The annual G-20 summit wrapped up in Japan, but while it was long on topics it remains to be seen whether it will result in any action. On Saturday, June 29, the annual summit of ...
“The public deserves to know if the president is a serial tax dodger.” House Democrats sued the Treasury Department on Tuesday in an effort to obtain President Trump’s tax returns, the latest development in a ...
Editor’s note: Iran has breached a limit on enriching uranium that was imposed in a 2015 agreement restricting its nuclear activities. Under the deal, the United States and five other world powers lifted economic sanctions ...
Detention centers don’t have to be Auschwitz or Dachau to be labeled “concentration camps.”
“What we’re doing today is a step and probably it’s a step in the right direction.” After attending the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, President Donald Trump made a surprise visit to meet with North ...
An airport in southern Saudi Arabia was attacked by Houthi rebel forces over the weekend for the fourth time in a month. The Yemen-based, Houthi-linked Ansar Allah militant group claimed responsibility early on Tuesday for ...
“Heat waves will become more intense, they will become more drawn out, they will become more extreme, they will start earlier, and they will finish later.” Monthly and all-time temperature records have been breaking across ...
“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re misinformed.” The sole function of the White House “press secretary” is to shield the president from exercising his (or her) responsibility ...
The main part of our conversation with the Around The Nation host focused on Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), his top two choices for the Democratic nomination. The Democratic party has just begun ...
The Sudanese military claims a coalition government is in the works, but Sudanese citizens continued protests over the weekend to keep up the pressure for a democratic future. Large crowds of people took to the ...
Shortly after defending a group of mostly black children in his apartment complex, Nicholas Kitchen, aka ‘Highlighter Man,’ is facing eviction, and a neighbor who filmed the incident is facing a lawsuit. On June 20th, ...
“That’s a direct threat against the lives of state police… All of this rhetoric — all of this right-wing, terrorist rhetoric is figuring into this conversation. It’s very, very scary.” Political volatility escalated to violence ...
Libya is on the verge of becoming the next proxy war, as its coalition government struggles to retain control over the country. Last Wednesday, the U.N.-recognized Coalition Government of Libya, declared that its forces wrestled ...
Albania held heavily disputed elections on Sunday, despite a presidential decree postponing the elections until October, but exceptionally low voter turnout undermines the election results. On Sunday, Albania held local elections despite 30 municipalities having ...
“Since when did the Problem Solvers Caucus become the Child Abuse Caucus?” Progressives slammed House Speaker Pelosi on Thursday for abandoning child protection requirements on border funding and caving to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s ...
“For a long time there were questions as to whether or not Saudi Arabia and other countries were sponsoring terror. You have absolutely stopped and I really appreciate that and the world really appreciates it.” ...
“You don’t get to knock my child down and silence that voice without 500 more raising up. Knowing that he won’t be out again to cause more harm to more people helps.” On Friday, a ...
“The fact that such gerrymandering is incompatible with democratic principles does not mean that the solution lies with the federal judiciary.” (By John Rennie Short, The Conversation) In a 5-4 decision the Supreme Court has ...
For young Albanians, the current political situation seems unbelievable, for the older generations it brings back memories of Communism. A battle over Albania’s next elections culminates June 30 as Prime Minister Edi Rama has insisted ...
A paramedic dies after being wounded in May at the Great March of Return in the never-ending conflict between Gazans and Israelis. At the home of the al-Judeili family in the central Gaza Strip refugee ...
The geofencing industry is expected to grow over 27% by 2022, citing “technological advancements in the use of spatial data and increasing applications in numerous industry verticals.” Geofencing is a buzzy mobile app capability that’s ...
More older Americans are opting to die at home, often with the emotional support of a home care worker. (By Cati Coe, The Conversation) President Trump wants the U.S. immigration system to shift away from ...
This is the second part, in a three-part series on the Roma people in Europe. Roma, who are commonly referred to as “gypsies” though the term is often considered derogatory, face widespread and often state-sanctioned ...
The ICC provides no legal counterbalance to the arrogance of an empire’s power. In June, a group of international lawyers sued the European Union for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ...
“It has felt impossible, in the Trump era, to hope even for a second that our governing systems will operate on any standard of morality.” Two women stepped forward to corroborate author E. Jean Carroll’s ...
“The fate of coal has been sealed, the market has spoken.” This April, the United States generated more power from renewable resources than coal for the first time in U.S. history, according to a new ...
