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My generation was raised wondering how ordinary people could countenance an atrocity. In a grotesque twist, the question has circled back to usThe question keeps gnawing at me: Could this really be it? Could we be living through a genocide?Outside Israel, millions already know the answer. But many of us here can't - or won't - say it aloud. Perhaps because the truth threatens to unmake everything we believed about who we are, and who we wanted to be. To name it is to admit that the future will require reckoning - not just with our leaders, but with ourselves. But the cost of refusing to see is even higher.Yuli Novak is the executive director of B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories Continue reading...

Demonstrators say diner great for anti-Tesla protesters' - but Musk fans and curious tourists have also stopped byElon Musk's retro-futuristic" Tesla Diner in Hollywood has become a new flashpoint for the Tesla Takedown" movement, with dozens of protesters picketing the diner last weekend alongside inflatable tube figures of Musk performing a Nazi salute.The viral popularity of the new diner, which is surrounded by 80 Tesla charging stations and two giant movie screens, has sparked out-the-door lines, massive traffic jams, and two angry protests, all within its first week of operation. Continue reading...

From the Washington Post to CBS, companies are caving to Trump. This is how democracy diesThe latest casualty of Donald Trump's efforts to silence media criticism is Eduardo Porter, one of the most thoughtful and intelligent critics of his heinous regime.On Tuesday, Porter wrote his last column for the Washington Post. In a widely circulated email, he explained why he was leaving the Post:Jeff Bezos and his new head of Opinion are taking the paper down a path I cannot follow, directed toward the relentless promotion of free markets and personal liberties ... I have no idea to what extent this is driven by Mr Bezos' fear of what Donald Trump could do to his various business interests, most of which are more valuable to him than The Post."As someone who has always been a proud employee of this network, I am offended. And I don't know if anything will ever repair my trust in this company ... I believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles. It's a big fat bribe. Because this all comes as Paramount's owners are trying to get the Trump administration to approve the sale of our network to a new owner, Skydance."Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com. His next book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, will be out on 5 August Continue reading...

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Republicans enacted the largest cuts to healthcare in US history, and fulfilled decades of conservative rhetoricThe US's largest public health insurance programs, Medicare and Medicaid, turn 60 years old on Wednesday - a birthday that will be celebrated only weeks after Republicans enacted the largest cuts to healthcare in the nation's history.Passed in the civil rights era, the sister health insurance programs served as tools for the Democratic president Lyndon Johnson to desegregate American healthcare and fight poverty. Continue reading...

Growing wave of uncertainty is freezing investment plans in Mexico, rattling business leaders in the US and abroadA growing wave of uncertainty is freezing investment plans in Mexico, the US's largest trading partner, rattling domestic and foreign business leaders alike.Investors are weighing Donald Trump's decision to impose tariffs on 1 August. The plan so far - levies on Mexican-made cars, steel, aluminum, metal parts and tomatoes. And they are pondering the push by the Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, to overhaul the country's judiciary in ways critics say undermine legal certainty and could roll back democratic gains. Continue reading...

An app designed to protect its users from dodgy men has been hacked by dodgy men. I wish I could say I'm surprisedHelp me out with a question I've been pondering, will you? I'm trying to figure out if there is a single adult on Earth whose personal information isn't for sale somewhere on the darker corners of the internet. Data breaches are a regular occurrence now. We give companies our information; they promise to keep it safe and then they sell it to dodgy third parties or lose it in hacking attacks. There is a website called haveibeenpwned.com where you can check if your email addresses have been part of adata breach. My personal email isin 15ofthem.The latest data breach to hit the headlines is particularly nasty. A popular women-only dating-safety app called Tea lets users compare notes about men to see if they are dating the same person or if anyone has red flags to share. It's a bit like an app version of the popular Are we dating the same guy?" Facebook groups. Last Friday, the company behind Tea confirmed it had been breached. Women have to submit a selfie (to prove" their gender) in order to use the app; an estimated 72,000 images, including 13,000 verification photos and photos of government IDs, have been leaked online. More than 1m private messages have also been leaked.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

No team in the world relies on buildup quite like the newly-formed group of 30 strangers' with teenagers in key positionsFor a goalkeeper under pressure, there's one safe way out: turn away from the opponent, shield the ball with your body and boot it long.A few minutes into the second half against Nashville last weekend, Pablo Sisniega did the exact opposite. Continue reading...

