A Hawaii county councilwoman has stopped voting and attending council meetings after coming to the conclusion that Hawaii may be an “occupied sovereign country” rather than a part of the United States, The Guardian reports. Jennifer Ruggles, who has served on the Puna district council for two years, announced this belief in August and has
The mother of the 1-year-old girl who died shortly after being released from an immigrant detention center has filed a legal claim seeking $60 million from multiple agencies the US government, including the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Yazmin Juarez, the mother, is blaming the death of her daughter on a failure of the government
Transgender people 14-years-old and older in Chile will now be legally allowed to change their gender marker on official documents thanks to a bill signed into law by President Sebastian Pinera today. Chilean activists have been fighting for nearly five years to pass such a law, which human rights groups are praising as “historic,” according
Federal Trade Commission chairman Joe Simons announced Tuesday that the agency would be investigating the use of micro-transactions, commonly referred to as loot boxes, in video games. According to NBC , there has been growing concern around the use of these loot boxes, which some view as a form of gambling designed to be addictive