Atmika Iyer

1 week ago | aretenews.com | Atmika Iyer

RIGA, Latvia (AN) – Carrying NATO and Swedish flags, 550 Swedish soldiers marched out of a ship at Riga Port, followed by combat vehicles with grenade launchers and armored troop carriers. The troops joined NATO's multinational brigade in Latvia earlier this year, swelling its ranks to 3,000. Swedish ambassador to Latvia Karin Hölgund said Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in Feb.

1 week ago | thefulcrum.us | Atmika Iyer

A Russian international student at Northwestern came to the U.S. to study journalism “to work as a reporter in a country where I would feel safe,” she said. “I couldn't speak up against the government in Russia, I was at huge risk of being imprisoned, and I thought that it was over, but now very scarily similar things are happening in the U.S. as well, and I just have deja vu,” she said. The student is being kept anonymous for fear of retaliation against her legal status for speaking out.

1 week ago | thefulcrum.us | Atmika Iyer

WASHINGTON–After the state of Oklahoma contested the right of a Catholic organization to get state funding for a charter school, the Supreme Court is weighing whether the separation of church and state required by the Constitution justifies Oklahoma’s decision to keep charter schools secular. The court heard arguments on Wednesday in Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v.

2 weeks ago | eng.lsm.lv | Atmika Iyer

Swedish ambassador to Latvia Karin Hölgund said Russia’s 2022 attack on Ukraine compelled her country to end its 200-years of nonalignment and join NATO, to be “on the right side of history.”“I think the realization is very much sinking in Sweden that the defense of our country starts and kind of ends at the border, the Latvian-Russian border,” Hölgund said.

1 month ago | dc.medill.northwestern.edu | Atmika Iyer

WASHINGTON — At the House Judiciary subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement on Wednesday Republicans and Democrats clashed over whether sanctuary cities should comply with federal orders to detain individuals I.C.E. potentially wants to deport. Republicans called sanctuary cities an impediment to the mass deportations that the Trump administration has prioritized within its first 100 days of office.