On Tuesday, a woman named Nasim Najafi Aghdam carried out a shooting at YouTube’s headquarters in California, wounding three people and killing herself. Now her family is saying that they had tried to warn police about her anger toward the company, telling authorities “she might do something.” The night before, police found her sleeping in her…
The family company of Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, has been under investigation both for potentially using its connection to the White House for financial gain and for its unethical practices unrelated to politics. Charles Kushner, Jared Kushner’s father and one of the numerous members of the family being investigated for possible corruption, insisted to The…
Mic has released a copy of a letter written by Barack and Michelle Obama addressed to survivors of the February 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The massacre took the lives of 17 students and school staff. Written on March 10, the letter praises the students for comforting each other…
David Hogg, a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that left 17 dead, has become one of the leaders in the movement for stricter gun control laws after the tragedy. One of the ways he’s been fighting back is by using his now massive platform to urge companies with partnerships to the National…
The Sun-Sentinel reported Friday that the Broward County Sheriff’s Office is conducting an investigation into allegations that at least three deputies opted not to go into Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14 and instead stood outside while a gunman murdered 17 people. The claims were made by Coral Springs police officers, who say that the…
According to a Tuesday report by Politico, the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has increased he and his wife’s debt by millions of dollars since joining the White House. He currently holds a senior position in the administration. The debt comes from loans taken from three credit lines between last March and July. Kushner’s initial financial…
While President Trump and Vice President Pence proceed to use severe rhetoric when discussing relations with North Korea, the governments of the two Koreas are continuing to take diplomatic steps to ease tensions that have existed between them for decades. The latest show of cooperation is a surprising invitation to the North Korean capital Pyongyang…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was denied a request to have his arrest warrant dropped on Tuesday. UK Judge Emma Arbuthnot ruled that the argument for discarding the warrant wan’t persuasive enough. Assange has been living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012 out of fear that he would be extradited to Sweden, where there was…
Eagles team member Chris Long is continuing to prove he stands by his values by refusing to visit the White House, should President Trump invite the team to celebrate their Super Bowl victory. This comes after his decision to donate his entire 2017 game earnings to different organizations dedicated to providing equal education opportunities. “No,…
An angry crowd of roughly 2,000 people gathered at the University of Massachusetts Amherst last night after The New England Patriots lost 41-33 to The Eagles in this year’s Super Bowl. The gathering first appeared to mostly consist of students yelling “Fuck The Eagles!” but eventually devolved into a violent scene, resulting in six people being…
Tina Johnson, one of the women who accused Alabama senatorial candidate Roy Moore of sexual harassment, is facing tragedy after her home burned down on Tuesday. The Etowah County Arson Task Force have opened up an investigation looking into whether there was any foul play. Though the task force said Friday that, so far, the…
Hours after President Trump tweeted another reckless taunting message at North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, the regime’s leader ordered that officials make contact with South Korea on Tuesday through a hotline that had been dormant for nearly two years. The South Korean Unification Ministry said officials from their northern neighbor made a call at 3:30pm local time,…
Trump continued to play with the stability of the entire planet on Tuesday by once again lashing out at North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un on Twitter. “North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the ‘Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times,’” he wrote. “Will someone from his depleted and food starved…
Trump kickstarted 2018 by lashing out on Twitter, this time at Pakistan. “The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools,” he wrote. “They give safe haven to the…
Erica Garner — who entered the national spotlight in 2014 after her father, Eric Garner, was killed by a police officer who kept him locked in a chokehold despite Garner saying “I can’t breathe” 11 times — has died at the age of 27. She spent the last week of her life hospitalized after suffering…
The Library of Congress announced Tuesday that it would be no longer be wasting its resources by trying to archive every single public post published on Twitter. The library embarked on its effort to preserve public tweets in 2010 after Twitter gifted it with a record of all public posts from 2006-2010; all future tweets…
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee passed away unexpectedly early Tuesday morning. According to the city’s former Mayor Willie Brown, the cause of death was cardiac arrest. “It is with profound sadness and terrible grief that I confirm that Mayor Edwin M. Lee passed away on Tuesday, December 12 at 1:11 a.m. at Zuckerberg San Francisco…
President Putin paid a surprise visit to a Russian military base in Syria on Monday, where he delivered a speech praising his country’s troops and announcing that his government would soon begin withdrawing a “significant portion” of its soldiers. Though some disagree as to whether the seven-year civil war in Syria is really over, numerous officials,…
Trump’s latest tweet implicates him for obstructing justice.
Prosecutors have discretion to low-ball charges as justice requires, and are ethically bound to do so. Sessions says to throw the book at suspects instead. This is bad for decent-minded prosecutors and corrodes public trust in government.
Comey struggled with not wanting to appear biased as the FBI investigated Russian interference with the U.S. presidential election, and so he told the Obama administration not to accuse Russia of the DNC hackings lest they be seen as “partisan”.
Tim Wolfe’s resignation demonstrates that activists can effect positive change if they are focused and determined to do so.
The parents and the church are enablers in this case through their naive belief that all is well. It’s not, and if I were in the vicinity of the Duggar clan and the parent of a small child, I wouldn’t buddy up with Josh or, frankly, his parents.
If Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy were alive at this moment, I’m convinced, at 83, he would still be in the Senate. He’d be just as passionate, committed, intelligently informed and supportive of the issues and legislation that really mattered.
Golly, gee whiz, do tell…South Carolina, among many Southern and right-wing states, simply doesn’t have the money. In short, any social program favored by progressives comes a cropper because of shortage of the green stuff.
In yet another senseless gun episode, a highly respected, accomplished and beloved professor, Raja Fayad, was shot to death on campus on the afternoon of Thursday, February 5, 2015.
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December 7, 1941, the date of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is not the only ” horrific event that can be characterized, as it was at the time by President Roosevelt, as “A date which will live in infamy.” Add Monday, November 24th, to that infamous roster.
Like a snake in a woodpile, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) lies dangerously in wait to be fast-tracked to International Big Boy land where giant foreign and domestic money interests will control every aspect of U.S. trade dealings with the 11 other member countries of TPP.
Republicans are itching to bring in ground troops against ISIS. The reason stems from an incessant desire to prove American superiority through military means.