Two of the three cops involved were not charged at all and one was charged with “wanton endangerment” for firing shots that might have hurt her neighbors, not murder or even manslaughter. …
The U.S. education system has been presented as a pathway of opportunity for every generation – especially those from poor and working class backgrounds. …
Since 1970, the planet’s wildlife populations have decreased by an average of 68 percent, according to the World Wildlife Fund’s 2020 Living Planet Report. …
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Reports of orcas ramming boats near the coasts of Spain and Portugal have been flooding in. …
A week ago, the camp on Lesbos, a Greek island, caught fire. It held 12,000 people, which is four times the number of occupants the Greek government says could safely live there. …
Recently, nine of the biotech and pharmaceutical companies working on vaccines for COVID-19 pledged that they’ll only ask the FDA for approval when the vaccines they’re working on are proven to be safe and effective …
Did Trump call the soldiers sent to fight in the U.S.’s endless wars “suckers,” as former Trump associates have claimed? …
Daniel Prude, a Black man visiting relatives in Rochester, New York, died at the hands of Rochester police after being arrested on March 17, 2020 …
As if the COVID pandemic wasn’t enough for Californians to deal with, the state is now seeing record-breaking heat waves, wildfires, and smoke. …
Before COVID-19, the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority served 8 million people daily. Since COVID-19, it’s losing $200 million per week and suddenly has a predicted deficit of $16 billion over four years …
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One struggle we can learn from was the struggle of coal miners that led to the “Battle of Blair Mountain” almost a 100 years ago in West Virginia …
The inhumane conditions facing those locked in prisons across the U.S. today are not new …
Lately, there’s been a lot of talk about herd immunity in relation to COVID-19. But what is herd immunity, and what does it mean in relation to COVID-19? …
New York City was the first place where COVID reached critical proportions in the U.S. …
Following the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, tens of thousands of people took to the streets around the country to protest this latest violence at the hands of the police …
The Milwaukee Bucks shocked the sports world on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 26, after the players decided to boycott Game 5 …
A Tennessee a new law could strip protesters of their right to vote. …
As numbers of new U.S. infections, hospitalizations and deaths continue to remain high, as U.S schools reopen and workers are called back into work, and as second waves of infection have begun to show up internationally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) abruptly changed its COVID-19 guidelines and is recommending less testing in the U.S. …
During the Spring of 2020, an estimated 5.4 million people who lost their jobs, also lost their health insurance. …
The latest coronavirus “cure”? The highly toxic compound oleandrin, found in the poisonous plant, oleander. …
This week the FDA granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for another treatment for patients with COVID-19. This treatment relies on blood transfusions from patients who’ve recovered from the virus, and thus are would have antibodies present in their blood. …
Postal workers in Tacoma Washington defied their top management last week by reconnecting the sorting machines post office bosses had ordered shut down …
Economist Jack Rasmus provides a clear analysis of the current economic situation and what the prospects are in the near future. …
Trump’s former senior advisor Steve Bannon was charged with fraud for pocketing donations to a campaign to help build more wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. …
As the school year begins, some states and districts have made the unhappy, but smart decision to start the school year remotely. …
As tens of millions find their financial situation more desperate by the day, and millions of small businesses are squeezed into failure, the big tech companies are booming! …
A massive heat dome hovering over the southwest of the U.S. is causing record-breaking temperature spikes in California. …
At the Democratic National Convention, Joe Biden began his nomination acceptance speech with a quote from the civil rights activist Ella Baker: “Give people light and they will find a way.” …
Recently, the Trump administration announced a new development in U.S. pharmaceuticals. The Kodak Film Company is expected to be given a $765 million loan to help launch a new wing of the company producing generic pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical ingredients. …
On August 16, it was under this slogan that tens of thousands gathered in Minsk with flowers, balloons and flags …
A desperate Trump has decided to speed up the attacks on the U.S. Postal Service, hoping to significantly suppress mail-in voting. …
On August 17, the Trump administration opened up the coastal plane of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling …
A Gallup poll recently found that 35% of Americans wouldn’t get a COVID-19 vaccine if it were available right now, at no cost to them …
Just days after a massive explosion in Beirut, Baltimore residents were shaken by an explosion that killed two, injured seven, and flattened three rowhomes …
Rather than accept the risks involved for both themselves and students, education workers in an Arizona school district decided enough was enough …
As August began in New Jersey, we were once again forced to pay for transit. …
For months, Democrats and Republicans in Congress have taken turns stalling the passage of any new round of relief for unemployed workers …
The National Basketball Association, along with the millionaires and billionaires who own the teams, and the mega corporations that invest in …
Filthy Rich, a new docu-series on Netflix, uncovers the horrifying story of financier Jeffery Epstein’s extensive underage sex trafficking …
A single massive chemical explosion at the port killed at least a 137 people and injured five thousand …
This public health crisis has provided a rationale for employers to strengthen their hand against workers …
The CDC now recommends looking at symptoms instead of test results to decide when employees can return to work …
Millions are left vulnerable to eviction during a time when shelter is an even more important necessity …
On July 26, the Iranian Supreme Court upheld death sentences against five Iranian activists …
Climate change is quickly melting the sea ice that polar bears depend on as their hunting ground …
Public transit, like the rest of our society is in an extraordinary crisis …
John Lewis was a civil rights leader and activist that fought to end racial segregation in the United States …
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