on the edge of a spectacular fall from grace
Months ago Cuomo was depicted by the media as ‘America’s governor’ – now another side to him that was an open secret in Albany has been officially recognizedIn 2018, as Andrew Cuomo was in the thick of a re-election battle against the Sex and the City …