More than 30 civilians have been killed in US attacks on southern Iran over the past few days, according to Iranian government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani.
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US strikes kill 7 Iranian soldiers in southeast: Military
Thirteen US missiles struck facilities at a barracks in Bampour killing seven personnel from the 388th Brigade and injuring several others, it said. The army said âpassive defence measuresâ limited casualties.
Iran reports 14 killed in US strikes across five provinces, Tehran-Mashhad rail operations halted
Earlier on Thursday, Mehr News Agency reported that the Aq Tekeh Khan Bridge in the northern Golestan province had been struck by a projectile.
A US official told Axios that the American military targeted two railway bridges in northern Iran with cruise missiles as part of Wednesday‘s strikes.
The attack marked the first reported US strike on Iranian transportation infrastructure since the ceasefire took effect on April 8.
Responsibility to Protect Begins at Home, Speakers Tell General Assembly, amid Calls to âAct Before Warning Signs Become Mass Gravesâ
As conflicts proliferate and risks to civilians mount around the globe, embracing the âresponsibility to protectâ â an international norm aimed at preventing mass atrocity crimes, such as genocide â is more crucial today than ever before, the General Assembly heard today, in its annual debate on the topic.
âTwenty-one years ago, world leaders made a milestone commitment to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity,â said Courtenay Rattray, Chef de Cabinet of Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres, who delivered opening remarks on his behalf.
Referring to the outcome of the 2005 World Summit, where Member States agreed to unprecedented new parameters for atrocity prevention, he said States remain primarily responsible for the protection of their populations. âHowever, in cases where national authorities have failed to do so, Member States undertook a promise â a promise to take collective, decisive and timely action in line with the UN Charter.â
The union man who unleashed a political earthquake in California
(March 25, 2026)
When Gavin Newsom stood before a room of economic elites in New York last December and derided a âsingle labor leaderâ pushing a tax on California billionaires, he never said his name. He didnât need to.
Everyone in California politics knows of Dave Regan, the legendarily combative health care union chief who has spent decades wielding Californiaâs ballot initiative system against the health care industry.
But his newest mission is on a scale orders of magnitude larger.
California billionaire tax headed for ballot despite top Democratsâ opposition
The push to put a billionaire tax to a popular vote in blue California has exposed deep divides on the left, even as Democratic politicians across the country rally around calls for the wealthy to pay more. The issue is pitting the populist mood of the public against many Democratsâ fears that the measure will push the ultrawealthy to join a broader exodus from the state and take their tax dollars with them.
Gavin Newsom fails to stop Californiaâs controversial billionaire tax from going to voters
(June 25, 2026)
SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West President Dave Regan refused to back down on the billionaire tax.
Mamdani slate sweeps Democratic primaries in New York, ousts 2 incumbents from Congress
U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat, who leads the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and is in his fifth term, was defeated by Mamdaniâs most polarizing pick, Darializa Avila Chevalier, a democratic socialist who once helped organize pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University.
U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman, a two-term incumbent, was beaten by the Mamdani-backed former city Comptroller Brad Lander, a fixture among New York progressives who has often shown sympathy to the democratic socialist movement. And another Mamdani ally, democratic socialist state Assembly Member Claire Valdez, defeated the handpicked successor of retiring U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez.
this is the biggest blunder in American history. Mark my words
(December 9, 2023)
House approves war powers resolution to halt military action against Iran
Wednesday‘s action defied President Donald Trump as a handful of Republicans joined with Democrats to end the three-month-long war. House Speaker Mike Johnson had tried to prevent an outcome that would show the mounting opposition to the war.
âHuge Win for the Constitutionâ as House Finally Passes Iran War Powers Resolution
Raucous applause erupted in the House of Representatives on Wednesday after US lawmakers passed a war powers resolution aimed at ending Donald Trumpâs illegal war of choice against Iranâalthough skeptics cautioned that the measure will likely have little impact on the actions of a president who has habitually shown utter contempt for the rule of law.
House lawmakers voted 215-208, with 7 legislators not voting, in favor of H.Con.Res.86, introduced in April by Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) and cosponsored by Reps. James Himes (D-Conn.), Adam Smith (D-Wash.), Gabe Amo (D-RI), Maggie Goodlander (D-NH), and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.).
House approves war powers resolution to halt military action against Iran in a rebuke of Trump
he House for the first time Wednesday approved a war powers resolution that would halt the U.S. military action against Iran, defying President Donald Trump as a handful of Republicans joined with Democrats to end the three-month-long conflict that has reordered politics at home and abroad.
Court blocks Alabama congressional map, saying state intentionally discriminated by race
The panel of three judges instead ordered Alabama to continue using a court-selected map that includes two majority-Black districts. Those congressional district lines were used in the 2024 elections.
In their decision, the judges found that the redistricting plan adopted by Alabama‘s GOP-led legislature in 2023, which state officials sought to reimplement for this year‘s House contests, intentionally discriminated on the basis of race, in violation of the Constitution‘s 14th Amendment.
