Johnson & Johnson (J&J), maker of the famous talcum baby powder, is currently the target of numerous lawsuits in the U.S. and Canada over customers’ claims that its baby powder causes ovarian cancer. Hundreds of ...
Singer Demi Lovato has broken her silence since she came close to death after an overdose weeks ago that had fans concerned for the pop star. In an emotional Instagram message on Sunday, the 25-year-old ...
With several big projects announced to be in production or premiering in collaboration with the likes of superstars Jake Gyllenhaal and Denzel Washington, director Antoine Fuqua is one of the most prominent and busiest black ...
The Wave Of Roses is a Citizens Truth series which highlights progressive candidates and organizations which challenge corporate Third Way control of the Democratic Party. This entry looks at key United States House of Representatives ...
Race and police brutality are linked together again in Investigation Discovery’s new two-hour documentary “Sugar Town”, recounting a fatal incident in New Iberia, Louisiana. On March 2nd, 2014, 22-year-old Victor White III, an African-American resident of ...
A new question on the 2020 census questionnaire has become a heated political debate that experts say could affect federal funding apportionment and congressional representation. The question is: “Is this person a citizen of the United States?” ...
Spurts of post-election violence in Zimbabwe were witnessed early this week moments after Zimbabweans voted in the first election since Mugabe was ousted in a bloodless coup. Mnangagwa has been declared winner while the opposition ...
Laboratory data denying a causal connection between the herbicide Roundup and one San Francisco man’s cancer has been the focus of dispute in the Monsanto lawsuit that has now crossed into its third week. San ...
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is plowing ahead and setting up the framework for a new Space Force even while Congress has not yet given its approval. The Pentagon is moving forward by setting up ...
Earlier this year, in response to comments professional basketball player LeBron James made with respect to President Donald Trump—notably that Trump “doesn’t understand the people” and that some of his comments are “laughable and scary”—FOX ...
By adopting a new “safe to report” policy, the Air Force Academy has removed a major barrier that keeps victims of sexual assault from stepping forward to report the crime. The new policy will emphasize not ...
Any revenue formally generated from the civil asset forfeiture program in Albuquerque, New Mexico is unconstitutional, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge James O. Browning ruled civil asset forfeiture violates residents’ rights to ...
President Donald Trump has finally nominated someone to the position of science advisor and the nominee, Kelvin Droegemeier, represents a change from previous environmental and science picks. Droegemeier is a meteorologist and believes in climate ...
Why protest nuclear weapons? Because more than 70 years after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, instead of disarming and banning nuclear weapons ...
Scientists have predicted that the maximum number of people the Earth can sustain is somewhere between nine and ten billion. Current population is estimated to hit nine billion by the year 2050. So humans have ...
California says weedkiller Roundup could cause cancer, but California also sprays it into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta which is home to much of the water supply for central and southern California. California government officially put ...
The allegations against the Southwest Key youth care worker are the latest in a series of serious accusations of sexual abuse inside the government’s immigrant youth shelters. This story includes graphic details of alleged sexual ...
Marches were organized in all nine provinces in the country and also in Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana and Namibia. (NewsClick.In)On Wednesday, South Africa witnessed a nation-wide shut down against the increasing gender-based violence. Tens of thousands ...
A new six-part documentary debuted this week, exploring the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin in 2012 and the aftermath of racial tension and gun violence that continues today in the U.S. Martin was an African-American ...
The conduct of our military and CIA has become more than questionable. They have become a law unto themselves with no regard for the Constitutional restrictions that have been placed upon them. I am not ...
(StoptheDrugWar.org) Even as he defended federal marijuana prohibition, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions last Thursday conceded that states have the right to pass their own marijuana laws. Sessions, an avowed foe of marijuana legalization, has ...
We now have less than 100 days left until the November 2018 midterm elections. While the economy hums along at its highest growth rate since 2014 and taxpayers have more money in their pockets, the ...
The fight against global warming and climate change has never been deadlier according to a new report by Global Witness found activists defending the environment are being murdered in record numbers. At least 207 environmental ...
A movement to completely eradicate plastic use in Africa is gathering momentum as more countries are adopting policies to help create the world's first plastic-free continent. The hope is to create a continent and a global ...
(AntiWar, by Jason Ditz) In a 79-10 vote, the Senate today passed the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a $716 billion military spending bill. The bill had already passed in the House last week, and is expected ...
