TSA workers set to miss first paycheck with no end to shutdown in sight

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers are set to miss their first full paycheck on Friday as efforts to negotiate a bipartisan compromise to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have largely stalled in Congress. Nearly four weeks into the partial government shutdown — the third to affect DHS employees in recent months — both…Continue Reading

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Federal agents detained a Columbia University student early Thursday after Department of Homeland Security officers allegedly gained access to a university-owned residence by presenting a fake missing person poster of a 5-year-old. As news broke of the student, Ellie Aghayeva, and her detention, students and community members rallied en masseContinue Reading

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Iran Says U.S. and Israeli Strikes Have Killed 1,348 Civilians, Senators Demand Accountability as Pentagon Admits U.S. Struck Iranian Girls’ School, Iranian Missiles and Drones Continue to Strike at Israel, Gulf States and Oil Infrastructure, IEA Announces Record Release of Oil Reserves as Iran Warns Prices Could Top $200 PerContinue Reading

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Democracy Now! recently sat down with Agnès Callamard, the secretary general of Amnesty International and a former United Nations special rapporteur, while she was in New York City to mark International Women’s Day and attend the U.N.’s annual conference on women’s rights. Callamard responded to the assassination of Iraqi feministContinue Reading