A South Carolina family had forgotten the device on a trip and later found the clips uploaded to their cloud accountA Delta Air Lines employee stole a computer tablet left behind on a plane by a South Carolina child, then used it to record sexually explicit videos of himself - which saved to cloud storage and were discovered by the minor's parents, a recent federal lawsuit alleges.The child's parents, Tory and Brooke Brewer, sued Delta in US district court in Charleston on 16 July, saying their family is owed damages for negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress and harassment, among other causes. Continue reading...

As a former NFL player, I've seen up close what brain trauma can do. Shane Tamura's final note echoed a familiar pain while showing how silence, access and neglect can killFour people lost their lives this week in a Manhattan office building, gunned down in a place I know well, by a man with a rifle and a three-page note blaming football and the brain diseases it allegedly left him with. One of the victims was an off-duty NYPD officer. Another was a Blackstone executive. All were innocent. All were just trying to make it home, and thanks to 27-year-old Shane Tamura, they never did.I've walked through those NFL offices. I've sat in those rooms. I have friends who still work there, people I care about deeply. And on the other side, I've known people and lost people who have suffered with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), not always to death, but to the isolation that comes with it and the slow unraveling of mind, body, and spirit. And I've lost people to gun violence. Too many of us have. Continue reading...

As a boy, dancing felt like freedom. Then came a question that changed everything. From childhood shame to Karl-Anthony Towns memes, this is how softness gets punishedThe first time I danced was with my father. I plucked my bare feet onto his work boots, to my mother's distress, and let his rubber soles guide me into a groove. Hand in hand, we spun through the kitchen as Al Green's Love and Happiness christened my rhythm's baptism.The second time I danced was with myself - and it would be my last. I wrapped my arms around the fleshy part of my waist as Seal's Kiss from a Rose played from the Batman Forever CD in my stereo. Alone in my room, I was OK with the mirror seeing every part of me. I danced like Shirley Temple with Buddy Ebsen. Like my father guided me. The only thing that could have broken my rhythm did. My stepmother filled the doorway, barefoot except for a roach she had stepped on. Continue reading...

The current hand-wringing by Keir Starmer and other western politicians is empty bluster. They knew what was happening all alongWhat have we done? As the UN-backed monitor declares that the worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip", this should have been the question ricocheting between the walls as Keir Starmer met Donald Trump this week. Israel's deliberate starvation of Gaza is, after all, a crime confessed to, designed and implemented in plain sight. Starmer has said the UK will recognise Palestinian statehood if Israel doesn't agree to a ceasefire and a two-state solution, but don't be beguiled: Palestinian national self-determination is an inalienable right, not a bargaining chip, and it's the most symbolic action he could take rather than, say, imposing sweeping sanctions and ending all arms sales. The hand-wringing of western politicians and media outlets will not feed Gaza's emaciated children, any more than it will absolve them of guilt.Israel's leaders have said, explicitly, repeatedly, from the very beginning, that they are deliberately starving Gaza's people. Man-made famine is not something that I've seen in my lifetime," Martin Griffiths, the UN's former humanitarian chief, tells me. On 9 October 2023, Israel's then defence minister, Yoav Gallant, announced a complete siege on [Gaza]: no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel", justified on the grounds: We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly". The next day, the Israeli general charged with humanitarian affairs in Gaza and the West Bank - Ghassan Alian - declared that the citizens of Gaza" were human beasts" who would suffer a total blockade on Gaza, no electricity, no water, just damage. You wanted hell, you will get hell."Owen Jones is a Guardian columnistDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

International non-profit Civicus says sustained attacks on civic freedoms' put US on par with El Salvador and KenyaA group of global civil society organizations have placed the US on a watchlist for urgent concern over the health of its civic society, alongside Turkey, Serbia, El Salvador, Indonesia and Kenya.On Wednesday, a new report released by the non-profit Civicus placed the US on its watchlist following sustained attacks on civic freedoms" across the country, according to the group. Continue reading...

