On Sunday, populist conservative politician Ivan Duque won Colombia’s run-off after securing 54 percent of the vote, beating his leftist contender and former Bogota mayor, Gustavo Petro. Petro earned 41.8 percent of the vote. The ...
Two former executives of Roadrunner Transportation Systems Inc. will soon face criminal charges for a $245 million accounting and securities fraud scheme. Mark R. Wogsland, 53, and Bret S. Naggs, 52, have been indicted for ...
“You are one of five visionary tech entrepreneurs who are changing the world.” This was the New York Times description of Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, who was charged with massive fraud by the Securities and ...
ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing as an agent jokes, “We have an orchestra here.” (ProPublica, by Ginger Thompson) The desperate sobbing ...
(InSight Crime, by Parker Asman) Authorities in Honduras have accused dozens of officials and collaborators of diverting millions of dollars of public money for political purposes, including to fund President Juan Orlando Hernández’s 2013 campaign. ...
(The Sunlight Foundation, by Eliza Newlin Carney) When Colorado public school teachers rallied in Denver this spring to demand better school funding and retirement benefits, two fed-up GOP legislators had a novel idea: Why not pass ...
As the anniversary of the Grenfell Tower passes, did the UK government do enough to help survivors and prevent more fires? The 14th of June marked a year since the fire in Grenfell Tower, London, ...
A CNN Panel discussing immigration reform erupted in a pier six brawl after a conservative commentator suggested that those who want illegal immigrants to have unfettered access to the United States start to house the ...
Are kids being kept in cages and treated like criminals at the United States border with Mexico? If you listen to many celebrities and media people you would believe that is the case, but the ...
New York and Connecticut won a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency and its director, Scott Pruitt, on violations of federal requirements that have led to smog pollution in the two states. The joint lawsuit ...
Could there someday be a President Kim Kardashian in the Oval Office? The reality television star and newly minted criminal justice reform activist gave a shocking answer to that question on Saturday when she spoke ...
A new book titled Red Card, written by Ken Bensinger dives into the massive corruption scandal that plagued F.I.F.A, the world’s international soccer governing body. Bensinger, a former investigative journalist with The Wall Street Journal, ...
A draft of a report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (I.P.C.C.) says the world is on course to exceed the global warming limits set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The Paris ...
McDonald’s is going a little greener; it has ditched plastic straws throughout its restaurants in the U.K. and Ireland. No longer will plastic straws be used in any of the 1,361 branches of McDonald’s across ...
As the biggest election in Mexico’s history gets closer,so grows the death toll of politicians in Mexico. Between September and last week, 113 politicians including 43 political candidates have met untimely deaths at the hands ...
What’s The Big Deal About E3? The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is a yearly video game convention which has been running yearly since its inception in 1995. It gives corporate gaming publishers a platform to ...
A new Pew Research Center survey reveals that while some gaps are widening between urban, suburban and rural dwellers in America, some similarities exist across demographics. The study analyzes what unites and divides Americans living ...
Johnny Edward Tall Bear, a member of the Iowa Nation tribe, has been exonerated by DNA evidence after spending 26 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit – thanks to DNA evidence and help ...
Riding His Harley to Abolish Medical Debt To many of the families who are helped, medical debt forgiveness may mean the difference between having adequate food and heat or going to bed hungry and cold. ...
China’s new “social credit” rating system is still in trial mode but already has far-reaching social and economic impacts. The program aims to reward law-abiding and responsible citizens but punishes behavior deemed dishonorable. The punitive ...
In light of the increase in unaccompanied immigrant children held by the Department of Health and Human Services (H.H.S.), the Trump administration is finalizing plans to construct a tent city that could shelter up to ...
The Democratic National Committee (D.N.C.) has agreed to reject campaign donations from corporate Political Action Committees (P.A.C.s) tied to the fossil fuel industry. This resolution came via a unanimous vote reached over the weekend, the ...
Well, that didn’t exactly go according to plan. The 44th G7 Summit, held in Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada this past weekend, was, by most accounts, an unmitigated disaster, and one person was at the center of ...
