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This post may be updated. Police descended on water protectors in North Dakota on Wednesday, as images on social media showed a dramatic standoff along a creek that borders a construction site for the long-opposed Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). Jordan Chariton, a political reporter with The Young Turks network, posted this video dispatch after covering…

Dealing what campaigners say is the final “death blow” to the pro-corporate Canada-European Union trade deal, negotiations collapsed on Friday after representatives from the Belgian region of Wallonia refused to agree to a deal that continues ignore democracy in favor of multi-national corporations. Canada’s International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland reportedly walked out of talks with…

The movement to make college campuses into sanctuaries for undocumented students is growing, with walkouts and sit-ins taking place around the country on Thursday. Students and faculty in Massachusetts, New York, Texas, and Washington state held protests to support the #SanctuaryCampus movement, asking their universities to refuse voluntary information sharing with Immigration and Customs Enforcement…

As 2016 continues on its march toward becoming the hottest year on record, the Arctic is seeing extreme warmth beyond anything previously recorded at this time of year—prompting alarm from climate scientists around the world. Click Here: cd universidad catolica “Folks, we’re in a climate emergency,” tweeted meteorologist Eric Holthaus. The temperature at the North…

Twenty state attorneys general filed a lawsuit on Thursday against several pharmaceutical companies, accusing them of entering into “numerous illegal conspiracies” to fix generic drug prices at consumers’ expense. Click Here: Putters The federal lawsuit (pdf) names generic drug-makers Heritage Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Aurobindo Pharma USA, Inc., Citron Pharma, LLC, Mayne Pharma (USA), Inc., Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,…

Angry Rhode Island voters overwhelmed a community dinner hosted by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on Sunday evening, demanding an explanation as to why the Democratic lawmaker was not doing enough to resist U.S. President Donald Trump. Specifically, the crowd took issue with the fact that Whitehouse was one of 14 Democrats who voted last week to…

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel rallied a group of door-knockers in Arlington on Monday, seeking to give her troops a shot in the arm as they canvased Northern Virginia ahead of Tuesday’s pivotal gubernatorial election.  The chairwoman briefly addressed the mix of paid staff and volunteers at the party’s local field office before heading out to…

Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is considering a 2018 Senate run in Utah and is looking to pose a challenge to President Trump from Congress’s upper chamber, according to a report from Politico. Romney, who is the former governor of Massachusetts and ran for president in 2008 and 2012, has reportedly met with Utah’s…

A majority of American voters say Alabama GOP candidate Roy Moore should be expelled from the Senate if he wins Tuesday’s special election, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll. It’s the second poll out Tuesday with such a result, finding a nearly identical amount of support for the Senate expelling Moore compared to a Politico–Morning Consult poll released earlier…