Author: Press Room

The meeting room in the prison of Villa de Etla, a town in Oaxaca, Mexico, doubles as a classroom with school desks and a small library. The walls feature motivational phrases such as “First things first”, “Live and let live” and “Little by little, you’ll go far”.Pablo López Alavez, a 56-year-old environmental defender, has had nearly 15 years to contemplate these sentiments – and faces 15 more, after being imprisoned for murders he says he did not commit.The office of the UN high commissioner for human rights has described his detention as arbitrary. Some organisations argue that the true reason…

House Republicans will seek a $150 billion Pentagon spending hike as part of their party-line megabill, according to three people familiar with the process, granted anonymity to describe private deliberations, abandoning a lower defense target and aligning with plans set by their Senate counterparts.The upward move by the House is a win for defense hawks, who have been pushing to use GOP’s control of Congress and the White House to maximize military spending.The House Armed Services Committee will debate its portion of Republicans’ reconciliation package next week when lawmakers return from their recess and committees begin to advance their respective…

The country’s UN envoy has rolled out a basketful of demands to Berlin, including €550 billion and a third of Germany’s weapons Most people keep their Easter expectations pretty modest: some pastel candy, a chocolate bunny, maybe even one that doesn’t taste like it was made during the Cold War.But Ukraine’s former ambassador to Germany, Andrey Melnik, has decided that this is the perfect time to send the Easter Bunny – also known, apparently, as incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz – a list that reads less like holiday funsies and more like a NATO procurement form.“I am a realist and…

President Trump signs Reinstating Commonsense, Non-discriminatory School Discipline Policies Executive Order President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday, revoking an anti-white racist Obama-Biden era school discipline guidance that was issued by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Education (DOE) in January 2014. The President signed a total of seven new education executive orders relating to college universities, AI in education, and DEI practices in schools. “The Federal Government will no longer tolerate known risks to children’s safety and well-being in the classroom that result from the application of school discipline based on discriminatory and unlawful ‘equity’ ideology,”…

MILAN, ITALY – JANUARY 20: Ateez performs at Unipol Assago Forum on January 20, 2025 in Milan, … More Italy. (Photo by Francesco Prandoni/Getty Images)Getty Images ATEEZ will light up movie theaters worldwide this May with the release of a new concert film. The live juggernaut K-pop group stars in the ATEEZ World Tour [Towards the Light : Will to Power] in Cinemas that will transport audiences to January 2024 for the tour’s kickoff performance at Jamsil Arena in Seoul. Presented by CJ 4DPLEX and Trafalgar Releasing, the massive stadium-sized show gets packaged for fans across Asia, North America, Europe,…

A group of Democrat lawmakers visited two anti-Israel activists held in Louisiana Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities this week, claiming they are “unlawfully held in harrowing conditions” after having been taken into custody and having their student visas revoked. Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) were pictured outside one of the facilities on Tuesday, with Pressley reporting that they were there to visit Mahmoud Khalil and her “constituent,” Rumeysa Ozturk: Neither Khalil nor Ozturk are American citizens and are thus prohibited from voting in elections and unable to be correctly labeled as…

Crybaby and documented serial liar Bill Owens announced his resignation Tuesday as executive producer of the disgraced far-left 60 Minutes. I voted for this. Owens announced his exit in a memo to the disgraced, far-left 60 Minutes staff where he whined over how he “would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it” or make “independent decisions based on what was right for 60 Minutes.” Maybe it’s just me, but maybe the guy responsible for damaging the 60 Minutes brand more than any human being not named Dan Rather could use a little oversight. After…

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have agreed to halt fighting in the east of the country until peace talks mediated by Qatar reach their “conclusion”.It is the latest truce deal since the rebels stepped up an offensive in eastern DR Congo where authorities say 7,000 people have been killed since January.Both sides on Wednesday jointly announced to work towards peace following more than a week of talks, which they described as “frank and constructive”.Last month, Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame also reaffirmed their commitment to an “unconditional” ceasefire in a surprise…

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat, announced Wednesday that he’ll direct several state agencies to review their ties to El Salvador in the wake of what his office said was “aiding the Trump administration’s unlawful and unconstitutional actions.”“The United States Constitution guarantees due process. We are witnessing Donald Trump erode our fundamental Constitutional rights in real time, and we must fight to restore the balance of power. The State of Illinois will stand up for the Rule of Law and do everything in our power to stop the Trump administration from ripping apart our most basic rights,” Pritzker, who is…

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz delivers the State of the State address Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (Nicole Neri/Minnesota Reformer)Gov. Tim Walz on Wednesday night delivered his seventh state of the state address, cleverly using the state’s grim budget outlook to paint himself as the man in the middle, ready to bring lawmakers to a compromise in the fashion of his long ago campaign slogan, One Minnesota.Walz also used the address to hammer President Donald Trump and his sometimes sidekick Elon Musk, attacking what Walz called the “chaos and destruction” they’ve unleashed on the federal government. In the process, Walz continues to…