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Almost twenty years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the January 6th protests that many establishment US news outlets called an ‘insurrection’ shed new light on previously drafted domestic terrorism legislation.……
On February 25, 2021, the environmental advocacy group PEER reported that the US EPA downgraded the cancer risk of the pesticide Telone based on faulty study data. This was done……
A national emergency is taking place on the Caribbean island of Haiti. As reported by the Haitian Times, officials in Haiti have requested assistance from foreign law enforcement to combat……
On April 14, 2018, the United States, Britain, and France launched a series of aircraft and ship-based missiles against multiple government sites in Syria. The initial report released by the……
Oak Flat, Arizona, a sacred land reservation of the San Carlos Apache Native Americans, has long been under attack. Since 2008, the mining company Resolution Copper has sought to acquire……
As the Coronavirus pandemic continues to strengthen its grip on South America, the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer stands accused of bullying smaller Latin American governments into putting up sovereign assets as……
San Francisco, like many US cities, faces a growing housing crisis. The Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH) is tasked with providing housing but its attempts have not been……
An investigation conducted by several independent news outlets and coordinated by The Marshall Project lays bare mounting evidence of extensive and disproportionate police dog use against people of color across……
After the United States went into lockdown, millions were deemed ‘essential workers’—individuals who needed to continue grinding the gears of capitalism at the potential cost of their lives. In response,……
The members of several Indigenous Peoples organizations sent an open letter expressing a series of urgent requests to newly elected President Joe Biden, according to a February 11, 2021 article……
Discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community has risen sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, countries with longstanding histories of LGBTQ+ discrimination, such as Uganda, have used the COVID-19 pandemic to persecute……
[Editor’s note: This Validated Independent News Story was researched and submitted before the March 16, 2021 shootings in Atlanta in which six of those killed—Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Soon……
In 2019, Maeve McGovern and fellow researchers at the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment at the University Oldenburg in Germany began studying a new phenomenon in……
In Venezuela’s December 6, 2020 national election, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won close to seventy percent of the votes cast, President Nicholas Maduro was reelected, and the……
In June 2019, Charles Carey, 17, was riding his bike through north Baton Rouge, Louisiana when a nearby police cruiser flipped on its lights. Having thought that police wanted him……
Over the last 80 years the number of people around the world displaced from their homes due to war, persecution, and other forms of conflict has drastically increased. As Nick……
Fatal violence against women across the world is increasing. In a report from UK-based nonprofit Femicide Census spanning nearly nine years, it was found that “on average, a woman is……
Amazon’s Ring continues its partnerships with an increasing number of police departments throughout the country. Amazon has partnered with over 2,000 police departments in agreements that allow officers to request……
Instead of combatting the spread of COVID-19, the government of Indonesia spent the greater part of 2020 working on a sweeping legislative revision of its wage and labor laws intended……
As Glenn Greenwald reported in a May 2020 article for The Intercept, whistleblower Lucas Walker released to the California-based animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere (DxE ) candid video of……
As detailed in a February 17, 2021 article by Jamie Landers in Teen Vogue, on average, 20,000 youth age out of the foster care system every year. But aging out……
Nicholas McQuaid was an attorney with Latham & Watkins, working at their New York office for many years. On January 21, 2021, President Joe Biden appointed McQuaid as the assistant……
As Covid-19 spreads across Africa, corporate-manufactured oxygen shortages in the continent’s hospitals are leading to preventable deaths. Madlen Davies of The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports that ex-employees, industry insiders,……
The Philippines is on track to register 9 million low-income households for their national biometric ID system. In October 2020, Raul Diego reported for MintPress News that this ID system……