Total Internet Blackout In Iran Hits 8 Weeks As Citizens Left In Dark About War's Future

Racist Plan For Berlin's 'Blacks-Only' Swimming Pool Day Canceled Over 'Safety Concerns' Via Remix News, A planned event at the temporary publicly funded “Volksbad” pool in front of Berlin’s Volksbühne theater has been canceled following an alleged surge of online hostility and threats. The initiative, organized in collaboration with the association Each One Teach One (Eoto), was set to reserve the public bath exclusively for Black children and young people for a six-hour window on Friday before opening to the general public. The organizers are claiming that they could no longer protect...

Foreign-Born Population Grows, But Relative Size Not Unprecedented While the number of immigrants in the U.S. as well as their share of the population has generally been rising, Statista's Katharina Buchholz points out that the level of the foreign-born population is not unprecedented. As of 2024, the latest year available through U.S. Census data, 14.8 percent of the U.S. population was foreign-born.  Data aggregated by the Migration Policy Institute shows that throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the foreign-born population of the U.S. had been just as high, before reaching a low of just...

Last week, more than 50,000 people illegally entered the Spanish exclave city of Ceuta, which normally has a population of only 80,000. Why not just open the border permanently?