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June 13, 2025 - Attorney General Miyares Leads Coalition of 52 AGs to Protect Veterans’ Education Benefits
Commonwealth of Virginia Office of the Attorney General Jason S. Miyares Attorney General 202 North 9th Street Richmond, Virginia 23219 804-786-2071 FAX 804-786-1991 Virginia Relay Service 800-828-1120 For media inquiries only, contact: Chloe...
Owner: American Government
Afghan National Pleads Guilty to Obtaining Firearms in Connection with Plot to Conduct ISIS-Inspired Election Day Terrorist Attack
Abdullah Haji Zada, 18, a native and citizen of Afghanistan and U.S. lawful permanent resident, pleaded guilty today to a criminal information charging him with knowingly receiving, attempting to receive, and conspiring to receive a firearm and...
Owner: American Government
Federal Judge Orders Resumption of Trump’s Immigration Pause
(MENAFN) A U.S. federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to immediately resume processing several immigration applications, ruling that the administration’s pause jeopardizing hundreds of thousands of immigrants’ legal status is...
Owner: Sawsan Dababneh & Ramzi AbdelJaber
Ukrainian activists disfigure war memorial
(MENAFN) An anti-Soviet group in Kharkov, known as Decolonization.Ukraine, has defaced a local war memorial by grinding off the names of fallen soldiers commemorated on the monument. The activists, who had been pressuring the city council since...
Owner: Sawsan Dababneh & Ramzi AbdelJaber
Expanded Access to Affordable Education for Veterans
In honor of Memorial Day, Governor Kathy Hochul announced key enhancements to the New York State Veterans Tuition Award that expand access to college financial aid for more veterans. This expansion now allows veterans who served at least four...
Owner: American Government
Afghanistan: Addressing the water crisis for communities
Access to safe drinking water essential for life and health, yet it is estimated that 33 million people in Afghanistan face severe water shortage. This World Water Day, marked on 22 March, we look at the situation on ground and its impact on the...
Owner: The International Committee of the Red Cross (Non-profit)
Hundreds of Released Afghan Prisoners Return Home from Pakistan
(MENAFN) Over the past three days, a significant number of Afghan nationals, totaling 439 individuals, were released from correctional facilities in Pakistan and have since returned to Afghanistan, according to a recent statement issued by the...
Owner: Sawsan Dababneh & Ramzi AbdelJaber
DHS Terminating Temporary Protected Status for Afghanistan
WASHINGTON – Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem today announced the termination of Temporary Protected Status for Afghanistan. The TPS designation for the country expires on May 20, 2025, and the termination will be effective on July 12,...
Owner: American Government
Thousands of once protected Afghan refugees in the United States face deportation
The chaotic US military pullout from Afghanistan in August 2021 became a hot campaign issue in the 2024 presidential election and continues to echo today. President Donald Trump, who set the withdrawal in motion during his first term in office,...
Owner: The Middle East Institute (Non-Profit)
2025-48 STATE OF HAWAIʻI JOINS COALITION TO PRESERVE PAROLE PATHWAYS FOR VULNERABLE IMMIGRANTS
STATE OF HAWAIʻI KA MOKU ʻĀINA O HAWAIʻI DEPARTMENT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL KA ʻOIHANA O KA LOIO KUHINA JOSH GREEN, M.D. GOVERNOR KE KIAʻĀINA ANNE LOPEZ ATTORNEY GENERAL LOIO KUHINA ATTORNEY GENERAL LOPEZ JOINS COALITION TO PRESERVE PAROLE...
Owner: American Government
2025-48 STATE OF HAWAIʻI JOINS COALITION TO PRESERVE PAROLE PATHWAYS FOR VULNERABLE IMMIGRANTS
STATE OF HAWAIʻI KA MOKU ʻĀINA O HAWAIʻI DEPARTMENT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL KA ʻOIHANA O KA LOIO KUHINA JOSH GREEN, M.D. GOVERNOR KE KIAʻĀINA ANNE LOPEZ ATTORNEY GENERAL LOIO KUHINA ATTORNEY GENERAL LOPEZ JOINS COALITION TO PRESERVE PAROLE...
Owner: American Government
UNICEF Urges Lifting Ban on Girls' Secondary Education in Afghanistan
(MENAFN) On Saturday, UNICEF called on the interim Taliban-led government in Afghanistan to remove its ban on girls' secondary education with the beginning of the new school year, marking a third consecutive year without girls in classrooms above...
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Attorney General Defends Pathways for Legal Immigration for Those Fleeing Dangerous Conditions in Their Home Countries
OAKLAND – California Attorney General Rob Bonta today, as part of a multistate coalition, filed an amicus brief in Svitlana Doe, et al., v. Kristi Noem, et al., in support of pathways to humanitarian parole that allow certain vulnerable immigrants...
Owner: American Government
Attorney General Bird Urges Court to Protect Education Benefits for Veterans and Military Families
DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims to protect veterans’ benefits for military veterans and their children. Since World War II, the United States has promised to provide education...
Owner: American Government
Attorney General James Co-Leads Coalition to Protect Vulnerable Immigrants
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today co-led a coalition of 16 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief supporting the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) humanitarian parole programs, or parole pathways, for...
Owner: American Government
Attorney General Bonta Stands Up for U.S. Army Veterans Denied Education Benefits Under the G.I. Bill
OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today filed an amicus brief in the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims supporting the right of U.S. veterans and their children to access educational benefits under the G.I. Bill. The brief, filed...
Owner: American Government
Education Above All Foundation Partners With USAID to Expand Educational Opportunities For Afghan Children and Youth
DOHA, QATAR, December 9, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Education Above All Foundation, a leading global education foundation signed a landmark agreement with the United States Agency for International Development’s Mission to Afghanistan...
US disengagement and new regional security dynamics in Afghanistan’s neighborhood
Afghanistan’s neighborhood is in the midst of a consequential restructuring of its security architecture. Perhaps unsurprisingly, key regional actors Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, and China have been continuing to adjust their defense plans and...
Owner: The Middle East Institute (Non-Profit)
OSCE trains outpost heads to enhance security along the Tajik-Afghan border
From 17 to 28 February 2025, the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe organized a comprehensive two-week training course for the heads of border outposts serving along the Tajikistan-Afghanistan border. The training, held at a border detachment...
Owner: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Florida Businessman Charged with Tax Evasion
A federal grand jury in Miami returned an indictment on Wednesday charging a Florida businessman with evading taxes on millions in income and filing false tax returns. The following is according to the indictment: from 2013 to 2021, Joseph...
Owner: American Government