Despite previously condemning Super PACs and declaring he would refuse their funding, Biden reversed course on Thursday opening the door to the controversial campaign finance groups. Joe Biden came under fire in June for telling ...
“The judge is sending a loud and clear message: Students have rights under the law and DeVos’ illegal and reckless violation of their rights will not be tolerated.” A federal judge on Thursday held Education ...
The future of renewable energy could lie in offshore wind power and may soon become cheaper than natural gas in Europe. The global transition to clean energy could be led by offshore wind power according ...
Panic-driven e-cigarette bans conflate two separate concerns—youth vaping, and a new respiratory illness that appears to be caused by black market THC vapes using specific additives. According to the October 24 update from the Centers ...
In a new wave of nationwide protests in Iraq on Friday, more than 20 Iraqi protesters were reportedly killed and a few thousand others injured. Iraqi riot police clashed with demonstrators in the capital of ...
Fine particulate matter has been on the rise in the U.S. since 2016, a disturbing reversal in recent U.S. air pollution trends for environmentalists. A new study released this October by the National Bureau of ...
The Catalunya independence movement in Spain shows no signs going away despite violent crackdowns and lengthy prison sentences handed out by the Spanish government. On October 14, nine imprisoned members of the Catalunya independence movement ...
Despite filing for bankruptcy, Pacific Gas & Electric is finding the money to line the pockets of Washington politicians. (By Frank Bass, MapLight) Pacific Gas & Electric, the California utility that’s shutting off power to ...
On October 7, 2019, the U.S. President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of American troops from northeast Syria, where the contingent alongside Kurdish militias controlled the vast territories. Trump clarified that the decision is connected ...
Trump’s lawyer William S. Consovoy pushed a dangerous argument on Wednesday – that the President of the U.S. is above the law while in office, even in cases of violent crimes. President Trump’s lawyer argued ...
The drama continued in the Trump impeachment proceedings with more potentially damaging testimony and a dramatic ‘storming of the gates’ by Republicans. A day after acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor gave a testimony ...
Egypt and Ethiopia are locked in a stalemate over the massive Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project that Egypt worries could curtail their water supply. In response to Tuesday remarks that suggested the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy ...
Two bills attempting to lower prescription drug costs are making progress in Congress and show promising signs of bipartisan support. Americans pay exponentially more for prescription drugs than citizens of other developed countries, and spending ...
Europe does not have a refugee or migration crisis. The real crisis is in Africa, where the thief—often a European firm—continues to undermine the continent’s ability to breathe. If you ask an African migrant in ...
The world’s largest oil company says climate change is real, yet continues to finance climate denier groups. ExxonMobil says it believes “the risk of climate change is real,” and it is “committed to being part ...
15 Minutes of Shame, produced and starring Monica Lewinsky, will look at today’s ‘cancel culture’, bullying and public shaming and how we got here. Monica Lewinsky and MTV’s “Catfish” star Max Joseph are teaming up ...
Conventional battlefields have been replaced by cyber warfare and the U.S. has already conducted two cyber attacks on Iran in 2019. The U.S. is believed to have launched at least two secretive cyber attacks on ...
US troops may be on the move, but instead of returning to the U.S. they are being redeployed to other regions in the Middle East. U.S. President Donald Trump signaled on Monday his country’s plan ...
World leaders continue to fiddle as the world burns. The world is burning. Record or near-record temperatures, combined with drought in many areas, are contributing to yet another record-setting summer for wildfires. California has been ...
“In the U.S. in 2017, around 17% of children lived in food-insecure homes where at least one family member was unable to acquire adequate food due to insufficient money or other resources.” A New Jersey ...
If the U.S. policy in Syria in recent years promoted the Kurdish identity, it has now swung to the other extreme of stoking the fires of Turkish revanchism. The extraordinary U.S. overture to Turkey regarding ...
HUD officials purposefully withheld funds allocated for Puerto Rico aid after Hurricane Maria claiming the island was too corrupt to appropriately manage the full amount of funding. Two years after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, ...
How much does your city make from traffic tickets and other fines? (By Akheil Singla, The Conversation) I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the last time I got a speeding ticket. It was nearly ...
“As I was paying my respects to our forever Chairman, his staff told me that in his final hours he signed subpoenas to USCIS and ICE” – Rep. Ayanna Pressley on Rep. Elijah Cummings. Rep. ...
If one believes in the restoration of international law and the tenets of the UN Charter, then the withdrawal of U.S. military forces from northern Syria is a good thing. Here are some facts and ...
The federal government admitted an additional 1,250 kids have been separated at the U.S. border, though the ACLU suggests that number may be as high as 2,000. On Friday, a Health and Human Services official ...