Trump-backed redistricting plan is rejected in the South Carolina Legislature
Trump had been pushing state Republicans to redraw voting lines so they could flip a seat currently held by Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn. It would have made all the state‘s seven congressional districts lean Republican and it would have extended the GOP lead in the national redistricting race, already netting them around nine more seats in the U.S. House.
Vor Zwischenwahlen in den USA: Doppel-Niederlage fĂŒr Trump im Streit um Wahlkreiszuschnitte
US-PrĂ€sident Trump hat im Streit um Wahlkreiszuschnitte, die seine Republikaner begĂŒnstigen, Niederlagen erlitten. In South Carolina blockierten demokratische und republikanische Senatoren eine neue Wahlkreisaufteilung. In Alabama stoppte ein Gericht eine Neuordnung.
Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General – on the Eleventh Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)
Delivered by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General
The Secretary-General expresses his disappointment at the inability of the Eleventh Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) to reach consensus on a substantive outcome and to seize this critical opportunity to make our world safer.
UN event on nuclear non-proliferation treaty stumbles, US and Iran clash
There was no consensus among the 191 parties to the NPT, the third failure in a row at a conference reviewing the treaty
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Britainâs Rebecca Johnson, founding executive director of the Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy, had harsh criticism for both the US and Russia, the two largest nuclear powers, which she said âdouble down on nuclear threats, blame others and try to undermine or ignore the NPTâs nuclear disarmament commitments and related agreementsâ.
Any government in the world could expel the rogue state of Israel from the United Nations. None does.
(April 27, 2025)
Itâs not the world order that has failed the Palestinians. Itâs the world.
Pressure on Starmer Mounts as Dozens of Labour Lawmakers Call on Him to Quit
Dozens of Labour Party lawmakers called on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to resign on Monday, effectively rejecting their leaderâs efforts to quell a mutiny in the party ranks and raising the likelihood of a bruising leadership battle.
Mr. Starmer began the day with a speech he hoped would quiet the brewing rebellion, acknowledging the anger expressed by voters last week when they overwhelmingly rejected Labour Party candidates in elections across England, Scotland and Wales.
Starmer under pressure, as Labour suffers heavy elections losses
The results in England, Scotland and Wales have piled pressure on Sir Keir, with some Labour MPs calling for him to set a timetable for his departure, although his cabinet allies have backed him for now.
Labour has lost power in Wales, ending its 27 year-long rule, while the SNP appears likely to remain the largest party in Scotland.
Reform UK has been the big winner in England, picking up more than 1,400 seats and taking control of councils in areas where Labour and the Conservatives have been historically dominant.
The Court Gutted Congressâs War Power. Itâs Time to Give It Back.
The War Powers Resolution of 1973 was designed to restore the constitutional balance in decisions to commit the United States to armed conflict. Its central provision â a legislative veto enabling Congress to direct the withdrawal of American forces by concurrent resolution â was cast into legal doubt by the Supreme Courtâs 1983 decision in INS v. Chadha. But Chadha was wrongly decided, its reasoning is exceptionally weak, and the Courtâs subsequent embrace of functionalism in separation-of-powers cases has left it incoherent as precedent. As the United States drifts deeply into a congressionally unauthorized war with Iran, the case for overruling Chadha, or at minimum limiting it to its facts, has never been stronger.
How Has the Supreme Court Ruled on the Constitutionality of the War Powers Act?
(April 23, 2026)
The Supreme Court has never issued a definitive ruling declaring the 1973 War Powers Resolution (often called the War Powers Act) constitutional or unconstitutional; instead, the Court and lower federal courts have repeatedly avoided resolving the central constitutional clash between Congress and the President over war-making authority by invoking justiciability doctrines such as standing and the politicalâquestion doctrine [1] [2].
How Has the Supreme Court Ruled on the Constitutionality of the War Powers Act?
The Supreme Court has never issued a definitive ruling declaring the 1973 War Powers Resolution (often called the War Powers Act) constitutional or unconstitutional; instead, the Court and lower federal courts have repeatedly avoided resolving the central constitutional clash between Congress and the President over war-making authority by invoking justiciability doctrines such as standing and the politicalâquestion doctrine [1] [2].
After the latest Mandelson revelations, Starmer needs to get a good lawyer. Wasnât he supposed to be one?
During the opposition years, his defenders countered that a stolid technocrat was exactly what the country needed. They sold the former head of the Crown Prosecution Service as the polar opposite of Boris Johnson, who was driven from Downing Street in part by Starmerâs own forensic questioning. If only Starmer had lived up to the billing of his detractors, reluctantly conceded by his allies, he wouldnât be in the hole he finds himself this weekend.
Instead, he now has to rely on a defence that is lawyerly in the worst sense of that word. To have knowingly misled parliament is, in political terms, a capital crime. So the PM has to proceed on two tracks, one for âknowinglyâ the other for âmisledâ.