Uganda's authorities have shut down rights groups, arrested opponents and their supporters, now they've turned off the internet. After 40 years in office, President Yoweri Museveni has no intention of...
The Senate passed a bill that could give people who've found their likeness deepfaked into sexually-explicit images without their consent a new way to fight back. The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images an...
My brother is one of many Palestinians Israel continues to illegally detain. Their release must be part of talks....
Changes to how customers tip on Uber Eats and DoorDash have led to lower earnings for gig workers, according to a report from New York City. Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images Uber Eats and DoorDas...
Tehran went from ‘halal internet’ to near-total blackout but activists have smuggled in Starlink devices to get information out...
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US sanctions have damaged Iran's economy, which was the reason the protests broke out in the first place....
captionTK Jordyn Bradley I moved in with my long-distance partner's family to be closer to a job and save some money. A lot of 26-year-olds might not see the appeal of this situation, but I was gratef...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Iran’s current leadership may be nearing its end amid mass protests across the country. “If a regime can only stay in power through the use of violence, then it i...
Authorities said Grok was being misused to generate sexually explicit and non-consensual AI images....
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From left: Barbara Face pictured as a teenager when she first started drinking, at the height of her alcoholism, and sober, as she is today. Courtesy of Barbara Face Barbara Face began drinking at 14 ...
The Adelaide Writers' Week retracted an invitation to an Australian-Palestinian author, citing the the Bondi Beach attack. Dozens, including the event's director and the former PM of New Zealand, with...
A jailed activist has lost a judicial review against a Hong Kong Correctional Services Department rule that prohibits female inmates from wearing shorts in summer, with the court ruling that the women...
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...
US President Donald Trump said on January 13 he’s cancelled talks with Iranian officials amid a protest crackdown, telling Iranian citizens “help is on its way.” Trump did not offer any details about ...
Paige Chenault Lohoefer founded The Birthday Project in 2012 Courtesy of This be Grace Paige Chenault Lohoefer is the founder of the nonprofit The Birthday Party Project. The organization celebrates k...