Lander had been escorting a defendant at immigration court when ICE officials swarmed in and handcuffed both of them. Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. Brad Lander, a progressive mayoral candidate for New...
A conservative senator in Colombia was giving a public speech Saturday as part of a run for president when a person in the crowd came up behind him and shot him in the head. Miguel Uribe Turbay is a conservative and a frequent critic of Colombia’s socialist president Gustavo Petro. He survived the attack and...
A Colombian presidential candidate has been shot and seriously injured at a campaign event in the capital, Bogota. Miguel Uribe Turbay, 39, was hit three times – reportedly twice in the head – by a gunman while he was addressing a small crowd in a park on Saturday. Police arrested a man at the scene....
Will Grant Mexico and Central America correspondent Reporting fromCiudad Juárez BBC Silvia Delgado defended the notorious drug lord, El Chapo. Now she’s running for office As drivers sit in traffic near the Bridge of the Americas connecting Mexico with the USA, Silvia Delgado weaves between the cars handing out leaflets. “I’m standing for penal judge,”...
Southampton have identified Lens manager Will Still as their leading candidate for the vacant position at St Mary’s Stadium. The 32-year-old, born in Belgium to English parents, announced last weekend he is leaving French side Lens to move back to the UK. The move is complicated by negotiations that need to take place to free...
Rangers have not as yet established a leading candidate to be their new manager, amid reports Davide Ancelotti is set to be offered the position. Spanish newspaper Marca say the 35-year-old Real Madrid assistant, who is the son of outgoing Bernabeu head coach Carlo Ancelotti, has been identified by 49ers Enterprises, who are in talks...
Political parties are expected to be told that trans women cannot be on women-only shortlists but trans men can. It comes after last week’s Supreme Court ruling that a woman is defined by biological sex under equalities law. Shortlists of candidates that only include women have been used by some parties since the mid-1990s to...
They say writers are their own worst critics – but for the man who could become the next President of Poland, nothing could be further from the truth. Karol Nawrocki has been widely ridiculed after it emerged that several years ago, he donned a disguise to praise his own book on TV. Written by a...
After bringing in $8 million from donors across New York City at a pace never before seen in the city’s elections, mayoral candidate and state Rep. Zohran Kwame Mamdani called on his supporters to shift their focus away from donating money and toward creating “the single largest volunteer operation in New York City history.” “I’m...