A ‘myopic’ approach to Africa in new US security strategy
The White House’s newly published National Security Strategy devotes just over half a page to Africa.
The White House’s newly published National Security Strategy devotes just over half a page to Africa.
Lights on 24/7. Overflowing toilets and lack of access to showers. Solitary confinement in a 2×2-foot box. These are some of the torturous conditions documented in a new report from Amnesty International investigating human rights violations at two ICE detention centers in Florida: the Krome North Service Processing Center and the Everglades Detention Facility, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” by Trump and his supporters. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is denying the report’s findings, calling them fabricated and politically motivated. We speak to the report’s lead researcher, Amy Fischer, about the “intentional development within immigration detention that is aiming to make it increasingly cruel, increasingly abusive, so that people are forced to give up their immigration claims [because] the conditions are so cruel that they can’t handle it anymore.”
The US Treasury said the sanctioned companies enlisted Colombian mercenaries to fight for and train the Rapid Support Forces.
The battle over French pensions has forced three prime ministerial resignations this year.
Will there actually be dealmaking after the failed votes? We'll see, said Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
GOP leaders projected confidence that they’ll have enough support to move the National Defense Authorization Act.