U.S. prosecutors’ indictment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could trigger a protracted fight over press freedom in the United States, warn First Amendment experts. The Department of Justice is preparing to extradite Assange, whom British authorities arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on Thursday, to the U.S. to face a charge of criminal computer hacking…
Month: April 2019
Homer Simpson’s Attempt To Salute New Corporate Overlords Goes Very Wrong
Disney announced on Thursday that all 30 seasons of “The Simpsons” will become part of its upcoming Disney+ streaming service. The company released a short clip of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie celebrating the move as only “The Simpsons” can: Disney+ is scheduled to debut in November with a massive library of content, including more…
1 Killed, 3 Injured In Drive-By Shooting At Crowd Gathered For Nipsey Hussle Memorial
Violence struck again at a massive event honoring Nipsey Hussle in Los Angeles on Thursday. Four people were shot, one fatally, as they stood with crowds packed along a 24-mile route to view the rapper’s hearse as it passed by. Three men and a woman were hit in the drive-by shooting from a gray Hyundai…
Texas Lawmakers Are Considering The Death Penalty For Women Who Get Abortions
Texas lawmakers worked well into Tuesday morning as they listened to hundreds of Texans testify in support of a bill that would criminalize abortion and threaten the death penalty to any woman who undergoes the procedure. In total 446 people testified in support of the “Abolition of Abortion in Texas Act,” or House Bill 896, which…
Man Accused of Being Golden State Killer May Get The Death Penalty
Prosecutors in California said Wednesday they plan to seek the death penalty if the man accused of being the “Golden State Killer” is convicted, despite California currently having a moratorium on executions. Four of the six California counties prosecuting Joseph James DeAngelo said in court that they will seek the death penalty if he is…
Ocasio-Cortez Rebukes College Republican Group For ‘Domestic Terrorist’ Label
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) denounced the “uncalled for” language used by a college Republican group after it labeled her a “domestic terrorist” in a fundraising email. Such rhetoric, the freshman congresswoman said in a tweet, “puts me in danger.” On Wednesday, Dave Levinthal, a politics editor at the Center for Public Integrity, tweeted a screenshot…
National Enquirer Parent Company Explores Possible Sale Of Tabloid
NEW YORK (AP) — The supermarket tabloid under fire for paying hush money to a former Playboy model to help Donald Trump in his 2016 presidential campaign is on the auction block. The parent of the National Enquirer said Wednesday that it is exploring a possible sale as part of a “strategic” review of its…
Photo Of Woman Researcher Creating First Black Hole Image Goes Viral
For the first time in the history of humanity, people around the world Wednesday were able to see an image of a black hole 50 million light-years away. The revolutionary image went viral in an instant, as did a photo of Katie Bouman, the 29-year-old who is partly responsible for making the astronomical image happen….
Mike Huckabee Claims LGBTQ Rights Are The ‘Greatest Threat’ To America’s Morality
Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas, is claiming that the movement for LGBTQ equality is the “greatest threat” to America’s moral fiber. The former presidential candidate and father of White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders voiced his anti-LGBTQ views in an interview published Friday on The Christian Post, a conservative Christian news website. “The biggest…
At Oversight Hearing, Republicans Lavish Praise On Wall Street Oligarchs
If you want to know who exercises real power in American government, take a look at Wednesday’s congressional testimony from the CEOs of the nation’s biggest banks. Over the course of seven relentless hours, lawmakers fell all over themselves to heap praise on the CEOs of JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citigroup, Morgan…