Author: News Desk

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has completed a year-long investigation into the admissions policies and practices at the Yale School of Medicine. Yale’s documents show that its leadership intentionally selected applicants based on their race. Yale’s documents reveal that they studied how to use racial proxies to circumvent the Supreme Court’s prohibition on using […]

The funding announcement, made on Wednesday by the United States, brings total recent US humanitarian support channelled through the UN-coordinated system to $3.8 billion following an earlier $2 billion allocation announced in December. UN Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed the latest contribution, saying it “will allow humanitarians to reach millions of people in the most urgent […]

The agreement, announced on Thursday by UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg, follows 14 weeks of negotiations held under United Nations auspices in Amman and is expected to reunite thousands of families separated by more than a decade of conflict. “This is a moment of profound relief for thousands of Yemenis who have endured […]

A 12-year-old girl was among at least five civilians killed in a massive Russian drone and missile strike on Ukraine over the past 48 hours. The girl’s body was found under the rubble of a residential building in the capital, Kyiv. The strike also disrupted essential services, according to local authorities, with the water supply […]

UN News spoke with Walker during a visit to the UN Headquarters, in New York, to present My Deepest Desire, a newly published edition of Hara’s final work featuring Walker’s ink drawings and a new translation by Liza Dalby. Published posthumously after Hara’s suicide in 1951, My Deepest Desire is a poetic short story meditating […]

A federal jury in the Southern District of Florida convicted the founder and owner of HealthSplash yesterday for his role in operating a platform that generated false doctors’ orders and prescriptions to defraud Medicare and other federal health care benefit programs out of more than $1 billion. Photo of defendant Brett Blackman “The Department of […]

Almost 150 passengers and crew from 23 countries had been stranded aboard the Dutch-flagged cruise ship for weeks following an outbreak of Andes hantavirus, a rare but potentially deadly disease that can, in rare circumstances, spread between humans through close contact. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the operation, coordinated under the International Health Regulations […]

California-based companies Perfectus Aluminum Inc., Perfectus Aluminum Acquisitions LLC and four affiliated warehousing companies have agreed to pay a total of $549.5 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly and improperly evading, or conspiring to evade, antidumping and countervailing duties owed to the United States on aluminum extrusions imported […]

Meeting with AU Commission Chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, the two sides focused on deepening cooperation across peace and security, sustainable development and human rights. It also marked what Mr. Guterres said would most likely be his final AU-UN summit as Secretary-General. “This is my final AU-UN Conference as Secretary-General,” he told reporters in the Ethiopian […]

The Justice Department today filed a complaint against D.C. Disciplinary Counsel Hamilton P. Fox III, the D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel, and the D.C. Court of Appeals Board on Professional Responsibility over their improper use of bar discipline to regulate the official actions of Federal Government attorneys.  The filing advances President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order Ending the […]