WASHINGTON – The U.S. and China are engaged in an increasingly intense confrontation over Beijing's human rights record – exchanging near-daily salvos over allegations Xi Jinping's government is committing genocide against the Uyghur…
Giant investment bank has loudly trumpeted its climate commitments. Its actual record tells a different story Since the mid-2000s, Goldman Sachs — the world's second largest investment bank, with an…
President Biden has come out swinging on climate change. In his first months as president, his administration has rejoined the Paris Agreement, appointed domestic and international climate czars, and this…
Florida's Manatee County Public Safety Department has declared a state of emergency and ordered a complete evacuation of the Piney Point reservoir site and surrounding areas due a leak that…
PEMBA (Reuters) -Luisa Jose, a 52-year-old mother of five, says she came face-to-face with Islamic State-linked insurgents when they attacked the gas hub town of Palma in northern Mozambique 10…
What should you do if you witness harassment, or worse, an assault? That question came into sharp focus this week following an attack on a 65-year old Filipino immigrant outside…
The pandemic has been a challenge for many people, but for one group of professionals the stress, fatigue, crippling debt and moral dilemmas have been weighing heavily on them for…
https://youtu.be/W7NuzENoB_g Over two days in September, 1941, German soldiers, assisted by Ukrainian collaborators, murdered 33,771 Jews at the Babi Yar ravine outside Kyiv. The massacre was one of the earliest…
My latest blog post: AM I ASIAN ENOUGH? AM I AMERICAN ENOUGH? Link to the NHK Japan program- TODAYS 2020 in Japanese Link to NHK Japan Program NEWSROOM TOKYO in English Link to program that…
https://youtu.be/yJB_MtrMINc Two single women meet in a hospital room where they are both going to give birth. One is middle aged and doesn't regret it, while the other is adolescent…