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The Playbook for America: We Thought We Saw it All with Freedom Torches and Edward Bernays Fomenting Regime Change in Guatemala, Chile
Speaking with Dan Kovalik about his co-authored book, Syria: Anatomy of Regime Change Another rousing talk with a true socialist, Dan Kovalik, from Pittsburgh, here, pre-airing on my Radio Show, Finding Fringe on kyaq.org. Here’s today’s (July 1)...

Anti-Cuban Agent Disguised as a “Sheep”
LA PAZ. – With tiger stripes beneath sheep’s wool, the U.S. government seeks to disguise its anti-Cuban agent Rosa María Payá, denounced Bolivian television channel Abya Yala in this capital. With a photo of her together with former de facto...

Major cases involving Trump before US SC
The US Supreme Court has acted in a series of cases involving challenges to executive orders signed by President Donald Trump and actions by his administration since he returned to office in January. Cases at the court have involved his move to...

Trump’s Justice Department wants to denaturalize citizens. Can he do that?
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 administration ends protected status for Haitian immigrants
Haitian immigrants who fled chaos and violence to start new lives in the U.S. have wondered if and when the Trump administration would start deporting them. They got their answer Friday, June 27: Their Temporary Protected Status ends Sept. 2. The...

Haitian-American leaders press Trump not to deport TPS holders to dangerous homeland
Top Haitian-American community leaders in South Florida are pleading to President Donald Trump to prevent a humanitarian disaster by reversing the administration decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for hundreds of thousands...

What is the future for those with Temporary Protected Status?
Of every six people who live in Maryland, one was born outside the U.S. Sixteen per cent. Many have been here legally through something called TPS, Temporary Protected Status. TPS has allowed about a million people from countries torn by war,...

BRICS Envoys Flock to Rio
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: Brazil readies to host the BRICS leaders’ summit, Bolivia embraces cryptocurrency amid an economic crisis, and Mercosur notches a new trade deal. Brazil Prepares to...

Bermuda athletes leave for overseas meets
Heading to Barbados: Denver Tucker, left, Suresh Black, Miles Outerbridge, Norre Robinson and Devon Bean at Miami International Airport on their way to the Barbados Grand Prix (Photograph supplied) Three separate groups of Bermudian athletes left...

Brazilian entrepreneur Paulo De Miranda reflects on impactful career shaped by education
Paulo De Miranda, a graduate of the Maxwell School, has built a career around humanitarian aid and peacekeeping assignments worldwide. His early work involved writing reports on fieldwork, but he often felt they lacked insight into the real impact...

Archaeologists Just Found A "Lost City" That Even The Government Didn't Know About
For much of human history, contacting previously unknown people groups and discovering ancient ruins involved a painstaking process of exploring unfamiliar lands and digging through layers of fauna and dirt. Christopher Columbus, for example, had...

Study reveals surge in illegal arachnid trade via Facebook in Philippines
New research by wildlife trade watchdog TRAFFIC reveals a thriving online trade in live tarantulas and scorpions in the Philippines, with more than 16,000 arachnids found offered for sale on Facebook in 2020 and 2022. Most traded species are...

Good samaritan who saved 9-year-old from shark attack now detained by ICE — facing possible deportation
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...

Hurricane center: Tropical Depression 3 forms off Florida, Carolina coast on July 4
2025 July Fourth holiday may be a wet one for some in Florida, according to National Hurricane Center. The next storm on 2025 Atlantic hurricane names list is Chantal. For America's birthday, a tropical system off the Southeast U.S. coast...

Trump administration to end TPS status for Haitian migrants
US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem looks on during a press conference after Colombian migrants board a deportation flight bound for Medellin, Colombia, at Albrook Gelabert Airport in Panama City, Panama, on June 24. File photo credit...

The Buzz: Shanghai Cocktail Calendar – July 2025
July Summer Bartenders Camp @ 12-Bar Blues – July 5, 12, 19 & 26 Throughout July, 12-Bar Blues—That’s Shanghai Cocktail Bar of the Year, Editors Choice—will be hosting a bartending class every Saturday for “mixing and life experience.” Priced at...
Trump revokes protected status for over half a million Haitian immigrants
President Donald Trump listens as Interior Secretary Doug Burgum speaks to the media in the Oval Office at the White House, Tuesday, June 10, 2025, in Washington, as Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought and Secretary of...
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Opinion: Give me liberty or a Tinpot Dictator
By Steve Corbin, Professor Emeritus of Marketing, University of Northern Iowa Peggy Noonan has been a right-leaning columnist for The Wall Street Journal since leaving the Ronald Reagan administration as his primary speechwriter. Five of Noonan’s...

Immigrant advocates in South Florida decry Trump's deportation policies
Immigrant advocates and others say President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation policies are fostering a climate of “fear” in South Florida’s immigrant communities, mainly with his decision to abruptly end temporary visas for hundreds of...

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Everglades immigration detention center opposed
“ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ”: Pushback seeks to stymie efforts to establish facts on the ground, with first arrivals expected imminently following Tuesday’s visits by Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. PHOTO COURTESY OF...