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 ...
The summit of the century has been called off. In a letter written to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump explained that the United States was pulling out of the summit “for ...
President Donald Trump issued an ultimatum to the Department of Justice on Sunday and it did not take long for it to respond. “I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department ...
The investigation into President Donald Trump by special counsel Robert Mueller is about to wrap up. The New York Times reported on Sunday that Mueller plans to conclude the investigation by Sept. 1, according to ...
Internal documents obtained by The Guardian show how a network of right-wing think tanks have launched a nationwide effort to convince members of public sector unions to stop paying dues. (Democracy Now transcript) The effort ...
Americans spanning the political spectrum share battle cries about media bias, but what is it, and why does it exist? It’s not unusual today to hear complaints about mainstream media. “Fake news,” “media bias,” ...
“We cannot continue to have a democracy that engages in the kind of policy violence that we see happening every day.” (Common Dreams, by Julia Conley) Aiming to continue the work that Rev. Dr. Martin ...
A man who tried to rob a group of, what he thought were, helpless women and their children learned a fatal lesson about not judging a book by its cover. A would-be thief, identified as ...
Today is the 112th birthday of Richard Overton, America’s oldest living WWII veteran. The grandson of a slave is now America’s oldest living World War II veteran. Richard Overton lives in Austin and turned 112 ...
(Represent.Us, by Josh Silver) The people of Ohio just passed an initiative to prevent gerrymandering in congressional districts – and it’s just the first in a huge wave of gerrymandering reforms that could pass this ...
Jose Rodriguez, the CIA official who ordered CIA officers to destroy a cache of videotapes that had documented the treatment of two terror suspects, says he told Gina Haspel what he intended to do. President ...
Today is day three of the 20,000 plus strong U.C. Worker’s strike in California. The AFSCME Local 3299 Union is striking to protest the growing inequality at the University of California healthcare system. The University ...
A new movement launched two weeks ago that encourages voter turnout at national elections by asking companies across the U.S. to give employees Election Day off, and dozens of companies are already signing on. Vote.org launched ...
Two key figures in the FBI during the reign of former FBI Director James Comey resigned on Friday as an Inspector General report looms. One of the aides was Lisa Page, who carried on an ...
Thursday, May 3, 2018, is World Press Freedom Day and we are honoring all journalists and media professionals who have lost their lives in their pursuit of press freedoms. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) ...
Seven months after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, protestors took to the streets on May Day in Puerto Rico to protest failed recovery efforts, an indebted economy, school closings and cuts, and other reforms deemed ...
More than 50 organizations rallied thousands of protestors for the annual May Day March in Los Angeles to raise awareness for workers and immigrant rights. Past marches rallied hundreds of thousands of protestors and despite ...
An annual protest tradition continues as activists demand accountability from the scandal-ridden bank. (Inequality.org, by Negin Owliaei) It’s becoming something of a tradition. Wells Fargo holds its annual shareholder meeting at a location kept close to ...
Glory hound Gloria Allred got her comeuppance on Sunday night as she appeared at the Daytime Emmy Awards and did not get the warm welcome she was anticipating. Not by a long shot. Host Mario ...
A caravan of asylum seekers has made it to the Southern border of the United States, but it could be the end of the line for the hundreds who made it this far. “At this ...
President Donald Trump was in campaign form on Saturday night as he took aim at many of his enemies in a rally that had its share of fireworks. In his opening salvo the president took ...
Yet again another mass shooting has happened, and the shooter was known to authorities prior to the murders. It is becoming as routine as the predictable cries for gun control, before any of the facts ...
Press freedom advocates denounced the claims advanced in the suit, arguing they would implicate journalists and newspapers that report on or publish classified information. (Common Dreams)”[Eighteen] months after their crushing defeat at the hands of ...
Decision by the Maine Supreme Court confirms that voters “are sovereign and have the final say.” (Common Dreams, Julia Conley) Election reform advocates on Wednesday praised a decision by Maine’s Supreme Court, upholding the use ...
The United States, Britain and France conducted precision strikes on Syrian targets on Friday night. But is what is most telling is President Donald Trump’s announcement that these strikes would be part of a “sustained ...
On March 13th, in a local city election in Tempe, Arizona 91 percent of voters said yes to forcing “Dark Money” organizations to reveal financial backers if their spending in local elections exceeds $1,000. Arizona Governor ...
When a president wins an election the country is supposed to come together behind that president. Granted, there are going to be disagreements along the way as politics goes, but the way the deranged left ...
In one of the most chilling things you will ever read, a 23-year-old from Tennessee shared an online manifesto on Facebook detailing how her murdered his mother and friend. The murderer, Casey Lawhorn, described in ...
The Mexican government is forcing retaliation from President Donald Trump, as Mexico is not only allowing their own citizens to enter the United States illegally, but are also helping other nations’ migrants do it, too. ...
(Anti-Media) The father of slain Pulse nightclub gunman Omar Mateen, the man who killed 49 people and injured 53 others during a 2016 rampage in Orlando, was a confidential FBI informant for over a decade, it was revealed over ...
America has entered a new era, where big businesses are taking increasingly aggressive steps into the political arena. First Facebook and Google started by changing its algorithms which cut down traffic for many major independent ...
Today a movement inspired by the teenage survivals of the Parkland, Florida school shooting came to life across not just the United States, but the entire world as people across the globe joined in the ...