Mark Poynting Climate reporter, BBC News Noaa/Reuters Hurricane Milton, in October 2024, was one of the Atlantic’s strongest recorded storms The coming Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be busier than usual, US science agency NOAA has warned, just as cuts to American research are raising fears about the ability to track and prepare for...
Watch: ‘Turn the lights down’ – how the Trump-Ramaphosa meeting took an unexpected turn Donald Trump has proved to be the political Rottweiler of right-wing Afrikaner groups, taking their fight to South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa. They were quick to celebrate the US president’s ambush of Ramaphosa in the Oval Office, with the Solidarity Movement...
Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut urged a federal judge to consider holding the officials in contempt of court. Democratic U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut on Tuesday urged a federal judge to consider holding U.S. officials in contempt of court following the Trump administration’s alleged deportation of multiple immigrants from Southeast Asia to South Sudan,...
Did you vote for this? Because I ain’t gonna lie … I voted for this. For months, South Africa has tried to paint Israel as genocidal for fighting the war Hamas and the Gazans started on October 7. That began a rift with the US that has sharply accelerated since Donald Trump took office, who...
US President Donald Trump confronted his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, over widely discredited claims of a white genocide in South Africa, during an Oval Office meeting on Wednesday. Mr Trump said that white farmers are “fleeing South Africa”, playing footage to the room showing people chanting “kill the Boer, kill the farmer”. Responding, Mr...
The US has selected a design for the futuristic “Golden Dome” missile defence system, says US President Donald Trump, adding that it will be operational by the end of his time in office. Just days after returning to the White House in January, Trump unveiled his intentions for the system, aimed at countering “next-generation” aerial...
The police watched us. The march leaders chanted, “Tell me what democracy looks like!” We answered, “This is what democracy looks like!” Ducking under signs and umbrellas, I saw us, the left, grim-faced and determined. The gray sky and rain added a heaviness. I pivoted and noted the absence of Black New Yorkers. Where were...
President Trump signed a bill against revenge porn into law today at a White House ceremony. It’s called the “Take It Down Act” because in addition to criminalizing revenge porn it also requires social media companies to remove images posted without consent within 48 hours. The Take It Down Act makes publishing such content illegal,...
I’m not sure exactly what the date was that the Democrats decided to make “defending democracy” their main line of attack on Donald Trump. Was it in 2015, 16, or 17? Certainly, it was before or during his first term, and we have been absolutely bombarded with claims that Trump is a fascist and an...
US President Donald Trump says Russia and Ukraine will “immediately” start negotiating towards a ceasefire and an end to the war after a two-hour phone call with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Trump, who described the conversation as having gone “very well”, also said conditions for peace would need to be negotiated between the two parties....
The US Supreme Court has said it will allow the Trump administration to terminate deportation protections for some 350,000 Venezuelans in the US. The ruling lifts a hold that was placed by a California judge that kept Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in place for Venezuelans whose status’ would have expired last month. Temporary Protected Status...
As theories go, this is certainly … one of them. And it’s certainly possible that Peter Baker is correct, but it’s neither as neat nor as compelling a case as he lets on. The New York Times chief reporter at the White House told MSNBC’s Alex Witt on Saturday that the tapes really just rehash...
The U.S. is headed into what forecasters expect to be one of the hottest summers on record, and millions of people across the country will struggle to pay their power bills as temperatures and energy costs rise. A 2023 national survey found that nearly 1 in 4 Americans were unable to pay their full energy...
For the six years Marina, 35, had no valid driver’s license, she felt constant fear when behind the wheel. She would limit her travels to what was strictly necessary, forgoing professional, educational and leisure opportunities. “I felt persecuted and had too much fear,” she told Truthout in Spanish. “It was something that impacted all of...
The news was met with criticism, with several observers calling it part of a plan to carry out ethnic cleansing. A plan reportedly under consideration by the Trump administration to send up to one million Gazans to the divided country of Libya was met with criticism on Friday and Saturday, with several observers calling it...