Month: October 2020

Tuesday’s special election runoff in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District was supposed to be a nail-biter. The polls showed Republican Karen Handel and Democrat Jon Ossoff running neck and neck, suggesting that it would take all night to determine which way the closely watched race would go. Democrats believed they were on the cusp of an…

After a brief rebound, 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’s job approval rating has swung lower in the latest Harvard–Harris Poll survey. Forty-four percent say…

As a new report shines light on 25 years of puny penalties for pharmaceutical industry lawbreaking, health activists worldwide are gearing up for a “Global Day of Action Against Pharma Greed,” scheduled to take place Friday. The report, released Thursday afternoon by Public Citizen, shows that “stronger enforcement is needed to deter pharmaceutical manufacturers from…

Less than 24 hours before Greece deports the first wave of refugees and migrants to Turkey under the maligned deal that sees humans turned into bargaining chips, officials are predicting chaos and violence as the agreement takes effect.  According to Agence France-Presse, the Turkish interior minister said the country is expecting to take in up to…

Revelations that Facebook may have regularly “blacklisted” conservative stories from the platform’s “trending” news section was met with outrage on Monday from journalists across the political spectrum who found the company’s alleged abuse of power “disturbing” and potentially dangerous. After speaking with several former “news curators,” Gizmodo technology editor Michael Nunez reported Monday that the…

Hillary Clinton continues to lose ground to Donald Trump in national polling, as the latest survey from Reuters/Ipsos shows the two candidates running neck-and-neck. The poll released Wednesday found 41 percent of likely voters supported Democratic frontrunner Clinton, and 40 percent backed Trump, with 19 percent not decided on either yet. Clinton led Trump by…

Fourteen. That’s how many Democratic presidential nominating contests remain. From Indiana next week to the District of Columbia on June 14—with delegate prizes as large as 546 in California and small as 12 in Guam to be won in between—14 states and territories have yet to hold their respective caucus or primary. “That’s why we…

The Pentagon’s more than decade-long legal battle to continue suppressing a trove of photographs exposing the Bush-era torture at U.S. military facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan may have reached a critical juncture on Wednesday. During a hearing, the Guardian‘s Spencer Ackerman reported, a federal judge expressed frustration over how the Pentagon came to determine that…

Left with few options for stopping the scourge of oil and gas drilling in their state, Colorado residents are turning to creative forms of resistance in what the Denver Post calls “a last-ditch push for protection” against fracking. The Colorado Supreme Court ruled in early May that state rules promoting oil and gas development trump…

Striking workers with the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT), one of France’s largest unions, are clashing with French government forces after the union members blockaded oil refineries and depots in response to President François Hollande forcing unpopular labor reforms through parliament earlier this month. Hollande’s proposed legislation would make it easier to fire employees, increase…