Aid organizations are pressing the Trump administration to release nearly $9.7 million worth of U.S.-purchased contraceptives that have been warehoused in Belgium for months amid a broad freeze of foreign aid programs, warning the supplies could miss import deadlines and go to waste. The stock, pills, implants, injectables and IUDs bought under USAID contracts during […]
The murder trial of former sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson opened Monday, Oct. 20, more than a year after the fatal shooting of 36-year-old Sonya Massey inside her Springfield home. The case, originally slated for Sangamon County, was moved to Peoria in response to extensive media attention. Grayson faces three counts of first-degree murder, as well […]
Second Class Midshipman Kyle Philbert James, 20, who was reported missing on 9 October, was found dead the following day near the U.S. Naval Academy campus, officials said. An investigation into his death is ongoing. The academy notified James’s family on 9 October that he had not attended classes and was considered missing. On the […]
Haiti is sliding deeper into humanitarian emergency, with more than half of its 11 million people struggling to eat as armed groups expand control and the economy contracts for a sixth straight year. A new assessment from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) estimates 5.7 million Haitians face severe food insecurity. Nearly 1.9 million […]
Over the past decade, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and its largest economy, has quietly become one of the world’s deadliest places for Christians and rural civilians. From the scorched churches of Borno and Plateau to the ravaged farmlands of Benue and Taraba, thousands have been killed in a wave of violence largely attributed to […]
