For the first time in modern history the United States and Canada are starting to position themselves as each other’s enemies following the G7 summit. The day after President Trump headed to Singapore to begin ...
Former Senate Intelligence Committee staffer James A. Wolfe was arrested Thursday and charged for lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation concerning classified information that was leaked to the media. Wolfe, who was employed as ...
A homeless man identified as Kevin Straw was beaten aggressively during an arrest by Oregon law enforcement on Monday, prompting A.C.L.U. Oregon to condemn officer behavior and call for an incident investigation. Four Marion County ...
The Zimbabwe elections of 2018 are generating buzz within the political circles of Africa as excitement, anxiety and uncertainty elicit mixed opinion across Zimbabwe. The elections slated for July 30 will be the first without ...
Shortly after his election, President Donald Trump thanked Harley-Davidson and several major companies “for building things in America.” Then last February, Harley-Davidson turned around and closed a factory, cut up to 800 jobs, increased dividends ...
On Friday, The United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly elected Germany, Belgium, Indonesia, the Dominican Republic, and South Africa as new U.N.S.C. non-permanent members for a two year term starting from Jan.1, 2019. Indonesia gained 144 ...
This year’s 18th edition of the International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) comes up on October 22-24 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The conferences centers around the Anti-Corruption Award which seeks to honor and reward individuals who through acts of ...
Cover image from @toby1942wow on Twitter On Tuesday’s primary election in California, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom moved closer to becoming governor of the most populous state in the country and the world’s fifth largest ...
Historical context is essential to a true understanding of bias and partisanship in U.S. news media. This article focuses on the advent and early development of newspapers in the colonial era, from about the mid ...
There could be light at the end of the tunnel for the more than 12 million people of South Sudan who have had to contend with violent and politically instigated clashes over the last five ...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to provide a three-year $50 billion stand-by agreement (SBA) to Argentina to help boost the Latin American nation out of a currency crisis. The amount is the largest ...
In my last post, I wrote about Jordan Peterson and how I believe, alongside others, that his rhetoric about the excesses of the left can be dangerous in the wrong hands. Naturally, my thoughts were ...
This is the second entry of the Modern Day Gentleman column on Citizen Truth. Walter will regularly add entries which detail issues of masculinity, feminism, and the intersection of the two. The first entry can ...
A complete dinosaur fossil of an unknown type of dinosaur, possibly a new species, sold for over $2.3 million at a Paris auction. The skeleton of the mysterious dinosaur was auctioned last Monday on a ...
A new report titled Grand Theft Paycheck: The Large Corporations Shortchanging Their Workers’ Wages reveals that over 450 American companies have increased profits by cheating employees of their wages. The report was published by the ...
Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a peaceful protest movement that began on September 17, 2011, in New York City’s Wall Street financial district. It received global attention and spawned a huge movement against economic inequality worldwide, but there was evidence that the FBI maybe have ...
The Argentina soccer team has canceled an international friendly soccer game which they were set to play with Israel this coming Saturday in Jerusalem following pressure from Palestinian rights activists. The two sides were set ...
A few days back, we reported that Kim Kardashian visited President Donald Trump to ask for a pardon for Alice Marie Johnson, the 63-year-old grandmother incarcerated for drug dealing. Kardashian’s appeal worked because Ms. Johnson ...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (D.H.S.) is currently facing mounting pressure from 42 civil liberties groups. The groups, representing millions of Americans, are demanding that the D.H.S. release the original, unedited version of a ...
Bulgarian rose petals are being produced faster than the nation’s rose oil industry can sell then, causing a dramatic drop in price that has impacted farmers during the 2018 harvest. Flower farmers who sell products ...
A group of wealthy donors advocating for charter schools raised over $15 million for Antonio Villaraigosa’s California governorship race. The amount is the highest spending by an independent political committee for any governorship race in ...
I was thirteen years old when I sat in a basement auditorium the first time I learned what the P.L.O. was. During videos that today would seem ancient in terms of quality, I saw men ...
In a new era brought on by the #MeToo Movement that is less tolerant of sexual assault, voters went to the polls in Santa Clara County, California and delivered what many see as another victory ...
Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of the most iconic parks in Africa boasting of a rich diversity of ecosystems and landscapes. Not only is it rich in wildlife ...
