The Democratic money-donating public is in overdrive. In the 41 days since Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) declared his candidacy for President, he’s received around 900,000 donations from all 50 states, averaging around $20 per donation. ...
“This lawsuit contains detailed allegations about the Sackler family and their attempt to hide the vast fortunes they collected at the expense of actual lives.” In the late 1990s and early 2000s, doctors began to ...
Vaping is a popular method for taking CBD, but to a new consumer it may raise questions. We understand that out of all methods of consuming CBD, vaping is the most unfamiliar to new customers. However, vaping presents ...
“The SAFE Banking Act would go a long way toward improving safety, transparency, access and justice in the cannabis industry.” On Thursday, the House Financial Services Committee voted on a proposed bill that would protect ...
“I think it will take China one or two generations of airplanes to have a truly worldwide competitive product but it’s a logical evolution, provided the market size of the country.” In the wake of ...
Howard Buffet, the son of billionaire Warren Buffet, has turned securing the U.S.-Mexico border into a personal crusade, spending millions to arm and transform the region. The 64-year old billionaire and philanthropist Howard Buffet, son ...
Families of Ethiopian Airlines crash victims filed a lawsuit against US-based aircraft manufacturer Boeing in a U.S. Federal Court, the first such lawsuit to follow the tragedy that claimed 157 lives in early March. The ...
“About damn time. Tim Sloan should have been fired a long time ago.” Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan abruptly resigned last Thursday. The former CEO’s three-year tenure was marred by scandals involving corruption, fraud, and ...
The Chinese government released a White Paper last Wednesday praising their progress of "democratic reform" in Tibet, despite international condemnation of China's oppressive treatment of Tibet. The paper titled "Democratic Reform in Tibet -- Sixty ...
A San Francisco federal court awarded a Sonoma County landowner $80.3 million on March 27, in the second lawsuit against Monsanto’s popular herbicide, RoundUp. Edwin Hardeman, 70, is one of 11,200 product users who have ...
“The whistleblowers who came forward have warned of conflicts of interest among top White House advisers that could implicate federal criminal statutes.” President Donald Trump has approved six authorizations for American companies to conduct nuclear-related ...
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, both party to the international offensive in Yemen, together make up around 28 percent of the US global arms sale. (Peoples Dispatch) A recent report by the Stockholm International ...
A bold raid on the North Korean embassy in Madrid last month was carried out by members of an ultra-secretive North Korean dissident group called the CCD. A group called the Cheollima Civil Defense (CCD) ...
The recent college admissions scandal shines a light on the dark underside of the U.S.’ education system and the many widespread educational advantages affluent Americans benefit from —all while the less-advantaged struggle for a decent ...
“If true, these new reports raise grave questions about what derogatory information career officials obtained about Mr. Kushner to recommend denying him access to our nation’s most sensitive secrets.” On March 28, 2019, the Senate ...
North Carolina’s WakeMed Hospital is participating in an FAA pilot program using drones to fly blood samples between buildings at the hospital’s Raleigh Campus. WakeMed Hospital in Raleigh is one of nine institutions participating in ...
“If political appointees weren’t stopping the government’s own scientists from doing their jobs, this brain-damaging, wildlife-killing horror of a pesticide would already be banned.” (By Beyond Pesticides) A set of documents obtained by the Center ...
Google executives are working with China to produce a version of its search engine that will censor topics deemed unsuitable by the Chinese government. Google CEO Sundar Pichai is meeting with General Joseph Dunford, chairman ...
Beira “will go down in history as having been the first city to be completely devastated by climate change,” said Mozambique’s former first lady on the devastation from Cyclone Idai. Despite the UN describing Cyclone ...
A new report by Save the Children stated that an average of 37 Yemeni children had been killed or injured every month by foreign bombs in 2018. (Peoples Dispatch) As the war in Yemen enters ...
The attack on the city of Kunduz was condemned by the UN assistance mission which said civilian officials were deliberately targeted. (Peoples Dispatch) As many as 10 children were reportedly killed along with three civilians ...
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is investigating whether the White House interfered with relief funding intended for Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Growing tension over the situation in Puerto Rico has been further ...
“Tim wanted to make a difference—starting a foundation in his name is our way to honor his memory and continue to act in his spirit.” A year after his death, the family of late electronic ...
