The Global Update

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency responsible for enforcing laws against workplace discrimination, will allow some complaints by transgender workers to proceed, a change from earlier guidance that indefinitely halted cases alleging workplace discrimination against transgender people. An email was sent earlier this month to leaders of the EEOC in which Thomas…

A deportation flight carrying immigrants from various countries that declined to take back their citizens has landed in the Southern African country of Eswatini, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced on Tuesday. “A safe third country deportation flight to Eswatini in Southern Africa has landed — This flight took individuals so uniquely barbaric that…

It didn’t take long for the 2025 National League All-Stars to heat up in Atlanta.  Arizona Diamondbacks’ second baseman Ketel Marte hit a double in the first inning which scored hometown star Ronald Acuna Jr. and two-way star Shohei Ohtani. The National League added to its lead courtesy of Mets infielder Pete Alonso’s three-run homer…

As prosecutors attempted to paint a Colorado dentist as a calculated killer who poisoned his wife to pursue a new romantic life, the defense took a dramatically different route by portraying his wife of 23 years as emotionally manipulative and mentally unstable. Dr. James Toliver Craig, 47, is charged with first-degree murder in the March…

New York Democrats suddenly have more problems than the back end of the New York Yankees starting rotation. But the Yankees have the opportunity to fix some of their issues before the July 31 trade deadline. However, there’s no trade deadline in politics. And some conservative and moderate Democrats wish there was a waiver wire….

Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark needed to be held back during a heated confrontation with WNBA official Mike Price during the team’s game Tuesday night against the Connecticut Sun. The incident occurred with 4:33 left in the third quarter as officials went to look at whether the Sun or Fever had knocked the ball out…

A Texas woman was indicted last week after investigators say she tried to kill her ex-husband with a box of fentanyl-laced chocolates mailed as a phony honeymoon gift. Pamela Jean Stanley, 63, of Coleman, was arrested on May 30 in Parker County following a sting by the Special Crimes Unit (SCU) of the Parker County…

German customs authorities recently made a skin-crawling discovery when they found about 1,500 young tarantulas concealed in a shipment of spongecake boxes. The package, which had arrived at Germany’s Cologne Bonn Airport three weeks ago from Vietnam, weighed more than 15 pounds and had a noticeable smell that tipped off officials, according to a news…

Progressive Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is being slammed by his GOP opponent, Maud Maron, for policies she said give criminals a “get out of jail free card,” contributing to a massive surge in shoplifting and organized crime in America’s largest city. This comes after retail industry leaders testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on…

Ex-MSNBC host Joy Reid said that MAGA voters would “let their daughters be destroyed” just to make President Donald Trump “happy.”  During a recent episode of “NIGHT SCHOOL with Marc Lamont Hill,” Reid mentioned her concern that Trump “could declare a national emergency” and that the country would no longer have “free and fair elections.”  Lamont…