Dubious claims about voting flyers at a migrant camp show how the border is inflaming US politics A humanitarian organization in northeastern Mexico is saying it did not create flyers urging border-bound migrants to vote for President Joe Biden ... 04/17/2024 - 9:14 am | View Link
Cyprus suspends processing of Syrian asylum applications as boatloads of refugees continue arriving Lebanon — which is coping with a crippling economic crisis since 2019 — hosts some 805,000 U.N.-registered Syrian refugees, of which 90% live in poverty, the U.N.’s refugee agency says. 04/13/2024 - 5:07 am | View Link
On the Texas border, Gov. Greg Abbott spends $435K per migrant stopped | Opinion Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has spent $10 billion of taxpayer money to secure the border. It hasn’t worked. 04/12/2024 - 9:00 am | View Link
Lebanon official urges restrictions on Syrian refugees after slaying blamed on Syrian gang The tiny Mediterranean country of over 6 million people, including refugees, hosts what the U.N. refugee agency says are nearly 785,000 U.N.-registered Syrian refugees, of which 90% rely on aid to ... 04/9/2024 - 12:37 am | View Link
Cyprus seeks EU help to curb surge of Syrian refugees from Lebanon NICOSIA - Cyprus appealed on Wednesday for vigorous action from the European Union to stem a recent tide of mostly Syrian refugees arriving ... on the Lebanese-Israeli border. 04/3/2024 - 8:52 am | View Link
Who was the first tortured poet? Maybe the ancient Egyptian who wrote, sometime in the 15th century BCE, “My beloved stirs my heart with his voice. He causes illness to seize me…. My heart is smitten.” Maybe the poet Catullus, whose heartbreaks lit up ancient Rome: “I hate and love,” he explained in Latin, “and it’s excruciating,” or (depending on the translator) “it crucifies me.” Petrarch’s sonnets, in 14th century Italy, complained that love both scorched and chilled.
Breaking up is hard to do, but music may just make getting over your ex a little easier. The best breakup songs provide a source of comfort to those dealing with the many stages of heartbreak. But just as no breakup is exactly the same, the same can be said of breakup songs.
8212; College football is ready to put the signs away.
Following a sign-stealing scandal that rocked the sport and hung over Michigan’s championship run in 2023, the NCAA’s football oversight committee approved Friday the use of coach-to-player helmet communications in games for the 2024 season.
The football rules committee last month made a recommendation to allow — but not require — teams at the highest tier of Division I to use radio technology similar to what NFL teams use.
Only one player for each team will be permitted to be in communication with coaches while on the field.
A man set himself on fire on Friday afternoon outside the Lower Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial is taking place.
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Witnesses say the man doused himself with liquid in Collect Pond Park, a designated protest area across the street from the courthouse, before orange flames soon engulfed him.
WASHINGTON — With rare bipartisan momentum, the House pushed ahead Friday on a foreign aid package of $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and humanitarian support as a robust coalition of lawmakers helped it clear a procedural hurdle to reach final votes this weekend. Friday’s vote produced a seldom-seen outcome in the typically hyper-partisan House, with Democrats helping Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan advance overwhelmingly 316-94.
Coban Porter, the brother of Denver Nuggets star Michael Porter Jr., was sentenced to six years in prison Friday for killing a woman in a drunk-driving crash last year.
Porter, 22, pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and vehicular assault in February on the condition that he would be sentenced to no more than eight years in prison.