Bipartisan members of Congressencourage the president to impose sanctions on Beijing for incarcerating millions of Uyghur Muslims in “training centers.” The White House has reportedlycreateda secret task force to sabotage public support for marijuana. More evidence that Trump may have obstructed justice: disclosures about the White House doing nothing about
California’s Assembly passes a bill requiring 100% of the state’s electricity to come from carbon-free sources by 2045. A federal court rules that North Carolina Republicans illegally gerrymandered their congressional districts. Southern senators resist renaming a federal building for McCain. It currently honors a senator who led
Trump and Mexico reach a deal on NAFTA, now re-dubbed the US Mexico Trade Agreement, putting pressure on Canada. Voters head to the polls in Florida, Arizona, and Oklahoma to pick general election candidates. Taiwan, oddly enough, has become a pioneer in digital democracy with a crowdsourcing platform called
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Across North America, prisoners are striking over treatment and forced labor that amounts to modern slavery. Since 2010, at least 404 people with mental illness have died in US jails—which are now "default treatment centers." The US Dept. of Education is considering exploiting federal student health and
Hurricane Lane has weakened, but it’s still expected to be hazardous in Hawaii over the next couple of days. A week of chaos continues in Australia’s government. It’s nothing new: The past decade has been marked “by a series of leadership coups.” President Trump’s smash-mouth
Trump's tweet about the murder of South African farmers—which are at a 20-year low—and land expropriation is a popular conspiracy theory among white nationalists who want to push the threat of "white genocide." The close of trading in New York yesterday officially marked
In a dizzying day of news, Manafort is found guilty, Michael Cohen implicates the President, and the White House says there’s nothing to see here. The President, Donald Trump: “If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don’t retain the services of
Last night, protesters on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tore down the "Silent Sam" Confederate statue. In 2017, UNC spent $390,000 on the monument's security. Microsoft announces the capture of six websites created by Russian cyberattackers. The sites appear
Torrential flooding in the southern Indian state of Kerala kills more than 320 people. More rains are predicted. Yet another problem caused by climate change: “border water.” The White House intends to make it much easier to let the coal industry set its own rules on carbon pollution. Trump'
