Forcing an intersex individual to choose male or female on a passport application is ruled “arbitrary and capricious.” U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson ordered the State Department to issue Colorado citizen Dana Zzyym a ...
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced on Wednesday it is taking proactive steps to curb sexual abuse perpetrated by priests. Sex abuse scandals rocked the Catholic Church in recent months after reports detailing decades ...
A video depicting a student as James Bond rescuing a friend from terrorists is now a court battle over First Amendment freedom of speech rights. A short video for one high school student’s class president ...
After two reports detailing decades of abuse within the Catholic Church in Germany and Pennsylvania came out in recent weeks, a new report has been leaked detailing sexual abuse within the Mormon Church. MormonLeaks, a ...
An animal cruelty report from Direct Action Everywhere exposed systemic dog abuse at a breeding facility that supplies dogs for animal testing. An investigation by animal rights activists exposed severe instances of animal cruelty at ...
The writer of the letter alleging that Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat created by the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, has come forward and revealed her ...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released a report detailing the dangers inherent in the proposed U.S.-Mexico wall. Other environmental groups joined with ACLU to condemn the proposed border wall, saying it is politically motivated ...
On Thursday California Senator Dianne Feinstein announced she had received a document concerning Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and had forwarded the matter to the FBI. Democrats are calling for Feinstein to make the document ...
Estimates published Wednesday by the U.S. Energy Department show the U.S. is the world’s largest crude oil producer for the first time since 1973. American oil production has doubled over the past decade, with much ...
An old form of school punishment has been reinstated at a Georgia charter school, just in time for the new school year. The Georgia School for Innovation and the Classics has reinstated corporal punishment and ...
Despite the propaganda, the media hype, the Hollywood movies and the endless talk about American democracy, the U.S. is not actually a democracy. It is not really a republic either, it’s a plutocracy. Do you ...
Russian officials have accused the United States of using banned phosphorous bombs in an attack on Syria on Saturday. It marks the latest is a series of escalations between the United States and Russia bringing ...
Internal documents reveal despair and tedium in one of the nation’s largest shelter networks for unaccompanied minors. (ProPublica) One 16-year-old from Guatemala said he wanted to “quitarme la vida,” or “take my life away,” as ...
On the 55th anniversary of his father’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King III has urged the Trump administration to reunite immigrant families separated under Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policy. Speaking in the company of ...
A team of researchers has printed a “bionic eye” prototype using 3D printing technology, potentially giving sight to the blind. A team of scientists from the University of Minnesota has 3D-printed a “bionic eye” prototype. ...
An Arkansas wheelchair-bound woman, Candace Paige Lydon, has filed a federal lawsuit against the authorities of the Garland County Detention Center (GCDC) for the jail abuse she suffered during her pretrial detention at the facility. ...
Facebook has taken down over 80 pages devoted to alternative health in an effort to clamp down on fake news. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg recently vowed to purge fake news from the social media platform, ...
Paul Manafort was charged guilty on August 21 for five counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud, and one count of failing to file foreign bank account reports in the first sentencing instigated ...
A mass shooting has been reported at a video game tournament in Jacksonville, Florida and several have been reported dead in the preliminary investigation. The attack, which was live streamed inadvertently by players in the ...
It has been mere hours since the news of the passing of Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain and now the attention of many has shifted to what becomes of the deceased senators spot in the ...
Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, a Vietnam War hero and 2008 candidate for President of the United States, died on Saturday at the age of 81 from the brain cancer he was diagnosed with in ...
Public school districts in Florida are spending thousands of dollars in precautionary measures for school shootings, including insurance coverage and active shooter training. Insurance companies across the United States have identified a new niche due ...
Hundreds of inmates in various U.S. prisons have gone on strike, protesting what they’ve labeled “modern-day slavery.” Solidarity and Support In what may pass as the largest strike in recent history, the 2018 U.S. prison ...
Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain has decided to stop treatment for his rare form of brain cancer, his family announced on Twitter on Friday. Meghan McCain, the daughter of the 81-year-old senator and co host ...
