A head-on collision between a bus and a truck k!lled 24 people in Zimbabwe. Police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said the accident happened on Thursday, February 13, 2025 near Beitbridge, a town on the southern border with South Africa. The bus was traveling from the capital, Harare, to Beitbridge with 65 passengers on board. …
Photograph Source: Vateamster – CC BY-SA 4.0 U.S. President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again trade wars have revealed the limits of international solidarity by U.S. based unions, especially the Teamsters, to their counterparts in Canada. The institutional links between U.S. and Canadian unions are more intimate than almost any of the trade union movements in the…
U.S. Congressman Scott Perry has made explosive allegations that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded terrorist organizations, including Boko Haram. Perry, a Republican representing Pennsylvania, made the claims during the inaugural hearing of the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency on Thursday. The hearing, titled “The War on Waste: Stamping Out the…
Police in Indiana say they thwarted a Valentine’s Day mass shooting that a teen girl was allegedly plotting at her high school. Trinity Shockley, 18, was arrested this week within days of police uncovering a plot to shoot up the Mooresville High School, located southwest of Indianapolis, USA authorities said. A tipoff came from the…
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The US aid program began in earnest in the early stages of the Cold War, with an intention to beat off the contenders from the Soviet bloc in the postcolonial world. President Harry S. Truman proposed, in his 1949 inaugural address, “a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific…
