Nobel Peace Prize

Representatives of Russia, Belarus, and Iran will not be invited to attend this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies. This after The Nobel Foundation withdrew its invitation on Sept. 2, following “strong reactions” from several Swedish lawmakers. The lawmakers pressured the Foundation a day earlier under threat of boycott, to retract its previous decision to allow […]

Dmitry Muratov, the co-winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize and the editor of one of Russia’s last major independent newspapers, auctioned off his Nobel medal on Monday for a record $103.5 million to aid children displaced by the war in Ukraine. All proceeds from the auction, which coincided with World Refugee Day on Monday, […]

China is taking advantage of the cheaper prices caused by strict Western sanctions on Russian oil. Russia has now passed Saudi Arabia as the lead supplier of crude oil for Chinese imports. 2021 Nobel peace prize co-winner Dmitry Muratov, pledged to donate $500,000 of his prize money to charities. Muratov put the prize up for […]

China is taking advantage of the cheaper prices caused by strict Western sanctions on Russian oil. Russia has now passed Saudi Arabia as the lead supplier of crude oil for Chinese imports.

2021 Nobel peace prize co-winner Dmitry Muratov, pledged to donate $500,000 of his prize money to charities. Muratov put the prize up for auction with proceeds going to Ukrainian children displaced by war. It sold for $103.5 million dollars, shattering the record for any Nobel medal auctioned off before.

Four Republican primary runoff elections in Georgia today could potentially contribute to shifting the majority of power in the House. We take a look at the candidates, two of whom are Trump-endorsed.

NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom has been nominated for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. The nomination has won support from 30 Nobel laureates as well as well-wishers on social media. “I’m honored and humbled to receive the nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize,” Freedom wrote in a tweet. “Sometimes taking a stand is more important than […]

NBA free agent Enes Freedom has been outspoken about human rights issues in China. Now he’s in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize.

JOHANNESBURG—Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for human rights and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Sunday. He was 90. An uncompromising foe of apartheid, Tutu worked tirelessly, though non-violently, for its downfall. The buoyant, blunt-spoken clergyman used his pulpit as the first Black bishop […]

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to two journalists for their courage to defend freedom of expression. In their home countries of the Philippines and Russia, they face threats, arrest, and even murder.  

The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to two journalists, Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression in the Philippines and Russia. Ressa, a Philippines journalist, became the first Filipino to win the peace prize, and also the first woman to claim the prestigious award by the Nobel committee […]

Black Lives Matter is up for a Nobel Peace Prize. But a former ivy league professor, Dr. Carol Swain from Princeton University, says the nomination is really an effort to legitimize Marxism.    

A bipartisan group of lawmakers have nominated Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to recognize “all those who have built and maintained human rights and democracy” in the city. “We are nominating a movement that has peacefully advocated for and maintained human rights and democracy in Hong Kong since 1997 and […]

YouTube host Steven Crowder announced that he will sue Facebook for unfair competition, fraud, false advertising, and antitrust. And in other news, Donald Trump has again been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. In this live Q&A with Crossroads host Joshua Philipp we’ll be discussing these stories and others, and answering questions from the audience. […]

President Trump was just nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. The nomination came as a result of his (as well as his team’s) work over in the Middle East. Now over in Texas, the governor there has directed every state agency to sue the Biden Administration over any actions that threaten their jobs in […]

OSLO—The World Food Program (WFP) on Friday won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger and food insecurity around the globe. The announcement was made in Oslo by Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Nobel Committee. The Nobel Committee said that the coronavirus pandemic has added to the hunger faced by […]

President Donald Trump was nominated Friday for the Nobel Peace Prize, the second such nomination this week.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize on Oct. 11 for his peacemaking efforts with Eritrea.

WASHINGTON—Ahead of his second meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump said on Feb. 15 that the leader of Japan had nominated him for a Nobel Peace Prize for his work to open up a dialogue with the reclusive country. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe “gave me the most beautiful copy of a […]