Photojournalist Ted Soqui’s visual recap of the year in Los Angeles. The climate dominated most of what I decided to photograph in 2024. People are always my favorite subjects, and they make the best images. The power of protest was another subject I photographed, often to the point of exhausting the batteries in my cameras. This…
He should do this on his first day in office if he’s serious about implementing his foreign policy agenda. New York Times contributor Rajan Menon wrote in a mid-December op-ed that Trump is unlikely to agree to give Ukraine the security guarantees that Zelensky is demanding in temporary lieu of NATO membership. He’s apparently unaware that Trump…
South Carolina, U.S. – Brandon Council who had his death sentence commuted by President Biden is now demanding he be released from prison. Converseer reports that Council was sentenced to death after killing two bank employees in 2017. Council says he is the victim of “psychological harm” and is demanding a “compassionate release.” “The petitioner’s…
California, U.S. – California Justice Department officials are investigating the death of Jeremy Sanchez, a 26-year-old man fatally shot by his parole officer during a Christmas Eve visit at his Fresno home, authorities confirmed Friday. According to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), a “physical altercation” occurred between Sanchez and the parole officer,…
Washington, U.S. – BioNTech (22UAy.DE), the German biotech firm that developed a COVID-19 vaccine in partnership with Pfizer (PFE.N), has resolved royalty disputes with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). The company announced two separate settlement agreements totalling $1.26 billion to address allegations of underpaid royalties related to…
