It has been mere hours since the news of the passing of Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain and now the attention of many has shifted to what becomes of the deceased senators spot in the ...
Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, a Vietnam War hero and 2008 candidate for President of the United States, died on Saturday at the age of 81 from the brain cancer he was diagnosed with in ...
Public school districts in Florida are spending thousands of dollars in precautionary measures for school shootings, including insurance coverage and active shooter training. Insurance companies across the United States have identified a new niche due ...
With a portable freshwater harvester in development, up to 10 gallons of water could be harvested from the air every hour. The end of freshwater shortage? The innovation was presented by scientists in a meeting ...
Hundreds of inmates in various U.S. prisons have gone on strike, protesting what they’ve labeled “modern-day slavery.” Solidarity and Support In what may pass as the largest strike in recent history, the 2018 U.S. prison ...
Like many challengers before it, China is trying to position the new Nanjing research park as the next Silicon Valley. But unlike other global challengers, China is a hub of theft, and they are not ...
Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain has decided to stop treatment for his rare form of brain cancer, his family announced on Twitter on Friday. Meghan McCain, the daughter of the 81-year-old senator and co host ...
It’s impossible to talk about the state of affairs in this country politically, socially, and economically without touching on the subject of race. While we can slice Donald Trump’s 2016 electoral victory any number of ...
An MSNBC contributor has apologized after coming under fire for remarks she made that seemed to dismiss the murder of Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts who, it was discovered, was murdered by an illegal immigrant. ...
Greece announced it has completed the three-year eurozone bailout program designated to help the country to overcome its debt crisis. For the first time in eight years, Greece is now free to borrow at market ...
A new study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry found a link between pregnant mothers exposed to the pesticide DDT and increased risks of giving birth to autistic children. Autism is a disorder characterized ...
With increasing research on lab-grown meat, chances are one day no animal will need to be harmed for your next burger. Not only that, but also an infinite supply of meat could mean a lifetime ...
The media loves to bash California. In 2018 hundreds of news stories have appeared highlighting what has been alternately described as a mass exodus from California or a looming mass exodus. I have written and ...
(OpenSecrets) While the summer may be coming to a close, primary season is not quite done yet – and two of our nation’s warmest states will see a number of competitive primaries on August 28th. ...
Blackwater founder Erik Prince is pushing a plan to privatize the war in Afghanistan. Prince, a former Navy SEAL officer, wants President Trump to cut down on U.S. troops presently in Afghanistan and replace the ...
A harrowing scene unfolded in New Haven, Connecticut last week when 100 people overdosed on some form of K2, regularly and inaccurately called synthetic marijuana. While New Haven officials were responding to some 76 people, ...
“The system is rigged.” This phrase applies to many situations, but perhaps it’s at its worse when it is applied to the unfair world of prescription drug prices, where many patients are simply being priced ...
After the conviction of former head of President Donald Trump’s campaign, Paul Manafort, on eight of the 18 counts he was charged with and the guilty plea of the president’s former attorney Michael Cohen, talk ...
Construction of the Mountain View Pipeline (MVP), a proposed 330-mile project stretching through the Appalachian mountains, was halted this month after the permits allowing the development to cross through the Jefferson National Forest were called ...
(By James Barragán, Reveal) Just days after Hurricane Harvey released its grip on Texas a year ago, Guillermo Martinez Ayme was hard at work in the rebuilding effort. He was one of more than 100 workers ...
(Stop The Drug War) Research presented at the American Psychological Association’s annual meeting in San Francisco last weekend is illuminating the rapid advance of psychedelic science. New findings are adding to a growing mountain of evidence ...
Almost 70,000 people congregated at Naha City, the capital of Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands to protest the proposed relocation of a US Marine Corps Air Station. The plan is to move the military base from ...
Debuting this week on Hulu and in theaters is Crime + Punishment, an award-winning documentary that goes behind the scenes and undercover to expose discriminatory policing practices, intimidation and corruption within the New York Police ...
As part of my ongoing series at Citizen Truth, titled “Bias In The Media. An Expose,” we are going to examine how the mainstream media has covered recent scandals involving Republicans and Democrats. Namely, we ...