Humanitarian efforts are currently under serious threats in war-torn Yemen. Major parts of the country are reeling from the devastating results of a long, drawn-out war between government forces backed by foreign nations and local ...
For the last five years, there has been an upsurge in the rate of illegal immigration into Europe by Africans. The immigrants have continued to endure the dangerous journey through the Sahara desert and risk ...
A new documentary interviews families of Argentinian tobacco farmers and asks the question, “Can Monsanto chemicals permanently alter your child’s genes?” While on vacation in the northern Misiones province of Argentina French journalist, documentary filmmaker ...
In brief, you will find that the illogical direction in which the Pentagon and Department of State have directed this nation’s foreign affairs and military has its roots in the defeat of the United States ...
Superstar singer Beyoncé is continuing her mission to celebrate and empower African Americans through her art and media presence. The latest example includes her upcoming September cover of Vogue, where the singer requested the first ...
If you live in or have traveled to any part of Texas during the sweltering summer months, you know that everything is bigger in Texas — especially the extreme heat. Austin firefighters had to deal ...
Eight U.S. states have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for allowing 3D-printed gun designs to be sold freely on the internet. The states have also gone ahead to file an injunction requesting that ...
A new report from Amnesty International called “God only knows if he’s alive” confirmed and detailed prison abuses in Yemen carried out by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a U.S. backed alley. In 2017 the Associated ...
(Beyond Pesticides) The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has issued new guidelines for measures to lower children’s exposures to chemicals in food and food packaging that are tied to health problems such as obesity, metabolic ...
The incumbent Cambodian’s People Party (CPP) won Cambodia’s election in a landslide victory by gaining over three-quarters of the total vote. The party’s spokesperson Sok Eysan said that based on the preliminary result, CPP gained ...
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is going after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for rescinding proposed bans on trichloroethylene (TCE) under the Trump administration. According to the EWG, the cancer-causing industrial chemical has contaminated tap ...
Fifteen men each filed separate federal lawsuits last Friday alleging they were wrongfully convicted and framed for various criminal offenses by former Chicago police Sgt. Ronald Watts and the Chicago PD. The corruption scandal surrounding ...
Last week, cricket legend Imran Khan won Pakistan’s election with his PTI (Movement for Justice) party. Based on the official result, PTI won 115 seats out of 272 seats in the National Assembly. The ruling ...
On Friday, ABC Australia reported that the U.S. would launch a missile attack on Iran as early as next month. The report stemmed from President Donald Trump’s threatening tweet in response to Iranian President Hassan ...
I spent the better part of Saturday morning watching Peter Strozk arrogantly answer, dodge, and feign sincerity towards questions launched to him by members of Congress. Thank you, YouTube, for providing the world with this ...
It is no longer only Confederate monuments and names of schools that are considering name changes in order to be more racially sensitive and appease the calls that they are an homage to racism. Now ...
In 2017 the games industry generated $108.4 billion in revenue, making it one of the most lucrative entertainment industries on the planet. According to reports, “The 2017 Year In Review Report by SuperData shows that ...
(FEE.org, by Stewart Jones) June 15th, 2018, marked the 803 anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, a monumental moment for the advancement of liberty. Due process and trial by jury remain to be some of ...
A video of blatant racism against a Canadian couple in a Walmart parking lot is stunning in its brutality. The video of the attack was shared on YouTube by Patryk Laszczuk and shows a white ...
A mass shooting in New Orleans has the city on edge. The incident occurred on Saturday night at around 8:30 p.m. nearby the famed French Quarter. It was then that two hooded men approached a ...
The Okinawa government is building outdoor shelters for schoolchildren to protect them from faulty U.S. Marine helicopters. Multiple times now Okinawa schoolchildren have been endangered when random metal shrapnel from US military helicopters fell onto ...
United Nations human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein called for an immediate investigation into gross human rights violations in Cameroon. The announcement came as Zeid said he was especially “appalled” by video footage of reportedly armed ...
U.S. lawmakers are hoping to combat terrorism and poverty in Africa all by working to save endangered species like black rhinos and elephants. Senator Chris Coons, a Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, ...
Towards the end of the presidential election in 2016, it was discovered that both candidates, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, shared one notable similarity: an office in Wilmington, Delaware that had become famous for helping ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reunited around 1,442 of the 2,551 separated migrant children with their parents in immigration detention by the July 26 deadline, as mandated by a federal judge in ...