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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the “horrific murder” of Andriy Parubiy, 54, a leading figure in Ukraine’s pro-European protest movements who was shot and killed in Lviv on Saturday. A former speaker of parliament, Parubiy also previously served as secretary of the National Security and Defence Council.A former Ukrainian speaker of parliament who was a leading figure in the country's pro-European protest movements of 2004 and 2014 was shot dead on Saturday in western Ukraine, officials said. Andriy Parubiy, 54, who also previously served as secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, was killed in the city of Lviv....

WASHINGTON (AP) — The agency that oversees Voice of America and other government-funded international broadcasters is eliminating jobs for more than 500 employees, a Trump administration official said. The move could ratchet up a monthslong legal challenge over the news outlets’ fate.Kari Lake, acting CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, announced the latest round of job cuts late Friday, one day after a federal judge blocked her from removing Michael Abramowitz as VOA director.U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth had ruled separately that the Republican administration had failed to show how it was complying with his orders to restore...

In June, the U.S. Department of Justice sued Texas to end access to in-state tuition for students without legal status, arguing the Texas Dream Act discriminated against U.S. citizens. Within hours, the state conceded. KUT News is using Mariel's first name only because of privacy concerns over her immigration status. Mariel had been set to graduate from UT Austin next spring with two degrees, one in biology and another in Spanish. She would be a step closer to becoming a doctor. “That was the one thing that I felt like I had, [it] was my education. That’s the one thing...

Latinos make up more than half of Oxnard’s 202,000 residents, and they have long taken pride in helping to build this sprawling city by the sea.Constructed around the same agriculture fields where Cesar Chavez organized migrant laborers before establishing the United Farm Workers of America, Oxnard is a place where Latino influence is omnipresent — from music festivals to eateries. At City Hall, officials have made it a priority to protect the area’s immigrant residents and workforce — whether that involves bolstering tenant rights against predatory landlords, or joining a civil rights lawsuit against indiscriminate raids.But a summer of immigration...

Former President Bill Clinton, 79, has reignited fears that his health is declining after he and Hillary Clinton were spotted leaving the Hamptons with a defibrillator in tow. The political power couple were seen carrying a portable unit which appeared to be a Propaq MD Air Medical Bag - a lightweight transport monitor and defibrillator - at the airport on Thursday. Bill Clinton has a history of heart health issues, having previously suffered a heart attack that required bypass surgery in 2004. The former president wore a blue jacket and tan hat as he exited a vehicle and was accompanied...

Less than 1 percent of Democrats say they are satisfied with the direction of the country, according to a new Gallup poll. Why It Matters This is the lowest level of satisfaction among Democrats in at least 25 years, according to Gallup's polling, and it comes at a time when Republican satisfaction is near record high levels. The polling shows that Democrats' satisfaction with the direction of the country quickly dropped after President Donald Trump, a Republican, returned to office in January, while GOP supporters' satisfaction spiked. According to Gallup, 31 percent of Americans currently say they are satisfied with...

40 Rohingya refugees allegedly deported by the Indian government to Myanmar... Three months after they were removed from India's capital, the BBC managed to contact the refugees.... Most are staying with the Ba Htoo Army (BHA), a resistance group fighting the military in the south-west of the country. On 6 May the 40 Rohingya refugees...were taken to their local police stations under the guise of collecting biometric data. This is a yearly process mandated by the Indian government where Rohingya refugees are photographed and fingerprinted. After several hours they were taken to the Inderlok Detention Centre in the city, they...

The deployment of federal agents and National Guard troops has caused some Black parents to return to the days of “the talk” about policing that they had hoped was no longer needed to keep their children safe.Days after President Trump ordered a surge of federal law enforcement agents in Washington, D.C., Charlene Golphin told her 17-year-old son that his curfew was being cut short by two hours. Ms. Golphin feared that as a Black boy, her son would be caught in the dragnet set up by officers tasked by the president with cracking down on the “roving mobs of wild...

Dubbed a “parent rights” bill, Senate Bill 12 bans DEI programs in K-12 schools — and prohibits clubs LGBTQ+ students say are vital resources.Twelve-year-old Minerva James just started 7th grade at her North Texas middle school. She does well and likes her classes. This year, she was thinking about pushing her district to allow a GSA, or Gay-Straight Alliance club — something she says her school could use. “There’s a lot of, like, homophobia and stuff like that,” she said. Minerva came out in third grade. At her parents’ request, we’ve changed her name for this story. But under Senate...

'Pride is not for sale,' says Queers for Palestine in statement Ottawa's annual Pride parade was cancelled on Sunday after it was halted by a local pro-Palestinian advocacy group that blocked the road and demanded to negotiate with organizers. The group Queers for Palestine — Ottawa (Q4P) halted the parade "with the permission" of the grand marshal, the organization said in a press release issued Sunday afternoon just as the parade was stopped. "This is what a village looks like!" protesters chanted from Parliament Hill, referencing the "We are a village" theme that Capital Pride was using for 2025. Q4P...

