The impeachment inquiry into President Trump has spearheaded a call for unity within the Republican Party, raising the stakes for the upcoming presidential election. After seemingly surviving the Mueller investigation, it is now Ukraine that ...
“It is unfathomable and unconscionable that the U.S.A. continues to feed the conveyor belt of arms flowing into Yemen’s devastating conflict.” (By Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) U.S. made bombs killed six Yemeni civilians on June 28, including ...
“As a first year teacher, I am coming into the profession with no materials. Through this movement, I have been blessed to receive gifts from perfect strangers — some teachers, some in other professions, and ...
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Trump’s impeachment worries continue to unfold as a whistleblower complaint is made public and Trump reveals Vice President Mike Pence also had phone calls with Ukraine. On Thursday morning a whistleblower complaint which claims President ...
The results are in. All age demographics use CBD in some fashion! It may have taken almost a century to lift the prohibition on hemp, but it’s taken only a couple of years for the ...
“We fear that he [Barry Lee Myers] wants to turn the weather service into a taxpayer-funded subsidiary of AccuWeather.” Easy access to weather forecasts is a given for most Americans. The national weather service, a ...
“Our current drug laws distort the priorities of police, who end up spending too much time arresting people for being addicted to drugs instead of focusing on community safety.” The groundwork is being laid now ...
As prescription drug costs soar, Congress is pressing for bills that would cap out-of-pocket expenses for Medicare beneficiaries and allow the government a say in drug pricing. Worried to lose the pricing power, the pharmaceutical ...
“When the financial system shifts its capital away from resource-hungry, brown investments to those that back nature as solution, everybody wins in the long-term.” On the eve of the United Nations climate summit in New ...
Roy Cohn was “a master manipulator that taught politicians, demagogues, and bad guys how to behave—and that means misbehave.” A new documentary explores the life and career of “evil” lawyer and political power broker Roy ...
In the age of standardized tests and common core state standards, today’s teachers must stick strictly to teaching the curriculum, which outside forces sometimes determine. Local school boards and administrators normally design school curriculums, but ...
PFAS are “forever chemicals”: They take thousands of years to break down—and can remain in our bodies for decades. A handful of multibillion-dollar chemical companies have waged war on our bodies and our environment for ...
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives launched a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump. As earlier reports predicted, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the launching of a formal impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump related ...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Trump impeachment hearings over his administration’s refusal to release a whistleblower complaint about Trump’s dealings with Ukraine. Following a tumultuous few days, Democratic leader and House speaker Nancy Pelosi was ...
Today, Mississippi is one of only two states where the winner of the popular vote does not automatically become governor. (By Gideon Cohn-Postar, The Conversation) A lawsuit over a Mississippi election law, if successful, will ...
“I see a new momentum. I believe in these last few months [there has been] a turning point.” World leaders gathered at the UN climate summit in New York City on Monday in the wake ...
Wealthy donors such as CEOs, executives and attorneys are mostly sticking with three Democratic presidential candidates. (By Karl Evers-Hillstrom, Center for Responsive Politics) Wealthy donors have an abundance of options to choose from in the loaded ...
Edi Rama must respect Greece and the basic principles of democracy and human rights for all. The European Commission recommended on May 29 to start accession negotiations in the European Union with regards to Albania. ...
As the Obama administration worked to develop national prescribing standards that discouraged the use of addictive opioid painkillers, Purdue used third-party groups to undermine the effort. (By Andrew Perez and Lee Fang, MapLight) Purdue Pharma, ...
The fate of the planet is in the balance. But so is the fate of humanity. The United Nations General Assembly gathers this week at the UN headquarters in New York City. This is the ...
For the first time since Sisi assumed power after leading the military’s overthrowal of former President Mohammad Morsi in 2013 Egyptian citizens took to the streets calling for the end of Sisi’s reign. Protests ripped ...
“We are not like any other political show on television…” “The Circus” first premiered in 2016 as a docu-series on Showtime to follow the historic presidential campaign then. It’s now entering its fourth season, following ...
“My son and his friends were killed by the Americans. How could they do this to us?” A U.S. drone strike killed 30 farmers and workers in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province who were resting after harvesting ...
Companies like McDonald’s and Starbucks have begun testing in-app software that lets a customer order ahead and uses geofencing to predict when the customer will arrive. From impossible meat to CBD in everything, there are ...
