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On Nov. 25, 2001, two CIA officers discovered a bearded 19-year-old English speaker among a group of captured Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. The bedraggled teen stood out. “Irish? Ireland?” a CIA...
Today marks the eighth anniversary of the coup d’etat in Honduras. On June 28, 2009, former President Manuel Zelaya, who was democratically elected and later embarked on a platform of progressive...
Advocates for immigrants in New York expressed dismay Monday at the Supreme Court’s order implementing parts of President Trump’s travel ban, saying it would sow discrimination against Muslims and...
- Ken Saro Wiwa was a Niger delta activist but fought actively for the emancipation of his Ogoni people in Rivers state - His campaign for the liberation of his people was unbearable to the then...
The partial reinstitution of President Trump's travel ban is leading to confusion for many New Yorkers, who say they're not clear how they'll be affected. NY1's Lori Chung filed the following report...
Gabriel Guzman has dark brown eyes, but it’s difficult to discern when you talk to him. That’s because Guzman, a former Illinois prison inmate, has a hard time maintaining eye contact, one of the...
President Trump is never more excited by policy than when it gives him license to bully someone. His travel ban , an executive order prohibiting travel from seven (then, after a March revision, six)...
The corpses pile up like sandbags along the planet’s geopolitical borders. “Perhaps his condition deteriorated and the authorities decided it was better to release him in a coma than as a corpse.” So...
Dozens of lawyers gathered at the New York City Bar Association's third annual Diversity and Inclusion Conference this week with a similar question: What can we do to help? City bar president John...
