Democrats are significantly more enthusiastic than Republicans to cast ballots in the 2018 midterm elections, according to a survey of registered voters released Thursday by the left-leaning Public Policy Polling. Sixty-three percent of Democratic registered voters said they are “very excited” to vote next year, compared to only 52 percent of Republicans, the poll found. […]
Click:diode and zener diode South Carolina’s once-in-a-millennium flooding this weekend left at least seven people dead and much of the state paralyzed—and as rains continued into Monday morning, officials warned that the deluge is likely to worsen. “This is the worst flooding in the low country [the region around the South Carolina coast] for a […]
A California billionaire is enlisting other wealthy backers in a $490 million scheme to place half of the students in the Los Angeles Unified School District into charter schools over the next eight years—a plan at least one critic says would “do away with democratically controlled, publicly accountable education in LA.” The Los Angeles Times […]
Police in Chicago kidnapped and imprisoned more than 7,000 people between 2004 and 2015 at the secret interrogation warehouse now known publicly as Homan Square, according to new reporting by the Guardian. Nearly 6,000 of the disappeared were black, which is proportionately more than double the city’s black population and 82.2 percent of the 7,185 […]
Safeguards for media workers must be strengthened to protect not only their work, but their lives, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday to mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. More than 700 reporters and other media workers have been killed in the past decade “simply for bringing news […]
Hillary Clinton’s hawkishness could be front-and-center during Saturday’s Democratic primary debate, which has shifted its focus in the wake of Friday’s attacks in Paris to “issues of terrorism, national security, and foreign relations.” The debate between between 2016 presidential hopefuls Clinton, Martin O’Malley, and Bernie Sanders is taking place in Des Moines, Iowa at 9 […]
The special election for Montana’s sole House seat is becoming a test between two rival brands of populism: President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE’s […]
Debt-choked Puerto Rico on Tuesday “narrowly avoided” economic default by scrounging together an 11th-hour payment toward its $354 million debt to Wall Street vulture funds, an unexpected move likely resulting from the island’s submission to austerity cuts and other drastic government measures. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), speaking after a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday […]
Update: Following publication, Sari Feldman, president of the American Library Association, told Common Dreams that librarians are “proud to stand with groups from every part of the political spectrum to expose and oppose the latest legislative attempt to advance a new mass surveillance law.” “Shoehorning a new version of ‘CISA’ hostile to personal privacy into […]
A massive fire was blazing at a 63-story hotel in downtown Dubai on Thursday night, near where tens of thousands of people had gathered for the world’s largest New Year’s Eve fireworks display. According to the Associated Press, “It was not immediately clear what caused the fire, which ran up at least 20 stories of […]