After a week of tumult over U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May’s latest Brexit proposal, May announced her resignation. British Prime Minister, Theresa May, announced her resignation on Friday in an emotional statement, saying she had ...
“Any government use of the Espionage Act to criminalize the receipt and publication of classified information poses a dire threat to journalists seeking to publish such information in the public interest, irrespective of the Justice ...
“To be a woman at the Times during these years was to experience systemized sexism.” “A former editor at the Times is suing the newspaper for anti-trans discrimination, harassment, victimisation [sic], and unfair dismissal on ...
Started in 2012, Fight for 15 has been at the forefront of mobilizing workers across industries to demand a USD 15 minimum wage and the right to unionize without retaliation. (PeoplesDispatch) In the run up ...
At a time of increased uncertainty about the future of the Israel-Palestine peace process, UNRWA is one of the few stabilizing elements in a very complex environment. “Sixty-five Gazans were injured Wednesday as Israeli security ...
“More than a decade after Wall Street greed brought the American economy to its knees, big banks are still using greed as a business model and are still engaging in the reckless behavior that helped ...
Indonesian police suspect paid “outsiders” instigated a riot following a protest over disappointment with Indonesia’s recent election results. At least eight are dead and another 200 injured following Indonesian election protests held in front of ...
The incoming results mark the end of the worlds largest democratic process and paint a troubling picture for those who are concerned with the state of human rights. “I don’t want to color the decision ...
“Never a fan of @justinamash, a total lightweight who opposes me and some of our great Republican ideas and policies just for the sake of getting his name out there through controversy.” Rep. Justin Amash ...
The U.K. Brexit crisis took a new turn as two announcements in two days shook up the U.K. Parliament. The leader of Britain’s conservative House of Commons and a supporter of Britain’s Brexit referendum of ...
Gazan farmers till the soil again with the help of the International Committee of the Red Cross. In April 2018 Palestinian farmers resumed cultivating lands the 2007 Israeli-blockage formerly prohibited, thanks to a Red Cross ...
With reference to Mao Zedong’s historic Long March China’s president enters a new, higher-stakes stage of the trade war with the U.S. Chinese President Xi Jinping told his country to prepare for difficult times and ...
“New York lawmakers are providing a new avenue for the House Ways and Means Committee to obtain these crucial financial documents.” (By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) As the White House continues to defy congressional Democrats’ ...
“Surging corporate use of forced arbitration has already blocked over half of private-sector nonunion employees from suing when they experience discrimination, harassment, or wage theft.” One year ago the Supreme Court dealt a major blow ...
“Many people now recognize that once you’ve done your time, once you’ve served your penalty, we ought to give you an opportunity to re-establish your life like everybody else as a matter of fairness.” In ...
“After a couple of days of the publishing of that report, I got a picture of my brother Abdusami with his son, and I got the news that he’s still alive.” In a previous report ...
“Some people leave precisely because they have been deprived of an education, and they feel betrayed.” As public school education has become increasingly secular over the years, private religious schools have pushed back by focusing ...
Both Israel and Hamas are denying a report from Israeli TV on Monday that a six-month truce had been reached between the two factions. Israeli TV channel 12 reported on Monday that both Hamas and ...
“People shouldn’t have to crowdfund for their health care. We wanted PhRMA to have to face firsthand the toll their greed takes on Americans across our country.” (By Inequality.org) Day in and day out, American ...
“They want to make an example of us because it’s the first time in France that there have been leaks like this.” French investigative journalists are facing imprisonment for exposing, through the use of an ...
“I do believe that the bold step needed, is that the Palestinian Authority reaches a compromise with the rival Hamas party in Gaza. Palestinian unity is likely to happen.” Several Palestinian bodies and representatives declared ...
“I have been in jail for so long that I have forgotten how freedom is.” Jatupat “Pai” Boonpattararaksa looks out of a tall, barred window of a jail in the middle of Khon Kaen City, ...
“Each month seems to bring fresh revelations of just how far WWF is prepared to go to promote fortress conservation. Shoot on sight policies, sterilization programs for villagers living near national parks – these are ...
“This is an unbelievable situation, where people are being plagued by wars and poverty, while the concerned authorities appear apathetic to those people.” Showing off a mass of papers on a table at his neighbor’s ...
“The talks have begun nicely to move toward agreements of peace, agreement, and harmony, and I ask for the support of all Venezuelan people to advance on the path of peace.” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ...
