Tag: bans
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Israeli airstrike hits Gaza’s Beit Lahia, Hezbollah names new leader after Knesset bans UNRWA
At least 60 people including 20 children were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Gaza early Tuesday, local officials said, the latest deadly attack in its renewed assault on the north of the Palestinian enclave. It came hours after the Israeli parliament outlawed a key United Nations aid agency in a…
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CNN bans Ryan Girdusky for telling Mehdi Hasan ‘I hope your beeper doesn’t go off’
CNN has banned a conservative commentator from appearing on the network again after he told a Muslim journalist “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off,” an apparent reference to the spate of exploding pagers in Lebanon that killed members of the Hezbollah militant group last month. Ryan Girdusky made the comment during a heated debate…
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Israel bans UNRWA, the U.N. relief agency for Palestinian refugees
Israel’s parliament voted Monday to ban the operations of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, the main humanitarian aid agency operating in Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a statement on the legislation reiterating the accusations that UNRWA employees are involved in terrorist activities in the region. An investigation by the U.N. Office…
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Meta bans jet-tracking accounts for Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg
Meta has banned a series of accounts that post location updates on private jets belonging to some of the world’s richest and most powerful people, including Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and former President Donald Trump. Those accounts have been deleted from Threads and Instagram, and corresponding Facebook accounts will be deleted soon, Andy Stone, Meta’s communications…
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California bans legacy admissions at private colleges and universities
California is banning legacy admissions at private colleges and universities, ensuring that some of the country’s most selective schools will not favor applicants with familial or monetary connections to the schools. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed AB 1780 into law, prohibiting legacy and donor preferences in admissions at private, nonprofit institutions. The new rule…
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‘Soft’ book bans and the aftermath of record-breaking censorship
When David Shelley, the CEO of Hachette, one of the “big five” publishing companies, was a teenager, he was living in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain and under a law called Section 28. The measure, which was in effect from 1988 to 2003, prohibited schools from “promoting the teaching of the acceptability of homosexuality.” In the ’80s,…
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Birth control access fell in states with abortion bans. It’s different in South Carolina, one group says.
South Carolina’s most vulnerable women are asking for and getting birth control in record numbers — even in parts of the state without any doctors who specialize in women’s reproductive health, according to a new report. The findings — from New Morning, a nonprofit organization based in Columbia, South Carolina, that works to provide free…
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Meta bans RT days after U.S. accused Russian outlet of disinformation
Social media giant Meta announced Monday that it is banning Russian media outlet RT, days after the Biden administration accused RT of acting as an arm of Moscow’s spy agencies. “After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets. Rossiya Segodnya, RT and other related entities are now banned from our…