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'Damning' New IG Report, Says ACLU, Shows Just How Far Trump Team 'Was Willing to Go to Destroy' Immigrant Families
A Honduran child taken from his father after they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border together in June 2018. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
'Famine Not Seen in 40 Years': UN Warns Pompeo Decision in Yemen Could Lead to Hundreds of Thousands—If Not Millions—Dead
Kenny Stancil, staff writer
A malnourished child receives medical treatment at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen on December 13, 2020. (Photo: Mohammed Mohammed/Xinhua via Getty Images)
"It literally is going to be a death sentence," said the World Food Programme chief about the U.S. Secretary of State's decision to label the Houthis a terrorist organization.
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Amnesty Urges US Mayors and Governors to Protect People From Armed Right-Wing Groups Plotting New Attacks
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Supporters of President Donald Trump enter the U.S. Capitol's Rotunda on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Demonstrators breached security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated certification of the a 2020 presidential election results. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
The group warns the nation is "dangerously vulnerable to those who prefer...
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'He Is Not Welcome': Trump Border Visit Denounced as PR Stunt of 'Blood-Soaked' President
Brett Wilkins, staff writer
President Donald Trump leaves the White House to travel to Alamo, Texas on January 12, 2021. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
"Trump has blood on his hands, and he is not welcome at the border," one...
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A Palestinian boy sits on a chair with a national flag as Israeli authorities demolish a school site in the village of Yatta, south of the West Bank city of Hebron on July 11, 2018. (Photo: Hazem Bader/AFP via Getty Images)
Prominent Rights Group Says Israeli Rule Must Finally Be Seen 'For What It Is: Apartheid'
College students and community members wearing face masks hold placards while gathering in Bloomington, Indiana to protest against the death penalty and a wave of executions at the Terre Haute federal prison during the final months of President Donald Trump's administration. (Photo: Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Acting US AG Rosen Urged to Postpone Three Executions Planned for This Week Due to Pandemic
For several years, critics of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp have dressed in orange jumpsuits at demonstrations calling for its immediate closure. (Photo: Amnesty International)
As 'Dark Stain' of Guantánamo Begins 20th Year, Groups Demand Biden Close Offshore Prison
Girls collect water from a well in Hajjah province, north Yemen on December 11, 2020. As a result of the U.S. State Department's decision, Oxfam noted, "humanitarian aid, goods, and personnel will be blocked from entering northern Yemen, where 70% of the population lives." (Photo: Mohammed Al-Wafi/Xinhua via Getty)
'Wanton Cruelty': Pompeo to Declare Houthis a Terrorist Group, Sparking Fears of Worsening Famine in Yemen
Human Rights Watch Urges Biden to End Trump's 'Devastating' Remain In Mexico Policy
'You Alone Have the Power to Temper Justice With Mercy': Trump Urged to Stop Execution of Lisa Montgomery
International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda during a trip to Sudan on October 18, 2020. (Photo: Mahmoud Hjaj/Andalou Agency via Getty Images)
Federal Judge Blocks Trump Order Targeting Lawyers Supporting ICC Afghan War Crimes Probe
Demonstrators protest outside the Westminster Magistrates' Court in London on October 21, 2019. (Photo: Isabel Infantes/AFP via Getty Images)
Australian Labor Party Urges US to Drop Charges Against Assange
Protesters rally at an annual Google shareholder meeting at the company's Mountain View, California headquarters on May 14, 2014. (Photo: John Green/MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images)
Google Workers Form Union to 'Promote Solidarity, Democracy, and Social and Economic Justice'
Indian national and U.S. immigrant Sindhu Sudhakar has been stranded with her 7-year-old son in India after she returned there in March 2020 to visit her sick mother-in-law. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)
As Trump Extends Visa Ban and Court Upholds Insurance Mandate, Advocates Urge Biden to Quickly Reverse Anti-Immigrant Policies
Activists are seen holding placards during the protest. Abortion rights activists took part in stop the bans rally nationwide after multiple states pass fetal heartbeat bills. (Photo: Megan Jelinger/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Reproductive Rights Advocates Slam 'Unconstitutional and Medically Unnecessary' Fetal Remains Law Signed by Ohio Governor
Street art in Belfast depicts Saudi Arabia's Prince Ben Salman buying missiles, which are used against Yemeni civilians, from U.S. President Donald Trump and former U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May. (Photo: Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images)
Lame-Duck Trump's "Middle East Arms Bonanza" Continues With Approval of $290 Million Sale to Saudi Regime

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