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3+ min ago (803+ words) Palestinians displaced from refugee camps in the northern West Bank are demanding to return to their homes after an Israeli military takeover of the camps, and they fear that proposed U.S. plans for rebuilding the camps will completely erase them. These thousands of families have been displaced within their own cities, and are totally reliant upon community resources for survival. Israeli forces are now stationed in the now-depopulated camps, and has kept them empty as it aims to uproot armed Palestinian resistance groups, which'were based in the camps'before the Israel's operation. The conditions imposed on Palestinians from these camps impact every aspect of their daily lives, adding to the humanitarian burden on the limited resources of the cities and their community. "The most obvious impact is currently on the education of children, who used to go to the UNRWA schools in…...

6+ min ago (387+ words) Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) in Tucson, Arizona on December 5, 2025 (Image: Screengrab via @Rep_Grijalva / X) U.S. Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) is accusing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents of pepper-spraying her in her face while she was at a local Tucson, Arizona restaurant. Rep. Grijalva in a video on social media said she saw about 40 mostly-masked ICE agents at a restaurant she frequents weekly. The agents were "in several vehicles that the community had stopped right here, right in the middle of the street, because they were afraid that they were taking people without due process, without any kind of notice." She said that the community was "protecting their people" when she was "sprayed in the face by a very aggressive agent," and "pushed around by others when I literally was not being aggressive." Congresswoman Grijalva said she saw "people directly sprayed," including "members…...

7+ min ago (314+ words) Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) bragged that he had overseen the "most productive" Congress in history despite enacting a seven-week hiatus to force Democrats to agree to Republican demands during a government shutdown. During an interview on Friday, Fox Business host Stuart Varney noted that Johnson was saddled with a "minuscule majority." "We have one of the smallest margins in U.S. history," the speaker agreed. "And on any given day, two or three or four people may be upset or frustrated about something. They didn't get all their preferences, or they have different ideas." "Because if we stay unified, there is absolutely nothing that we can't achieve," he continued. "But we've already demonstrated that, this Congress. We've had one of the most productive Congresses in the history of the institution." Johnson pointed to "big legislation" like President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful…...

9+ min ago (226+ words) A big rift is brewing in the Trump administration, as allies of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. " the mastermind of the so-called "Make America Healthy Again" movement " lobby President Donald Trump to fire Lee Zeldin, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Kennedy and his supporters are notorious anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists who reject much of modern medicine " but according to The New York Times, many are also genuine supporters of protecting the environment, and see Zeldin's hands-off, polluter-friendly approach as contrary to their values. This comes after the EPA made a number of decisions rolling back efforts to clean up the environment. Zen Honeycutt, who founded the MAHA-aligned group Moms Across America, said of these decisions, "If our enemies were to write a plan on how to poison Americans and prevent us from growing our own food,…...

11+ min ago (1017+ words) If we truly had a free media in the U.K., rather than one serving the interests only of the state and billionaire class, this would be a front-page news story: "Six political prisoners " held unlawfully for a year or more on remand, and retroactively deemed to be "terrorists" for trying to stop the Gaza genocide " have been on hunger strike for many weeks in prison. At least one is already seriously ill." There has been blanket silence from the media on these developments, and barely any coverage of the appalling conditions these political prisoners are being subjected to since Palestine Action was reclassified by Sir Keir Starmer"s government as a terrorist organisation "aftertheir arrests. Notably, it is the first time a direct-action group, one that directs its violence against property " that is, factories making weapons to kill civilians in Gaza " rather…...

16+ min ago (1109+ words) A law professor bashed Stephen Miller for pushing discriminatory immigration restrictions in America that have long been gone. The Trump administration announced that it has "indefinitely" stopped immigration policies for all Afghan nationals after a Nov. 26 National Guard shooting involving an Afghan suspect who shot two troops " one fatally " in Washington, D.C. Frost slammed Miller's harsh immigration policy and described how it harkened to the "nativist fervor culminated in 1924 with the Immigration Act," which aimed to try and slow down immigration from countries that were deemed "undesirable." It capped immigration to make it 2% of the nationality's population in the U.S. in 1890. Miller has appeared to make a similar move in his response to immigration. The writer argued that the suspect should be investigated and punished if he is found guilty of the attack. "But collective punishment is just the sort of bigotry…...

17+ min ago (1796+ words) Donald Trump's attempt to nab more Republican congressional seats and keep his party in control of Congress just got a boost Friday when Indiana's House of Representatives passed a new legislative map. The Indiana state Senate won't meet until January, creating a time crunch to have new maps approved in time for the 2026 midterm elections. If they were to actually pass early in the legislative session, they would likely face legal challenges that could prevent their implementation in time for primary elections. We're about to get more Epstein documents. Trump-appointed Judge Rodney Smith of the U.S. District Court of Southern Florida on Friday ordered the release of previously secret grand jury transcripts from 2005 and 2007 investigations into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The move was spurred by the passing of Representatives Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna's Epstein Files Transparency Act. This comes after…...

17+ min ago (250+ words) A supporter of President Donald Trump in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 23, 2023 (Image: Shutterstock) Several groups affiliated with President Donald Trump's MAGA movement are now applying pressure to Republican state legislators in Indiana, who have yet to pass a heavily gerrymandered congressional redistricting map. Politico reported Friday that Turning Point Action " the electoral arm of slain MAGA activist Charlie Kirk's organization " is descending on the Hoosier State to push Indiana state senators to approve the map after previous attempts failed. The group pledged to spend more than $10 million to run candidates in Republican primaries if sitting GOP lawmakers didn't vote in favor of the new maps. "[F]ailure to get this done means you and any other opposition will be defeated and removed from office in your next election," McIntosh said. Bray has previously said he didn't have enough votes within…...

19+ min ago (167+ words) At least four countries will withdraw from next year's Eurovision Song Contest following a decision to allow'Israel'to compete. After a European Broadcasting Union (EBU) discussion in Switzerland this week, public broadcasters from Slovenia, Spain,'Ireland, and'the Netherlands'issued statements denouncing the failure to address concerns over Israel's participation in the contest, while Palestine solidarity movements elsewhere in Europe are demanding from more broadcasters to follow suit. "For more than a year, we have been warning that we cannot stand on the same stage with a representative of a country that has committed genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza," said Ksenija Horvat The post Public Broadcasters Quit Eurovision 2026 Over Participation Of Israel appeared first on PopularResistance.Org. After the European Broadcasting Union decided to allow Israel to compete. "The situation in Gaza, despite the ceasefire and the approval of the peace process,…...

20+ min ago (65+ words) ECOFEST 2025 in Dakar, Senegal focuses on how culture fosters resilience amid political crises in West Africa. West African culture takes center stage at Dakar's ECOFEST 2025 ECOFEST 2025 is under way in Dakar, Senegal, with a focus on how culture fosters resilience amid political crises in West Africa. Al Jazeera's Nicolas Haque spoke to attendees about what the celebrations mean to them....