“We want Amazon’s board to oversee and disclose how Amazon is addressing the significant risks posed by the sale of facial recognition technology.” Amazon has recently faced pressure from its investors over the sale of ...
Why, if President Trump enjoyed GOP control of both the House and Senate during the first two years of his presidency and is, as he describes himself, “Someone with great energy, with great passion, and ...
“Here’s something I don’t say often: on this point, I AGREE with @AOC. Indeed, I have long called for a LIFETIME BAN on former Members of Congress becoming lobbyists.” In a surprise twitter exchange last ...
Mexico is one of the U.S.’ biggest trading partners, and the new Mexico tariffs complicate the president’s goal of creating a revised trade pact between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. President Trump announced new tariffs ...
“We reject in the strongest possible terms the decision to pander to local laws and censor Rocketman for the Russian market.” As a famously anti-gay nation, it’s no surprise that Russia is censoring the new ...
The PRO Act would make it easier to form unions and force employers to pay a price for violating workers rights. (By Alan Barber and Liz Watson, Inequality.org) More workers engaged in collective action last ...
City leaders issued a cease-and-desist letter after they said proper permits were not issued before the project began. But on Thursday the mayor said the project has been given permission to continue. (By Julian Aguilar, ...
“The ‘ghost’ proposal would pose serious threats to cybersecurity and thereby also threaten fundamental human rights, including privacy and free expression” – Open Letter to GCHQ In an open letter to the U.K.’s Government Communications ...
Today, fur parents are turning to CBD oil for cats because it has shown the potential to help multiple symptoms. Cat parents are always looking for new ways of keeping their furry family members happy ...
A3 and its affiliated businesses fraudulently invoiced at least $83 million from 13 charter schools and at least $8.18 million went into personal bank accounts. A Newport Beach, California firm called A3 Education is at ...
Political figures should be held accountable regardless of experience and party affiliation. This applies to Phil Murphy, at the top of the New Jersey hierarchy, but equally so to “power brokers” like George Norcross, Stephen ...
Jerrie Cobb and twelve other women passed astronaut testing for the United States’ first human spaceflight program in the early 1960s, but born years too early, not one would ever make it to space. However, ...
“There’s a lot of talk about looking for alternatives, but the detention centers are full, the massive operations continue … they separate families and even a child lost her life.” The Mexican immigration agency is ...
Just weeks after Israeli-based fake social media accounts were deleted, pro-Iran accounts were also taken down in a purge on the never-ending war on fake news. On Tuesday, prominent internet security firm FireEye revealed the ...
“When they passed the First Step Act, sentences like Sonny’s are the wrong they were trying to right. He had never done a day in prison and then got a mandatory life sentence as a ...
“The survey showed that it would take 158 years for the typical worker at most big companies to make what their CEOs did in 2018, seven years longer than if both were still at 2017 ...
Will Edi Rama end his arrogance and allow his long-suffering people to hold free and fair elections and reach their European destiny? Albania is one of the most pro-western countries on the Balkans peninsula. For ...
The UNDP is giving 72 vehicles to an agency controlled by Houthi rebels, prompting the Yemen government to accuse the UNDP of favoritism and worsening the situation in Yemen. The internationally-recognized government of Yemen strongly ...
Wealth inequality is gearing up to be a major issue in the 2020 election and one possible solution growing in popularity is the idea of employee ownership. Presidential hopefuls including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sen. ...
Increasing export capacity from the Freeport LNG [Liquified Natural Gas] project is critical to spreading ‘freedom gas’ throughout the world… The Department of Energy has begun using peculiar phrasing in regards to fossil fuels. A ...
European allies voiced concern this week that the U.S.-Iran tensions could accidentally trigger a conflict after the Pentagon dispatched a Patriot missile defense battery, a bomber task force, an amphibious transport dock and a carrier ...
A shooting in Cleveland, Texas was the 149th mass shooting in 2019. “A man suspected of shooting four people – one fatally – at two locations in Cleveland, Texas, fatally shot himself on Wednesday, according ...
“What we’re seeing are lots of players coming into Libya. It’s a recipe that’s almost heading to a Yemen scenario. We’re beginning to see a proxy war emerging.” An investigative report by Al Jazeera Arabic ...
“It’s an enemy of women.” “In Saudi Arabia, citizens and residents can use Absher, an online government platform, to access Interior Ministry services. Absher comes as a mobile app available for iPhones and Android phones, ...
![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses reporters on June 27, 2016, at Villa Taverna - the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Rome, Italy - between a pair of bilateral meetings between him and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]](https://citizentruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/27830918172_69fcb7146a_k-288x180.jpg "Netanyahu's Future at Risk as Israel Heads to New Election 27")
A month after seemingly winning his re-election, Netanyahu’s fate lays in peril as Isreal moves to hold a new election in September and fraud charges still loom. Shortly after midnight on Wednesday, the Isreali Parliament, ...
