NEW: An immigrant dad waited five months for a fingerprinting appointment required to reunite with his daughter.
In that time, the toddler was sexually abused in government care, according to a civil lawsuit filed.
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In the virtual pages of Tejas Mensual today attempting to put into words what it's like to report on the greatest existential threat your community has ever faced without very publicly losing your mind texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…
Every single river outfitter in the Big Bend region joined a flotilla today at Santa Elena Canyon to deliver one message to DHS and Governor Abbott: You can pry this river from their cold, dead hands.
Pope Leo's Easter message:
"Let those who have weapons lay them down! Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them!"
Mexico and the US have agreed to revise a 1944 water-sharing treaty, shifting Mexico’s five-year quota to fixed annual deliveries of more than 400 million cubic metres of water to the US.
Al Jazeera’s John Holman reports.
This is MASSIVE #Indiana
People don't understand this is literally hundreds of acres of land that were previously growing our food crops and forests that were home to many animals. This will drain and pollute our water table and no one will care until it is too late‼️
“With everything we do, we are undercutting the laws of war,” says former NSC official Gary Sick. At 91, he reflects, “I would never have believed that we would find ourselves in the position that we’re in, as the rogue nation in the world.”
a Zionist fanatic at the Oxford Union angrily asks George Galloway if he is racist because of his opposition to the genocidal Israeli occupation, and is applauded by the audience. Here's Galloway's response that gets the audience to applaud him by the end:
In recent weeks, US-born Pope Leo has emerged as a sharp critic of the Iran war. He named Trump, for the first time publicly, in a direct appeal urging the president to end the expanding conflict reut.rs/3QhoveL
“Our own government is not doing a damn thing about [Palestinian-Americans being murdered by Israelis].”
@mehdirhasan asks Senator @ChrisVanHollen why the ‘America First’ Trump administration has failed to hold Israel accountable for the murder of several American citizens.
NEW: Google co-founder Sergey Brin spent $45 million to stop a California wealth tax.
He's worth $222 billion, and doesn't want to 5% of that going to fund health care in his state.
Right now he has a powerful ally — Gavin Newsom. But the people of California feel differently.
That moment when a British surgeon was giving testimony to the UK Parliament.
He describes how IDF drones arrive right after airstrikes in Gaza, targeting and shooting the injured, including children,right on the spot.....