Month: April 2022

An international coalition of human rights and advocacy organizations is working to urge popular fashion brands and apparel companies to divest from the Xinjiang region “Your face mask — and your T-shirt — might have been made with Uighur forced labor”

After months of earthquakes, a long-dormant volcano in the southwest of Iceland erupted on Friday night, leading to dramatic videos and splendid red skies near “A 6,000-year-dormant Icelandic volcano just erupted — and it’s awesome”

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas repeatedly argued on Sunday that the United States’ border with Mexico is “closed,” amid a marked increase in immigrant arrivals, “As Biden’s immigration policy faces scrutiny, the DHS chief says the border is “closed””

As lawmakers consider how to prevent future violence in the vein of January’s attack on the US Capitol, the debate has largely turned on one “Why progressives are lining up against new criminal penalties for domestic terrorism”

If the first meeting between the Biden administration and Chinese officials last week underscored anything, it’s that the US and China are unlikely to be “Don’t expect the US and China to be friendly anytime soon”

North Korea tested its first missiles since President Joe Biden took office, launching two short-range projectiles last weekend off the country’s west coast and into “North Korea tested missiles again. It’s not as scary as it sounds.”

A massive container ship stuck sideways in Egypt’s Suez Canal has been blocking one of the world’s busiest waterways for over 24 hours, disrupting global “A massive ship is stuck in the Suez Canal, disrupting trade and inspiring hilarious memes”

Tania Aubid began her hunger strike on Valentine’s Day. “Valentine’s Day is about love and having that love for your partner — but for me “The Indigenous-led fight to stop the Line 3 oil pipeline expansion in Minnesota, explained”

North Korea’s second missile test in a week is increasing the pressure on President Joe Biden to respond, inching the nuclear-armed state further up the “Why North Korea is ramping up missile tests again”

“In Guam, even the dead are dying,” Chamorro author and activist Julian Aguon writes in his new book The Properties of Perpetual Light. Aguon, a “The generational grief of colonization”