An MSNBC contributor has apologized after coming under fire for remarks she made that seemed to dismiss the murder of Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts who, it was discovered, was murdered by an illegal immigrant. ...
(OpenSecrets) While the summer may be coming to a close, primary season is not quite done yet – and two of our nation’s warmest states will see a number of competitive primaries on August 28th. ...
(By James Barragán, Reveal) Just days after Hurricane Harvey released its grip on Texas a year ago, Guillermo Martinez Ayme was hard at work in the rebuilding effort. He was one of more than 100 workers ...
What does it take to be a hero? A pair of beer delivery drivers found out that sometimes the only thing it takes is being at the right place at the right time with the ...
(Represent.Us) The people just won a major victory in the fight to pass anti-gerrymandering laws at the ballot this year. A dark money group tried to attack the measure by suing to remove it from ...
The “Secret Archives” of the Catholic Church in the United States revealed that over 300 “predator priests” have been indicted for sexual molestations in six Roman Catholic dioceses of Pennsylvania. A 1,356-page report published by ...
A new bill proposing to have at least one woman on the board of a publicly-traded company headquartered in California has now been sponsored. SB-826 By law, women may soon become a part of every ...
(Sunlight Foundation) The Office of Refugee Resettlement removed its staff directory from its website, likely between October and December of last year. The change came just before the political firestorm over the Trump administration’s family separation ...
An 11-year-old kid from Texas, Emmett Brewer, successfully hacked a mock Florida election website within 10 minutes. Brewer achieved the feat and also switched election results during the annual hacker conference DefCon. The boy successfully ...
All Florida public schools are now required to exhibit the state motto phrase “In God We Trust” in a visible space, in accordance with a measure passed by Florida Governor Rick Scott. In March, Scott ...
“Anyone who does care about news needs to understand Facebook as a fundamental threat.” (Common Dreams) During a closed-door and off-the-record meeting last week, top Facebook executive Campbell Brown reportedly warned news publishers that refusal ...
District court judge sued by six residents he’s sent to jail on the grounds that they weren’t paying off their debts. Six Arkansas residents have sued Judge Mark Derrick for jailing them due to inability ...
A Georgia candidate for the House of Representatives ranted about his hatred for the county he is running to represent when he was arrested for drunk driving, and now it could sink his campaign. Police ...
Pop superstar and business mogul Kanye West made his way back to the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” stage on Thursday, and he did not hide from questions about his support for President Donald Trump. Kimmel started ...
Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian-American, has become the first Muslim woman to win the Congressional Election in Michigan. Rashida Tlaib narrowly beat Brenda Jones, Detroit’s City Council President, at a Democratic primary election for Michigan’s 13th ...
Activists immediately denounced the measure, which “also recommits the party to an ‘all of the above’ energy stance.” (Common Dreams) Just two months after the Democratic National Committee (DNC) was celebrated by environmentalists for banning donations from ...
A Seattle Sea-Tac International Airport employee, identified as a mechanic, flying a stolen Alaska Airlines jet has crashed the plane shortly after it took off on Friday night. A U.S. Air Force fighter jet intercepted ...
In a rare move, national politicians and activists are getting involved in a local school board race, they say, to make kids safer at school. But this is not just any school district. It is ...
(OpenSecrets) Foreign lobbyists and agents acting on behalf of foreign interests have reported hundreds of millions of dollars in payments since January 2017, an analysis of OpenSecrets’ exclusive new Foreign Lobby Watch data reveals. Today we’re making ...
Sanctions bill introduced in attempts to “protect U.S. democracy” from the Kremlin. U.S. lawmakers have introduced a “sanctions bill from hell” to keep Russian President Vladimir Putin along with other Russia oligarchs in their place. ...
The Wave Of Roses is a Citizens Truth series which highlights progressive candidates and organizations which challenge corporate Third Way control of the Democratic Party. This entry looks at key United States House of Representatives ...
The Wave Of Roses is a Citizens Truth series which highlights progressive candidates and organizations which challenge corporate Third Way control of the Democratic Party. This entry looks at key United States House of Representatives ...