SEATTLE – The Coast Guard, Washington Department of Ecology and other agencies are responding to a vessel that sank at a pier in Seattle, Tuesday. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound received a report at approximately 7:30 a.m. that the 91-foot crabbing vessel North American had sunk at a pier east of the Ballard […]
Israel’s “sustained policy of obstructing the movement of humanitarian assistance into the territory” pushed Human Rights Watch co-founder Aryeh Neier to view the assault on Gaza as a genocide. A widely respected humanitarian law expert who has resisted using the term “genocide” for Israel’s killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza—a word used […]
“A nuclear attack on Gaza would be catastrophic with unimaginable consequences,” said the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, adding that casual talks of using such arms “shouldn’t be normalized.” Anti-war voices on Monday fiercely condemned U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s suggestion that Israel would be within its rights to drop nuclear weapons on the Gaza Strip, seven months into […]
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s one-time political fixer, testified Monday that the future U.S. president ordered him to make a secret $130,000 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels just days before the 2016 election. Cohen said the payment was to keep Daniels from talking about an alleged tryst with Trump, and then Trump disguised […]