Month: September 2020

CLEVELAND — President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE railed against the nation’s immigration laws and sought to boost a Republican Senate candidate on Saturday during…

At least eight people associated with white nationalist groups are running for state or federal office around the country this year, NBC News reported this week, citing data from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The candidates, which NBC noted represent more white nationalists running than any other election in recent memory, include some who are pushing for…

Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya | John Thys/AFP via Getty Images Tikhanovskaya urges EU to be ‘brave’ but still no deal on Belarus sanctions Opposition leader’s call not enough to break deadlock as Cyprus insists on linkage with Turkey dispute. By Jacopo Barigazzi 9/21/20, 4:19 PM CET Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya urged the EU…

St. Cloud, Minn. – The seventh annual Husky Fall Wrestling Clinic was a big hit this past weekend on the campus of St. Cloud State University.  Over 70 participants and coaches attended the one day event on Saturday, Oct. 27 in the Halenbeck Hall Fieldhouse. Former St. Cloud State University wrestling great and guest clincian…

Just weeks after a California measure legalizing the use of recreational marijuana went into effect, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón announced on Wednesday that the city will wipe clean the records of thousands of individuals who have been charged with marijuana-related misdemeanors and felonies over the past several decades. “There are millions of Californians…

The early 1960s song “The Snake” is familiar by now to political observers who have seen President Donald Trump recite it at numerous campaign rallies and at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last week—but the family of the man who wrote the piece says the president entirely misses the song’s point. Trump has…

Two and half weeks after President Donald Trump rejected the idea of peace talks with Taliban, the militant group published an open letter to the American people urging them to pressure their government to end the occupation of Afghanistan, now in its 17th year, and engage in peace talks. The letter, published on the group’s…

President Donald Trump’s daughter and senior adviser Ivanka will receive more than a million dollars from the family business this year, according to McClatchy‘s D.C. bureau, raising fresh concerns about apparent conflicts of interest that seem rampant among key members of the Trump administration. Ivanka Trump, as an unpaid senior adviser at the White House,…

As teachers in the historically red states of Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Arizona are following in the footsteps of educators in West Virginia and turning out in droves to demand higher pay, reliable pensions, and greater government investments in the public school system, some Republican state leaders are sticking to their narrative that teachers are simply…

“The nuclear deal is the nuclear deal,” said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in response to comments by both U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House a day earlier in which Macron suggested that changes could be made to (or alongside) a multi-lateral nuclear agreement in order to save it…