“The commerce is there. The defense of that commerce is not.” As the 21st-century space race builds momentum, questions regarding the legal framework regulating economic development in outer space hold enormous consequences. The most advanced ...
(The Conversation) Alabama’s governor signed a bill this week that criminalizes nearly all abortions, threatening providers with a felony conviction and up to 99 years in prison. Author: Rachel Mikva, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, ...
“What’s happened here is criminal.” Despite more than one trillion dollars in real annual defense funding, the Pentagon has failed to provide safe housing for thousands of its service members. Problems like leaking ceilings, mold, ...
“Let’s hope the federal government sends Scott Pruitt the bill for his clueless self-indulgence.” The EPA’s inspector general is recommending the agency recoup nearly $124,000 spent on excessive airfare by former EPA head Scott Pruitt. ...
“As yet it’s not really clear how bad things are as, with everything related to North Korea, the data is hardly transparent.” North Korea is suffering through a severe drought following rain and snowfall totals ...
Israeli sources say that the Iron Dome system has so far intercepted 85 percent of all Gaza projectiles. A recent report by the Marine Corps Times highlighted an interest by the U.S. Marines Corps (USMC) ...
“I feel really excited that I am here today, taking part in the Great Return March with my own way, which is poetry.” A group of Palestinian Dabka folk dancers performed on stage on Thursday ...
“When we brought Red Nose Day to America, my hope was that we could inspire people to realize we can all truly make a difference for kids living really tough lives — and have fun ...
“The sexually explicit list describes various USS Florida females by appearances, characteristics and various sexual acts the creators of the list wish to perform with them.” Sailors aboard the Florida, the second U.S. Navy submarine ...
Recently, Iraqi national leader Iyad Allawi claimed that Israeli intelligence apparatuses provided the U.S. with images showing launching pads in Gaza for ballistic missiles aimed at Arab Gulf states. All Gaza-based resistance factions strongly condemned ...
“We the public, we the people, developed this drug, we paid for this drug. There’s no reason this should be $2,000 a month. People are dying because of it.” (Common Dreams) During a House hearing ...
A comprehensive view of the value of life with regard to abortion.
Russian President Vladamir Putin and his government keep propagating and bringing up U.S. strategic programs utilized during the Cold War. One example referenced was QRHELPFUL, a program used by the CIA to instill a western ...
In a sign that peace and normalcy are returning to Syria, commercial flights between Iraq and Syria will resume this week. Iraqi authorities decided Thursday to resume air flights with Syria, following an eight-year suspension ...
“I was the underdog in everything I’ve been near, and I’m not saying that with any hubris. Any time I get in a race, I get in it to win.” New York City’s Mayor Bill ...
“This is not a military confrontation because no war is to happen. We don’t seek a war, nor do they. They know a war wouldn’t be beneficial for them.” Iran has finally officially halted several ...
“The Trump administration just ignored bedrock environmental and public health laws to plow a disastrous border wall through protected, spectacular wildlands.” The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Wednesday that it is waiving 41 ...
Fox News is “designed to turn us against each other, risking life and death consequences, to provide cover for the corruption that’s rotting our government and hollowing out our middle class.” (By Jen Senko) Offered ...
For Pelosi, the name of the game is connecting with undecided voters and on maintaining, if not further cementing, the Democratic Party’s control of the House. A disciplined leader. A woman focused on specific policies ...
The U.K. says peace in Yemen is nearing as the UAE gives an ominous warning. UAE’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Anwar Qerqash, said Wednesday that the Saudi-led military coalition for Yemen will respond forcefully to ...
“So this is all a fallacy. This war on drugs, war against drug-trafficking, war against terrorism is a lie. Which terrorists are they even referring to?” (By Zoe PC, Peoples Dispatch) Honduran president Juan Orlando ...
Each May, advocates for mental health work to break the stigma that surrounds mental illness. This year, the theme of Mental Health Awareness Month is #4Mind4Body, to encourage those affected by mental health to share ...
“Hungary’s status declined from Free to Partly Free due to sustained attacks on the country’s democratic institutions by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party.” President Trump welcomed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to the White ...
Ohio has a new coalition of business leaders “committed to improving education for every Ohio student,” but is the commitment really to quality education or to creating an optimal employee for local business? Multiple prominent ...
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