Day: May 9, 2023

Politically motivated crimes in Germany rose by 7% in 2022

5:13 pm May 9, 2023

The number of politically motivated crimes reported in Germany rose by 7% last year, the country’s top security official said Tuesday. Overall, Germany registered 58,961 politically motivated crimes last year, most of which were for offenses such as damage to property, insults or incitement to hatred, holding illegal gatherings or displaying Nazi symbols. However, 4,043 […]

Spanish Civil Guard arrests 26 people in raids on illegal wells amid drought

5:11 pm May 9, 2023

Spain’s Civil Guard said Tuesday it had arrested 26 people in raids on illegal wells in the Andalusia region, as part of a widening crackdown on unauthorized water use amid a prolonged drought. The Civil Guard’s environmental crimes division said it had identified 250 infractions by fruit farmers including illegal wells and boreholes in the […]

Twitter fact-checks Randi Weingarten for seeming to rewrite history on COVID school closures

4:00 pm May 9, 2023

AFT President Randi Weingarten’s claims that she advocated to reopen schools during the COVID-19 pandemic were called out multiple times by fact-checkers using Twitter’s Community Notes feature, where users pointed to her old rhetoric warning against putting kids back in the classroom. “We worked together 3 years ago to get our kids back to in […]

Biden forced to either use border wall materials or transfer them to states under new GOP bill

4:00 pm May 9, 2023

Senate Republicans introduced a bill Tuesday that would require the Department of Defense to either use the available materials it has to keep building the southwest border wall or transfer those materials to states so that they can do the work. In 2021, the Biden administration decided to stop all border wall construction, a decision […]

US officials attend event whose guest list includes known terrorist responsible for murder of US troops

4:00 pm May 9, 2023

Senior officials with the U.S. State Department appeared at a forum in Iraq that featured a known terrorist as its keynote speaker. Alina Romanowski, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, and Barbara Leaf, the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs, attended and spoke at the Iraq Forum last week, despite the event featuring Qais […]