Year: 2022

Add affirmative action to the growing laundry list of major cases that are on the Supreme Court’s agenda. In addition to abortion rights, Covid mandates, gun rights, and religious freedoms, the high court will also hear […]

Burkina Faso’s Military Overthrows Government

Burkina Faso’s military has removed the country’s president from office, dissolved the government and parliament, and suspended the constitution. The leader of the Burkina Faso coup, Lt. Col Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, signed a statement that […]

Special Grand Jury in Georgia Approved in Trump Election Probe

Georgia judges have granted the request of its top prosecutor to impanel a special grand jury in order to investigate what efforts were made by then-President Donald Trump and his party to overturn Georgia’s 2020 […]

Federal Court Blocks Alabama’s New Congressional Map

A federal court on Monday ruled that Alabama’s newly drawn congressional map violates the Voting Rights Act, and blocked the map from coming into effect. The court cited Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, […]

EU Tells US to ‘Stay Calm’ as Diplomats Evacuate from Ukraine

EU diplomats stressed on Monday they regretted the US decision to evacuate diplomats’ families from Kyiv, stressing it could be interpreted as a sign that the West accepts a scenario of a possible Russian invasion, […]

FDA Ends Use of COVID-19 Monoclonal Antibody Treatments

Stressing that it’s highly unlikely for them to be active against the omicron variant, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has revoked its emergency use authorizations for Regeneron and Eli Lilly’s monoclonal antibodies treatments, […]

Meta to Shape Metaverse with Giant AI Supercomputer

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta announced on Monday that it has created a machine – among the fastest artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputers running today – which it hopes to lay the groundwork for its building of the […]

Boston Hospital Removes Unvaccinated Patient from Heart-Transplant List

Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital has removed a 31-year-old in need of a heart transplant from the transplant list because he refuses to get vaccinated for COVID-19, his parents say. Although DJ Ferguson’s family praised […]

China Sends Largest Warplane Shipment Toward Taiwan in 2022

China flew 39 warplanes toward Taiwan, making it the largest such shipment yet in the new year. The large sortie came among tensions over the future for the self-ruled island. The Chinese warplane formation included […]

Assange Wins First Stage in Effort to Appeal US Extradition

Julian Assange, infamous founder of WikiLeaks, won on Monday the first step of his ongoing effort to overturn a ruling made in the United Kingdom that opened the door for him to be extradited to […]

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WHO Warns Not to Assume COVID Pandemic Reaching ‘End Game’

The World Health Organization (WHO)’s chief warned on Monday that it would be dangerous for the world to assume that the latest Covid variant Omicron would usher in the end of the pandemic’s acutest phase. […]

Kyiv Embassies Begin Sending Staff Home

The State Department has ordered that family members of employees working in the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, to leave the country due to the mounting potential of a Russian military invasion. The UK has […]

UAE Intercepts 2 Ballistic Missiles Over Abu Dhabi

The United Arab Emirates intercepted two ballistic missiles launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The missiles were targeting the capital city Abu Dhabi in the second attack in only a week’s time. The latest aggression further […]

US Forces Deploy AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopters in Syria

For the third day in Syria, clashes continue between Kurdish detachments of the Syrian Democratic Forces, supported by the US, and ISIS militants in the province of Hasakah. Initially, exclusively Kurdish armed groups tried to […]

Iraq to Increase March Oil Supplies

Iraq has scheduled additional oil deliveries to the market in March, taking into account forecasts of high demand, said Ali Nizar, deputy head of state-owned SOMO, Reuters reported. He also stressed that on average, Iraq […]

US Negotiating With Qatar for Possible Gas Supplies to the EU

The US is negotiating with Qatar to supply additional volumes of gas to Europe in the event of a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Financial Times reported. According to FT, Washington is also discussing […]

January 24, 2022 Maja Popovska

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the world is at a critical juncture with coronavirus pandemic entering third year.

Coronavirus Pandemic Brings World at ‘Critical Juncture’: WHO Chief

On Monday, the World Health Organization’s director-general encouraged countries to start working together to end the pandemic’s acute stage, claiming that they now had all the instruments they need, Reuters reports. “The COVID-19 pandemic is […]

January 24, 2022 Maja Popovska

Sanders Urges Lawmakers to Bring ‘Spending Plan’ to Senate Floor

Senator Bernie Sanders said it’s essential for Democrats to abandon Joe Biden’s spending plan and allow senators to vote on elements of the president’s major economic measure before attempting to pass the rest as a […]

January 24, 2022 Maja Popovska

White House Competition Council to convene Monday for second time

White House Competition Council to Convene for the Second Time

The White House Competition Council will convene for the second time on Monday, according to information provided by government agencies, Reuters reports. Officials from two government agencies informed Reuters that their departments intended to attend […]

Houston Deputy Shot Fatally During Traffic Stop

A deputy was shot and killed after he pulled a driver over Sunday morning in Houston, The Hill reports. 47-year-old Corporal Charles Galloway was shot and killed following an attempt to initiate “a traffic stop” […]

Economic Recovery in U.S. Hampered by Surge of Omicron Cases

The economic recovery from the pandemic is being hampered by an omicron-driven rise of coronavirus cases, The Hill reports. The rapid and unprecedented rise in coronavirus infections has slowed consumer spending, prompted layoffs, and pushed […]

New York Times Facing Defamation Trial after Sara Palin Op-Ed

Former Alaska governor and Republican vice-presidential contender in 2008, Sara Palin, has been fighting the New York Times for four and a half years over an editorial she claims unfairly connected her to a tragic […]

Wildfire in Big Sur, CA, Prompts Evacuations, Shut Highways

A 1,500-acre wildfire in the seaside town of Big Sur, California, prompted evacuation orders and forced the closure of a section of a key roadway on Saturday, according to state and municipal authorities, Reuters reports. […]

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Ukraine Receives ‘Lethal’ U.S. Military Aid Cargo

The American Embassy in Kyiv has reported that military supplies to help Ukraine defend itself against a possible Russian attack started to arrive on Friday night, Bloomberg reports. According to a tweet from the embassy, […]

Battered Aircraft Footage Shared by Qatar Airways Amid Airbus Dispute

A video demonstrating the battered exterior of one of Qatar Airways planes that, according to the airline, underscores some serious and legitimate safety concerns, has been released by the airline in the middle of the […]

NYC Mayor Sends Desperate Plea for Gun Reform after Two Cops Shot

After yet another shooting in the Big Apple that left one police officer dead and another clinging to life on Friday night, Mayor Eric Adams has sent a desperate plea to New Yorkers to help […]

China Holds the Line on ‘Zero Covid,’ But Should They?

Is China’s no-tolerance Covid policy unsustainable? China has largely kept Covid at bay since 2020 and is now going to the most extreme lengths yet in order to quell outbreaks in recent weeks. A growing […]

Roe v Wade 49th Anniversary: Analysis

January 22, 2022 marks the 49th anniversary of Roe v Wade. It might be the landmark ruling’s last anniversary. In 1969, Norma McCorvey, who is known in the case as Jane Roe, sought out a […]

UN Passes Holocaust Denial Resolution

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a new resolution aimed at combating Holocaust denial. The resolution, which was put forward by Germany and Israel, agreed on a definition of what the denial of the Holocaust is. […]

January 21, 2022 Elizabeta Bozinovska

U.S. and Russia Meet for Second Round of Ukraine Talks

Top U.S. and Russian diplomats met for a second round of diplomatic talks about the ongoing Ukraine crisis. While there were no major breakthroughs, the two sides agreed to keep the diplomatic channels going and […]