A “public health emergency of international concern” is the organization’s loudest alarm bell. Here’s what it can accomplish.
By Keren Landman, VOX On Saturday, July 23, World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the spread of monkeypox to be a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), the organization’s loudest alarm bell signifying an emerging outbreak. Since early May, more than 16,000 cases of monkeypox have been identified across more than […]
NEW YORK CITY – JUNE 28 2015: The 45th annual LGBT Pride parade drew an estimated two million spectators buoyed by the Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling on same sex marriage. Planned Parenthood. (Shutterstock) By Lisa Mascaro, AP WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is set to vote to protect same-sex and interracial marriages, a direct confrontation […]
By Jonathan Stempel, Insurance Journal Mars Inc. has been sued by a consumer who claims that Skittles candies are unfit to eat because they contain a known toxin that the company had pledged six years ago to phase out. In a proposed class action filed on Thursday in the Oakland, California federal court, Jenile Thames […]
London UK. 24th July 2019. Boris Johnson, delivers a speech outside 10 Downing Street. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, promise to take Britain out of the European Union by 31st October. (Shutterstock) By Brian Wheeler, BBC News Boris Johnson has defied the normal rules of politics for so long, it is hard to believe he is […]
Chicago, Il USA – 06 24 2022: Large crowds protest the overturning of Roe v. Wade (Shutterstock) By America’s Voice One of the many lessons of the Supreme Court decision to overturn federal legal protection for abortion is that elections have consequences. When we decide not to vote because our candidate didn’t win the nomination—or […]
San Antonio, Texas United States – June 28, 2022: Carlos Eduardo Espina lays 51 roses at a makeshift memorial for the migrants who died after being locked in a trailer (Shutterstock) By Melissa Gaffney, Quinn Owen, Morgan Winsor, Nadine El-bawab, and Ivan Pereira, ABC News At least 53 people are dead after dozens were found […]
Porlamar, Venezuela. September 17th, 2016: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro before the opening ceremony at the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Porlamar, Margarita Island, Venezuela (Shutterstock) By Jennifer Hansler, CNN A US government delegation quietly traveled to Venezuela “for discussions about the welfare and safety of US nationals in Venezuela,” a State Department spokesperson told CNN on […]
By Damian Zane, BBC News A gold-crowned tooth is all that remains of assassinated Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba. Shot dead by a firing squad in 1961 with the tacit backing of former colonial power Belgium, his body was then buried in a shallow grave, dug up, transported 200km (125 miles), interred again, exhumed and […]
Bogota, Colombia; November 22, 2021: Francia Marquez Mina, Afro-descendant woman, Colombian presidential candidate, environmental activist and feminist from “Soy porque somos” social movement. (Shutterstock) By Manuel Rueda and Astrid Suarez, LA Times As Colombia’s voters put aside a longtime antipathy to leftists and chose one as their new president, they also carved out another milestone […]
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA – June 19th, 2021: Black African-American fraternities participated and walked in Juneteenth celebration parade. (Shutterstock) By Sydney Combs, National Geographic Known to some as the country’s “second Independence Day,” Juneteenth celebrates the freedom of enslaved people in the United States at the end of the Civil War. For more than 150 years, […]