A DOT ethics official claimed Elaine Chao’s continued share of ownership in a construction supplies company did not represent a conflict of interest, because she recuses herself from related issues. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao still ...
It’s “unconscionable for EPA to turn a blind eye as children and workers are exposed to this poison. If the EPA won’t do its job when it comes to chlorpyrifos, then Congress needs to act – ...
“With gratitude and hope I accept the award on behalf of all the brave journalists who are doing their job every day,” – Anabel Hernández as she received the 2019 DW Freedom of Speech Award. ...
After declaring the defeat of ISIS in Syria, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia seem to be beefing up security forces in Eastern Syria. Saudi Arabia plans to create a military group in eastern Syria with ...
Unions say that low pay and lack of equity are significant contributors to the escalating teacher shortage and increasing class sizes. (People’s Dispatch) As many as 50,000 teachers across New Zealand went on strike on ...
Unbearable Immorality Negatively mirroring moral actions worldwide are ghastly acts of immorality. Description of such immorality can only be through incomplete summary: routine war-crimes by the U.S empire, kidnapping and caging children at the southern U.S border in violation ...
The United Kingdom and Egypt strengthen economic ties. Upon arriving in Cairo on Monday, British minister of trade, Liam Fox, said his country would become the largest investor of the Group of Seven (G7) in ...
“The damage inflicted by President Trump’s naiveté, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate,” wrote the late senator. Senator and presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar spoke of John McCain’s disapproval of President ...
“What I saw was a lot of misinterpretation and wanting conflict coming from the administration and intelligence community. Intel doesn’t show existential threats. Even what it shows, it doesn’t show threats to U.S. interests.”—Ruben Gallego ...
As the saying goes, give credit where it is due. Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of reason to give credit in Washington these days, least of all not to Donald Trump and his Republican enablers. ...
“We don’t feel like we have a choice: It’s been years of talking, countless negotiations, empty deals on climate change and fossil fuel companies being given free rides to drill beneath our soils and burn ...
![Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin provide an update on Iran Policy and Sanctions at the Foreign Press Center in Washington, D.C., on November 5, 2018. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]](https://citizentruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/45736593061_65c987ef78_h-288x180.jpg "AOC, Warren Press Mnuchin on Potential Illegal Involvement in Sears’ Bankruptcy 42")
“We are deeply concerned by the financial engineering and potentially illegal activity that took place at Sears Holding Corporation while you (Mnuchin) served on the company’s board.” Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Alexandria ...
“Will it cover the losses? No. But it makes enough of a difference to keep a lot of farmers so they can survive.” President Trump announced a $16 billion farm aid package to compensate for ...
CBD oil enhances one’s fitness routine and athlete’s performance and cuts their downtime by allowing faster recovery. CBD oil is gaining a lot of popularity across the country, with people from different fields turning to ...
“President Trump is only using this loophole because he knows Congress would disapprove … There is no new’ emergency’ reason to sell bombs to the Saudis to drop in Yemen, and doing so only perpetuates ...
Elder abuse is one of the most common forms of abuse in the United States today. In fact, it is estimated that at least 10% of elderly Americans will be the victim of elder abuse ...
As U.S. President Donald Trump met with Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo in Japan over the weekend, differences over trade and North Korea lingered below the surface. President Trump’s visit to Japan over memorial day ...
“I don’t have a problem standing up to somebody who was working on season seven of Celebrity Apprentice when I was packing my bags for Afghanistan.” 2020 Democratic hopeful Pete Buttigieg condemned President Trump for ...
“Enabled by a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites, Starlink will provide fast, reliable internet to populations with little or no connectivity.” On Thursday, Starlink, Elon Musk’s ambitious global internet program, took a giant step ...
Facebook’s GlobalCoin is expected to launch in early 2020 and began testing by the end of this year. After hints that Facebook was entering the digital currency world began last December, multiple reports now are ...
More shots are fired as Palestinians continue their protests in the Great March of Return. On Friday, the Israeli army shot and wounded sixteen Palestinian protesters on the 59th week of border protests during Palestinian’s ...
“I was completely helpless to defend myself against this attack as the drug he injected rendered me temporarily paralyzed.” Former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestler Ashley Massaro was found dead in her New York apartment ...
“Targeting civil facilities that involve civilians will be confronted with all possible means of deterrence at the disposal of the Arab military coalition.” The Saudi-led Arab military coalition fighting in Yemen announced on Thursday, May ...
“This is a heartless attack on some of the most vulnerable people in our society,” said Mara Keisling, the executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, on HUD’s new rule targeting homeless transgender ...
Natural disaster relief bill temporarily blocked by a single vote. A single vote Friday by conservative Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) blocked a bipartisan natural disaster relief package that had passed Thursday in the Senate 85-8. ...
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