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For a year and a half, protesters on both the left and the right have targeted public officials at their homes in Los Angeles, demonstrating at all hours to express their grievances over mask mandates, rent forgiveness and other issues. Now, the City Council is seeking to tighten the rules around such protests. The council, on a 13-1 vote, ordered city attorneys on Tuesday to draft a law that would bar protesters from coming within 300 feet of a target’s home.

Justin Trudeau has been forced to cancel an election rally after a crowd of angry protesters ambushed the event. The Canadian prime minister had been set to address supporters in Bolton, Ontario, but the event was called off over security concerns. Dozens of protesters gathered at the rally and shouted obscenities before Mr Trudeau could speak. The Liberal prime minister is hoping to secure a majority in a snap general election he called earlier this month. But in recent days his canvassing efforts have been dogged by protests against Covid-19 vaccines and government restrictions.

there are still concerns about COVID-19 vaccines, even after the FDA approved the Pfizer vaccine. Health care workers protest vaccine mandate "When we're going to lose all of our nurses and then all of a sudden one of our three vaccines gets FDA approved so we don't lose nurses — nurses are still not going to get it regardless if it's FDA approved," said Krissy Licht, a Carlsbad nurse. "We are not going to do that." Licht was one of the first people in the state to get vaccinated, but it's something she regrets now. "Probably would not have gotten...

The Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police said yesterday's anti-lockdown protests in Melbourne's CBD were among the most violent he has seen in two decades. Chief Commissioner Shane Patton described the rally, which attracted thousands of people, as "disgraceful". "What we saw yesterday was probably one of the most violent protests we've seen in nearly 20 years. That is astonishing," Mr Patton said. "The protest was held under the banner of a 'freedom rally'. It was anything but. "All I can say is … it was tremendously disappointing. The risk that those people have posed to the rest of the community...

KABUL, Aug 19 (Reuters) - The Taliban called on Afghanistan's imams to urge unity when they hold their first Friday prayers since the Islamist group seized control of the country, as protests against the takeover spread to more cities on Thursday, including the capital, Kabul. Several people were killed when Taliban militants fired on a crowd in the eastern city of Asadabad, a witness said. Another witness reported gunshots near a rally in Kabul, but they appeared to be Taliban firing into the air. ......

Are they still protesting in Cuba? I don't know. The Cuban government has shut off the Cuban people's internet. The big demonstrations began four weeks ago, sparked, curiously, by a rap song. The key lyric is: "Freedom! No more Doctrine!" "Doctrine" refers to the "constant cycle of propaganda" from the government, explains Cuban emigre Alian Collazo in my newest video. Sadly, silly TV reporters in America claimed the protests were about "hunger, pandemic restrictions and the lack of COVID vaccinations," or, according to ABC's George Stephanopoulos, "food and fuel shortages." "Nonsense!" says Collazo. The cause is clear. "The protesters were...

resident Joe Biden's first six months in office have been devoted to destroying every successful policy from the previous administration. In fact, Biden has managed to do what many of us thought impossible: make Jimmy Carter look good. In foreign affairs, the president has appeared feckless and weak, emboldening our adversaries and frightening our allies. In domestic affairs, his policies have created a catastrophe on our southern border and caused huge spikes in inflation, violent crime and upheaval over COVID-19 issues. Biden and his controllers now have a chance to save his presidency from complete failure. It's a cry for...

Iowa is to pay five protesters in support of the Black Lives Matter movement $5,000 each to settle a lawsuit after they were banned from the premises of the state Capitol last year, the Associated Press reported....The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Iowa filed a lawsuit on behalf of the five individuals and their lawyer is to receive $45,000 as part of the settlement.... ....Iowa is also withdrawing their verbal and written bans so the individuals "may continue to enter and use the Iowa Capitol Complex on the same basis and under the same terms as any other law-abiding...

Anyone organizing or planning to attend a second Covid-19 lockdown protest in Sydney has been warned, "you will be arrested" Police Commissioner Mick Fuller revealed authorities had received upwards of 10,000 tip-offs since Saturday when thousands of people marched through Sydney's CBD to demonstrate against the state's lockdown conditions. More than 57 people have been charged for attending the protests and many more fines and charges are expected to be laid as officers trawl through hours of footage to identify more protesters. NSW police said there are still murmurs about a second protest planned for this Saturday despite social media...