Macedonia has agreed to change its national name to resolve a decades-long dispute with neighboring Greece. The move will end a 27-year conflict with Greece over the name. Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and Greek ...
On June 12, 2018, people around the world turned their attention to a meeting many considered one of the most memorable in recent history. U.S. President Donald Trump and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un ...
On Wednesday, the new Italian populist government, noted for its anti-immigration stance, defended its decision not to open its port to a refugee rescue boat carrying around 600 migrants, despite criticism from the European Union ...
This historic law sets the standard for breaking the two-party duopoly and electing leaders who are more representative of the people. This was the first time a statewide election has ever used ranked choice voting ...
On Wednesday, the Saudi-led coalition launched an attack on Yemen’s port city of Hudaydah, a rebel stronghold with a population of roughly 600,000 in the area. Many humanitarian agencies strongly warned of a possible major ...
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet… ~ William Shakespeare Consider this true incident recounted by the father of an ...
“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” is the new documentary focusing on beloved PBS children’s show icon, Fred Rogers, and is being heralded by critics as timeless and timely in our current cultural climate. Directed by ...
In an interview with the Daily Mail, President Bashar Assad of Syria accused the West of fueling the Syrian war in an attempt topple his government. He specifically said Britain, France and the United States ...
The constant shouting about how women make 77 cents for every dollar a man makes is a misleading and ultimately inaccurate statement. Women are working more than they ever have and are in turn making ...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under President Donald Trump announced in December 2017 that laws protecting net neutrality would be repealed. Now, six months later, the F.C.C. made good on its promises. On Monday, it repealed ...
Whoever controls the media controls the narrative. Whoever controls the narrative controls the world. Media propaganda has reached a level we have not seen in our nation’s history. Wars are ignored, politicians destroyed and truths ...
The U.S. Air Force has a shortage of up to 2,000 pilots. Federal News Radio reported to increase numbers and fill the shortage, the U.S. Air Force wants to create an online video game and track player ...
On Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-Un met in Singapore’s iconic Sentosa Island. The summit between both leaders from two world nuclear powers was a highly anticipated event around ...
My university employer destroyed my husband (a professor) because he reported fraud by a principal investigator who was also a high ranking administrator. This act claimed my husband’s career, his finances and his health. The ...
Levels of child poverty in the U.K. are predicted to rise to new highs, with 5.2 million children expected to live in poverty by 2022 according to The Institute for Fiscal Studies (I.F.S.), a British thinktank. ...
It was a surreal sight when American President Donald Trump finally met face to face, and shook hands with, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un on Monday, but it was the start of a remarkable night. ...
Melody Herzfeld, a drama teacher who sheltered her students in a classroom at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February as a gunman massacred 17 people in its halls, accepted the excellence in theater education ...
In a national vote on Sunday, Switzerland rejected a proposal to radically change the way banks lend money and would have given the Swiss National Bank (S.N.B.) a monopoly power over creating money through bank loans. More ...
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to provide a $2.5 billion economic package to Jordan, aimed at solving the economic crisis that triggered anti-austerity protests across the country for the past ...
On May 29, President Trump said during a campaign rally in Nashville, Tennessee, that opioid-related deaths have dropped and implied it was due to the $6 billion his administration committed to fighting the epidemic. But ...
A search-and-rescue ship carrying 629 people was stuck for two days off-shore from Italy, where a new right-wing government leader has refused to allow the migrant rescue operation to take port. Matteo Salvini, newly elected ...
Suboxone is a drug treatment for addiction to opioids. A visit to the suboxone.com website shows pictures of caring doctors and the “we’re here to help” mantra. It’s all well and good, but the big ...
How far is too far to go in the quest for social justice? It’s a struggle between a person’s right to free speech and privacy versus what one person believes is a cause for the ...
On Saturday, leaders of seven industrialized nations (Canada, France, the U.S., the U.K., Japan, Germany, and Italy) signed a joint statement vowing to overcome protectionism and curb trade barriers as the G7 summit held in ...
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