(José Niño, Headline USA) In this Headline Geopolitics episode, José Niño interviews Alfred de Zayas, a veteran international lawyer and former UN human rights expert, to examine the unraveling of international law in the post–Cold War era.
De Zayas explains how legal norms meant to restrain power have been transformed...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump on Sunday fired off another warning to the government of Cuba as the close ally of Venezuela braces for potential widespread unrest after Nicolás Maduro was deposed as Venezuela's leader.
Cuba, a major beneficiary of Venezuelan oil, has now been cut off from those shipments as...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Utah County Attorney’s Office is downplaying the fact that one of its prosecutors is related to a student who was at the infamous Turning Point USA event where conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated last September at Utah Valley University.
Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US forces on Wednesday boarded and took by force a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic Ocean that it initially tried to seize off the coast of Venezuela weeks ago, an action that drew condemnation from Moscow.
The tanker was named the Bella 1 when the...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Brian Cole Jr., who’s accused of planting two pipe bombs near the RNC and DNC headquarters the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest, was federally indicted on Tuesday—putting an end to the controversy over whether he’d be released from jail.
Cole’s attorneys had...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Many pundits credited a multi-billion-dollar fraud scandal with forcing Minnesota Gov. Tim Waltz from his reelection bid after Waltz’s Monday morning announcement.
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However, some argue that the de-facto money-laundering scheme to funnel tax dollars to Somali immigrants for phony childcare services, which upstart journalist Nick Shirley...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump on Sunday threatened that Venezuela’s new acting president, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, would have a fate worse than Nicolas Maduro’s if she doesn’t do the bidding of the US.
“If she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger...
(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) Following a military operation that captured President Nicolas Maduro, President Donald Trump said the US would run Venezuela until an acceptable government is set up.
“We are going to run until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition. We don’t want to...
(José Niño, Headline USA) A federal lawsuit filed in district court alleges that executives at Strive Asset Management, the investment firm founded by Vivek Ramaswamy, pressured a female employee to engage in conduct she believed would violate securities law, retaliated when she refused, and ultimately terminated her employment after...
(Headline USA) The Trump administration is facing a new legal complaint from a group of government employees who are affected by a new policy going into effect Thursday that eliminates coverage for gender-affirming care in federal health insurance programs.
The complaint, filed Thursday on the employees’ behalf by the Human...