“We cannot continue to throw money at a dysfunctional system.” Both chambers of Congress passed legislation to provide billions in aid for the growing border crisis, but House Democrats are concerned the Senate-passed version does ...
The Saharan Arab Democratic Republic and Morocco have battled for sovereignty over Western Sahara since the 1970s. At a Tuesday meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, support for Morocco’s Western ...
“I can’t think of any other investigation that we’ve undertaken, at least in my 30 years, with that many people taken off the street at one time.” After thousands of law enforcement officers allegedly posted ...
“There is a complete disconnect between EU principles and its image and enforcing any coherent policy concerning arms exports.” The British government gave the green light to arms sales to Israel in 2018 worth $17 ...
“No one is above the law in this country, not even the President of the United States.” Broadcast live online from Riverside Church in New York City on June 24 for one night only, a ...
“There is no military solution to this problem.” (By Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Iraqi President Barham Salih said Tuesday that the United States has no right to use his country as a launchpad for a ...
“The federal government is out of touch and our cannabis laws are out of date. I’m pleased that the House agrees, and we are able to move forward.” (StopTheDrugWar) In a history-making vote Thursday, the ...
After 70 days in preventive detention without formal charges, Ola Bini’s request for habeas corpus was granted, and shortly after, he was released from prison. (By Zoe PC, Peoples Dispatch) Privacy activist and software developer ...
“And the continuing detention of individuals not suspected of crimes, in the absence of lawful basis and regular independent judicial review, is not acceptable.” Michelle Bachelet, the chief of the United Nations Commission for Human Rights (UNCHR), ...
“Years and Years” is described as a parable for those who oppose Brexit, Donald Trump, and lament the “tolerant, democratic, globalized social order of the late 20th century that is collapsing around them.” The new ...
“Those who conspire against our inalienable legitimate Palestinian rights will definitely fail. We will one day return back to our homeland, whether they agree or disagree,” Abu Qinas, a Palestinian protester, told Citizen Truth. Palestinians ...
“The strategy of maximum pressure is not designed to induce negotiations, but rather to push Iran away from the negotiating table while triggering further Iranian provocations that could serve as a pretext for war.” The ...
“The significance of Ekrem Imamoglu’s win in Istanbul cannot be understated…. he represents a much-needed change in political discourse.” Turkey’s opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) triumphed over President Erdogan’s ruling party in Istanbul’s mayoral election ...
“The new document is very much conceived as a war-fighting doctrine – not simply a deterrence doctrine, and that’s unsettling.” The total global quantity of nuclear warheads fell in a comparison of data from 2019 ...
“I think it’s fair to characterize Johnson & Johnson as a kingpin in our opioid crisis.” Johnson & Johnson (J&J), the pharmaceutical company famous for its family-friendly image, is combating a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit from the ...
It’s hard not to browse a feed, turn on the television, or read a magazine without coming across news about CBD. CBD is a powerful compound found in hemp. While hemp-based products are soaring with ...
“Based on our results so far in Arkansas, it doesn’t appear that this particular policy is accomplishing its goals.” According to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, work requirements for ...
The EPA regularly utilizes the “emergency exemption” rule to circumvent enacted restrictions on pesticide use. (Beyond Pesticides) On June 17, 2019, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) once again approved “emergency” uses of sulfoxaflor, a bee-toxic ...
“China is our ‘old friend’ who suffered and overcame the hardships of their modern history […] I will strengthen the communication channel and thus our trust through active exchanges and dialogues.” North Korean leader Kim ...
“It makes no sense to continue handing out massive tax breaks to dangerous refineries like the Philadelphia Energy Solutions facility.” Philadelphia Energy Solutions, the largest oil refinery on the East Coast, suffered a massive explosion ...
“There is credible evidence, warranting further investigation of high-level Saudi Officials’ individual liability, including the Crown Prince’s.” “Mr. Khashoggi’s killing constituted an extrajudicial killing for which the State of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is ...
Accountability. Directness. Fairness. Visibility. These are hallmarks of good communication notably absent from the White House with Sarah Sanders as press secretary.
This is the first part, in a three-part series on the Roma people in Europe. Roma, who are commonly referred to as “gypsies” though the term is often considered derogatory, face widespread and often state-sanctioned ...
Novelist Nicholas Sparks is accused of “routinely attributing” the absence of any African American students at a school he founded to the fact that “black students are too poor and can’t do the academic work.” ...
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