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Residents left without power as Russia targets Ukraine's energy grid

Russia targeted energy infrastructure in Odesa region overnight on Sunday, according to Ukraine’s Emergency Service. A fire broke out and was promptly extinguished. At least six people were wounded in...

5dFrance 24world_newsImpact

Second ICE shooting in Minneapolis sparks clashes with protesters

A federal immigration agent shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis on Wednesday night after reportedly being attacked with a shovel and a broom handle, as tensions between ICE agents and protesters cont...

Jan 15EuronewsPoliticsImpact

America's largest labor movement joins the fight against ICE

ICE officers have made over 2,500 arrests in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge. Anadolu/Anadolu via Getty Images The AFL-CIO has endorsed a Minnesota economic blackout on January 23 in response t...

Jan 17Business InsiderPoliticsImpact

Stars and Stripes staff fear the Pentagon is coming for the newspaper — and their jobs

Stars and Stripes newspaper Ullstein bild via Getty Images The military's independent newspaper, Stars and Stripes, is facing new pressure from the Pentagon. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said the o...

Jan 17Business InsiderPoliticsImpact

Victim of Iranian crackdown buried in hidden grave, family says

Iranian official media on Wednesday said 3,117 people were killed during protests which first erupted in late December and which activists say were suppressed with a deadly crackdown. here are many ve...

3dFrance 24world_newsImpact

Live: UN rights chief 'horrified' by Iranian crackdown amid reports of hundreds killed

UN ​human rights chief Volker Turk said Tuesday he was "horrified" by the violence in Iran as a government crackdown continued. The Human Rights Activists News Agency estimated the death toll at 646 w...

Jan 13France 24PoliticsImpact

ICE arrests in the US: What's true, what's fake

Across the United States, arrests by ICE agents - and protests against them - continue. As Donald Trump's immigration crackdown has intensified, more and more videos have gained traction online, showi...

2dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Ex-refugee and former Iraqi president takes over UN's refugee agency

Bahram Salih, the new head of the UN's refugee agency says that he knows the pain of being ripped from all one knows. The former Iraqi president has just taken over the UNHCR and headed to Kakuma refu...

Jan 13France 24world_newsImpact

ICE arrested 2 truck drivers heading to a major Meta data center project

President Donald Trump holds an image showing the scale of Meta's new data center under construction in Louisiana. MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images ICE arrested two drivers on Wednesday near a Meta co...

Jan 15Business InsiderPoliticsImpact

Head of LA homeless nonprofit charged with pocketing millions, splurging on luxuries including a Hermès jacket and a trip to Vegas

Alexander Soofer, manager of an LA-based housing program, is being charged with wire fraud and pocketing $10 million in public funds. Carlos Barria/REUTERS Alexander Soofer, manager of an LA-based hou...

1dBusiness InsidercrimeImpact

Laura Jadid warns 'there’s nothing legal, ethical, moral about what’s unfolding on American streets'

François Picard is pleased to welcome independent journalist Laura Jadid sharing a piercing exposé of systemic dysfunction, ethical erosion, and authoritarianism blossoming in the US. In an era marked...

1dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

ICE has killed another person in Minneapolis

Federal agents in Minneapolis repeatedly punched a man, forced him to the ground, and then shot him multiple times . The man was later pronounced dead. This is just the latest incident of deadly viole...

16hThe VergecrimeImpact

Musk’s Grok barred from undressing AI images after global backlash

Elon Musk’s platform X on Wednesday announced measures to prevent its AI chatbot Grok from undressing images of real people, following global backlash over its generation of sexualised photos of women...

Jan 15South China Morning PostTechnologyImpact

Grok stops users from making sexualized AI images after global backlash

Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images Grok will no longer be allowed to create AI photos of real people in sexualized or revealing clothing, after widespread global backlash. "We have implem...

Jan 15Business InsiderTechnologyImpact

Read the memo Target's HR chief sent staff about 'expected disruptions' as ICE raids Minneapolis

Graffiti reading "ICE out now!" is seen on the exterior wall of a Target store in Minneapolis. Kerem YUCEL / AFP via Getty Images Target sent a memo to staff acknowledging the stress workers m...

1dBusiness InsiderPoliticsImpact

Iran: Activists report more than 2,500 dead after brutal crackdown

Activists report that more than 2,400 people have been killed in Iran’s crackdown on nationwide protests, according to updated figures from the Human Rights Activist News Agency, which says most of th...

Jan 14France 24world_newsImpact

Sen. Mark Kelly is suing the Pentagon. Legal experts say veterans' rights are at stake.

Sen. Mark Kelly said his lawsuit is about fighting back on the Pentagon's crackdown on speech. Heather Diehl/Getty Images Senator Mark Kelly sued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the Pentagon's spe...

Jan 15Business InsiderPoliticsImpact

Young TikTokers are reframing bankruptcy as a financial hack. Experts say it's far more complicated.

More than 533,000 people filed for bankruptcy last year. Boy_Anupong/Getty Images Personal bankruptcy filings are on the rise in the US. Some young people have taken to TikTok, framing their bankruptc...

22hBusiness InsidereconomicsImpact

2 military influencers say they never planned to have an online following, but standard recruiting efforts weren't working

Tyler Butterworth (left) and John Howell (right) have built a following on social media as military influencers. Jake Gabbard / Business Insider Army soldiers Tyler Butterworth and John Howell use soc...

Jan 15Business InsidersocietyImpact

America's new sink-or-swim era is here

Tyler Le/BI A few years ago, HR practitioner T. Tara Turk-Haynes hired yoga instructors and meditation gurus to help employees handle burnout at the media company where she worked. She's not doing any...

5dBusiness InsidereconomicsImpact
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