Thousands have defied COVID stay-at-home orders to march unmasked in protest through central Sydney. NSW Police Minister David Elliott condemned attendees as "very selfish boofheads", announcing a dedicated strike force of detectives to apprehend them. Fifty-seven people had already been charged and 90 infringements issued by late this afternoon

As House leaders engage in a standoff over Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Jan. 6 panel, a poll found that likely voters are more supportive of investigating the social injustice demonstrations that roiled the nation last summer. A supermajority of likely voters (66%) want the Black Lives Matter and antifa protests investigated, while a majority do not support Pelosi's inquiry into the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports poll. Just 49% support Pelosi's House Jan. 6 panel, and majorities of Blacks and Hispanics back an investigation into the protests that followed the murder of George Floyd...

EDITORIAL BROAD Black Lives Matter under fire for supporting 'Cuban police brutality' In the US, a storm of criticism has erupted against Black Lives Matter (BLM) as the movement appears to have sided with the Cuban communist regime in the protests in Cuba...

Hundreds of people gathered outside Versailles Restaurant in Little Havana Sunday afternoon in solidarity with the demonstrations in Cuba protesting against the communist regime. Cuban flags, music by Willy Chirino, and T-shirts with the phrase “Patria y Vida” - Spanish for “Homeland and life” - were the common denominator during the demonstration. Protesters shouted “freedom” in unison as cars with flags drove along 8th Street, honking their horns. **SNIP** “The real intervention is what the Cuban people are doing: to get up in the streets, it is what the Cuban exile is doing to stay on their feet,” Omni said....

It may have taken a few days for the Biden administration to finally begin using "communist" to describe the government of Cuba. Still, the State Department's initial claim that the protests were purely due to COVID-19 reveals a futile attempt to control the narrative. The American Left clearly has a messaging problem when it comes to Cuba. This problem became most clear on Wednesday, when the Left’s primary activist wing, Black Lives Matter, issued a verbose statement that blamed Cuba’s situation not on the authoritarian regime, but solely on the U.S. trade embargo. The statement just barely stopped short of...

Street protests broke out overnight over severe water shortages in Iran's oil-rich southwest, according to Iranian news outlets and videos posted on social media on Friday, as the country faces its worst drought in 50 years. Videos showed protesters setting fire to tires to block a road and security forces were seen trying to disperse the crowds as some shots were heard. Reuters could not independently verify the videos' authenticity. "State television should report what we are saying and show the image of the buffaloes that perished from lack of water," an elderly protester said on a video carried by...

Hundreds of dissidents, students, artists, journalists, priests and even children have been arrested in Cuba following islandwide anti-government protests that erupted Sunday and their violent aftermath. Many remain incommunicado, according to family members and international organizations denouncing the arrests. “My mother just called me crying,” said Arnaldo Falcon, whose brother, Ariel Gonzalez Falcon, 21, has been detained since Sunday and is currently being held in a prison in El Cotorro, on the outskirts of Havana. “My parents have been in that disgusting prison since first thing in the morning, and now they have been told that they will hold him...

The column’s title struck you as click-bait, right? Or maybe you thought the Babylon Bee, Saturday Night Live, etc. somehow got their post and skit titles mixed up with Townhall’s, right? Well: Check this out, and remember that a snickering Stalinist Cuba sits prominently on the very UN Human Rights Council which the Biden team just invited. “Guns? What for?...to fight the government? The Cuban people don’t need guns nowadays.” – Fidel Castro during his very first speech upon entering Havana Jan. 8, 1959. Some guns in the hands of Cuban freedom-lovers would sure come in handy this week, as...

The official Black Lives Matter account has posted a statement reaffirming its support of Cuba’s communist regime just as mass anti-government protests are breaking out in the island. BLM also again expressed gratitude for Cuba giving asylum to convicted murderer Assata Shakur.

Anti-communist protests in Cuba are threatening to dismantle one of the last vestiges of former president Barack Obama's diplomatic legacy. The unrest has come as a shock to journalists and other Democrats who cheered the Obama administration's efforts to normalize U.S. relations with the communist regime. The controversial initiative, spearheaded by failed novelist Ben Rhodes, culminated in 2016 with Obama's visit to Havana, where he attended a baseball game with Cuban dictator Raúl Castro. The New York Times report on the Cuban protests opens with the following oddly worded passage: Shouting "Freedom" and other anti-government slogans, thousands of Cubans took...

The Biden administration expressed concern Monday after sweeping anti-government protests in Cuba were forcibly dissolved at the direction of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermudez. Sunday’s protests, the largest the communist island has seen since the 1990s, come amid widespread frustration over a crippled economy and severe food shortages. The coronavirus pandemic is pushing the nation’s health-care system to its limit, as well. “The Cuban people are demanding their freedom from an authoritarian regime. I don’t think we’ve seen anything like these protests in a long long time if, quite frankly ever,” President Joe Biden told reporters at the White House...