The United Nations (UN) is launching its first ever review of marijuana’s classification under international drug treaties. The move comes just after the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) announced that cannabidiol (CBD) does not need to ...
Our inaugural episode of Good Cop/Bad Cop – because everyone knows there are good cops and bad cops but not everyone knows what’s good cop behavior and what’s bad cop behavior. On our first episode ...
The romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians topped the box office this weekend, exceeding expectations—but is it too soon to speculate that it heralds more diversity to come in Hollywood? The Warner Bros. romantic comedy made ...
A new California bill would make the state the first to require that all public universities make abortion pills available at student health centers. The bill has already been approved by the state Senate and ...
The Transparency Problem According to Facebook, information of over 80 million users was used unethically by the now-defunct Cambridge Analytica. From a public statement in April, “In total, we believe the Facebook information of up ...
The agency expects the company to sign the contract and get the approval from the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico in two weeks. (CPI) A plane chartered by CoreCivic, the main prisons ...
What does it take to be a hero? A pair of beer delivery drivers found out that sometimes the only thing it takes is being at the right place at the right time with the ...
(Represent.Us) The people just won a major victory in the fight to pass anti-gerrymandering laws at the ballot this year. A dark money group tried to attack the measure by suing to remove it from ...
Several recent incidents have led US security authorities to believe Mexico’s drug cartels may be turning to armed drones to attack targets impeding their operations. While cartels have used drones for surveillance and drug trafficking, armed ...
Former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan is dead. After a short illness, the global peace icon and a role model for leadership died peacefully at the age of 80 on Saturday 18th in a Switzerland ...
While elephants may be famous for their dislike of mice, it’s their intense dislike of bees that may save them. A new study attempted to replicate bee pheromones in hopes of creating a “bee repellant” ...
“The minimum wage law very clearly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled people receive as a result of legislation that makes it illegal to pay ...
A Detroit man, Darrell Siggers, was released from prison after 34 years of a wrongful conviction. 54-year-old Siggers was incarcerated at the Wayne County Jail for a 1984 murder he always maintained he never committed. ...
On Saturday the mainstream media again embarrassed itself by getting ahead of a story before it got all of the facts. For hours the media reported that an illegal immigrant was arrested by Immigration and ...
South Korea’s foremost Buddhist leader, Seoljeong, has been implicated in a corruption scandal and ordered to quit after accusations that he lied about his academic credentials, accumulated excessive wealth and broke his vows of celibacy. ...
Jobs, jobs, jobs! Growth, growth, growth! Winning, winning, winning! That’s the story we get from our beloved president, Donald J. Trump, at least. As many of us can attest to, though, what he says may ...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has installed facial recognition technology at the Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC) in Silicon Valley. The technology is already being used to process international travelers entering and leaving ...
Last week the United Nations (U.N.) said it has received numerous credible reports that millions of Uighurs and Muslim minorities are being imprisoned in China in a scenario eerily reminiscent of Hitler’s detainment of Jewish ...
German pharmaceutical company Bayer has taken a stock market dive owed to its newest acquisition Monsanto, and recent media surrounding the carcinogenic impacts of their products. After a San Francisco court sided with a groundskeeper ...
On Monday, the Turkish Lira fell to 7.24 to the U.S. dollar during the Asia Pacific trading session. The currency has plunged over 45 percent since early this year due to concerns over President Tayyip ...
(Stop The Drug War) Much attention this year has been focused on marijuana legalization efforts in state legislatures, particularly in the northeast and mid-Atlantic states, but unless Albany and Annapolis and Trenton get their acts ...
The “Secret Archives” of the Catholic Church in the United States revealed that over 300 “predator priests” have been indicted for sexual molestations in six Roman Catholic dioceses of Pennsylvania. A 1,356-page report published by ...
Africa has some of the poorest nations in the world, and with billions of dollars per year lost through financial crime, the poor are only getting poorer. Rising financial crime in Africa has become a ...
Across all of my studies in neuroscience and the health sciences, only now have I really learned the specifics about the female reproductive system and the processes of fertilization and ovulation in detail. I know, ...
A new bill proposing to have at least one woman on the board of a publicly-traded company headquartered in California has now been sponsored. SB-826 By law, women may soon become a part of every ...