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Mitigating risk in Latin America amid new US administration and recent sanctions trends
Introduction In recent years, sanctions targeting Russia, Iran and North Korea have received significant attention. Yet, some of the longest-standing and most comprehensive sanctions programmes of the United States target individuals and...

ICE is jailing a record number of immigrants. Here’s how
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Trump studiously follows an authoritarian playbook
Steve Corbin is a professor emeritus of marketing at the University of Northern Iowa. Peggy Noonan has been a conservative voice for the Wall Street Journal since leaving the Ronald Reagan administration as his primary speechwriter. Five of...

Voices: When US presidents talk of regime change, we must be careful what they wish for
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

The spy, private equity baron and ghost of a Trump donor: The revolving door behind a Gaza mercenary firm
The US mercenary firm overseeing a controversial Gaza aid programme is the creation of a bespectacled Chicago private equity baron and a CIA spy with old ties to a Donald Trump ally who participated in one of the Middle East's nastiest diplomatic...

UAMS Welcomes 3 New Sports Medicine Physicians to Northwest Arkansas
View Larger Image July 3, 2025 | FAYETTEVILLE — Primary care sports medicine physicians Kyle Arthur, M.D., Jake Martin, M.D., and Jacob Smith, M.D., MPH, recently joined UAMS Health Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine in Northwest Arkansas, bringing...

Why These Six Game-Changing Albums Refuse To Leave The Charts
More Fleetwood Mac They have universality and timelessness that have original fans going back to buy them in new formats, and new generations embracing them for the same reasons. As a result, they bob back in and out of worldwide charts. Most of...

The Media construction of a Threat: Scapegoating the Latinx ...
Historically as well as contemporarily, immigration has been a key and extremely polarizing issue in American political discussion and discourse at all levels of US society. Certain leaders have maintained more open and accepting immigration...

Low turnout and an unfair voting system: UK elections ranked in the bottom half of countries in Europe
The UK has historically been held up as leading democracy with free and fair elections. However, our new report shows election quality in the UK is now ranked in the bottom half of countries in Europe. The Global Electoral Integrity Report...

EU Buying Weapons Tested on Palestine
Israel sees an opportunity in a Europe rearming because of the supposed threat of Russia, writes Jessica Buxbaum. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at a defence ministers’ session in Brussels on June 5. (NATO/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) By Jessica...

Here are 9 Milwaukee graduates you need to know
Milwaukee, meet your future bosses. We spoke to nine 2025 graduates. And these students from across the city told us how their educational journeys inspired them and shared what’s next. ‘I believe in the power of continuous growth’ Luz Andrea...

Trump’s Success Rate In The Courts So Far: 30%
The Trump administration has lost approximately 60% of the court rulings against it since Inauguration Day and won 30%—while another 10% were mixed rulings both in favor and against the administration—based on a total of 182 rulings between Jan....

The Patriotic Punk
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Read Jeffrey Goldberg’s related article about Ken Casey. There are more and less reckless ways for a musician to meddle in politics. The safer ways are to drop an...

What Trump’s deportation obsession means for Haiti
Opinion Life just got a whole lot more precarious for roughly 211,000 Haitians residing legally in the U.S. under temporary humanitarian parole status. And the chief source of that fear and danger is U.S. President Donald Trump, who has now even...
Straive Acquires SG Analytics to Bolster Data Analytics & AI Operationalization Capabilities
NEW YORK and PUNE, India, June 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Straive, a global leader in Data, Analytics, and AI Operationalization, today announced its acquisition of SG Analytics, a leading provider of AI-powered Insights and contextual analytics...

Man extradited in $29M fraud case probed by FDIC monitor
A Nicaraguan citizen was brought to Miami from Spain this week on federal charges tied to the man's alleged wire fraud and money-laundering operation. As part of the joint investigation by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s Office of Inspector...

Business News | Straive Acquires SG Analytics to Bolster Data Analytics & AI Operationalization Capabilities
PRNewswire New York [US] / Pune (Maharashtra) [India], June 19: Straive, a global leader in Data, Analytics, and AI Operationalization, today announced its acquisition of SG Analytics, a leading provider of AI-powered Insights and contextual...
A Battle for Humane Consciousness in a War Against Truth: Exposing the Dark Arts of War
The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world. It is an objective which, when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of...

Electronic waste surges in Latin America amid lack of recycling laws
SANTIAGO, Chile, June 20 (UPI) -- Growing demand for technology in Latin America has made the region a major importer of electronic devices, but it still lacks clear regulations for managing the resulting waste -- a problem with serious...

Noteworthy and influential people who've died this year
June saw the death of a musician whose talent brought The Beach Boys from a local California band to hitmakers and international ambassadors of surf and sun. Brian Wilson formed the band with two brothers, a cousin and a childhood friend,...