Half a year has passed since Najwa al-Jassem learned that her U.N. aid was being reduced, leaving her scrambling to feed her four children and afford the rent for their tent in a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley. In…
Conflict, human rights violations, and persecution have forced 110 million people out of their homes, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. The war in Sudan has added nearly 2 million displaced people to this figure since April, joining a series…
President Joe Biden is accelerating his reelection bid by hosting four fundraising events in the San Francisco vicinity to beef up his campaign fund and shaping the strategy for 2024. During the latter half of June, the Biden campaign will organize over…
The upcoming AI wave could present investors with enriching opportunities. Artificial intelligence (AI), a technology gradually evolving for many years, has elevated its status thanks to recent breakthroughs. Generative AI, the technology behind advanced chatbots such as ChatGPT, is gaining mainstream popularity,…
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the country’s leading organization for LGBTQ+ rights, declared an emergency status for LGBTQ+ Americans, warning of a hostile and threatening political climate. They launched an informative guidebook detailing state-specific discriminatory laws, highlighting resources for knowing one’s rights…
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has given the green light to Amazon’s proposed acquisition of robotic vacuum manufacturer iRobot, the company behind the popular Roomba, despite the deal’s pending approval in the United States and Europe. The CMA found no…
A ruling initially giving an Indigenous tribe in Peru’s Amazon the rights to their ancestral rainforests has been reversed by an appeals court, a decision some legal experts are criticizing as irregular. Inhabitants of the Cordillera Azul National Park area for centuries,…
President Joe Biden vowed to actively engage Hispanic voters during his 2020 campaign; however, certain faux pas created tensions with some of these voters. One significant example was when Biden played the popular reggaeton song “Despacito” from his phone during a Hispanic…
AT&T, the telecommunications titan, presents an attractive dividend yield, but there’s a worrisome aspect in one crucial performance metric. With its rich dividend offering a nearly 7% yield at current stock prices, AT&T (NYSE: T) is a tempting proposition for those seeking…
The State of Nuevo León in northern Mexico passed marriage equality with a favourable vote of 22 to 10, more than four years after the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) issued an order to legislate in favour of the…