The Texas Board of Education on Friday approved mandated reading lists for public school children that include passages from the Bible – the latest effort by leaders there to infuse the education system with conservative and religious ideals.
Tag: Human Rights
The United Nations human rights chief on Friday called for independent investigations into deaths of people in U.S. immigration custody, saying that 19 people have died in detention so far this year.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let it detain people arrested in its immigration crackdown without a chance to seek bond, even if they have lived in the country for years.
The 7-1 vote by the city’s Rent Guidelines Board fulfils a central campaign promise of Zohran Mamdani only months into his term.
Since Donald Trump returned to the presidency last year promising to aggressively crack down on immigration and pursue a campaign of mass deportation, the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court has, for the most part, smoothed the way.
The ruling gives the president another boost to his hardline immigration approach.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday cleared the way for U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to expand a fast-track deportation process that would allow for the expedited removal of migrants who are living far away from the border.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Tuesday to let a Rastafarian man sue state prison officials in Louisiana after guards held him down and shaved him bald in violation of his religious beliefs in a case brought under a federal law protecting incarcerated people from religious discrimination.
Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent U.N. inquiry said on Tuesday.
World leaders are “feeding” wars instead of the hungry, Pope Leo said on Monday, telling the U.N. food aid agency that global priorities were badly skewed.