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What is transpiring now may become for SGBL and BDL the equivalent of what happened to BCCI three decades ago.

And at least 16 people were killed in multiple shootings in Lewiston, Maine.

Justice Clarence Thomas in Washington, April 23, 2021. (Photo: Erin Schaff/The New York Times) By: Jo Becker, The New York Times. Julie Tate contributed rep ...

There is an urgent need for a Global Humanitarian Coalition to Defeat ISIS to conduct human rights-centered action and build upon hard-fought military gains in the campaign against ISIS. Repatriation of all third-country nationals in the squalid detention camps and prisons in northeast Syria must be the first joint task in order to ease the burden of the local administration and to accomplish long-sought security, justice, and stabilization goals.

“Watching Lucy bring in a scoop was a sight to behold: a chance to experience how and why her sources trusted her and to witness her cajoling and chasing legislators until they copped to whatever intel she was seeking.” -- Peter Wallsten, senior national investigations editor at The Washington Post and former Miami Herald political reporter

“As much as she delighted in a good scoop, she loved it even more when it was one of her protégés doing the digging.”

A recent report by an international human rights group ranked Missouri in the bottom third of all states for child rights, in part because Missouri still allows child marriage and

A recent report by an international human rights group ranked Missouri in the bottom third of all states for child rights, in part because Missouri still allows child marriage and corporal punishment in schools.

Legal protections for children in the United States and in every individual state fall short of international children’s rights standards.