An Australian woman, 64, has died after consuming frozen pomegranates. Her death was linked to Hepatitis A. The frozen pomegranates were grown in Egypt and marketed by Creative Gourmet. Just two months ago, about 2,000 ...
Today voters throughout California are exercising their constitutional rights by participating in primary elections. Dianne Feinstein has been a member of the United States Senate since 1992 and is wildly expected to move on to ...
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has no obligations to save Israel if a war between the Jewish state and Iran occurs, as NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told Der Spiegel last Saturday. Israel is not ...
(RadioFree Europe, by Daud Khattak and Frud Bezhan) Military rule, religious extremism, and war have long made Pakistan one of the world’s toughest beats for journalists. But Pakistani reporters say free media is now being shackled like never ...
Many claim that Hollywood generally seems to favor the liberal side of politics, but a growing concern that streaming giant Netflix is leaning even further to the left in their content may be sparking a ...
In an unusual move to field a Democratic candidate for California’s 48th District House election in November, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has spent over $110,000 to support a Republican. John Gabbard, the Republican, ...
A Georgia police officer has been fired after video footage showed that he ran over a fleeing suspect with his police cruiser. Officer Taylor Saulters and Officer Hunter Blackmon were patrolling Athens-Clarke County on Friday ...
A 13-year-old Texas girl stabbed her friend to death after an argument about a sleepover, but as horrid as that is the story actually gets worse. The 13-year-old girl suspect is being held in custody ...
There are several species of frogs in the world all ranging in size and characteristics, but the largest of them all in size are the “goliath frogs”, which – wait for it, are larger than ...
On Saturday, Cuba’s National Assembly appointed former leader Raul Castro to lead a commission charged with revamping the country’s constitution. The revisions are expected to provide the legal support for the country’s more open social ...
Dear EarthTalk: Can fertility techniques pioneered for humans or other animals be used to try to bring back endangered wildlife species? – James E., Richmond, VA (EarthTalk® From the Editors of E – The Environmental ...
(A Blanket of Dust, by Jonathan Slaff) A new play will test the receptiveness of the New York stage to the issue of what really happened in Lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001. “A Blanket ...
(FactCheck.org, by Robert Farley) With gasoline prices rising, Sen. Chuck Schumer placed the blame on President Donald Trump, and specifically his decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal. But experts say that decision has had ...
On Friday, Giuseppe Conte was sworn in as Italy’s new prime minister, marking his first significant political foray as the leader of the country ’s first populist government. His inauguration ended a three-month political deadlock ...
Hedge Clippers, an organization dedicated to exposing the political and economic havoc wreaked by hedge funds and billionaires on the American people, has released a new report titled Hedge Papers No. 57: Stopping the Opioid ...
The new FX series “Pose” boasts a cast with an unprecedented number of transgender performers, depicting gay and transgender club culture in late 1980s New York. Produced by Ryan Murphy of “Glee” and “American Horror Story” ...
Democrats just introduced their “Better Deal for Democracy” platform, but does it resonate? (Represent.Us, by Joshua Graham Lynn) With the introduction of their new “Better Deal for Democracy” platform, the Democrats are finally spotlighting corruption, the ...
Just the mention of the word Ebola is enough to send chills down the spines of many folks. The killer disease endemic in Central Africa is viewed as a death sentence and is responsible for ...
The heirs of Walmart, the Waltons, are well known for supporting school choice; they committed in 2016 to spend $1 billion on charters over five years. The Walton Foundation website has a “public charter startup grant.” https://www.waltonfamilyfoundation.org/grants/public-charter-startup-grants Steuart ...
Reality TV star Kim Kardashian made headlines for prison reform this week. In fact, she comes up with every search for “prison reform” on the internet, and media outlets are analyzing her new assumed role ...
Without having seen one of his YouTube videos or hearing him speak, I have to rely on second-hand accounts about intellectual and psychologist Jordan Peterson and his ideologies. From what I have read and witnessed ...
Indonesia’s Foreign Minister, Retno Marsudi said she is optimistic that Indonesia will be elected to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) as a non-permanent member for the 2019 to 2020 period. Indonesia would be included ...
American journalism is dead and has been for at least the last ten years. It used to maintain a semblance of objectivity and at least tried to report on the facts on the news of ...