“I feel the U.S. has tremendous wealth… I’m not going to lose that wealth on dreams, on windmills – which, frankly, aren’t working too well… I think I know more about the environment than most.” ...
The nation’s largest opioid distributors, their subsidiaries, and employees gave more than $23 million in campaign contributions to federal candidates over the last decade. (By Frank Bass, MapLight) Even as an epidemic of painkiller abuse ...
Mexico, already the most dangerous country for journalists in the Western Hemisphere, recorded more journalists deaths in the first seven months of 2019 than in all of 2018. (By Parker Asmann, InSight Crime) Reporters in ...
Los Angeles voters approved a $1.2B bond initiative to address the housing crisis and give apartments to the homeless. As costs have skyrocketed the number of units being built has dropped so that units are ...
Thursday’s fighting in Yemen constituted the latest spate of violence between Saudi Arabia-backed government-loyal troops and the militias linked with the Southern Transitional Council. Saudi Arabian-backed Yemeni forces belonging to the internationally recognized government of ...
“CoreCivic’s profit model is built around understaffing and constant lockdowns of poorly run, exceedingly dangerous prisons.” A July report from the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) and No Exceptions Prison Collective found that CoreCivic, a ...
An average of 1,688 corruption cases were registered for every 1,000 active-duty police officers in Mexico in 2017. (By Juan Camilo Jaramillo, InSight Crime) The arrest of a town’s entire police department in Mexico’s state ...
The Trump administration has requested to amend a settlement that would allow them to indefinitely detain migrant children, but activist organizations have vowed to fight it. (By Kevin Johnson, The Conversation) The Trump administration is ...
“Publication and dissemination of a white supremacist, anti-semitic website throughout the EOIR is antithetical to the goals and ideals of the Department of Justice.” The Department of Justice (DOJ) sent an email to all immigration ...
“He deployed his stupendous fortune funding climate denial in the years when the science was clear and there was still time to avert catastrophic warming. He died as fires raged from the Amazon to the ...
Dark money groups have spent more than $1 billion on independent expenditures since the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United v. FEC decision. (By Anna Massoglia and Karl Evers-Hillstrom, Center for Responsive Politics) A new “dark money” group ...
“Without unions, there will be no institution in American politics advocating for policies that benefit the vast majority of Americans who do not own capital.” Sen. Bernie Sanders released a new plan on Wednesday that ...
Egypt’s economy is bouncing back from years of political turmoil and uncertainty with impressive economic growth rates. After India and Uganda, Egypt is ranked as the world’s third fastest-growing economy for the upcoming ten years, ...
There seems to be something of a cumulative effect gradually moving people toward realizing the need for policy intervention. (By Kent E. Portney and Carol L. Goldsmith, The Conversation) In the aftermath of the shootings ...
Since January, Idlib has been administered by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham alliance, which is led by extremists from Syria’s former al-Qaeda affiliate. The Chinese envoy to the conflict in Syria, Xie Xiaoyan voiced on Tuesday ...
“The scale of new production forecast from the US is staggering, no other country comes even close.” The United States is on track to produce 61 percent of the world’s new fossil fuel production over ...
What is CBD and How Does it Work? Cannabinoids are compounds found in cannabis, and CBD is one of over 100 known today! After THC, CBD is the second most plentiful cannabinoid, composing up to 40 ...
The Trump administration is considering cutting the payroll tax which funds Social Security, a move the GOP previously opposed under Obama. (By Steve Wamhoff, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy) The Trump Administration is considering ...
A recent weapons seizure by Argentine authorities of about 1,000 guns and hundreds of explosives is the nation’s largest in history, according to officials. (By Josefina Salomón and Carolina Sampó, InSight Crime) While the seizure of ...
There’s a reason why figures like Sanders and AOC are so popular when Congress as a whole is not. The policy positions they embrace are, by and large, supported by the American public. What’s not ...
“There isn’t neutral, reliable media that can build a bridge between the two sides and win the trust of both.” As Hong Kong protests against a controversial extradition bill have entered the twelfth week, misleading ...
“This case has rained violence upon every person of color even remotely involved.” The New York Police Department fired the officer whose chokehold led to the death of Eric Garner on Monday, closing a five-year ...
The longstanding dispute between India and Pakistan over Kashmir has reached a new fever-pitch in recent weeks. In May of this year, Indian Narendra Modi won his reelection bid for prime minister, and now his ...
Fires on Gran Canaria, the second most popular island of Spain’s Canary Islands, have already forced the evacuation of thousands and remain uncontrolled. A wildfire that ripped through the island of Gran Canaria in Spain’s ...