Tulsi Gabbard’s fierce opposition to regime change wars is ruffling the feathers of the Democratic Party establishment. While Gabbard’s bid for the presidency is a longshot, the spotlight on her campaign continues to bring uncomfortable ...
While paraquat has been banned in the European Union since 2007, millions of pounds are still being imported into the U.S. from other countries. (Beyond Pesticides) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is downplaying the ...
Greta Thunberg has inspired a new world-wide generation of young climate activists. As an effective communicator on climate change, the young Swedish schoolgirl is currently in a league of her own. “In a way,” Naomi ...
What was billed as a ‘Super Saturday’ has turned into a super disappointment for U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson as his fellow legislators voted to extend the Brexit withdrawal deadline. In the first Saturday session ...
Drug testing toddlers, felony ingestion charges, overcrowded jails and prisons, racial disparities–this state has it all. With endless miles of farmland shading into ever higher and drier terrain as one moves west, crossing the Missouri ...
Investor-owned hospitals are leading the fight against the creation of a comprehensive, universal health care system. (By Andrew Perez, MapLight) Investor-owned hospitals are leading the fight against the creation of a comprehensive, universal health care ...
Both the U.K. and the E.U. have reportedly agreed on new terms for Britain’s exit from the E.U. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the E.U.’s commission president Jean-Claude Juncker announced the new Brexit deal ...
“The people want the downfall of the regime” chant Lebanese protesters in a second consecutive day of popular unrest. Tens of thousands of Lebanese residents continued protests for the second day in a row, on ...
“It’s point blank, a violation of the premier anti-corruption provision of the United States Constitution, the emolument clause, because it will involve payments and benefits, and promotion, to the president’s property.” White House Acting Chief ...
The US Senator’s legislation is the latest manifestation of Western opposition to the Turkish operation on Kurdish forces in Syria. (By MEMO) A US Senator introduced legislation on Thursday in the Senate to provide US ...
“It really feels like there’s two sets of books — it feels like a set of books for the tax guy and a set for the lender.” A new ProPublica investigation of Trump Organization property ...
“Just looking at these numbers, it’s hard not to find them completely disturbing. It should be a call to action.” An alarming new report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds that ...
Ordinary people do extraordinary things all the time, some become whistleblowers and blow the whistle on some of the U.S.’ biggest scandals. Whistleblowers have long been a part of American history, though depending on what ...
The vaping crisis sweeping the nation is a reminder of the dangers of a lack of national uniform cannabis regulation and decriminalization. Both e-cigarettes and cannabis vaping related illnesses have recently hit the news with ...
Over the past month, Saudi Arabia, which has focused on fighting back the allegedly Iran-backed Houthi rebels, has been hosting indirect talks between Mansour and the STC. Media reports suggested on Wednesday that the internationally ...
“This is just such sad news. Rep. Cummings was a force to be reckoned with.” (By Common Dreams) Rep. Elijah Cummings, a Maryland Democrat and chairman of the House Oversight Committee, died at Johns Hopkins ...
In our hyperpartisan and polarized country, ‘Why We Hate’ is a must-watch for every American. A new documentary series titled “Why We Hate” premiered Sunday on the Discovery Channel and explores “one of humanity’s most ...
The spin focused mainly on the economy and health care. (By Eugene Kiely, Brooks Jackson, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley, D’Angelo Gore, Jessica McDonald, Angelo Fichera and Chelsey Zhu, FactCheck.org) Summary We found several false and misleading claims in the October Democratic presidential debate: ...
Despite the Trump administration’s attempts to block the House’s impeachment inquiry, witnesses have come forward to testify, unraveling a web of potentially damaging evidence. The impeachment probe into President Trump is rapidly developing, despite the ...
The misallocation of opioid prescriptions has caused a national crisis. In 2017, there were about 58 opioid prescriptions written for every 100 Americans. While opioids have some valid medical uses, they are extremely addictive and ...
“Russia sees the expansion of friendly and mutually beneficial ties with Saudi Arabia as particularly important.” On Monday, October 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a historic visit to Saudi Arabia, the first since 2007, ...
“We’re hardly alone among companies that contribute to organizations while strongly disagreeing with them on climate policy” – Google spokesperson.
The Marxist-Leninist PKK, founded in 1978, may be an enemy of the Turkish state, but it is also one of the most feminist movements in the Middle East. (By Haidar Khezri, The Conversation) Kurdish fighters ...
“It is time to expose the contractors, lobbyists, campaign contributions, influence on policy-makers, and ultimately profits wielded by the border-industrial complex.” Although the militarization of the U.S. border has become a hot topic today, the ...
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