With grace under fire that has rallied Ukrainians and impressed his Western counterparts, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stayed in Kyiv even though he says he has a target on his back from the Russian invaders.
Are iPhones made using forced Uyghur labor? Connections between some Chinese factories and global tech giants suggest companies are benefiting from forced labor provided by Xinjiang's mostly Muslim ethnic minority.
"They have spoken out loud and clear, and what they've said is they are experiencing enforced hunger, enforced dehydration, enforced sleeplessness," said an attorney for the children.
Amidst
#BoycottNike
, we should remember the example set by
@Kaepernick7
and Army Green Beret
@NateBoyer37
two years ago. Ultimately, each man saw the other as a brother and vowed to keep moving forward. That remains an option for all of us.
Turkey’s eagerness to bring Jamal Khashoggi’s killers to justice has dimmed now that an economic crisis means President Erdoğan is seeking Saudi investment.
Vladimir Putin didn’t want Ukraine in NATO. He may see Finland and Sweden join instead. Their concerns, beyond security, are long-held values like freedom and democracy.
The Parkland students were thrust into the spotlight, but they had preparation for this moment. Thanks to state law, they have benefited from a civics education that many Americans have gone without.
Beware of misspelled hashtags. Pro-Kremlin accounts on Twitter are auto-posting these “decoys” to limit the social reach of real hashtags by breaking the conversation into smaller groups.
Beware of misspelled hashtags. Pro-Kremlin accounts on Twitter are auto-posting these “decoys” to limit the social reach of real hashtags by breaking the conversation into smaller groups. by
@eoinocarroll
President Donald Trump has used “I’m just saying” throughout his public career, to spread false information while trying to avoid consequences, writes
@petergrier
.
“It looks so beautiful, to me it looks just like magic,” says
@GurdeepPandher
about his home in Yukon, Canada. “I do feel like I live in a winter wonderland.”
“Disabled folks in this country have been told for decades that: ‘The core of this job requires that you have to be in this particular office, these particular days.’ And that turned out to be a lie,” says
@mattbc
.
Businesses and factories are starting to reopen in Wuhan and restrictions are loosened across China as the nation works to bounce back from the coronavirus quarantine. Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Wuhan for the first time since the virus outbreak.
Student activists and faculty at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill are calling for the removal of racial barriers at the institution. The discussion follows journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones' decision to turn down a tenured position at the school.
During the first in-person primary since Wisconsin's controversial election, Nebraska voters largely avoided polling stations. A record number of mail-in ballots brought victory to several candidates who have voiced opposition to President Trump.
Even when plastic is recycled, it usually results in some form of downgraded product. But researchers are searching for solutions in plastic’s very chemistry. by
@EBotkinKowacki
"
#COVID
has made people take the U.S. less seriously. If people look at you with pity, that’s not a great qualification for heading up the free world," says Harvard professor
@Yascha_Mounk
. A look at America's retreat from global leadership:
When a major cybersecurity conference announced this year’s lineup of speakers, only one woman was on the list. An alt-conference of female and minority experts showed what they were missing.
The view of gun owners as older, conservative, white, and male isn’t wrong, but it’s shifting. First-time gun buyers are more diverse, and they’re changing gun culture.
The Grammy-nominated rapper 21 Savage is deeply associated with Atlanta. That's why the revelation of his immigrant status – his visa expired in 2006 – has made such waves.
The European Union reached an agreement on the Digital Services Act – legislation dedicated to policing hate speech, disinformation, and other harmful content online. The law's backers say it will make big tech firms more accountable for content created...
The Ethiopian government is pushing back against international calls for independent probes into the Ethiopia-Tigray conflict. Concern is growing over the critical lack of access to food and medicine for millions in Tigray.
Twenty service members and veterans die by suicide every day. Two federal agencies,
@samhsagov
and
@DeptVetAffairs
, have launched a public health campaign to make it easier for them to understand how to get help. by
@MartinKuz
A war in the Tigray region, where fighters have targeted food production, has led the U.S. and Europe to invoke a new tool of international humanitarian law.
The first schoolgirl in Afghanistan's Marmul district to keep bees made $1,728 in 2016 from the honey she harvested. The country's GDP per person is around $600 a year.
Leo Kamin is 17, but that wasn’t an excuse to sit out the election. Mr. Kamin, along with thousands of other young people, signed up to be a poll worker.
Businesses and factories are starting to reopen in Wuhan and restrictions are loosened across China as the nation works to bounce back from the coronavirus quarantine. Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Wuhan for the first time since the virus outbreak.
The wave of sexual allegations from Hollywood to Washington has left many US colleges weighing whether they should take back honorary degrees and other accolades from prominent men accused of misconduct.
Select residents of Ulster County, New York, who earn less than $46,900 per year, have started receiving monthly $500 payments as part of a pilot program testing the efficacy of universal basic income (UBI).