This past Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endorsed a new bill which would allow for the execution of Palestinian prisoners, drawing harsh criticism for further promoting the selective application of punishment in the apartheid state.
According to NPR, hotel chain Motel 6 has agreed to pay $7.6 million following an investigation revealing that multiple locations in its chain shared their guest lists with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. It is not yet known exactly how many people have been arrested and/or deported as a result of the actions of […]
Brian Kemp, the Georgia secretary of state and the Republican candidate of governor in Georgia, has issued a call to investigate the Georgia Democratic Party ahead of the upcoming election. Two days out from a too-close-to-call contest against Stacey Abrams, Kemp alleges that someone attempted to hack voting registration files and pointed to finger at […]
Following a November 4th, 2017 meeting at a swanky Ritz-Carlton hotel in the Saudi Arabian capital of Ridayh, allegations of coercion, torture and blackmail at the meeting have followed the Saudi crown prince Mohammad bin Salman. U.S. officials say that Salman turned the high-class hotel into a prison for rival royals, government officials, and some […]
The fallout from allegations that Andy Rubin, co-founder of Android, Google’s flagship operating system, forced a woman to have oral sex with him in a hotel room continues. According to The Verge, Rubin received a compensatory package from Google worth about $90 million, which the company was not obligated to offer to him. He also […]
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey came to Georgia to campaign for Stacey Abrams, who could become Georgia’s first Black woman governor. Amid the close political race, concerns and allegations have been surging over voter suppression tactics being used by Abrams’ GOP opponent, Brian Kemp, to hinder Black turnout.
A 63-year-old white woman, Deborah Cantwell, has just been reported sending a racist letter to her new neighbors in an Indiana neighborhood, targeting their Black child.
Around 4 p.m. on Sunday, a person with a gun shot four bullets into the Volusia County Republican Party office in South Daytona, Florida. No was killed or injured, but many feel this is yet another example of the uniquely heated political climate ahead of this year’s midterm elections.
On Wednesday, Oct. 24th, George Alan Bush, a 51-year old white man, entered a Kroger grocery store in Louisville, Kentucky and fatally shot two Black people. He reportedly told a white bystander afterwards, “Whites don’t shoot whites.”
Gwinnett County is facing multiple lawsuits stemming from its rejections of 595 absentee ballots, a large number of them by African American and Asian American voters. According to CNN’s analysis of state data, Gwinnett County only makes up around 6% of the absentee ballots in Georgia, but one third of those rejected by the state, and roughly […]
Before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Facebook announced it misled brands by overestimating the amount of time people spent viewing videos. On Tuesday, online marketing agency Crowd Siren filed an amended complaint against Facebook over its inflated video metrics and fraud.
It has been two weeks since the disappearance and possible murder of Washington Post contributor and Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi embassy in Turkey. The United Nations Human Rights council is calling for a transparent investigation. But some are criticizing the hypocrisy of the U.N. calling for the investigation of the murder of a journalist […]
