This editorial is one part in a two-part series offering different perspectives on Brett Kavanaugh and the #MeToo Movement. Read the counter-perspective: “If Kavanaugh Confirmation Is Derailed The Future Of Men Goes With It“ There is ...
The writer of the letter alleging that Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat created by the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, has come forward and revealed her ...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released a report detailing the dangers inherent in the proposed U.S.-Mexico wall. Other environmental groups joined with ACLU to condemn the proposed border wall, saying it is politically motivated ...
A leaked report details 70 years of gross sexual abuse within the German Catholic church. The 350-page report highlights close to 4,000 cases of sexual abuse perpetrated by Catholic priests against minors. The report was ...
This is not what democracy looks like. Despite America’s much-ballyhooed status as “land of the free and home of the brave,” when it comes to voting, a significant portion of the U.S. population remains unwilling ...
Last week a Russian weapons maker firm, TsNiiTochMash, told Russian media outlet TASS that it had already tested a prototype of a military exoskeleton they call Ratnik-3. Nextgov called the suit similar to the U.S. military exoskeleton ...
Well, as you probably know already, Alex Jones has been banned from everywhere – at least everywhere that Palo Alto can control. Outraged YouTube-izens are screaming about censorship. They point to Nazi Germany as an ...
News Broke on Wednesday that the FBI and the NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau arrested seven current or former NYC cops for their involvement in a large scale prostitution ring. A source told the New York ...
On Thursday California Senator Dianne Feinstein announced she had received a document concerning Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and had forwarded the matter to the FBI. Democrats are calling for Feinstein to make the document ...
Estimates published Wednesday by the U.S. Energy Department show the U.S. is the world’s largest crude oil producer for the first time since 1973. American oil production has doubled over the past decade, with much ...
Chinese environmentalists found cotton farmers could save up to $300 million annually if they control cotton pests with beetles instead of using pesticides. Known as ladybugs in the U.S. (but scientists prefer the term lady beetle), ...
It is now possible to telepathically control a fleet of drones or even fighter jets via implanted brain chips. The brain-computer interface was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the U.S. ...
Sky News just released exclusive video of Harvey Weinstein making sexually suggestive comments and inappropriately touching a then 28-year-old Melissa Thompson during a business meeting between the two. Thompson is one of the women who ...
An international arbitration court made the latest ruling in favor of Chevron in the never-ending legal case between Chevron and Ecuadorian residents who claim their land and water was contaminated by the company over a period ...
Tomasi suffered from a serious illness due to his exposure to pesticides and despite his physical pain, raised his voice to denounce the multimillionaire agribusiness companies responsible. (NewsClick) Fabián Tomasi, who contracted severe toxic polyneuropathy ...
Nirmal Mulye, founder and president of Nostrum Pharmaceuticals, is quoted in a Financial Times article on Tuesday saying that he has a moral requirement to sell the product at the highest price. Mulye told Financial ...
While the Trump administration may be trying to reinvigorate fossil fuel usage, California is going in the opposite direction and set a goal of zero-carbon emissions by 2045. California Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 100 ...
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) says they have reliable information that human traffickers are posing wearing clothes with the UNHCR logo at smuggling hubs and disembarkation points in Libya. UNHCR workers are often present at ...
Being from New Jersey, within a 20-minute drive of New York City, I remember September 11, 2001 vividly. The memories are haunting every year. As we remember the terrorist attacks of that fateful day it ...
Last Thursday 26-year-old Botham Jean, a black man, was shot and killed in his own home by a white female Dallas police officer who claims she mistook his apartment for hers after getting home late ...
(Beyond Pesticides) A report released this summer by the nonprofit group The Cornucopia Institute helps consumers avoid ‘factory farmed’ dairy products in light of disturbing revelations uncovered in a 2017 Washington Post investigation of major organic brands. ...
Six months leading up to the 2016 presidential election, director James Stern began touring the red states of America to understand the support behind Donald Trump. This turned into his new documentary, American Chaos, which ...
