“We had to deal with this idea that the entire system changed…” – Reese Witherspoon on the premise of ‘The Morning Show’ TV veterans Jennifer Aniston (“Friends”) and Steve Carrell (“The Office”) return to the ...
Q: What kind of company views the very existence of Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign as an “existential threat?” A: Facebook, and the doom-and-gloom terms in which it frames this discussion tell you all you need ...
Hours after the Israeli army wounded scores of Palestinian border demonstrators in the Gaza Strip, projectiles from Gaza were fired into nearby southern Israeli towns. On Friday afternoon approximately 100 Palestinian border demonstrators in Gaza ...
The United States Forbid Kurds To Cooperate With Other States
The German ambassador to Libya Oliver Owcza announced on his Twitter in early September that his country intends to hold a meaningful international conference this fall in Berlin to resolve the Libyan crisis. “Germany therefore ...
The controversial Keystone Pipeline leaked hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil on Thursday, making it already the eighth largest spill of the decade. The Keystone Pipeline leaked approximately 383,000 gallons of crude oil in ...
If lawsuits in Ohio go in favor of the counties that have been devastated by the opioid crisis then we could see a trend across the country of more counties suing massive drug companies. Many ...
When intellectual property laws that protect companies conflict with the rights of farmers to plant their fields, who should win? (By Karine Eliane Peschard, The Conversation) A Brazilian appeals court has decided in favor of ...
Despite international condemnation of Israeli housing settlements in occupied Palestinian territories, Israel has ramped up building construction in 2019. Israel has approved the construction of over 2,000 Israeli housing units in the occupied Palestinian West ...
Multiple forensic pathologists have come forward and cast doubt on the official ruling of Jeffrey Epstein’s death as a suicide including world-renown pathologist Dr. Michael Baden. One of the top forensic pathologists in the world ...
The struggle for control of Syria’s eastern oil fields has little to do with fighting terrorism but forms a crucial template of the geopolitical struggle. No one would have thought that out of U.S. President ...
From Houston to Honolulu and San Diego to Sioux Falls, methamphetamines are the number cause of drug overdose deaths. According to a report released on October 25 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
The Democrat-led impeachment inquiry into President Trump will continue after a House vote on Thursday formalized the steps ahead. Just over a month since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced an impeachment investigation into President Donald ...
Rex Tillerson testified Tuesday in a New York lawsuit that could be a turning point for prosecuting powerful actors who knowingly deceived others about climate change. Rex Tillerson, who served as CEO of ExxonMobil from ...
While touting his efforts to end US involvement in Syria, Trump approved $4.5 million more for the White Helmets. This group has been at the heart of the regime-change war on the country, partnering with ...
Turkish and Russian troops will begin patrolling a 5-mile zone along the Turkish border. Both Turkish and Russian military officials agreed on Wednesday to begin jointly patrolling areas in northwest Syria by this Friday. According ...
“I did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen, and I was worried about the implications for the U.S. government’s support of Ukraine.” Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, ...
Neoliberalism, the developed world’s policy framework of the past 40 years, is now in serious crisis. The slogan is pithy—Neoliberalismo nunca más (Neoliberalism Never Again). It was chanted in the streets of Santiago, Chile; it ...
Trump said Washington is mulling over Syria’s oil reserves. Meanwhile, he has put across a tantalizing proposition for Erdogan to ponder over. The morning after a summit meeting often holds surprises. Turkey lost no time ...
For the second time since Monday, an assassination attempt targeted Ministers in the official Yemen government. A large explosion ripped through a convoy for Yemen Defense Minister Mohammad al-Maqdishi on Tuesday, which involved several ministerial ...
Alabama Republicans are hoping to take a new Alabama abortion law all the way to the Supreme Court in hopes of overruling Roe v. Wade. Two and a half weeks prior to a new Alabama ...
“Agricultural choices must be made by these inescapable standards: the ecological health of the farm and the economic health of the farmer.” —Wendell Berry For almost five decades, organic farming associations like the Northeast Organic ...
Greg Walden’s decision to not run for reelection puts the number of retiring House Republicans at three times that of Democrats, sparking rumors of another ‘Blue Wave.’ Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon, an 11-term lawmaker ...
Was the ban a Muslim ban – or was that just an anti-Trump narrative? A political scientist combs through the data for answers. (By Vahid Niayesh, The Conversation) Did President Donald Trump’s travel ban – ...
