President Trump is fundraising off of Vice President Pence’s dramatic walkout from an Indianapolis Colts game on Sunday, when several San Francisco 49ers kneeled during “The Star-Spangled Banner.” “Yesterday members of the San Francisco 49ers took a knee during our National Anthem. Their stunt showed the world that they don’t believe our flag is worth standing for,” […]
Anti-war advocates are launching an 11th-hour bid to stop U.S. Congress from approving a $1.15 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia in its fight against Houthi rebels in Yemen, which was announced earlier this month. Chief among them are the activist group CODEPINK and U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), who are calling on Congress to […]
The presidential debates have been transformed into “a choreographed and carefully scripted farce that prevents honest discussion of the real issues our country faces,” Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein declared in an op-ed on Tuesday. Citing a recent Suffolk University/USA TODAY poll that showed more than three-quarters of likely voters want Stein and Libertarian […]
On the heels of U.S.-led airstrikes that killed scores of Syrian soldiers, the Syrian military has said that a week-old ceasefire brokered by the United States and Russia is over. In a statement issued Monday, the Syrian military put the blame for the collapse on “armed terrorist groups,” a phrase, Reuters reports, that the Syrian […]
Hurricane Matthew has made violent landfall in Haiti, killing at least one person and destroying homes with heavy rain, strong winds, and surge flooding throughout the island’s south-western peninsula in the Caribbean’s most powerful storm in almost a decade. #Matthew Tweets The eye of the Category 4 hurricane hit Haiti just after 7:00am, with maximum […]
Global governments agreed on Friday to create the world’s largest marine sanctuary in an area described as the planet’s most pristine marine ecosystem—Antarctica’s Ross Sea. “This is a victory for the whales, toothfish, and penguins that live in the Ross Sea, as well as for the millions of people who supported this effort,” said John […]
Nearly 100 former Clinton campaign staffers have signed an open letter hitting back at former Democratic National Committee (DNC) head Donna Brazil’s depiction of the campaign in her upcoming memoir, titled “Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats […]
As Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and some of his top surrogates push a narrative that the U.S. election is “rigged” against him, observers warn that the controversial rhetoric is dangerous and divisive—and possibly self-serving. Politico wrote Sunday that the real estate mogul “is laying the groundwork to lose on Nov. 8, refuse to concede […]
Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein on Wednesday called for a ballot recount in Wisconsin, Michigan, and and Pennsylvania, and apparently took less than a day to raise more than her campaign’s initial goal of $2 million. “After a divisive and painful presidential race, in which foreign agents hacked into party databases, private email servers, […]
As people took to the streets for another night of protests on Thursday, President-elect Donald Trump offered a grim vision of the future as he blamed the media for “inciting” anger against his win and called the demonstrations “very unfair.” Protesters gathered throughout the country to express outrage at Trump’s election and solidarity with those […]