This blog is now closed. Read our latest story hereThe Trump administration must continue reimbursing Planned Parenthood clinics for Medicaid-funded services, a federal judge ruled on Monday, in an escalating legal war between the reproductive health giant and the White House over Republican efforts to defund" Planned Parenthood.Days after Donald Trump signed his sweeping tax bill, Planned Parenthood sued over a provision in the bill that ended Medicaid payments for one year to abortion providers that received more than $800,000 from Medicaid in 2023, such as Planned Parenthood. Continue reading...

Trump suggests Epstein stole' Virginia Giuffre from his Florida club; DoJ asks California to give details of non-citizens on voter rolls. Key US politics stories from Tuesday 29 July at a glanceDonald Trump has spoken about Jeffrey Epstein and his links to the president's Mar-a-Lago club, saying that the late sex offender stole" Virginia Giuffre and other young female staffers when he hired them while they were working at the Florida country club.Trump, who has faced an outcry over his administration's refusal to release more records about Epstein after promises of transparency, made the comments on Air Force One while returning from a trip to Scotland. Trump has attempted to tamp down questions about the case, expressing annoyance that people are still talking about it six years after Epstein died by suicide while awaiting trial, even though some of his own allies have promoted conspiracy theories about it. Continue reading...

Top justice department official confirmed 50-49 despite claims that he advocated for ignoring court's ordersThe Senate on Tuesday confirmed Emil Bove, a top justice department official and former defense attorney for Donald Trump, to a lifetime seat on a federal appeals court, despite claims by whistleblowers that he advocated for ignoring court orders.The vote broke nearly along party lines, with 50 Republican senators voting for his confirmation to a seat on the third circuit court of appeals overseeing New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and the US Virgin Islands. Continue reading...

Lawsuit alleges protesters made antisemitic threats with the knowledge and acquiescence' of university officialsThe University of California, Los Angeles, will pay nearly $6.5m to settle a lawsuit by Jewish students and a professor who said the university allowed antisemitic discrimination to take place on campus during last year's pro-Palestinian protests.The lawsuit alleged that with the knowledge and acquiescence" of university officials, protesters prevented Jewish students from accessing parts of campus, and made antisemitic threats. Under the settlement agreement announced on Tuesday, the university admitted it had fallen short" and agreed to pay $2.33m to eight groups that support UCLA's Jewish community, $320,000 to a campus initiative to fight antisemitism, and $50,000 to each plaintiff. Continue reading...

US navy and Australian authorities are conducting search and rescue operations in the Timor Sea after reports of possible sailor overboard'A search-and-rescue mission is under way in the Timor Sea for a US sailor believed to have gone overboard from the USS George Washington on Monday.The aircraft carrier and its carrier strike group are conducting search-and-rescue operations in the sea, after reports of a possible sailor overboard" on Monday afternoon, the US navy said in a statement. Continue reading...

Crescent City ID program will help immigrants and those who are homeless obtain ID proof and access servicesThe city of New Orleans has announced a municipal identification program to provide ID cards to residents who may not be able to access such cards otherwise in a move seen as a positive step for the city's migrant communities as the Trump administration continues targeting undocumented people.The municipal government of New Orleans launched the Crescent City ID program on Monday, which is designed to promote inclusion" in the city. Continue reading...

President says pair fell out because Epstein poached staffers, including Epstein accuser who died in AprilDonald Trump suggested on Tuesday that Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender he socialized with for more than a decade, stole" Virginia Giuffre and other young female staffers whom he hired away from the president's Mar-a-Lago country club.Speaking to reporters onboard Air Force One as he returned to Washington from Scotland, Trump was asked to elaborate on his earlier comments about falling out with Epstein because he took employees from his business. The president said on Monday that he had kicked Epstein out of his club because he did something that was inappropriate" - specifically, that he stole people that worked for me". Continue reading...