Spain’s modern-day liberal government continues to grapple with the country’s fascist past, a move opening deep divisions within the country. Deep divisions and old wounds in Spain have been opened by the Spanish government’s decision ...
Several currencies in emerging markets have suffered recent downfalls since Turkey was hit by a financial crisis last month. The trend of weakening currencies has reverberated across countries from South Africa to Indonesia. Argentina entered ...
An old form of school punishment has been reinstated at a Georgia charter school, just in time for the new school year. The Georgia School for Innovation and the Classics has reinstated corporal punishment and ...
Despite the propaganda, the media hype, the Hollywood movies and the endless talk about American democracy, the U.S. is not actually a democracy. It is not really a republic either, it’s a plutocracy. Do you ...
Up to 20,000 marijuana convictions in New York City may soon be wiped out thanks to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. Gonzalez is leading the charge in NY to dismiss convictions for marijuana offenses that ...
Luther Campbell is best known as the leader of rap group 2 Live Crew, but he also founded a program to help youth in his native Miami, focusing on team sports and academics, contributing to ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Idaho ruled that it is unconstitutional and cruel to punish homeless people for sleeping in the streets when no shelter is available. Three judges of the ...
Russian officials have accused the United States of using banned phosphorous bombs in an attack on Syria on Saturday. It marks the latest is a series of escalations between the United States and Russia bringing ...
On Thursday, Jair Bolsonaro, Brazilian’s far-right presidential candidate, was stabbed in the right abdomen while campaigning in the state of Minas Gerais. He survived the attack despite losing 40 percent of his blood, according to ...
Serena Williams has been fined $17,000 after she went into a rage on Saturday because oif an umpire’s call that preceded her losing the US Open final to Naomi Osaka, who became the first Japanese ...
Last Wednesday, U.S. District Judge David Alan Ezra struck down a Texas law requiring the burial or cremation of fetal remains. The judge said Senate Bill 8 violated the Equal Protection and Due Process provisions of ...
EarthTalk® From the Editors of E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: Is it true that the Monarch Butterfly is on the brink of extinction? How did we let that happen? – Alex Degeneres, Cincinnati, ...
A community is outraged and a family is in mourning after a Dallas off-duty police officer entered a black man’s home and killed him on Thursday night. The unnamed female office claims she entered the ...
Pulled over for speeding and booked into Mineral County Jail because of unpaid traffic tickets, 27-year-old Kelly Coltrain died days later from withdrawal symptoms after her requests for medical attention went ignored. After a 13 ...
Have you ever wondered why we the regular people usually lose? We lose because a) so many of us don’t care, b) we aren’t organized, c) we underestimate our opponents, but mainly d) we are ...
67-year-old Houston psychiatrist Riyaz Mazcuri, along with his associates at Riverside General Hospital, will be spending the next decades of their lives in prison for their roles in a $155 million Medicare fraud case. U.S. ...
Guyana has won the black gold lottery, but what will happen to the South American nation with a population of only 800,000 and the continent’s smallest GDP now that oil has been found offshore? In ...
The European Citizens’ Initiative is planning to ban the use of cages for farm birds and crates for farm animals in the EU. The legislation for the ban is to be introduced when one million ...
California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill into law that abolishes cash bail. California is the first U.S. state to abolish cash bail, with Gov. Brown saying that everyone will now be treated “equally ...
Internal documents reveal despair and tedium in one of the nation’s largest shelter networks for unaccompanied minors. (ProPublica) One 16-year-old from Guatemala said he wanted to “quitarme la vida,” or “take my life away,” as ...
What can you say about free speech and the internet these days? How many times can you say free speech is free speech? It’s a waste of time to keep talking when you say it ...
I have been working to clean up the chemicals industry from the inside the better part of 30 years. As a biologist, grandfather and former teacher, I am deeply concerned with keeping people clean and ...
(RadioFreeEurope) Israel’s defense chief has warned that his country will seek to “destroy any Iranian military presence” in Syria, where Tehran has intervened to prop up its ally President Bashar al-Assad in a war that ...
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