Additions shown in brackets. Deletions struck through. Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof [including co-opting the administrative branch of government by a union ...
While USDA inspectors will still be present at every plant, the agency estimates that there will be as much as a 40% decrease in inspectors at some facilities. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) changed ...
“The good news, as I more or less alluded to, is that there are a number of presidential candidates that have released very strong democracy reform platforms.” Citizen Truth spoke with Adam Eichen of Equal ...
“I do yawn at the idea of another story in which white men are offered a sort of understanding for their violence.” The new comic book movie Joker has already drawn significant buzz long before ...
“An administration staffed by former industry lobbyists will almost certainly favor industry over the general public.” In less than three years, President Trump has assigned more former lobbyists to Cabinet-level positions than former Presidents Obama ...
The Houthi drone strike on Aramco shows the shifting strategic balance in the Persian Gulf. It also shows that any escalation in this region threatens the global economy. The intricate war dance among the U.S., ...
“We’re here to reclaim our right to live, our right to breathe, our right to exist.” (By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Kicking off what organizers say will be the largest mass climate demonstration in history, ...
“Since the US revoked waivers for even modest imports of Iranian oil, half a dozen tankers have been sabotaged or seized in the Persian Gulf, and America and Iran nearly went to war after Iran ...
“I got sued on a thing called emoluments. Emoluments. You ever hear of the word? Nobody ever heard of it before. And what it is is presidential harassment, because [the presidency] is costing me a ...
While some see Robert O’Brien as a step away from John Bolton’s hawkish, pro-war foreign policy, others consider him a traditional “foreign policy elite” sold on U.S. exceptionalism. U.S. President Donald Trump has chosen hostage ...
The ECS maintains our well being by regulating key biological aspects of our body. Most importantly, it plays a central role in keeping our body in homeostasis. Cannabidiol (CBD) is an effective health supplement because ...
The second Modi regime sworn in this year has demonstrated in just three months what we can expect – a relentless assault on the foundations of Indian democracy. There were some notable differences between the ...
“I think there actually is a pretty decent argument to be made that this actually is one of Israel’s most momentous elections.” Israel’s second election in five months has resulted in an impasse, with Benny ...
For years large amounts of money were transferred out of Purdue Pharma to mysterious offshore accounts – was the company and the Sackler family hiding their money, knowing their day in court would come? Purdue ...
If Americans fail to speak out now, we may discover too late that our failure to rein in our venal, warmongering ruling class has led us to the brink of World War III. On Saturday, ...
“This will be the biggest fight in environmental law since the Clean Power Plan. Maybe bigger.” President Trump said his administration would revoke an Obama-era waiver on Wednesday that allowed California to set its own ...
“Russia has traditionally considered Central Asia, including Tajikistan, as its sphere of political-military influence.” Despite being engaged in an ongoing struggle for influence in Central Asia, Russia joined China and a handful of other Asian ...
Around 1.5 million Uighurs and other Muslims were determined “untrustworthy” by Chinese officials and scheduled for detention and reeducation in a massive internment camp system. (By Darren Byler, The Conversation) The Uighurs, a Muslim minority ...
Chubb’s new anti-coal policy demonstrates how the insurance industry can help mitigate the climate crisis. It seems like every day there is a new story of a pipeline spilling crude oil or an oil refinery ...
According to CREW, the president has spent nearly a third of his presidency visiting his business properties at taxpayer expense. More than 30 Senate Democrats proposed a law this week to ban the spending of ...
Once a promising western Asian state, the current Turkish tyrant regime is now doing its best to drive its country back to the past and to prevent the Turks from flourishing. A year ago Turkey ...
A second class of drugs was found to be contaminated with a known carcinogen, raising concern that the FDA is not adequately monitoring existing drugs on the market. Drug regulators in both Europe and the ...
“We’re teaching life lessons. In ‘The Bravest Knight’, it’s an adventure about how to be a great knight, which translates into how to be a good human.” Although Hollywood has made many strides in LGBTQ ...
There’s growing frustration, particularly among the world’s youth, with how adults have so horribly mismanaged the climate crisis. The Global Climate Strike on Friday, September 20, is expected to draw millions of people across 150 ...
“I’m not asking for a pardon. I’m not asking for a pass. What I’m asking for is a fair trial.” NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden has been giving interviews with major media outlets this week in ...
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