If you threaten or intimidate someone while wearing a face mask, you could risk getting sent to jail for 15 years. That is the main objective of a new bill introduced by U.S. Congressman Dan ...
(MPN.com, by Whitney Webb) MEMPHIS – Several African-American farmers from Memphis, Tennessee are suing a seed company they claim intentionally sold them defective soybean seeds in a bid to put them out of business. According ...
President Trump proposed a replacement for retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. Here, the best reporting to date on the Supreme Court nominee. (ProPublica, by Ian MacDougall) President Trump on Monday night nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the seat ...
Is Hillary Clinton planning to run for president again in 2020? After a series of recent emails it is starting to look more likely that she could be. In the past month Clinton has sent ...
President Donald Trump’s attorney, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, said that he encourages the president’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, to talk to Robert Mueller’s investigators regarding their investigation into Russian meddling in the ...
Fox News commentator Tomi Lahren is never afraid to stray from the party line when it comes to her personal beliefs, and she did it again on Saturday when she said the fight to change ...
A new wave is sweeping America and it is not blue. It is a campaign led not by a traditional conservative Republican, but by a gay, former liberal, who says the Democrat Party no longer ...
A gunman opened fire upon the newsroom of an Annapolis daily paper on Thursday, killing five members of the staff. Capital Gazette editors Rob Hiaasen and Gerald Fischman, sportswriter John McNamara, reporter Wendi Winters and ...
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 U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a study revealing that American farmers are committing suicide at rates significantly above the average population. The data showed that the suicide rate among farmers ...
On Tuesday the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Trump’s travel ban on five Muslim countries, a ruling that angered many Muslims in America and around the world. In February 2Presidentsidet Trump invoked an executive order to ...
Cortez Shocks The Establishment Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-D) had the support of numerous national progressive organizations Justice Democrats and Our Revolution, while also receiving support from Brand New Congress, MoveOn, and other groups that felt she ...
Senators and representatives in Congress have received over $120 million from corporate political action committees (PACs) since January 2017. According to MapLight, House Republicans received $263,00 on average which is 67 percent more than the ...
‘We will keep coming back until everyone has housing, voting rights, clean water, peace, and justice!” says Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis (Common Dreams, by Andrea Germanos) Thousands of people gathered in Washington, D.C. on Saturday where the Poor ...
Temple University is located right in the heart of the vibrant community of North Philadelphia, but as Temple continues to expand and grow without consideration for area residents and their concerns tension has continued to ...
Following public heckling attacks against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Neilsen and White House aide Stephen Miller, both of whom are at the head of implementing President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy against illegal ...
It was an embarrassing day for Roseann Barr’s ex-husband Tom Arnold on Friday when he made a wild claim about former attorney for President Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, then couldn’t back the claim and then ...
Over 2,300 immigrant children are currently separated from their parents under President Trump’s zero-tolerance policy, but one six-year-old’s ability to memorize phone numbers kept her connected with her “lost” mother in the United States. Alison Jimena ...
On Wednesday afternoon, President Trump signed an executive order ending the policy that has separated children from their parents when they have illegally entered the US southern border. The new bill permits parents and children ...
Who says government work doesn’t pay — eventually? In another example of the ever-revolving door that government employees and lobbyists funnel through, it seems that prosecutors in the U.S. Justice Department are jumping ship to join ...
Just recently a Tampa Bay Times investigation found that tens of thousands of gun permits in Florida were processed without background checks between July 2016 and June 2017. All the applicants were issued with concealed ...
Truth Beyond The Narrative On August 24, 2016, Our Revolution a 501(c)(4) political organization which came to formation after Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. However, despite a 44.2% victory rate (38 out of 86 candidates) thus ...
Two former executives of Roadrunner Transportation Systems Inc. will soon face criminal charges for a $245 million accounting and securities fraud scheme. Mark R. Wogsland, 53, and Bret S. Naggs, 52, have been indicted for ...
ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing as an agent jokes, “We have an orchestra here.” (ProPublica, by Ginger Thompson) The desperate sobbing ...
(The Sunlight Foundation, by Eliza Newlin Carney) When Colorado public school teachers rallied in Denver this spring to demand better school funding and retirement benefits, two fed-up GOP legislators had a novel idea: Why not pass ...
