Day: February 20, 2024

Boston activists call for $15 billion in reparations, says the city must ‘fully commit to writing checks’

1:05 pm February 20, 2024

A group of activists in Boston called for the city to “fully commit to writing checks” and for a $15 billion payout since the city’s wealth was built on slavery. An activist named Rev. Kevin C. Peterson delivered remarks on how the City of Boston should implement reparations at a press conference in Boston’s Roxbury […]

AOC joins critics of NYPD dance team, but for a very different reason

1:01 pm February 20, 2024

The progressive Squad’s Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., joined critics of the New York City Police Department’s dance team – but not over concerns about crime. “How many school music programs got defunded for this,” AOC, who notoriously has supported the defund the police movement, wrote on X. The NYPD’s dance team recently performed live for […]

California ‘lost its mind,’ Ariz. sheriff says, suggests Chinese government ‘complicit’ in migrant deluge

1:00 pm February 20, 2024

As Texas authorities button-up a longtime border influx point at Eagle Pass, the shift of migrant flows to a treacherous mountain in California suggests policies by leaders in Sacramento have failed, one border-county sheriff told Fox News. Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb, a Republican who is also running in the primary to potentially face Sen. […]

Trial begins in Rome for Egyptian security officials accused of student’s abduction and murder

12:43 pm February 20, 2024

Four high-level Egyptian security officials went on trial in absentia before a Rome court on Tuesday, accused in the 2016 abduction, torture and slaying of an Italian doctoral student in Cairo. The parents of the slain student Giulio Regeni, Paola and Giulio Regeni, were on hand for the opening court session and posed outside the […]

Russia arrests dual US-Russian citizen for allegedly trying to raise funds for Ukraine’s military: report

12:11 pm February 20, 2024

Russian authorities on Tuesday have arrested a woman with dual U.S.-Russian citizenship on suspicion of treason for raising funds for Ukraine’s military, reports say. The woman – who has not been publicly identified – was taken into custody in Yekaterinburg, the same city where Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was detained in March last […]