How a Future President Can Hold the Trump Administration Accountable
The Trump administration has engaged in a wide-ranging pattern of actions that violate laws, agency regulations, and ethical requirements, repeatedly putting its own interests before the public interest. Administration officials and their allies have lied to federal...
TikTok Data Collection Practices Should Be Investigated by FTC, Say Two US Senators
The senators sought specific answers from the FTC related to a Wall Street Journal report that described TikTok's undisclosed collection and transmission of data. Two US Republican senators on Thursday asked the Federal Trade Commission for an investigation of...
Does new school year mean measles or flu outbreaks?
A recent survey serves as a small snapshot of a national problem that some fear may be exacerbated in the fall as children return to school for in-person instruction. The national survey, released Wednesday and conducted by Orlando Health, found the vast majority of...
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Kamala Harris is Asian and Black. That shouldn’t be confusing in 2020
During her 2020 presidential campaign, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., found herself at the center of a controversy about which Americans can claim to be Black, or Black enough — because of both her biracial identity and her immigrant parents. Born to a Jamaican father...
More than 2,000 students, teachers and staff quarantined in several schools
More than 2,000 students, teachers and staff quarantined in several schools For many US schools welcoming students back, a return to in-person learning was abruptly halted after new Covid-19 cases. More than 2,000 students, teachers and staff members across five...
Poland Punishes LGBT Rights Activist with Pretrial Detention
Warsaw police have arrested a nonbinary activist, Margot Szutowicz, who has been placed in pretrial detention, in the latest example of Polish authorities’ anti-LGBT actions. Forty-eight other people, from a crowd of LGBT rights supporters protesting Szutowicz’s...
‘Leaving us behind’: High-risk students ask, why can’t all college courses be offered online?
'Leaving us behind': High-risk students ask, why can't all college courses be offered online? College sophomore Cameron Lynch has lived the past five months in a single square mile, only venturing outside her home a couple times a week for early-morning or late-night...
Back-to-school and college football chaos highlight Trump’s failed leadership
More pillars are fast crumbling in President Donald Trump's frantic and lie-strewn attempt to convince Americans the nation is back to normal before the election, with chaos already afflicting the return to school and a rite of fall -- college football -- on the...
New bodycam footage shows George Floyd pleading with arresting officers
New bodycam footage shows George Floyd pleading with arresting officers People in the crowd are heard expressing fear for Mr Floyd's condition, asking whether he had a pulse and was breathing. Police camera footage showing George Floyd pleading with the officers who...
GOP online donor platform WinRed raises $164M in July
GOP online donor platform WinRed raises $164M in July Republican grassroots fundraising group WinRed raked in $164.3 million in the month of July, raising $15.7 million in one day alone, according to figures exclusively obtained by The Hill. The group received a total...
Brazil becomes 2nd country to cross 100,000 COVID-19 deaths
Brazil becomes 2nd country to cross 100,000 COVID-19 deaths.The novel coronavirus has now killed more than 725,000 people worldwide. More than 19.5 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus,...
This black man shouldn’t spend life in prison for trying to steal hedge clippers
The sentence imposed is excessive and disproportionate to the offense the defendant committed. Mr Bryant was sentenced, as a habitual offender, to life in prison for unsuccessfully attempting to make off with somebody else’s hedge clippers. Since his conviction in...
The Gun Industry in America
The national conversation about gun violence in the United States focuses primarily on the harms caused by the misuse of firearms—the details of the incidents that take the lives of 40,000 people every year and grievously injure tens of thousands more. This debate...
High school student forced to take off Black Lives Matter mask at graduation ceremony
A Black student was forced to take off his Black Lives Matter face mask in order to graduate, his family says. Dean Holmes, a student at York Catholic High School in York, Pennsylvania, put on a Black Lives Matter mask under his face shield at his July 28 graduation...
Fauci says nation can survive Covid-19 without another shutdown
Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, says the United States is facing a "concerted challenge" to navigate the resurgent Covid-19 outbreak — but if Americans band together, the nation can avert another extended shutdown. "There seems to be a...
Letter from economists: to rebuild our world, we must end the carbon economy
From deep-rooted racism to the Covid-19 pandemic, from extreme inequality to ecological collapse, our world is facing dire and deeply interconnected emergencies. But as much as the present moment painfully underscores the weaknesses of our economic system, it also...
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