President Trump will get his wish when Democrats hold a House impeachment vote this Thursday. In a move made to counter President Trump’s arguments that the House of Representatives’ impeachment investigation is illegitimate, House Speaker ...
Hydraulic fracturing, savior or sin? That depends on who you ask. The fossil fuel industry and its proponents tout fracking’s economic benefits as this oil and gas extraction technique has led the march toward the ...
California is once again battling wildfires across the state as the Kincade Fire rages on in Northern California and the Getty Fire erupted Monday morning in the Los Angeles hills. With over a dozen wildfires ...
The Bring Assange Home Parliamentary Group currently comprises 11 MPs from across party lines. Most of them have argued that the extradition of Assange would be an attack on Australia’s sovereignty. (By Peoples Dispatch) The ...
“On behalf of every Muslim I know…every Muslim watching…good riddance to Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi.” The leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in a US operation in northern Syria on Saturday night only ...
Despite previously condemning Super PACs and declaring he would refuse their funding, Biden reversed course on Thursday opening the door to the controversial campaign finance groups. Joe Biden came under fire in June for telling ...
“The judge is sending a loud and clear message: Students have rights under the law and DeVos’ illegal and reckless violation of their rights will not be tolerated.” A federal judge on Thursday held Education ...
The future of renewable energy could lie in offshore wind power and may soon become cheaper than natural gas in Europe. The global transition to clean energy could be led by offshore wind power according ...
Panic-driven e-cigarette bans conflate two separate concerns—youth vaping, and a new respiratory illness that appears to be caused by black market THC vapes using specific additives. According to the October 24 update from the Centers ...
In a new wave of nationwide protests in Iraq on Friday, more than 20 Iraqi protesters were reportedly killed and a few thousand others injured. Iraqi riot police clashed with demonstrators in the capital of ...
Fine particulate matter has been on the rise in the U.S. since 2016, a disturbing reversal in recent U.S. air pollution trends for environmentalists. A new study released this October by the National Bureau of ...
The Catalunya independence movement in Spain shows no signs going away despite violent crackdowns and lengthy prison sentences handed out by the Spanish government. On October 14, nine imprisoned members of the Catalunya independence movement ...
On October 7, 2019, the U.S. President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of American troops from northeast Syria, where the contingent alongside Kurdish militias controlled the vast territories. Trump clarified that the decision is connected ...
Trump’s lawyer William S. Consovoy pushed a dangerous argument on Wednesday – that the President of the U.S. is above the law while in office, even in cases of violent crimes. President Trump’s lawyer argued ...
The drama continued in the Trump impeachment proceedings with more potentially damaging testimony and a dramatic ‘storming of the gates’ by Republicans. A day after acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor gave a testimony ...
Egypt and Ethiopia are locked in a stalemate over the massive Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project that Egypt worries could curtail their water supply. In response to Tuesday remarks that suggested the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy ...
Two bills attempting to lower prescription drug costs are making progress in Congress and show promising signs of bipartisan support. Americans pay exponentially more for prescription drugs than citizens of other developed countries, and spending ...
Europe does not have a refugee or migration crisis. The real crisis is in Africa, where the thief—often a European firm—continues to undermine the continent’s ability to breathe. If you ask an African migrant in ...
The world’s largest oil company says climate change is real, yet continues to finance climate denier groups. ExxonMobil says it believes “the risk of climate change is real,” and it is “committed to being part ...
Conventional battlefields have been replaced by cyber warfare and the U.S. has already conducted two cyber attacks on Iran in 2019. The U.S. is believed to have launched at least two secretive cyber attacks on ...
US troops may be on the move, but instead of returning to the U.S. they are being redeployed to other regions in the Middle East. U.S. President Donald Trump signaled on Monday his country’s plan ...
World leaders continue to fiddle as the world burns. The world is burning. Record or near-record temperatures, combined with drought in many areas, are contributing to yet another record-setting summer for wildfires. California has been ...
“In the U.S. in 2017, around 17% of children lived in food-insecure homes where at least one family member was unable to acquire adequate food due to insufficient money or other resources.” A New Jersey ...
If the U.S. policy in Syria in recent years promoted the Kurdish identity, it has now swung to the other extreme of stoking the fires of Turkish revanchism. The extraordinary U.S. overture to Turkey regarding ...