Channel deaths: desperate call from boat raised alarm for rescue operation

Read More Four people died and more than 40 were rescued after a desperate call to a charity warned that a boat carrying asylum seekers including children had capsized in the Channel on Wednesday morning. An unidentified man on the sinking vessel, in a recording obtained by the Guardian, asked at 2.53am for the alarm […]

Haley says UN’s ousting of Iran from women’s commission is ‘bare minimum’

Post Content FIRST ON FOX: Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley on Wednesday said that the removal of Iran from the U.N.’s Commission on the Status of Women was the “bare minimum” that the world body could do, calling it “embarrassing” that the regime was even on the panel. “Kicking Iran off the U.N. women’s commission […]

Iran booted from UN Women’s commission following brutal crackdown on protesters

Iran on Wednesday was ousted from the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women over its oppressive policies for women and its brutal crackdown on protesters. Twenty-nine members of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) voted to oust Tehran after the U.S. called on the 54-member body to immediately remove the Islamic Republic of […]

North Dakota, Iowa Are Latest to Ban TikTok From State-Owned Devices

North Dakota and Iowa have joined a growing number of U.S. states in banning the Chinese-owned short-video-sharing app TikTok from state-owned devices, citing national security concerns.North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum and Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds issued directives on to…

Outgoing Alabama senator says body ‘less collegial’ than it was 36 years ago

Post Content Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby has chosen not to seek a seventh term, saying the body was “less collegial” than it was decades ago. “It’s less collegial than when I first went to the Senate 36 years ago,” the state’s longest-serving senator told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Shelby said that he had a […]

Sandy Hook Anniversary: Biden Claims ‘Societal Guilt’ on Guns

President Joe Biden on Wednesday said the U.S. “should have societal guilt” for the slow pace of action on restricting access to firearms as he marked the 10th anniversary of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.Twenty students and six educators died in the…

Club Q Shooting Survivors Press Congress to Act on Guns

Survivors of last month’s deadly mass shooting at a Colorado gay nightclub testified Wednesday to Congress about the onslaught of threats and violence against members of the LGBTQ community as they urged lawmakers to pass a law banning some semiautomatic weapons.Michael…