“The objective is to reduce the vulnerability of our commonwealth to a permanent oil price decline.” Norway’s $1tn wealth fund – the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world – is planning to cease funding ...
Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs in the Philippines has claimed thousands of lives and shows no end in sight. Since his inauguration as President of the Philippines in 2016, Rodrigo Duterte has launched an ...
“This is even worse, because if we in Thailand have…a government that comes from a rigged election, the international (community) will not respect it.” Former Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra accused the country’s military junta ...
Is the new Netflix comedy series “Special” breaking new ground by focusing on a disabled gay character and actually starring an actor with a disability? March 25 was Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day, and Netflix chose ...
“China is aiming for the heart of Europe with newfound tenacity.” France’s President Emmanuel Macron hosted China’s President Xi Jinping for a state visit March 25, 2019, as the two attended the signings of several ...
The Affordable Care Act is back on the chopping block with both Republicans and Democrats equally determined to repeal or save the act, respectively. Buoyed by the momentum of the Mueller probe’s conclusion, the Trump ...
“All of us need to present a united front. When it comes to racism, extremism, violence, we domestically have duties upon us as well.” The March 15th Islamophobia fueled mass shooting event in Christchurch, New ...
The results found that 74 percent of existing national coal capacity “was at risk from local wind or solar that could provide the same amount of electricity more cheaply.” According to a new study from ...
The RTS headquarters were last stormed in 2000 when citizens and demonstrators forced the resignation of Slobodan Milosevic. Thousands of Serbian protesters demonstrated in Belgrade a week after entering the Serbian national broadcaster RTS offices ...
“By recognizing and legitimating Israel’s annexation of Golan, Washington is virtually inviting other international predators to seize what they want.” In a reversal of long-held Washington and international policy, President Donald Trump signed a proclamation ...
At a recent CNN town hall, Democratic hopeful Pete Buttigieg took specific issue with Vice President Mike Pence’s support of Donald Trump. Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana (Pence’s home state) and openly gay (ahem, ...
Citizen Truth has covered the influence of the military industrial complex has on the Pentagon and politicians within the United States. On Saturday the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) stated the Islamic State of Iraq and ...
The classic film about race and justice in America is as relevant as ever, and will return to select theaters later this month. 1962’s To Kill A Mockingbird is considered a classic film, based on ...
We can’t blame the pilots. It’s the testing system itself. The world is, indeed, flat. But, it’s vertical, and small enough to exclude everything that was ever important. Like the value of life. Did anybody ...
As a religious ritual that goes back to the practice of the Prophet, Friday prayers hold a special place for Muslims. (By Rose S. Aslan, The Conversation) Following the terror attack on two New Zealand ...
White House Advisor Jared Kushner’s Middle East peace proposal allegedly included a land swap plan where Jordan would receive Saudi Arabian land if Jordan turned over land to the Palestinians. Jared Kushner’s proposal to make ...
As marijuana is increasingly legalized around the country, hemp and CBD are now decriminalized on the federal level. The 2018 Farm Bill passed the House and Senate and was signed into law on December 20, ...
Some are calling the FAA’s relationship with Boeing an open-and-shut case of ‘regulatory capture.’ The reality is more complicated. (By Susan Webb Yackee and Simon F. Haeder, The Conversation) Recent incidents aside, air travel is ...
A pivotal court ruling last week found that a health insurance company violated the Federal Parity Law which requires equal treatment of mental illnesses by insurance companies. Although addiction was classified as a disease since ...
“Therefore good engineering practices includes consideration of foreseeable extreme weather events such as those caused by climate change.” A federal judge has allowed the Conservation Law Foundation to proceed with a lawsuit against ExxonMobil that ...
The Vatican is opening files on ‘Hitler’s Pope’ almost a decade ahead of schedule. Pope Francis has decided to open secret Vatican archives on May 2, 2020, to reveal details about the papacy of World ...
Finnish owned Nokia is sending cell phone data packages to a Chinese server for an unknown reason. A report from the Norweigan Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) reveals that some Nokia 7 phones are secretly sending personal ...
The New Mexico Environmental Defense agency is suing the U.S. Air Force for toxic contamination of groundwater surrounding multiple Air Force bases across the state, resulting from past military firefighting activities. New Mexico’s Environmental Defense ...
As many as 995 protesters have been denied bail and continue to languish in prison. Recent reports have revealed the extent of cruelty by security forces on the people of the country, as well as ...