Attorneys general challenge request for data of people enrolled in federally funded food assistance programA coalition of 20 state attorneys general filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging the Trump administration's demand that their states turn over personal data of people enrolled in a federally funded food assistance program, fearing the information will be used to aid mass deportations.The data demand comes as the Trump administration has sought to collect private information on mostly lower-income people who may be in the country illegally. It has already ordered the Internal Revenue Service and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to share private information with the Department of Homeland Security to aid in deportation efforts. Continue reading...

The league first publicly accepted there was a link between the sport and the incurable brain disease in 2016 - but still outright denied claimsOn Monday evening, a man brandishing an AR-15-style rifle walked into the east midtown Manhattan office tower where the NFL is headquartered and killed four people before turning the gun on himself.Authorities say the man, 27-year-old Shane Devon Tamura of Las Vegas, traveled to New York days before the incident, and surveillance footage from the Park Avenue address showed him arriving in a suit and tie that concealed body armor. Continue reading...

Epstein associate and convicted sex trafficker's lawyer responds to subpoena from House panel with conditionsGhislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker and associate of Jeffrey Epstein, says that she is willing to testify before Congress but only if certain conditions are met, including being granted immunity, according to a new letter sent to the House oversight committee by her lawyer on Tuesday.Last week, the House committee on oversight and government subpoenaed Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence, to testify via deposition next month at a federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida, where she is currently in custody. Continue reading...

NYPD officer Didarul Islam and Blackstone executive Wesley LePatner among the four killed in Monday's attackAn off-duty New York police officer as well as a high-ranking real estate executive were among those killed on Monday evening during a shooting at a Manhattan high-rise building that left four victims dead and one other person seriously injured, according to officials.The New York police department (NYPD) officer Didarul Islam, 36, who was assigned to a Bronx precinct and had been on the job for three and a half years, was off duty when the attack began. Continue reading...

First minister says there is window of opportunity' as he holds talks with US president at Aberdeenshire golf resortScotland's first minister has urged Donald Trump to exempt scotch whisky from 10% tariffs as the leaders met before a lavish opening ceremony for a second golf course at the US president's Aberdeenshire resort.John Swinney said he believed there was a window of opportunity" to look at the specific tariff, which is believed to be costing the scotch whisky industry 4m a week. Continue reading...

Action tees up a state v state battle involving mailing of abortion pills that's expected to go to US supreme courtTexas has sued a New York official for refusing to take action against an abortion provider, teeing up a state-versus-state battle that is widely expected to end up before the US supreme court.Ken Paxton, Texas's attorney general, has petitioned the New York state supreme court to order a county clerk to enforce a fine against Dr Margaret Carpenter, a New York doctor accused of mailing abortion pills across state lines. Continue reading...

US president has championed his course Turnberry to stage world's oldest major but hosting Scottish Open is more realisticEven a cursory glance towards the scale of this year's Open Championship at Royal Portrush emphasised why ongoing and occasionally fevered chatter about Turnberry staging the world's oldest major is futile. Whether the Turnberry owner was Donald Trump or Donald Duck, its lack of adjacent infrastructure makes it unfit for the Open. The Ayrshire venue, lauded again by its owner Trump during a visit in recent days, is simply incapable of hosting the Open in its present form.This need not be an uncomfortable reality for the US president, who can secure at least a portion of the profile and kudos he desires for Turnberry - one of the world's most outstanding golf courses - from an alternative source. It would, in fact, now be a surprise if Turnberry does not appear on the Scottish Open's rota at some point soon. Mutual convenience is staring us all in the face if Trump can even temporarily accept a prize which sits in the shadow of the championship he has craved since buying Turnberry in 2014. Continue reading...

Some critics allege phrase is coded promotion of eugenics and accuse campaign of being tone deaf'A new ad campaign from American Eagle starring the US actor Sydney Sweeney is meeting backlash, with some critics alleging online that the advertisement's use of the phrase great jeans" is a coded promotion of eugenics.In the campaign, the 27-year-old Euphoria and White Lotus star is dressed in American Eagle denim outfits, accompanied by the tagline Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans". Continue reading...

