Myanmar fires general who led campaign against Rohingya - The Washington Post

Myanmar fires general who led campaign against Rohingya - The Washington Post: The dismissal came as the European Union and Canada slapped sanctions on seven top officials.

Rohingya Crisis Is Making Some In Myanmar Rethink Their Views Of Aung San Suu Kyi : NPR

Rohingya Crisis Is Making Some In Myanmar Rethink Their Views Of Aung San Suu Kyi : NPR: "All this likeness of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi, it's all make-believe," says the director of a civic organization in Yangon. "And now we know the real Aung San Suu Kyi."

NLD beefs up CEC, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi remains leader | The Myanmar Times

NLD beefs up CEC, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi remains leader | The Myanmar Times: At its two-day nationwide congress, the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) expanded the membership of its governing Central Executive Committee (CEC) and voted to keep Daw Aung San Suu Kyi as its leader.

NLD Will ‘Not Defend Any Human Rights Violators’

NLD Will ‘Not Defend Any Human Rights Violators’: Allowing UN special envoy to set up office in Naypyitaw shows government’s willingness to work with international community.

Extreme weather: Massive rains are causing more flash flooding, and experts say it's getting worse - The Washington Post

Extreme weather: Massive rains are causing more flash flooding, and experts say it's getting worse - The Washington Post: As air temperatures have warmed, record rainfalls across the Eastern United States in May led to deluges in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and the Great Lakes region.

Walk or die: Algeria abandons 13,000 refugees in the Sahara | News | Al Jazeera

Walk or die: Algeria abandons 13,000 refugees in the Sahara | News | Al Jazeera: Associated Press report details witness accounts of migrants and refugees from Africa left to die in the Sahara Desert.

Jared Kushner's Middle East Peace Plan Could Backfire - The Atlantic

Jared Kushner's Middle East Peace Plan Could Backfire - The Atlantic: In an interview with a Palestinian newspaper, the president’s son-in-law has revealed himself to be either strikingly naive—or deeply cynical.

Supreme Court Won’t Hear North Carolina Partisan Gerrymandering Case - The New York Times

Supreme Court Won’t Hear North Carolina Partisan Gerrymandering Case - The New York Times: The justices passed up an opportunity to take another look at whether the Constitution bars extreme partisan gerrymandering.

Harley-Davidson, Blaming E.U. Tariffs, Will Move Some Production Out of U.S. - The New York Times

Harley-Davidson, Blaming E.U. Tariffs, Will Move Some Production Out of U.S. - The New York Times: The plan, outlined in a company filing, highlights the financial costs to companies of a widening trade dispute.

Border Officials Suspend Handing Over Migrant Families to Prosecutors - The New York Times

Border Officials Suspend Handing Over Migrant Families to Prosecutors - The New York Times: Effectively, the Customs and Border Protection commissioner’s decision revives a “catch and release” approach for most families crossing the Mexican border illegally.

Rapidly expanding fact-checking movement faces growing pains - The Washington Post

Rapidly expanding fact-checking movement faces growing pains - The Washington Post: The number of fact-checking organizations has tripled around the globe in four years. But the journalistic movement is increasingly under attack.

The latest sign of political divide: Shaming and shunning public officials - The Washington Post

The latest sign of political divide: Shaming and shunning public officials - The Washington Post: There are few laws dealing with refusing service to a customer based on his or her political views — but until now, it didn’t happen very often.

China’s tariffs on U.S. goods are aimed at America’s farmers and blue-collar workers. - Washington Post

China’s tariffs on U.S. goods are aimed at America’s farmers and blue-collar workers. - Washington Post: The tariffs are targeted with laser-like precision at the local economies of rural and small-town America.

Most immigrants who enter the country do so legally, federal data shows - The Washington Post

Most immigrants who enter the country do so legally, federal data shows - The Washington Post: Illegal border crossings are just a small part of the immigration story.

What is wrong with Republicans? - The Washington Post

What is wrong with Republicans? - The Washington Post: Republicans have bought into Trump's racist bilge.

