Why football stars have DR Congo on their mind

  Amid the big games over the festive period, Congolese football stars may well have their minds focussed on events back home. People in the vast country of the Democratic Republic of Congo are voting in crucial polls to replace 47-year-old President Joseph Kabila two […]

Good Luck in Court, Mr. Trump

  A bit of common sense and common decency intruded on Tuesday into the crazy world of Donald Trump. In New York, the state attorney general announced that the president had agreed that the “charity” he used as a piggy bank has no reason to exist. In […]

The End of Europe?

  PARIS — Ever since World War II, the liberal global order that has spread more freedom and prosperity around the world than at any other time in history has been held up by two pillars: the United States of America and the United Nations […]

Supreme Court to hear civil forfeiture case

S By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent   The Supreme Court this week is considering limiting the practice of civil forfeiture, which law enforcement has used since the War on Drugs mostly against African-Americans, Hispanics and those in poor communities.   At the heart […]