Month: September 2020

Friday, April 28, 2017 Join the Peoples Climate Movement this April 29th in Washington, D.C. and across the country to stand up for our communities and climate. Find a sister march, bus, or local group . March . ‘This is an all-hands-on-deck moment for every American,’ say defenders of net neutrality. “Millions of people fought…

Human rights experts are up in arms over President Donald Trump’s embrace of some of the world’s most reviled dictators, but as observers are pointing out, the U.S. president’s warm words may have as much to do with his business interests as their authoritarian style. On Monday, Trump said he would be “honored to meet”…

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer refused multiple times during the daily press briefing to clarify President Donald Trump’s Friday morning tweets, saying he had “nothing further to add” when asked about Trump’s cryptic warning to former FBI director James Comey. Watch: Spicer likewise demurred when asked if there are “recording devices in the Oval…

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Monday requested that the White House hand over any records pertaining to President Donald Trump’s firing of former FBI director James Comey amid investigations into alleged Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election. The ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the U.S. Department of…

Though President Donald Trump now occupies the most powerful office in the world, author and activst Naomi Klein argues there’s nothing inevitable about what comes next. “A major crisis could redraw the political map overnight,” she warns, “giving Trump and his crew free rein to ram through their most extreme ideas.” However, she adds, such…

Though the country’s foreign minister later said there was not “100 percent confirmation,” the Russian military on Friday claimed it may have killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State (ISIS), with an airstrike in Syria last month. Click Here: Cardiff Blues Store If confirmed, al-Baghdadi’s death could be major blow to ISIS as…

A Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) protester and photographer was cleared of all charges Thursday after he was accused of endangering a police plane with his drone. Aaron Turgeon, also known as Prolific the Rapper, faced seven years in prison after he was arrested in October and charged with reckless endangerment and physical obstruction of a…

Just days before anti-Trump marches are set to take place in over 100 cities across the United States, the results of a new poll published on Wednesday suggest that a growing number of Americans want Congress to impeach the president, whose young administration is beset with scandals implicating not merely Trump himself, but members of…

The ACLU and other civil rights advocates are denouncing the White House’s nominee to head the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. If approved by the Senate, Eric Dreiband’s appointment would continue the Trump administration’s well-established pattern of filling high-level jobs with officials whose background either offers no experience related to the position, or directly goes…

Days after the White House announced that it had ceased operations of its Council on Women and Girls, the Trump administration released data on its staff members’ pay. The data showed that female staffers face a bigger gender pay gap than American women on average, as well as women who worked in the White House…