At 10 p.m. last night, the President of the United States looked the nation in the eye and told us something we’d been dreading: we just bombed Iran. Not a drone strike. Not a symbolic show of force. We dropped three 30,000-pound bunker busters on Iran’s underground nuclear facilities—Fordow, Natanz, Isfahan. Bombs meant to tear…
Environmental and civil society groups are advocating for improved labor and environmental standards in the countries that supply critical minerals like cobalt and nickel to the United States for use in clean energy technologies..
Medical care, food and clean water remain in short supply throughout much of Haiti, where armed gangs now control most of the capital, Port-au-Prince. As residents flee, Massachusetts lawmakers and Haitian-led groups say the United States must pause all deportations to the island and crack down on the trafficking of American-made weapons fueling the violence.