Two weeks after Edward Snowden’s first revelations about sweeping government surveillance, President Obama shot back. “We know of at least 50 threats that have been averted because of this information not just in the United States, but, in some cases, threats here in Germany,” Obama said during a visit to Berlin in June. “So lives […]
At least 3,278 people in the United States, a majority of them black, are serving life in prison for nonviolent convictions in a system where mandatory minimum laws and racial disparities shape sentencing, a report released Wednesday by the ACLU reveals. Entitled , the study draws on interviews and surveys of hundreds of inmates, as […]
As Secretary of State John Kerry and foreign ministers of at least four other major powers prepared to join talks with Iran in Geneva Saturday, the stakes over the eventual success or failure of the negotiations seem very much on the rise here. While nervous Democrats in the Senate held off a last-minute push by […]
In what seems a possibly unprecedented outpouring of global mourning over the death of South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, many of the world’s leading environmenal, human rights, and social justice activists are forgoing sadness in order to issue thanks to the man known affectionately by many as “Madiba.” To honor him for helping break […]
Citing the National Security Agency’s “direct threat to our liberty and freedom,” California State Senators Ted Lieu and Joel Anderson introduced a bill on Monday to stop the state from enabling the agency’s “massive level of spying” and violations of the Fourth Amendment brought to light by whistleblower Edward Snowden. “The National Security Agency’s massive […]
President Obama on Thursday announced that he has sent a team of combat-ready soldiers to the country of South Sudan amid growing violence and increasing talk of “civil war” in the African nation. The death of several UN peacekeeping soldiers this week and reports of large numbers of civilian casualties as fighting intensified between militias […]
The exploding youth unemployment crisis appears to be unleashing a public health one. Youth facing long-term unemployment are more than two times as likely as their peers to believe they have nothing to live for at a rate of 21 percent, finds a report (pdf) released Thursday by the UK-based youth charity Prince’s Trust. Click […]
SmackDown’s Survivor Series men’s team will begin to take shape tonight. WWE has announced two Survivor Series qualifying matches for tonight’s SmackDown. They are: Kevin Owens vs. Dolph Ziggler and Jey Uso vs. Daniel Bryan. AJ Styles, Keith Lee, and Sheamus have qualified for Team Raw in the men’s five-on-five traditional Survivor Series elimination match. Raw’s […]
A 23-race provisional calendar for 2021 was submitted to F1 teams during a virtual meeting of the sport’s F1 Commission on Monday. A draft schedule had circulated on the internet recently and the latest proposal which was submitted to the teams for the very first reportedly highlights several changes. Despite Australia’s closed borders and current […]