A new report published by the Vera Institute for Justice and titled “Operation Streamline: No Evidence that Criminal Prosecution Deters Migration” found that there is no evidence stricter immigration laws and criminal prosecution deters migration across ...
A CNN Panel discussing immigration reform erupted in a pier six brawl after a conservative commentator suggested that those who want illegal immigrants to have unfettered access to the United States start to house the ...
Could there someday be a President Kim Kardashian in the Oval Office? The reality television star and newly minted criminal justice reform activist gave a shocking answer to that question on Saturday when she spoke ...
In light of the increase in unaccompanied immigrant children held by the Department of Health and Human Services (H.H.S.), the Trump administration is finalizing plans to construct a tent city that could shelter up to ...
The Democratic National Committee (D.N.C.) has agreed to reject campaign donations from corporate Political Action Committees (P.A.C.s) tied to the fossil fuel industry. This resolution came via a unanimous vote reached over the weekend, the ...
This historic law sets the standard for breaking the two-party duopoly and electing leaders who are more representative of the people. This was the first time a statewide election has ever used ranked choice voting ...
The U.S. Air Force has a shortage of up to 2,000 pilots. Federal News Radio reported to increase numbers and fill the shortage, the U.S. Air Force wants to create an online video game and track player ...
It was a surreal sight when American President Donald Trump finally met face to face, and shook hands with, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un on Monday, but it was the start of a remarkable night. ...
For the first time in modern history the United States and Canada are starting to position themselves as each other’s enemies following the G7 summit. The day after President Trump headed to Singapore to begin ...
Former Senate Intelligence Committee staffer James A. Wolfe was arrested Thursday and charged for lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation concerning classified information that was leaked to the media. Wolfe, who was employed as ...
Shortly after his election, President Donald Trump thanked Harley-Davidson and several major companies “for building things in America.” Then last February, Harley-Davidson turned around and closed a factory, cut up to 800 jobs, increased dividends ...
This year’s 18th edition of the International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) comes up on October 22-24 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The conferences centers around the Anti-Corruption Award which seeks to honor and reward individuals who through acts of ...
A new report titled Grand Theft Paycheck: The Large Corporations Shortchanging Their Workers’ Wages reveals that over 450 American companies have increased profits by cheating employees of their wages. The report was published by the ...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (D.H.S.) is currently facing mounting pressure from 42 civil liberties groups. The groups, representing millions of Americans, are demanding that the D.H.S. release the original, unedited version of a ...
A group of wealthy donors advocating for charter schools raised over $15 million for Antonio Villaraigosa’s California governorship race. The amount is the highest spending by an independent political committee for any governorship race in ...
In a new era brought on by the #MeToo Movement that is less tolerant of sexual assault, voters went to the polls in Santa Clara County, California and delivered what many see as another victory ...
Today voters throughout California are exercising their constitutional rights by participating in primary elections. Dianne Feinstein has been a member of the United States Senate since 1992 and is wildly expected to move on to ...
In an unusual move to field a Democratic candidate for California’s 48th District House election in November, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has spent over $110,000 to support a Republican. John Gabbard, the Republican, ...
A Georgia police officer has been fired after video footage showed that he ran over a fleeing suspect with his police cruiser. Officer Taylor Saulters and Officer Hunter Blackmon were patrolling Athens-Clarke County on Friday ...
A 13-year-old Texas girl stabbed her friend to death after an argument about a sleepover, but as horrid as that is the story actually gets worse. The 13-year-old girl suspect is being held in custody ...
(A Blanket of Dust, by Jonathan Slaff) A new play will test the receptiveness of the New York stage to the issue of what really happened in Lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001. “A Blanket ...
(FactCheck.org, by Robert Farley) With gasoline prices rising, Sen. Chuck Schumer placed the blame on President Donald Trump, and specifically his decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal. But experts say that decision has had ...
Joshua Holt, an American citizen who has been held captive in Venezuela since 2016, is back home in the United States. President Donald Trump announced on Twitter on Saturday that Holt was released from prison ...
(AntiWar.com, by Jason Ditz) In a 351-66 vote, the House of Representatives has passed their version of the 2019 military spending bill, the National Defense Authorization Act. The NDAA intends to spend $717 billion in the next fiscal ...
While the new National Football League (NFL) anthem policy pleases some, it also angers many others – many athletes, coaches, and sports personalities have spoken out against the decision. Michelle Beadle commented on the situation ...
