A group of Gulf residents were arrested after occupying the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) office in New Orleans on Tuesday, where they were demanding that President Barack Obama cancel an imminent lease sale for offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. The BOEM auction scheduled for Wednesday would sell off an area the […]
After stirring national outrage over its alleged price gouging of emergency allergy drug EpiPen, pharmaceutical giant Mylan is under fire once again for potentially violating anti-trust laws by inserting “potentially anticompetitive terms” into its EpiPen sales contracts to schools. In a statement announcing the launch of a new investigation Tuesday, New York Attorney General Eric […]
As the pro-corporate Canada-Europe trade deal notched another victory on Monday, a pair of new studies underscored how the health, rights, and livelihoods of people on both sides of the Atlantic will suffer under the pending deal. Germany’s minority Social Democratic Party (SPD) voted in favor of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), making […]
It may seem that the simplest way to gather accurate information about deaths in police custody is for the police departments themselves to collect the data. But that’s not the how the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) proposes to implement the Deaths in Custody Reporting Act (DICRA), signed into law in 2014, and that’s a […]
Police arrested 141 people in North Dakota on Thursday, moving in with pepper spray and armored tanks on Native American water protectors and other activists who for months have waged resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). Click Here: camiseta river plate Tara Houska, an Ojibwe attorney and director of the rights group Honor the […]
Former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaHarris grapples with defund the police movement amid veep talk Five ways America would take a hard left under Joe Biden Valerie Jarrett: ‘Democracy depends upon having law enforcement’ MORE returned to the campaign trail for the first time since leaving office on Thursday, stumping for Democratic candidates in New Jersey […]
More and more women are running for office at every level after the election of President Trump shocked many in November, according to numbers from top advocacy organizations. EMILY’s List and She Should Run both report record numbers of interested women considering runs for public office at the state, local and federal levels, according to […]
Iraqi and Kurdish forces on Monday launched an offensive to take back the city of Mosul from Islamic State (ISIS) fighters, as human rights groups warned of the campaign’s potentially catastrophic impact. “The hour has come and the moment of great victory is near,” Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in an early-morning speech, followed […]
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped for U.S. Education Secretary “a ‘reformer’ who does not hide her contempt for the public schools,” according to historian Diane Ravitch. Of conservative billionaire Betsy DeVos, a longtime supporter of charter schools and vouchers for private and religious schools, National Education Association president Lily Eskelsen García said, “her efforts over […]
Adding his voice to the chorus of condemnation heaped on the Democratic Party in the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday attributed the Republican win to the failure of the liberal elite to represent working people. “It is an embarrassment, I think, to the entire of [the] Democratic Party that […]