President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced via Twitter that he plans to challenge any attempt at impeachment in the Supreme Court—a legal strategy that has no basis in reality, as experts pointed out. The president, fresh off a face-to-face meeting Read More …
During a campaign stop in Iowa on Sunday, Bernie Sanders unveiled an ambitious plan to take on agriculture behemoths like Bayer-Monsanto and ensure rural communities have the necessary resources to thrive “economically and ecologically.” Sanders’s proposals, collectively titled “Revitalizing Rural Read More …
In a step toward formally recognizing that humankind—with its incessant burning of fossil fuels, use of nuclear weapons, and more—has dramatically altered the state of planet Earth, a panel of prominent scientists voted last week to designate a new geological Read More …
Democrat Elissa Slotkin defeated Rep. Mike Bishop (R-Mich.) in Michigan’s 8th Congressional District. The race was called by the Associated Press on Wednesday morning. Click Here: cheap sydney roosters jersey Bishop had conceded defeat late Tuesday. Slotkin unseated Bishop in a district Read More …
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said Sunday that he thinks Arizona is “certainly” winnable for the Democratic presidential nominee in 2020. Flake, appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” said that voters in the traditionally red state are “rejecting” candidates that are tied Read More …
Uber was in serious need of a lift after a “bleak” and “disappointing” stock market debut last week, and President Donald Trump’s National Labor Relations Board gave it just that Tuesday by ruling that the company’s drivers are independent contractors—and Read More …
Satellite images reviewed by the Brazilian government show massive deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, a grim reminder of the devastation wrought by the country’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro. According to Reuters, 285 square miles of forest was cleared in May, the highest Read More …
More than 100 environmental groups and over 800 concerned citizens sent a letter on Monday urging Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf to investigate the link between fracking and growing cancer diagnoses, citing recent reports of rare forms of childhood cancer emerging Read More …
A pair of California state lawmakers are calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to divest the state’s pension fund from businesses that work with federal immigration detentions facilities. State Assemblymember Cristina Garcia and state Senator Lena Gonzalez, both Democrats, made the Read More …
In a move environmentalists denounced as yet another case of the Trump administration putting industry profits over public health, the Environmental Protection Agency announced on Thursday that it will not ban chlorpyrifos, a pesticide linked to brain damage in children. Read More …