Trade group says levy will reduce access, disrupt supply chains and cut R&D

A new analysis suggests Donald Trump's tariffs could increase factory costs by 2% to 4.5%As Donald Trump prepares to announce new tariff increases, the costs of his policies are starting to come into focus for a domestic manufacturing sector that depends on global supply chains, with a new analysis suggesting factory costs could increase by roughly 2% to 4.5%.There's going to be a cash squeeze for a lot of these firms," said Chris Bangert-Drowns, the researcher at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth who conducted the analysis. Those seemingly small changes at factories with slim profit margins, Bangert-Drowns said, could lead to stagnation of wages, if not layoffs and closures of plants" if the costs are untenable. Continue reading...

The Epstein files may never be released, but it's increasingly likely that Epstein's right-hand woman could be. The groundwork is already being doneRoll up! Roll up! The Ghislaine Maxwell Rehabilitation Tour is coming to town. You may think Jeffrey Epstein's associate and former girlfriend is now behind bars for good reason but, according to some big brains in the Maga-sphere, poor old Maxwell may have suffered a terrible miscarriage of justice.Maxwell just might be a victim", Newsmax anchor Greg Kelly mused on air recently. She just might be. There was a rush to judgment ... All right, granted, she hung out with Jeffrey Epstein, and I know that's apparently not good, but she's in jail. For how long now? Twenty years."Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

Hernan Castro, a legal US resident and beloved forager in Arizona, is facing deportation over a decades-old drug arrestAs potent monsoon storms awaken a dormant desert around this time each year, Hernan Castro prepares to head for the southern Arizona mountains to forage for mushrooms that are a centerpiece of his life.Castro's passion for mushroom cultivation and ethical harvesting has earned him the nickname mushroom man" in his hometown of Tucson. A self-trained mycology expert and regular fixture at farmers markets, he makes a living leading foraging trips to mushroom-rich places and selling fungi-related products through his online business. Continue reading...

A gunman killed four people at a Manhattan skyscraper that houses the headquarters of the NFL and the offices of several major financial firms before turning the gun on himself, New York officials have said. An NYPD officer identified as Didarul Islam, an immigrant from Bangladesh and a father of two whose wife is pregnant, was among those killed. Jessica Tisch, the New York City police commissioner, confirmed that 'the lone shooter has been neutralised'

As Trump moves to strip over 1 million immigrants of legal status, factories grapple with slowdowns, say employeesDonald Trump's crackdown on immigration is piling pressure on US factories, according to employees and union leaders, as veteran workers from overseas are forced to leave their jobs.As economists warn the administration's full-scale deportation ambitions could ultimately cost millions of jobs, workers at two sites - in Michigan and Kentucky - told the Guardian that industrial giants are grappling with labor shortages. Continue reading...

Elected officials and law enforcement are starting to take threats more seriously in wake of political assassinationsTell Eric Swalwell that we are coming and that we are going to handle everyone. We are going to hurt everyone. We are coming to hurt them."The staff at representative Swalwell's California district office had heard the man's voice before. He had called twice in previous weeks to leave revolting, racist threats against the Democratic congressman and his wife in voicemails, according to an FBI criminal complaint released on Monday. Continue reading...

Within weeks, 400 colleagues joined our organization. We say: it is not too late to save lives. End the genocide nowThe world has stood by as Israel has murdered tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, wounded more than double that number, buried countless more under the rubble and devastated civilian infrastructure. The territory's survivors, displaced repeatedly by the Israeli military, are in a state of enforced starvation and utter precarity. Despite Israel's ban on international journalists, witnesses and victims are livestreaming unbearable images and videos of emaciated children and adults shot while desperately seeking aid. Israeli officials have proposed the construction of what would be concentration camps and the deportation of surviving Palestinians.Motivated by our deep scholarly and ethical engagement with political violence and mass atrocity, including the Nazi genocide of Jewish people, we helped found the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network in April. More than 400 scholars of genocide and Holocaust studies from two dozen countries joined within weeks of its launch. The rapid growth of the group testifies to the urgency of this moment. Today, along with hundreds of humanitarian organizations, dozens of governments, and millions of protesting students and citizens across the globe, we call for immediate concrete measures to prevent further atrocity crimes and to protect civilians. Continue reading...

