Report: Walz, Frey to receive subpoenas in criminal matter related to ICE
By:J. Patrick Coolican The U.S. Justice Department has issued subpoenas to Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey as part of a criminal investigation into whether they’ve impeded federal immigration enforcement, the Washington Post reported Friday. The investigation intensifies an already combustible conflict between the feds and Minnesota, while also adding to the DOJ’s list of targets deemed
New Report Reveals How Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2025 Is Becoming a Global Sports and Commercial Powerhouse
LONDON, United Kingdom, January 17, 2026/ — Africa Sports Unified (ASU) (https://ASUnified.com), a boutique strategic consultancy and intelligence platform focused on the Pan-African sports economy, today announces the release of its Africa Cup of Nations 2025 Overview Report. Hosted by Morocco and staged for the first time in the December–January global football window, AFCON 2025 marks
Beyond textbooks: Social-emotional learning in India’s remote regions
By Debojit Dutta, Sneha Philip In Toni Morrison’s celebrated novel The Bluest Eye, Pecola Breedlove, its protagonist, longs to have blue eyes just like the Hollywood movie star Shirley Temple. It was a novel, Toni says, she was “compelled to write” because she wanted to read a book that spoke about the experience of racism and “racialised self-loathing”
The Enlightenment and the birth of scientific racism
By Tom Sandborn One of the foundational tragedies of human history has been our recurrent temptation to treat designated victims among our fellow humans as less than us, to reify, exploit and “other” them. The cruel, flesh lacerating machinery of this sin against human solidarity was first turned against women and has, down the blood stained
After years of progress, Indonesia risks ‘tragedy’ of a deforestation spike
By Jeff Hutton After years of uneven progress, deforestation in Indonesia is poised to accelerate, owing to widespread logging, expanding plantations and mining. In December, Indonesia’s forestry minister, Raja Juli Antoni, indicated the Southeast Asian nation had lost more forest during the first nine months of 2025 than the annual totals for any of the first three
