• Mantan presiden dan CEO NAACP Ben Jealous menyatakan bahwa ia menantang keputusan organisasi untuk memecatnya, menyebut langkah tersebut "mengecewakan" dan menuduh dewan pengurus telah meninggalkan misinya.
• Perselisihan tersebut telah mencuat ke ranah publik, di mana Jealous menuduh adanya disfungsi internal dan tekanan politik di dalam organisasi, sementara dewan pengurus mengutip ketidaksepakatan strategis dan gaya kepemimpinan.
• Para pemimpin hak sipil terpecah, dengan sebagian mendukung hak dewan untuk memilih kepemimpinan dan sebagian lainnya memperingatkan bahwa kontroversi ini dapat melemahkan pengaruh organisasi menjelang pemilu 2026.
• Pemerintahan Trump telah mengumumkan 'Operation Economic Fury,' menerapkan blokade komprehensif terhadap Iran sebagai bagian dari kampanye sanksi yang diperluas.
• Inisiatif ini mewakili eskalasi signifikan dalam tekanan ekonomi terhadap Iran, yang menandai pergeseran kebijakan luar negeri AS menuju tindakan yang lebih agresif.
• Tindakan ini terjadi di tengah ketegangan geopolitik yang lebih luas di Timur Tengah dan menyusul ketegangan diplomatik selama berbulan-bulan antara AS dan Iran.
• Fadi Saqr dituduh melakukan pembunuhan massal terhadap warga sipil di Tadamon, Damaskus, di mana masyarakat menuntut agar ia diadili
• Komisi hak asasi manusia Suriah tengah menyiapkan kasus yang menuduh Fadi Saqr, seorang pemimpin milisi dalam rezim Assad, atas keterlibatan dalam kejahatan terhadap kemanusiaan dan kejahatan perang, menurut keterangan seorang pejabat senior Suriah kepada The Guardian.
• Saqr adalah mantan komandan milisi National Defence Forces (NDF) dan secara luas dituduh terlibat dalam pembunuhan massal dan penghilangan paksa warga sipil di lingkungan Tadamon di Damaskus, serta wilayah lain di ibu kota Suriah tersebut.
• Supremasis kulit putih asal Australia yang membunuh 51 umat Muslim mengatakan kesehatan mental yang buruk membuatnya mengakui kejahatan tersebut
• Supremasis kulit putih asal Australia yang membunuh 51 jemaah Muslim di dua masjid di Christchurch pada tahun 2019 telah dicegah untuk mengajukan banding terhadap pengakuan bersalahnya, setelah salah satu pengadilan tertinggi Selandia Baru menyatakan bahwa upayanya tersebut “sama sekali tidak berdasar”.
• Brenton Tarrant, yang bertanggung jawab atas penembakan massal terburuk dalam sejarah Selandia Baru, meminta pengadilan banding pada bulan Februari untuk mengizinkannya mengajukan banding terhadap pengakuan bersalahnya, dengan klaim bahwa kondisi penjara yang keras telah memengaruhi kesehatan mentalnya dan memaksanya untuk mengakui kejahatan tersebut. Lanjutkan membaca...
• Delegasi kongres DC berusia 88 tahun, Eleanor Holmes Norton, merespons dengan tegas terhadap ancaman federal paling serius bagi pemerintah kota dalam 30 tahun terakhir dari Trump.
• Norton, yang didukung oleh sekutu Muriel Bowser, menganggap tindakan Trump sebagai kemenangan politik bagi kendali lokal.
• Kebuntuan ini menggarisbawahi perebutan kekuasaan yang sedang berlangsung antara tata kelola federal dan DC.
• Maurice 'Mopreme' Shakur, Tupac's stepbrother, filed a wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court against Duane 'Keffe D' Davis and unnamed defendants involved in the 1996 murder.
• The suit claims 'for the first time in nearly 30 years, threads are starting to come together' amid new developments as Davis's first-degree murder trial approaches.
• Tupac was fatally shot four times on September 7, 1996, in Las Vegas when a white Cadillac pulled alongside his BMW near MGM Grand and Caesars Palace.
• Sevii announced the launch of its Autonomous Cyber Swarm Defense (CSD) capability on April 28, 2026, to counter high-volume AI-driven cyber attacks at machine speed and scale.
• The ADR platform deploys Agentic AI Cyber Warrior agents that detect, contain, and remediate threats in under 15 minutes, reducing analyst workloads by 95% with a fixed per-asset pricing model eliminating AI token costs.
• CSD Mode features Myrmidon Defense Technology (MDT) for efficient micro-orchestration, enabling predictable budgeting without additional hires or outsourcing, as noted by Synergem Technologies CEO Frank Holt.
Subject of charges remains unclear, after earlier case over congressional testimony was dismissedUS politics live – latest updatesSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailThe justice department filed new criminal charges against James Comey, the former FBI director, on Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the matter.The subject of the charges was not immediately clear and the justice department did not immediately return a request for comment. CNN first reported a new indictment had been filed. Continue reading...
Tehran’s UN envoy says ‘full respect’ of Iran’s rights also key for lasting regional stabilityUS is being ‘humiliated’ by Iran’s leadership, says Friedrich MerzWe are restarting our live coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran.Iran needs “credible guarantees” against more US-Israeli attacks before it can ensure security in the Gulf, Tehran’s envoy to the UN has said, while on a Russian visit Iran’s foreign minister blamed Washington for the failure of peace talks.Donald Trump is unhappy with an Iranian proposal on the war because it does not address Iran’s nuclear program, Reuters cited a US official as saying on Monday, after Trump discussed the proposal with his top national security aides. Iran had offered to end its closure of the strait of Hormuz if the US lifted its blockade and ended the war in a proposal that would postpone discussions on Iran’s nuclear program, the Associated Press reported earlier, citing two unnamed regional officials. Later reporting quoted White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt as saying the proposal was “being discussed”.Lebanese president Joseph Aoun said direct talks with Israel sought to end the war on Lebanon and that those who dragged Lebanon into it were the ones committing “treason” – a jab at the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah, which claimed several attacks on Israeli targets in south Lebanon on Monday.Iraq’s newly elected president nominated businessman Ali al-Zaidi as the country’s prime minister-designate on Monday, after the country’s leaders yielded to US pressure not to support the bid of a former premier close to Iran.The Coordination Framework – an alliance of Shia factions with varying links to Iran – had initially backed powerbroker Nouri al-Maliki to become the country’s next premier, but Trump’s ultimatum left Iraqi leaders looking elsewhere.The US and Iran clashed at the UN on Monday over Tehran’s nuclear program and its selection to be one of dozens of vice-presidents at a month-long conference to review the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. US official Christopher Yeaw said Iran’s selection was an “affront” to the treaty. Tehran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Reza Najafi, rejected the US statement as “baseless and politically motivated”. Continue reading...
