The United Nations estimates that more than 16,000 civilians detained by Russia during its war in Ukraine are still being held
3 states are set to hold executions on the same day, a first in the US since 2010
Tennessee, Alabama, and Oklahoma plan to execute inmates on the same day this week
Tiffany Haddish avoids additional jail time after pleading guilty in Georgia traffic case
Actor and comedian Tiffany Haddish has pleaded guilty to a charge stemming from a 2022 traffic arrest in Georgia
Groups sue Trump administration over targeting of the International Criminal Court
Human Rights Watch and three other advocacy groups have sued the Trump administration to challenge its campaign against the International Criminal Court
A new type of levee is taking root in Northern California
Visitors to the Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve, captivated by gliding birds overhead and golden hills across the Bay waters, could be forgiven for failing to notice that the preserve is also home to the Bay’s newest levee. Most levees look like steep, barren embankments or riprap-clad seawalls, designed to...
They’re making record profits, but oil companies still won’t ‘drill, baby, drill’
Over the last two weeks, oil companies have announced eye-popping profits from the spring quarter. Exxon Mobil pulled in $14.5 billion. Chevron landed $12 billion, its highest quarterly profit on record. Shell posted $9.8 billion — more than twice its earnings from the same time last year. These profits are...
Canada’s wildfire season is taking a heavy toll on First Nations
This story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance. When the chief of the Okanagan Indian Band looked down on his community from a helicopter last week, much of what he had known all his life was gone. Homes had burned. Photographs, memorabilia, and Salish baskets had disappeared with them....
Arsenal’s Myles Lewis-Skelly offered to Manchester United as left-back solution
Chelsea also made aware of 19-year-old’s availability Newcastle’s Lewis Hall remains prime United target Myles Lewis-Skelly has been offered to Manchester United as a potential left-back option, with Arsenal wishing to recoup some of the £75m paid to Newcastle for Bruno Guimarães. Chelsea, it is understood, have also been made...
Emery positive about Aston Villa’s outlook despite summer exits as PSG await
Ebullient manager takes his side to Salzburg to cross swords with the European champions in the Super Cup One thing was almost instantly detectable as Unai Emery walked into a stuffy room inside the Red Bull Arena on the eve of Wednesday’s Super Cup against Paris Saint-Germain. After a summer...
Infantino’s opponents developing new framework for running world football
Uefa, Concacaf and AFC working together on system Fifa has ignored calls for an independent review Gianni Infantino’s opponents are working together to produce a new framework for running world football to replace what they regard as a system of patronage that Fifa has adopted since he replaced Sepp Blatter...