The federal government is trying to force Kilmar Abrego Garcia to accept a guilty plea or face deportation to Uganda, his attorneys claimed in a filing on Saturday.The Salvadoran man, who was wrongly deported in March before being brought back to the United States to face human smuggling charges, was released from criminal custody in Tennessee and sent back to Maryland on Friday.After Abrego Garcia declined an offer to be deported to Costa Rica in exchange for remaining in jail and pleading guilty to the human smuggling charges, his attorneys say U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement informed them that he...

Students from some countries won’t make it to class this fall because of President Trump’s travel ban. Others can’t get visa appointments. Some are simply scared. Universities are panicking.Many Iranians are not going to American universities this fall. Students from Afghanistan are having trouble getting to campus. Even students from China and India, the top two senders of international students to the United States, have been flummoxed by a maze of new obstacles the Trump administration has set up to slow or deter people entering the country from abroad. Between the federal government’s heightened vetting of student visas and President...

Bryan Kohberger has filed a sexual harassment complaint and is begging for a transfer after a fellow inmate threatened to “-—- -–-” him, and another made a crude sexual remark within days of his arrival at Idaho’s hellhole max security prison. The convicted killer of four University Idaho undergrads had barely made it one night in his maximum security prison before requesting to be moved to another part of Idaho Maximum Security Institution in Boise on July 30, according to documents obtained by People. The request complains of “minute-by-minute verbal threats/harassment,” as well as prisoners flooding their own cells with...

Progressive activist Miriam Krinsky was at the top of her game in early 2024. As the founder and leader of Soros-backed Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP), she helped support the day-to-day work of the nationwide wave of progressive prosecutors elected in the late 2010s and early 2020s. Then it all came to a screeching halt when her own staff accused her of being a racist, according to emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. FJP, funded by billionaire financier George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, played a key role in supporting elected progressive prosecutors under Krinsky’s leadership from 2017 through 2024....

Immigrants seeking a legal pathway to live and work in the United States will now be subject to screening for “anti-Americanism’,” authorities said Tuesday, raising concerns among critics that it gives officers too much leeway in rejecting foreigners based on a subjective judgment. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said officers will now consider whether an applicant for benefits, such as a green card, “endorsed, promoted, supported, or otherwise espoused” anti-American, terrorist or antisemitic views. “America’s benefits should not be given to those who despise the country and promote anti-American ideologies,” Matthew Tragesser, USCIS spokesman, said in a statement. “Immigration benefits—including...

A Guatemalan man died on Thursday after an SUV struck him as he fled from a federal deportation raid in California.The morning of the incident, Immigration and Customs Enforcement was raiding a Home Depot in Monrovia, California, according to KABC-TV in Los Angeles.

SummaryRaids at farms ensnare migrants who lived in the U.S. for decades One detained migrant said an agent in military garb hit him on the head, threatened him with gun DHS said 185,000 people have been deported from the U.S. this year Aug 12 (Reuters) - Yahir remembers growing up in Mexico without a bed or a stove. He didn’t own a pair of shoes until he was 10, and in the mid-1990s — when he was 13 — he crossed with a group illegally into the U.S. in search of work. He settled in California and worked on farms...

Convicted killer Bryan Kohberger has whined that he’s “extremely annoyed” and losing sleep at the maximum security prison he now calls home — thanks to fellow inmates who constantly yell through vents into his cell in a “relentless” taunting campaign, according to a report. Kohberger, who was hit with four life sentences last month for slaying four University of Idaho students, was transferred from jail to the only maximum security prison in the state and is now being held there in solitary confinement. And the prisoners at Kohberger’s new digs at Idaho Maximum Security Institution in Kuna have had it...

Internal Homeland Security documents describing specifications for border-crossing scanners, which emit gamma or X-ray radiation to probe vehicles and their occupants, are raising new health and privacy concerns, CNET has learned. Even though a public outcry has prompted Homeland Security to move away from adding X-ray machines to airports--it purchased 300 body scanners last year that used alternative technology instead--it appears to be embracing them at U.S.-Mexico land border crossings as an efficient way to detect drugs, currency, and explosives.

Jailed, in physical pain and feeling utterly defeated, Luis Diaz Inestroza — a Kansas City, Kansas, immigrant who illegally crossed over into the United States 13 years ago from Honduras — has chosen to self-deport. In 2019, during the first term of President Donald Trump, the life of Diaz Inestroza, his 3-year-old stepson, Noah, and his then-pregnant partner, Kenia Mayorga, was featured along with the stories of seven other families in the six-part Netlix docuseries “Living Undocumented,” produced by singer and actress Selena Gomez. Diaz Inestroza and his family would subsequently come to settle in Kansas City, Kansas, where he...