"They were hunting for Latinos.”
Outcry is continuing over the ICE shooting death of 52-year-old Mexican immigrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
in a majority-Latino neighborhood in Houston, Texas, last week.
Events pieced together by eyewitness videos and texts sent by the agents involved in Araujo’s killing suggest that
agents largely ignored Araujo’s cries for help after he was shot.
“They really just strung him along for hours until finally sending him to the…
Thinking a lot about Blatten today: Exactly a year ago, at 15:24 the Birch glacier above the village in the Lötschental valley broke off and formed the largest glacier collapse and landslide in modern Swiss history, burying 90% of the almost 700 year old village, first mentioned in 1343...
ARTE has a nice recent documentary about the event and plans to rebuild:
German version: Der Bergsturz von Blatten - Neuanfang aus dem Nichts
Court’s leniency paves the way for fourth presidential bid by Le Pen
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen says she’ll run for the French presidency next year
-- despite being sentenced Tuesday to wear a court-ordered electronic monitor for embezzlement.
The decision by the 57-year-old veteran of three presidential races sets up a fourth campaign like no other:
potentially seeking votes while subject to the monitoring and a judge’s determination of how, and for how long, th…