Topic: USA
‘No level of harassment will silence me,’ Ilhan Omar slams pro Israel ad campaign
United States Congresswoman Ilhan Omar on Wednesday vowed not to be deterred from fighting for Palestinian rights after the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC began running ads...
Biden under pressure to end support for ‘Yemen suffering’
A letter that members of Congress sent to Secretary of State Antony Blinken increased growing pressure on the Biden administration to fully end U.S....
Probe Hindu supremacist orgs co-opting US COVID-19 funding, say Indian Americans
The “Coalition to Stop Genocide in India,” a broad coalition of Indian Americans and US-based civil rights organizations and activists, Tuesday called on the US Small Business Administration (SBA) to probe how US-based Hindu supremacist organizations received hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal Covid-19 relief funding.
Rights experts call for reforms to end police brutality, systemic racism in USA
Independent UN human rights experts appealed on Friday for the new United States Government to adopt wide ranging reforms to end police violence and...
US military in 85 nations, attacked 10 countries since 2018: Report
According to the report, the U.S. has provided "counterterrorism" training or assistance in 79 nations since 2018, with U.S. troops carrying out bombing or ground attacks in 10 countries.
Full text: Amanda Gorman’s poem at Joe Biden inauguration
The inauguration of US President Joe Biden featured a slew of high-profile performers on Wednesday, but for many it was the lesser-known Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in US history, who truly wowed the crowd.