Jody Plauche was 11 years old when his father Gary shot and killed his accused molester at a Louisiana airport in 1984A child abuse survivor whose father shot his accused abuser to death in plain view of television news cameras in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the 1980s says he suggests parents whose children are molested not to take the law into your own hands and put yourself in a position to be prosecuted".Instead, I would advise [them] ... to be there for their child," Joseph Boyce Jody" Plauche remarked in a new interview that was recently published by People. Continue reading...

Arturo Suarez and others deported in Trump's anti-immigrant crackdown describe dire conditions at CecotArturo Suarez struggles to pinpoint the worst moment of his incarceration inside a prison the warden boasted was a cemetery of the living dead".Was it the day inmates became so exasperated at being beaten by guards that they threatened to hang themselves with their sheets? The only weapon we had was our own lives," recalled the Venezuelan former detainee. Continue reading...

Every company at every stage of the supply chain will try to pass on the cost of US tariffs, as much as possibleBurying the hatchet with Brussels, Donald Trump - flanked by the leader of the European Commission - hailed a bold new era of transatlantic relations, an ambitious economic pact, and declared: This was a very big day for free and fair trade."That was seven years ago. And then on Sunday, the US president - flanked by a different leader of the European Commission - hailed another new era of transatlantic relations, another economic pact and declared: I think it's the biggest deal ever made." Continue reading...

An NYPD officer described as a true blue hero' was among those killed by a 27-year-old from Las Vegas, officials sayA gunman killed four people at a Manhattan skyscraper that houses the headquarters of the NFL and the offices of several major financial firms before turning the gun on himself, New York officials have said.An NYPD officer identified as Didarul Islam, an immigrant from Bangladesh and a father of two whose wife is pregnant, was among those killed. He was working off-hours as a security guard at the time, New York mayor Eric Adams told reporters, describing him as a true blue hero". Continue reading...

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Trump lawyers ask judge to order Wall Street Journal owner to testify within 15 days. Key US politics stories from Monday 28 July at a glanceDonald Trump has asked a US court to order a swift deposition for billionaire Rupert Murdoch in the president's defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal.The US president sued the publication and its owner over a 17 July article asserting that Trump's name was on a 2003 birthday greeting for Jeffrey Epstein, who was later a convicted sex offender. Continue reading...

Hospital reports receiving several patients with gunshot wounds after incident in RenoA gunman opened fire at a Nevada casino on Monday morning, killing three people before being taken into custody, police said.The suspect had no known connection to the victims, police said, adding that the motive is unknown. Continue reading...

Six people pulled from water, with two other kids in critical condition, after crash sends them overboard, officials saidTwo kids were killed and two more are in critical condition after a barge appears to have struck their boat and sent them overboard during a sailing camp in Miami on Monday, authorities said.All six people on the sailing boat were pulled from the water by responders, and four kids were rushed to a nearby hospital where two were pronounced dead upon arrival, said petty officer 3rd Class Nicholas Strasburg, a spokesperson for the US Coast Guard. Continue reading...

In letter, 21 senators say funding to GHF resulted in killings of more than 700 civilians seeking food and violated the lawTwenty-one Senate Democrats are demanding Donald Trump immediately cut funding to a controversial Gaza aid organization they say has resulted in the killings of more than 700 civilians seeking food and violated decades of humanitarian law.The letter, led by senators Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Peter Welch of Vermont, comes as international criticism mounts over the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's operations, arguing that its model shatters well-established norms that have governed distribution of humanitarian aid since the ratification of the Geneva conventions in 1949" by blurring the lines between aid delivery and military security operations. Continue reading...

Several passengers told media outlets that law enforcement officers removed co-pilot from plane in San FranciscoA co-pilot with Delta Air Lines was reportedly arrested by federal agents at San Francisco international airport over the weekend on charges related to child sexual abuse materials, according to a senior official with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and multiple media reports.The arrest reportedly took place shortly after the flight -Delta Flight 2809 from Minnesota - landed at the California airport at about 9.35pm on Saturday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Continue reading...