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International law experts ‘seriously concerned’ about ‘strikes on schools, health centres and homes’ in contravention of Geneva conventions Donald Trump, other senior US officials and their cheerleaders appear to be embracing attacks – and threats of attacks – on Iranian civilian infrastructure, which legal experts say appears to constitute serious war crimes under international law. … Read more

Decisions on the White House ballroom, public media and journalists’ access to the Pentagon are heartening. But restoring our institutions is up to us In another one of those strange and unprecedented moments of the Trump years, the president of the United States showed up at the supreme court the other day. No other presidents … Read more

Shop around, coast downhill, band together – drivers tell of how they’re dealing with the costliest gas in the US Jack Nooney has pretty much made peace with the traffic since moving to Los Angeles five years ago, but recent soaring gas prices have certainly added another layer of insult to his daily commute. The … Read more

No Attorney General has done more damage to the Justice Department. Her successor could be even more dangerous.

Starmer should just admit we’re being held to ransom by Trump – but instead he’s making the king go on a state visit Donald Trump has suggested that the war with Iran will be over in two to three weeks. The rest of the world just shrugs. We’ll believe it when we see it. The … Read more

Bondi and Kristi Noem the only two cabinet members to be removed despite string of scandals involving male officials Donald Trump has been accused of running a “misogynistic administration” after making Pam Bondi the second woman to be fired from a cabinet already dominated by men. The US president dismissed the attorney general on Thursday … Read more

The U.S. military confirms it struck the biggest bridge in Iran which connects Tehran to a neighboring city. It comes as President Donald Trump is warning that the United States “hasn’t even started destroying what’s left” in that country.

Amid ICE arrests and detentions, attendance has dropped and churches have closed. ‘You’re deporting the future of American Christianity,’ a Latino evangelical leader said.

As casualties mount, those who share a home state with the deceased in Iowa, Kentucky or Ohio question the war’s legality Upon the headstones at the Dayton National Cemetery in southwest Ohio are the names of the numerous wars fallen soldiers buried here have fought in: Korea, Vietnam and Iraq. At the center of this … Read more

Decision came after hearing in which Subramanyam Vedam, 64, said he didn’t kill Thomas Kinser when he was 19 A judge has cleared the way for the potential release of an Indian citizen who was taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody last year after his Pennsylvania murder conviction was overturned following four decades … Read more