Miles Davis BBC Devon political reporter George Thorpe BBC News, Devon BBC Tudor Evans said he received the threat from a member of the public The leader of Plymouth City Council has reported a “serious threat of violence” to police. Labour leader Tudor Evans said the threat was made by a member of the public...
Jessie Ebertz held back tears as she stood in front of a makeshift memorial honouring Democratic politician Melissa Hortman and her husband who were killed last week. “Minnesota has felt a little bit like a safe haven,” said Ms Ebertz, a government employee who lives in the state capital, “because we have been able to...
Reuters There were riots across Northern Ireland, including Ballymena Twenty-nine people have now been arrested over violence that erupted in Northern Ireland over the last week and police have warned that there will be further arrests. In total, 64 police officers have been injured in disturbances which started last Monday after a peaceful protest over...
Darran Marshall and Catherine Moore BBC News NI BBC Unison’s Nathalie Donnelly, who works with migrant workers, said they were terrified Demonstrators gathered in Belfast city centre to show support for Northern Ireland’s migrant community following a week of disorder. People in the crowd held signs with slogans such as “racists go home”, “refugees are...
The most obvious thing in the world probably doesn’t qualify as “news” to most HotAir readers but it does to the folks over at NBC News. Today they have a story up about some of the far-left online accounts that are pushing for more violence and destruction from a group of people who have already...
Leftists have a love affair with political violence. It is in the DNA of the movement, which began during the French Revolution. Obviously, modern leftism is not the first political movement to USE violence–at some level, force and politics are intimately tied together, although stable regimes try to reserve the use of violence as much...
Mark Simpson BBC News NI communities correspondent Pacemaker The violence started on Monday night following a peaceful protest in the County Antrim town A dangerous cocktail of factors came together to plunge Ballymena, County Antrim, into hate-filled violence. Within 36 hours of a peaceful protest on Monday evening, 32 police officers had been injured as...
Getty Images Police engage with rioters during a second night of disorder in Ballymena People woke up on Wednesday “feeling genuine fear for their lives and their livelihoods” following mob violence in Ballymena, Assistant Chief Constable Ryan Henderson has said. This comes after two days of violence in which 32 officers were injured and six...
The GOP’s proposed cuts to Medicaid could take away an important lifeline in the effort to combat violence. Despite significant reductions in violent crime since the pandemic, violence and the fear of violence remain a stubborn feature of daily life in too many communities across the U.S. A new strategy of using Medicaid funding to...
The prime minister has been warned he will fail to meet his own target of halving violence against women and girls without significant investment in services, according to two senior government watchdogs. This is the first time Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales Dame Nicole Jacobs and Victims Commissioner for England and Wales Baroness...
This story was originally published by The 19th. Over the last four decades, the United States has built a web of federal policies and funding to address domestic and intimate partner violence, a pervasive health and safety crisis. In just 130 days, the Trump administration has put that safety net in jeopardy. Funding pauses, cuts,...
    Actions, we know, have consequences. And a committed Marxist’s cold-blooded murder of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C. Wednesday night was the natural and inevitable consequence of a conscientious, yearslong campaign to dehumanize Jews and otherize all supporters of the world’s only Jewish state.     Seriously, what...
Sevilla’s first team were forced to spend the night at their training facility on Saturday evening after they were met with “violent attacks” by supporters. A statement released by the club strongly condemned “organised vandalism” at the Jose Ramon Cisneros Palacios training complex after Sevilla’s 3-2 loss at 10-man Celta Vigo. Footage on social media...
As Zimbabwe commemorates 45 years of independence, the spectacle of celebration orchestrated by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in a dilapidated and waterlogged stadium serves as a metaphor for the trajectory of the postcolonial state. The accumulation of rainwater in the cracks of this Midlands venue epitomises not only infrastructural decay but also the consequential runoff from...
Zoya Mateen BBC News, Delhi Auqib Javeed Srinagar, Kashmir UGC Two shawl sellers were assaulted in Mussoorie because of their Kashmiri identity Shabir Ahmad Dar, a resident of Indian-administered Kashmir, has been selling pashmina shawls for more than 20 years. The intricately embroidered featherweight scarves are a favourite with his customers in Mussoorie, a hill...