Rigged Supreme Court upholds rigged Republican electoral maps - The Washington Post

Rigged Supreme Court upholds rigged Republican electoral maps - The Washington Post: The scales of democracy have to be rebalanced.

Supreme Court upholds Texas redistricting a lower court said discriminated against black and Hispanic voters - The Washington Post

Supreme Court upholds Texas redistricting a lower court said discriminated against black and Hispanic voters - The Washington Post: A three-judge panel in Texas last summer said two congressional districts and a handful of legislative districts were unconstitutional.

Lacson says he can only pray Duterte ‘would be forgiven for all his sins’ | Inquirer News

Lacson says he can only pray Duterte ‘would be forgiven for all his sins’ | Inquirer News: At times, Senator Panfilo Lacson said he thinks of President Rodrigo Duterte as "God's gift to a benighted land."

Who dares, wins: What we can learn from Timor-Leste's Xanana Gusmao

Who dares, wins: What we can learn from Timor-Leste's Xanana Gusmao: When it comes to his nation's oil and gas resources, the former independence fighter and his battle-hardened people won't be denied.

New East Timor government marred by corruption allegations

New East Timor government marred by corruption allegations: DILI, East Timor (AP) — East Timor's president has refused to swear in 11 Cabinet ministers because of corruption investigations in a rocky beginning for a new government formed a

Indonesia's slow and circuitous road to democracy - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Indonesia's slow and circuitous road to democracy - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): Significant progress has been made in relation to Indonesia's democratisation over the past 20 years since the resignation of authoritarian president Suharto. Nonetheless, a culture of impunity regarding historical human rights abuses persists, writes Olivia Nicole Tasevski.

Mueller to move forward with sentencing George Papadopoulos – ThinkProgress

Mueller to move forward with sentencing George Papadopoulos – ThinkProgress

Mike Huckabee's MS-13 tweet: Photo compares Nancy Pelosi's campaign staff to gang members - The Washington Post

Mike Huckabee's MS-13 tweet: Photo compares Nancy Pelosi's campaign staff to gang members - The Washington Post: The former Arkansas governor's tweet was blasted online as racist, outrageous and just plain unfunny.

Kamala Harris Says Congress Needs To Change ICE, Perhaps 'Start From Scratch' | HuffPost

Kamala Harris Says Congress Needs To Change ICE, Perhaps 'Start From Scratch' | HuffPost: She is the highest profile Democrat to endorse significant change to the nation's immigration enforcement system.

Trump's visit to Britain faces mass protest marches — and a giant baby blimp

Trump's visit to Britain faces mass protest marches — and a giant baby blimp: Tens of thousands will march in protest when President Donald Trump visits Britain, campaigners say, overseen by an inflatable "Trump Baby" blimp.

Blinded by darkness: How evangelicals put Donald Trump ahead of Jesus | Salon.com

Blinded by darkness: How evangelicals put Donald Trump ahead of Jesus | Salon.com: Evangelical historian John Fea opens an important discussion of how his community abandoned its supposed values

Merkel presses over migration as 'European solution' fails

Merkel presses over migration as 'European solution' fails: The U.S. Supreme Court, winding down its nine-month term, will issue rulings this week in its few remaining cases including a major one on the legality of President Donald Trump's ban on people from five Muslim-majority nations entering the country.

Jeff Flake calls on Congress to stand up against President Trump - AOL News

Jeff Flake calls on Congress to stand up against President Trump - AOL News: Senator Jeff Flake has argued that his fellow Congressional Republicans need to stand up against President Trump, citing “this crisis we’re in.”

Democrats visit detention centers to attack ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy - The Washington Post

Democrats visit detention centers to attack ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy - The Washington Post: They came out with stories of children in mylar blankets, sitting on concrete floors, and told reporters that the situation had to be remedied by congressional action.

UN official attacks Nikki Haley over Human Rights Council withdrawal as he presents damning report on US poverty | The Independent

UN official attacks Nikki Haley over Human Rights Council withdrawal as he presents damning report on US poverty | The Independent: A United Nations human rights expert has hit out at the US decision to leave the UN Human Rights Council as he presented a damning report into how Donald Trump's administration is failing to tackle poverty across America.