White House confirms it tied Ukraine aid to help in pursuing conspiracy theory on DNC hack
Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Thursday that President Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine until it looked into the debunked conspiracy theory that Ukrainian nationals were in possession of a computer server belonging to the Democratic National Committee....
U.S., Turkey agree to cease-fire to allow Kurdish forces to retreat
Vice President Mike Pence announced Thursday that the United States reached a cease-fire agreement with Turkey to suspend its military operation in Syria to allow Kurdish forces to retreat from a designated safe zone. Pence said that Turkey will suspend its military...
Elijah Cummings: Veteran US Democrat dies aged 68
Veteran US Democratic congressman Elijah Cummings, who was heavily involved with the Trump impeachment inquiry, has died at the age of 68. His office said he had died as a result of “longstanding health challenges”. As chairman of the House of...
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Sadiq Khan Has A Strong Message For Donald Trump (VIDEO)
Today, June 3, Donald Trump, President of the United States of America, begins his three-day state visit to the UK. The state visit – which includes a welcome to British culture by way of afternoon tea with Prince William and Kate Middleton and an inspection of...
Judiciary Democrats to DHS: Don’t Conduct ‘Show of Force’ Raids on Immigrant Families
Washington—Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats called on the Trump administration not to conduct mass arrests of immigrant families and children, including asylum seekers, as a show of force. These arrests would likely separate families and force children to spend...
China must release Uighurs immediately, UN says amid ‘alarm’ at reports of 1m Muslims kept in detention centres
China must immediately release Uighur Muslims being held in alleged political re-education camps on the “pretext of countering terrorism”, a committee of UN human rights experts have said. Up to one million Uighurs, a largely Muslim minority, may be held involuntarily...
Feinstein Opposes Saudi Arabia Arms Sale
Washington—Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) released the following statement on President Trump selling arms to Saudi Arabia without congressional approval and outside the standard review process: “President Trump circumventing Congress to sell more weapons to...
Saudi Arabia to behead author, journalist and cleric on terrorism charges
Saudi Arabia will execute three prominent scholars who are being held on multiple charges of “terrorism” shortly after the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. One of the men was arrested in September last year shortly after he tweeted a prayer for reconciliation...
How Kamala Harris would solve the gender wage gap
Sen. Kamala Harris pledged Monday to eliminate the gender wage gap, releasing a campaign proposal billed as “the most aggressive equal pay proposal in history.” “This has got to end, and it is an outrage,” Harris (D-Calif.) told a crowd in Los Angeles on Sunday....
Gay Imam hopes to open Australia’s first LGBTI-friendly mosque
Australia’s only openly gay Imam is pushing for the country’s first LGBTI-friendly mosque that would also act as a safe house and counselling centre. Nur Warsame said he is dealing with an “avalanche of misery” among LGBTI Muslims who have no...
Sen. Warren: “Basic health care includes safe, legal abortion.”(VIDEO)
Basic health care includes safe, legal abortion. Alabama’s backdoor abortion ban is an unconstitutional attack on women—an attack happening all across America. Let’s be very clear: We’re going to fight this ban. And we’ll win.Related news: Trump. Barr. McConnell. They...
Senator Warren has long advocated for greater accountability for corporate criminals.
Washington, DC – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) today released a new report, “Rigged Justice 2.0: Government of the Billionaires, by the Billionaires, and for the Billionaires.” The...
Tulsi Gabbard: “We need leaders who’ll stand up against bigotry. “
We as a country must stand up and condemn hatred, bigotry & violence, whether it be based on your religion, color of your skin, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or where you come from. We need leaders who’ll stand up against bigotry. And that leadership needs to...
Saudi Arabia’s Medieval executions DOUBLE in the last ten years totalling 1,100
THE number of sick executions in Saudi Arabia has DOUBLED in recent years – with people beheaded for bizarre reasons including “sorcery” and for simply being gay. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s bloodthirsty regime is once again being scrutinised...
Saudi women’s activist ‘electrocuted and waterboarded in prison’
A women’s rights activist has been waterboarded, electrocuted and threatened with rape while in prison in Saudi Arabia, her brother has claimed. Loujain al-Hathloul, 29, is one of 11 women on trial in the kingdom for protesting against the country’s male...
Trump’s moral squalor, not impeachment, will remove him from power
Democrats in Congress and talking heads on television will be consumed in the coming weeks by whether the evidence in the Mueller report, especially of obstruction of justice, merits impeachment. Meanwhile, the question of “wink-wink” cooperation with Russia...
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