New accounts from 17 men, women and children taken in a midnight raid paint a violent, terrifying portrait of the federal agents’ alleged actions. These descriptions form the basis of claims filed this week against DHS and other federal agencies.
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sent me several questions about translation. She worried that they were somehow “too remedial, ” but they were actually something worse: ancient, unanswerable debates. Take this one: “How much ‘editing’ of an author when translating is considered permissible? What is the outer limit of acceptable on that score? ”
An InfoAmazonia investigation found patterns of illegal gold laundering in the Tapajós River basin in Pará state, where Indigenous communities like the Munduruku people face mercury contamination from mining activity.
Lawmakers said that giving the state oversight would stop multibillion-dollar deals from reducing care and increasing costs. Some who supported the law say it hasn’t been nearly as effective as they hoped.
City commissioner David Suarez is accused of hiring the trucks to single out members of the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace.
The country has announced a constitutional referendum and elections. Can that bring democratic change?
A half-century of messy politics has inverted the Constitution’s design—and there’s no easy fix.
Elites in both China and the U. S. are too easily tempted to buy into their own myths.