Wednesday, April 1, 2026

UN rights chief says Trump’s boat strikes are illegal as death toll reaches 61

UN human rights officials, independent experts, and rights groups say U.S. airstrikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific violate international human rights law, amount to extrajudicial killings, and may constitute a crime against humanity.

Terms of surrender: The conspiracy to obstruct justice in Palestine

Normalization of the Israeli regime and its crimes must end. Genocide must be a red line. And Palestine must be free.

Trump orders US nuclear weapons testing to resume for the first time in 33...

The president’s directive to restart nuclear weapons testing, announced just before his meeting with China’s Xi Jinping, has sparked alarm among arms control experts and lawmakers who warn it could trigger global escalation and radioactive fallout.

Trump approval slump puts 2026 midterms and GOP strategy in jeopardy

New national polling shows President Donald Trump at 39 percent approval and 58 percent disapproval, his worst showing of the second term and rivaling the lowest point of his presidency overall, as voters sour on his economic, immigration, and high-profile executive actions while protest movements gain strength.

Trump’s Pacific pivot

Trump's plan: negotiate with China today, fight a war with it tomorrow.

Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground. Oklahoma regulators failed...

Wastewater injection had been happening in Oklahoma for 80 years, but something was driving the growing number of purges. But what is the cause?

Rage Against the ICE Machine

Trump’s ICE forces are facing militant and organized opposition everywhere they turn.

Ahead of COP30, UN report warns 1.5°C breach as countries commit to just 10...

With fewer than one third of Paris Agreement signatories submitting updated climate plans, the UN’s new synthesis report shows global pledges would cut emissions by only 10 percent by 2035 as world leaders admit “overshooting is now inevitable.”

Brazilian government grants license for exploratory oil drilling in Amazon basin

Despite environmental and Indigenous concerns, the Brazilian government cited that the potential for energy sovereignty.

Biden administration discarded internal finding on Shireen Abu Akleh killing, former investigator says

A former U.S. Security Coordinator official says evidence showed Israeli soldiers intentionally shot the Palestinian American journalist, but senior officials removed that conclusion and the State Department called it “the result of tragic circumstances.”