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Trump ramps up third-country US deportations
By Alia Chughtai and Umar Farooq October 15, 2026 Official data shows tens of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers have been sent to countries they have no ties to. Credit: Al Jazeera Media Network United States immigration authorities have dramatically stepped up detentions and deportations since January 2025, when Donald Trump became president. Trump campaigned on a pledge to implement the “largest deportation operation in American history”. Officers with the Department


The Human Cost Of US Air Strikes In Somalia
Families recount deaths, injuries and displacement as Trump accelerates US strikes against armed groups in Somalia. By Faisal Ali Published On 20 Oct 2026 Abdiqadir Salah, age seven, shows the scar left after doctors removed shrapnel from his body following fighting involving United States air strikes around Jamaame, Somalia, in November 2025 [Fardosa Hussein/Al Jazeera] Mogadishu, Somalia – Nearly a year after a suspected US strike in southern Somalia left shrapnel embedded


Black Americans Found Hanging and Families Want Answers
By Kelvin Byers 9 October 2026 Strange fruit...In 2026? (Photo credit: breakermaximus) For Black Americans, the image of a Black person hanging from a tree is never just an image. It carries the weight of generations of racial terror, public lynchings, and families who were denied justice. Now, after several Black people have been found hanging across the country, families and lawmakers are demanding answers. Representative Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and 59 of her congr


Anti-Indian racism has been surging in right-wing media
By Sage Hodil & Ben Van Bloem October 9, 2026 Credit: Media Matters Right-wing media’s racist attacks and ethnic slurs directed at Indians, other South Asians, and South Asian Americans have surged over the past year, in part fueled by conservative infighting over the H-1B visa program and a handful of viral posts. Commentators in the conservative media ecosystem have used anti-Indian slurs and characterized the presence of Indian immigrants as “harmful to America.” Some of t


Canada report: US intelligence role in resettling Nazis after WWII
By ALEX CARSON 11 OCTOBER, 2026 In early September, the Federal Court sided with B'nai Brith, ordering the government to remove almost all redactions from the 618-page report pursuant to the Access to Information Act. Corporal Urban Mayo from Ontario, Canada, watches the warning under the double swastikas on the border of German in the Canadian sector of the Western Front a few months before the end of World War II, February 14, 1945. (photo credit: PLANET NEWS LTD/AFP via Ge
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