London — Hundreds of masked anti-migrant protesters brought traffic around one of the world’s busiest maritime passenger ports, the Port of Dover in England, to a standstill over the weekend. In the latest in a series of increasingly confrontational demonstrations across Britain, demonstrators, many wearing balaclavas, dressed in all black and carrying English and British flags,…
Robin Morgan, a wholesome child star of the 1940s and ’50s who grew up to become an all-American radical as a poet, essayist, editor and second-wave feminist, has died. She was 85. Morgan, who was still working on new books and poems, died Saturday in New York after suffering a series of health problems in…
The Trump administration is trying to deport a self-described CIA spy who infiltrated al Qaeda after 9/11 and won his permission to live in the U.S. by helping convict terrorists. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Blerim Skoro, a Kosovo-born father of three, outside an immigration office in New Jersey where he was renewing his…
DISCUSSIONS are happening about how so many of the young protesters that rocked the Modi government recently came from families that have been faithfully voting for the right-wing prime minister. A crucial fact that seems to elude the discussants is that liberal or communist or fascist ideologues are not hatched in hatcheries. Unlike Narendra Modi,…
Las Vegas — The man who prosecutors say orchestrated the 1996 killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur is on trial Monday, almost 30 years after the fatal drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, faces a single count of murder with a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist…
This report is published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Giving birth to her fourth child in January of 2021 was life-changing, says Nicole Hamann, but not in the way she ever imagined. While still at the hospital, Hamann was informed that both she and…
The new liaison to local law enforcement for the top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles is facing state criminal charges himself, and has a string of prior convictions for driving under the influence, public records show. Shawn Christopher Lewis, who previously served as First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli’s chief of staff when he was…
A Georgia man who charged at the U.S. Capitol armed with a loaded shotgun and wearing body armor and camouflage clothing pleaded guilty on Monday to illegally carrying a firearm, court records show. Carter Camacho, 18, of Smyrna, Georgia, told police officers who apprehended him outside the Capitol on Feb. 17 that he intended to…
The suspect in the Berlin LGBTQ+ Pride parade attack, who officials said was known to have ties to ISIS, was about to be disqualified from a deradicalization program after staff saw red flags, one of the program’s leaders told CBS News on Monday. Officials said Abdul Ballout, a 21-year-old German-born citizen with Lebanese roots, plowed a…
