White House ‘disappointed’ by gun rights ruling
A Long Island man filed a $5 million federal lawsuit against The Hershey Company Wednesday alleging that the company’s dark chocolate contains dangerous levels of heavy metals. In a 24-page class action complaint in a federal court in New York,Christopher Lazazzaro claimed that Hershey’s Special Dark Mildly Sweet Chocolate, Lily’s Extra Dark Chocolate 70% Cocoa,…
the world that criminalizes homosexuality or otherwise discriminates against LGBTQ individuals Tuesday, seemingly indicating that the leadership of the Catholic Church—long divided over the question of its position toward the community—was beginning to take a firmer position of solidarity with the LGBTQ community. “Being homosexual isn’t a crime,” Francis said during an exclusive interview with…
Rescue teams in Libya are struggling to retrieve the bodies of victims that have been swept out to sea in raging flood waters. At least 2,300 have been killed, according to the ambulance authority in Derna, the worst affected city. Two dams and four bridges collapsed in Derna, submerging much of the city when Storm…
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has spoken of an “historic opportunity” for Arab states to remake their region “with the least amount of foreign interference”, in his first trip to an Arab League summit in over a decade. He said Arab leaders should build on the reconciliation ahead of the summit. Syria had been suspended from…
President Emmanuel Macron will meet political party leaders on Thursday and address the nation on TV to call for unity and try to prevent any spillover of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in France, where there has been a rise in antisemitic acts. France has Europe’s largest Muslim and Jewish populations and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has in…
A motive in the shooting that claimed five lives remains unclear. Anderson Lee Aldrich had a fractured family life, according to the suspect’s father. As the 22-year-old arrested in the deadly rampage at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ club made an initial court appearance Wednesday and was ordered held without bond, pieces of the suspect’s past…