A prince vanquishes a dragon and falls in love. A young girl named Violet works up the courage to give her classmate crush a valentine. Another girl fears she won’t get to see her Uncle Bobby as much after he gets married, but after spending a day with him and his fiancé, she realizes she’s...
Twelve years have now passed since the Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh, one of the deadliest industrial disasters in history. On April 24, 2013, the eight-story Rana Plaza building in Savar collapsed, claiming the lives of 1,134 people and injuring over 2,500 others. The collapse was a product of denied labor rights for heavily exploited...
U.S. Border Patrol arrested and imprisoned a U.S. citizen with learning disabilities in Arizona for over a week earlier this month after he approached an immigration officer asking for help after a medical episode, he has said, contradicting the government’s account of the encounter. As Popular Information has reported, 19-year-old Jose Hermosillo was arrested on...
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation In Gaza, every neighborhood carries traits that foster pride and unity among its residents, each one boasting its own unique qualities, cherished and known by all. One such neighborhood is Shujaiya, which means “courage” in Arabic. It is a place where the people are...
Montreal, Canada — The United States has loomed large over Canada’s upcoming election, with concerns over President Donald Trump’s tariffs and annexation threats dominating much of the campaign. But for many Canadians, another topic has also been front-of-mind in the lead-up to the vote on April 28: Israel’s war on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip....
The academic leaders vowed to resist Trump’s efforts for “retribution, censorship, or deportation.” Hundreds of colleges, universities and scholarly societies in the U.S. have pledged to resist the Trump administration’s “unprecedented” all-out attacks on higher education as the president targets universities with massive funding revocations and other retribution. Over 200 institutions have signed a statement,...
U.S. Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments today in a case regarding religious parents’ objections to their students having to participate in a school district’s LGBTQ-inclusive language arts curriculum. Conservative Christian, Jewish and Muslim parents in Montgomery County, Maryland, sued the public school district, alleging that, because they weren’t allowed to opt their children out...
As green groups honor the 55th annual Earth Day on Tuesday, environmental leaders are highlighting the need to fight back against the detrimental climate policies of U.S. President Donald Trump and his “billionaire allies,” even as they brace for the possibility of further federal action that could hamper the climate movement. Since entering office, Trump...
“How could [my activism] be a threat to anybody except the war machine that is feeding this?” Mahdawi said. Vermont Sen. Peter Welch (D) met with Columbia University activist Mohsen Mahdawi in a Vermont prison on Monday, where the Palestinian student pleaded for peace and urged those advocating for his release to continue fighting for...
Part of the Series Human Rights and Global Wrongs In a shameless attempt to undermine international accountability for accused war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Hungarian President Viktor Orbán graciously hosted the architect of Israel’s 18-month genocide in Gaza on April 3. The International Criminal Court (ICC) is now formally investigating Hungary’s blatant refusal...
“I will continue to fight every day for Mahmoud to come home to us,” Noor Abdalla said, shortly after giving birth. Former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, who was abducted by immigration officials for his activism against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, was barred from attending the birth of his firstborn child on Monday after Immigration...
We speak with Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, just back from El Salvador, where he met Kilmar Abrego García, the Maryland father whom the Trump administration says they forcibly transferred to an El Salvador mega-prison last month by “administrative error.” “We will keep fighting for his constitutional rights, because if we deny the constitutional rights...
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. When a firefighter dies in the line of duty, a small team of federal health workers is often called on to pinpoint what went wrong...
In his final public message, Pope Francis decried the “terrible conflict” in Gaza. The Vatican announced Monday that Pope Francis has died at the age of 88, hours after he appeared at an Easter mass and appealed for an end to Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip. The pope’s Easter address, read aloud by Archbishop...
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation Since Israel’s war in Gaza began in October 2023, a severe cash crisis has become one of the most pressing challenges for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Monetary Authority, Gaza had 56 bank branches and 91 ATMs before the conflict....