Month: September 2020

Click:open electric tricycle supplier Chelsea Manning said Friday that she is running for Senate to challenge “establishment” politics and inspire “radical change” in social issues. Manning, the former soldier and transgender activist who served seven years in prison for releasing confidential documents before President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaHarris grapples with defund the police movement amid…

The third annual InterMat JJ Classic takes place this Sunday, Oct. 28 at the UCR Regional Sports Center in Rochester, Minn. This year’s field includes several nationally ranked wrestlers, national champions, state champions, and state placewinners. Eighteen past Cadet or Junior National finalists are entered. Continue reading at www.intermatwrestle.com

The post will be updated to include video when the Bregman’s TED Talk becomes available. If the kind of reception the idea of a universal basic income received Tuesday is any gauge, political leaders should take note. According to Business Insider, it “just got a standing ovation at this year’s TED conference.” The cheers came…

Tweets about trump comey President Donald Trump fired FBI director James Comey on Tuesday, according to the White House.  “While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead…

Less than week after President Donald Trump announced that he was pulling the United States out of the Paris climate agreement, Hawaii rebuffed that stance and became the first state in the nation to enact legislation to uphold the goals of the landmark accord. “Hawaii is committed to environmental stewardship, and we look forward to…

As the World Health Organization (WHO) prepares to select its new director general, public health, food, and science experts are urging the new leader to take action on the issue of factory farms and global threats they pose. In an op-ed published Sunday at the New York Times, Scott Weathers, Sophie Hermanns, and Mark Bittman…

In the wake of new reporting suggesting that the Trump administration’s decision to target the Syrian government with cruise missiles in early April was conducted without sufficient evidence and over the objections of some in the U.S. intelligence community, the White House on Monday night threatened President Bashar al-Assad’s government with further military action. In…

Legal experts and voting rights advocates are raising alarms about a reversal in the Justice Department’s long-standing interpretation of a federal law that dictates when and how states can purge voters from their rolls. Regarding the pending Supreme Court case Husted v A. Philip Randolph Institute, President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an…

Former Arizona county Sheriff Joe Arpaio said he thinks recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program should be deported. “Deport them,” Arpaio told NPR’s “Morning Edition” in an interview airing Thursday morning. “When we come across these kids, or some are older than just kids,” Arpaio said, “then deport them. You deport them…

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. – Republicans are increasingly confident that their tax-reform bill is growing in popularity and will help them buffer the stiff political headwinds they face in the 2018 midterm elections. At a gathering of donors affiliated with billionaire conservative activists Charles and David Koch, GOP lawmakers and donors said they see signs the…