Thousands seeking to escape poverty and hunger in their own country remain encamped under and near a bridge in Del RioHaitian migrants seeking to escape poverty, hunger and hopelessness in their home country said they would not be deterred by US plans …
Mystery deepens as police search for fiance of missing Gabby Petito
Police in Florida look for Brian Laundrie in vast nature reserveMissing woman, 22, last contacted family from WyomingPolice in Florida have searched a vast Florida wildlife reserve for 23-year-old Brian Laundrie, a person of interest in the disappearan…
Texas doctor protests abortion law by admitting he carried out procedure
Alan Braid writes column for Washington PostTexas law shows fragility of women’s rights, say activistsProtesting a Texas law which outlaws abortion after six weeks of pregnancy and empowers citizens to sue providers and anyone who helps them, a San Ant…
‘They screwed up our lake’: tar sands pipeline is sucking water from Minnesota watersheds
The Anishinaabe people are rallying to save their lakes and their traditional wild rice harvestsAlong the eastern boundary of the White Earth Indian Reservation in north-western Minnesota, Indigenous Anishinaabe wild rice harvesters Jerry and Jim Libby…
Fears of US government shutdown as debt ceiling game of chicken begins
If neither side budges, US risks default on debt and lowered credit rating, which would cost billionsTop Democrats are expected to dare Republicans to block a stopgap funding measure, which would trigger the double-barreled fiscal crisis of the US defa…
Father to 15 children … but were any of blues star BB King’s offspring his?
A new biography says paternity would have been impossible for the musician because he was sterile due to illness and an accidentBB King was born into poverty in Jim Crow Mississippi and raised on a cotton plantation before becoming a street busker then…
Making waves in the Pacific: how Boris Johnson’s Global Britain went rogue
Defence pact with Australia and the US increases chance of confrontation with China and spurs nuclear proliferationLife got a little more dangerous last week. It wasn’t due to the pandemic or the climate crisis. It was entirely the result of the consci…
California recall vote show Trump’s big lie is now Republican playbook
Pre-emptively branding as rigged an election you are likely to lose risks turning off GOP voters and undermining democracyIt was a pre-emptive strike against truth by some of the biggest names on the American right wing.Former president Donald Trump wa…
Washington DC rally in support of 6 January rioters falls short of expectations
Police prepared for the event near the Capitol building, but only a few hundred attended as GOP politicians and pro-Trump groups distanced themselvesWashington DC prepared for a rally on Saturday in support of those arrested for storming the Capitol on…
US to fly Haitian migrants back after thousands gather at Texas border
Plan will likely involve five to eight flights a day, with San Antonio potentially among departure citiesHow thousands of Haitians ended up at the Texas borderThe Biden administration on Saturday was working on plans to send many of the thousands of Ha…