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Ex-South African President Zuma Amplifies Support for Morocco’s Sahara From Ghana
Marrakech – Former South African president Jacob Zuma has hammered another nail in the African National Congress (ANC) coffin by once again publicly championing Morocco’s position on the Western Sahara dispute during a lecture in Ghana. Speaking...

It’s all about education
Given his background — intensely but diversely Jewish, as if he was trying to incorporate many ways of being Jewish into one body and one life — it’s not surprising that after a career as a very successful Wall Street securities analyst and a...
Ecosia has offered to take ‘stewardship’ of Chrome. And it’s not a bad idea.
Ecosia CEO Christian Kroll | Image Credits:Ecosia “It’s not absurd, right?” Christian Kroll, CEO of Berlin-based non-profit search engine Ecosia, says of his company’s unsolicited request to be granted a 10-year “stewardship” of Google’s Chrome...

Bed, Bath, and Beyond CEO Responds To Newsom’s Social Media Post
Something about a bankrupt home goods store calling out the Golden State has left California’s political elite scrambling—and the chaos might be exactly what we’ve come to expect from a state that treats job creators like enemies. Bed Bath &...

Veterans Disability Attorney Eric Gang Featured In Woman's World Discussing Military Diet And Veteran Health
(MENAFN- PR Newswire) HACKETTSTOWN, N.J., Aug. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Eric Gang , founder of Gang & Associates LLC and a nationally recognized veterans' disability attorney, was recently featured in Woman's World in an article titled "Eric Gang,...

Have 1.6 million undocumented immigrants really left the U.S. this year?
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said last week that the number of unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. has declined by 1.6 million since President Trump began his immigration crackdown. "This is massive," Noem said in a statement,...

Crisp: Trump reshapes U.S. history
Some of President Donald Trump’s ill-advised actions would be more shocking if there weren’t so many of them. But how much consternation can you expend over Trump’s firing of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he didn’t...

Uganda agrees deal with U.S. to take deported migrants if they don't have criminal records
KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda has agreed a deal with the United States to take deported migrants on condition that the deportees should not have criminal records and not be unaccompanied minors, officials said Thursday. The Ugandan foreign affairs...

Aging U.S. railroad bridges are self-inspected and their findings are kept secret
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — The fire burned for about nine hours, billowing smoke and scorching the wooden trestles of a nearly 75-year-old railroad bridge that spans the Marys River in Corvallis, home to Oregon State University. Long after the flames...

Drone attack destroys 16 trucks carrying UN food to Sudan's famine-hit Darfur region
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A drone attack on a U.N. convoy set fire to all 16 trucks carrying desperately needed food to Sudan’s famine-hit North Darfur region and destroyed all the vehicles, the United Nations said Thursday. U.N. associate...

U.S. Halts Zimbabwe Visa Processing Operations
The United States has halted the processing of most visa applications from Zimbabwe until further notice. According to the U.S. Embassy in Harare, the decision stems from unspecified concerns about the Zimbabwean government. The embassy stressed,...

U.S. sanctions four more members of ICC
WASHINGTON, the United States | TASS | The United States is imposing sanctions on four more representatives of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the US Department of State and Treasury said. According to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio,...
U.S. Accuses Tinubu Govt, Police, Other Security Forces Of Torture, Sexual Abuse, Arbitrary Arrests In 2024 Report
The United States government has accused Nigerian authorities of widespread human rights violations, including torture, cruel and inhuman treatment, and arbitrary arrests. President Bola Tinubu assumed office on May 29, 2023, to serve a four-year...
Vance pitches Trump's sweeping new law as a 'working families' tax cut' in swing-state Georgia
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. (AP) — Vice President JD Vance pitched President Donald Trump’s sweeping new law as a “working families' tax cut” during a visit Thursday to a refrigeration facility in swing-state Georgia, a preview of the midterm message that...

Seeing a ‘leadership crisis’ in American health care
There’s not enough attention being focused on the biggest problems in the healthcare industry. That’s the assessment of Sachin Jain, MD, president and CEO of SCAN Group & SCAN Health Plan, and Margaret O’Kane, founder and president of the National...

L3Harris Expands Florida Facility to Support America’s Golden Dome
MELBOURNE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 21, 2025-- L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has completed a $100 million expansion at its satellite integration and test facility in Palm Bay to support the Department of Defense’s (DOD) urgent need for...
Uganda agrees to deal with U.S. to take deported migrants if they don't have criminal records
KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda has agreed to a deal with the United States to take deported migrants on condition that the deportees should not have criminal records and not be unaccompanied minors, officials said Thursday. What You Need To Know Uganda...

Addressing political violence to protect American democracy
The assassinations of Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, as well as the attempted murders of Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette, are disturbing examples of the rise in political violence in...

Second Circuit – Wire fraud: United States v. Runner
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Wire fraud — Intent to defraud United States v. Runner 24-1040 Judges Calabresi, Chin, and Merriam Background: The defendant ran a mass-mailing enterprise that used false and misleading...

U.S. Raid In Syria Kills Senior ISIS Commander
(MENAFN- Khaama Press) A U.S. raid in northwest Syria killed a senior ISIS commander seen as a potential leader, with no American casualties, reinforcing efforts to prevent the group's resurgence. A senior ISIS commander was killed in a U.S....