An Iranian tanker seized and held by the U.K. for 46 days was recently released, but will voices within the Trump administration pressure President Trump into “making a move” on the tanker? At 11:30 p.m. ...
There are now more black people in correctional control (prison, jail, probation, or parole) than there were enslaved in 1850. Sen. Bernie Sanders released a sweeping plan to overhaul America’s criminal justice system on Sunday, ...
What Warren is proposing may get her votes, but it won’t be good for the economy. Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is running for president in 2020, is gunning for private equity firms. She believes ...
“This message is not about policy or political parties. It is about human decency and care. We are asking people to sign on to love – and it is working.” In support of the Latinx ...
“It is important for those participating in AI standards development to be aware of, and to act consistently with, U.S. government policies and principles, including those that address societal and ethical issues, governance and privacy.” ...
“The thought of Denmark selling 50,000 citizens to the United States is completely ridiculous.” President Donald Trump privately expressed interest in buying Greenland, the world’s largest island, to White House aides and advisers, as the ...
“In a free and open democracy, the government doesn’t use taxpayer resources to keep itself in power. That’s what authoritarian dictatorships do.” Workers at a Royal Dutch Shell plant in Pennsylvania were reportedly ordered to ...
The creators of the new NBC comedy series Sunnyside say, “We are just trying to tell real stories about people.” With fall just around the corner, the new TV series “Sunnyside” looks to tackle immigrant ...
The primary reason Christian groups are now focusing on immigration, I’d argue, is simply that the notion of welcoming strangers and caring for the vulnerable are embedded in the Christian tradition. (By Laura E. Alexander, ...
“The NSA has been vacuuming up hundreds of millions of Americans’ call records as part of a program that is hopelessly complex and lacks any discernible evidence of its value.” The Trump administration urged Congress ...
Both Germany and Norway are pulling donations to Brazil’s Amazon fund over concerns that the Brazilian government is promoting the spread of deforestation. The Norwegian government has reportedly suspended donations allocated to the Brazilian government’s ...
While Barstool Sports claims to be free of sexism and exist to be a place free of ‘PC culture,’ their actions over the years speak otherwise. Earlier this week, Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool ...
Multiple Americans who attended an annual Iranian-backed conference critical of U.S.-Isreal policy reported threatening visits from the FBI in recent months. According to three U.S. former government or military officials, the U.S. Federal Bureau of ...
“CEOs are getting more because of their power to set pay, not because they are increasing productivity or possess specific, high-demand skills.” A new study from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) found that average CEO ...
The Syrian Army has retaken more villages in Idlib as it advances toward the rebel stronghold of Khan Sheikhoun. Syrian army sources confirmed on Thursday that the Syrian Army retook two villages in the southern ...
“I would want them legally to be able to come to America or to be able to live in America, just without being forced into these places away from their parents.” In late June of ...
A compelling film on Netflix, The Great Hack, adds to our understanding of big tech’s threat to democracy and explains how a lot of “tools” came out of the military’s psychological operations (or psyops) and ...
“I doubt anything can be done to overturn the EPA actions at this point, at least not quickly. The administration has demonstrated it has no respect for scientific conclusions, court orders, or public demands for ...
The Open Arms ship, a migrant rescue boat run by Spanish charity Proactiva, has been stuck at sea for over two weeks as migrants onboard await their fate while Italy debates their future. Italian Prime ...
“But for them to go under oath and say that theses blacklists don’t exist, well employees like me are able to just search through the internal search engine of the company and see that they ...
The U.S. claimed it has “credible information” that a former Sudanese security official was involved in torture during his term as the nation’s security chief. The American administration announced on Wednesday it was banning the ...
“The yield curves are all crying timber that a recession is almost a reality, and investors are tripping over themselves to get out of the way.” The U.S. stock market plunged to its worst day ...
A huge cattle ranch business is flouting bans designed to protect the rainforest and selling its cows to the world’s largest meat company. (By Andrew Wasley, Alexandra Heal, Dom Phillips, Daniel Camargos, Mie Lainio, André Campos, Diego Junqueira, The Bureau of Investigative ...
Simmering racial and cultural tensions in the U.S. have played out in the debate over the legacy of Confederate monuments across the country, but have any statues been removed? According to the latest Southern Poverty ...
“This rule seeks to undermine our civil rights protections and encourages discrimination in the workplace — and we will work to stop it.” The Department of Labor proposed a rule on Wednesday to allow federal ...
As tensions in the Middle East worsen, a recent military ranking index suggests an Iran-Israel military conflict would pit two equally formidable military forces. According to the annual Military Strength Ranking report compiled by Global ...
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