Click:Solution to the drum problem of high speed printing press Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has scheduled a special election for June 30 to replace former Rep. Blake FarentholdRandolph (Blake) Blake FarentholdThe biggest political upsets of the decade Members spar over sexual harassment training deadline Female Dems see double standard in Klobuchar accusations MORE (R) who […]
Election day is here in West Virginia, where Republicans have grown increasingly alarmed by ex-coal executive and former prisoner Don Blankenship’s rise in the final days leading up to Tuesday’s primary. Blankenship, who spent a year in prison for violating mine safety standards after a mine explosion killed 29 people, has seen a late surge, with a […]
When former President Obama left the White House, he pledged to take a back seat to make room for other Democrats in the party to shine. Nearly 17 months later, that’s proving to be an impossible task. Obama drew headlines this week after a Politico report revealed that he is consulting a long line of […]
OTTAWA — Canadian law enforcement has been called in to help the FBI investigate after American authorities found that an envelope addressed to the White House contained the poison ricin. “Initial information from the investigation suggests that the letter originated in Canada,” RCMP spokesman Dan Brien said in an email on Saturday. The letter was […]
As the Chinese government on Sunday urged the U.S. government to drop its “Cold War mentality” and criticized the Trump administration’s new nuclear weapons posture, released Friday, other world leaders also expressed alarm that the new policy for expanded development of “smaller” atomic weapons and reduced restrictions on their use was leading “humankind closer to […]
Anti-nuclear weapons advocates urged caution after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s statement about his military’s new nuclear capabilities and his plans to put them to use in the event of an attack on Russia. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) stressed that the United States has contributed greatly to rising global tensions regarding nuclear […]
The vice mayor of Broward County, Florida added his voice to the growing criticism of President Donald Trump ahead of the president’s planned visit to the area on Friday, accusing Trump of “hypocrisy.” Trump is expected to visit the town of Parkland, where 17 people were killed and 14 were injured in a shooting at […]
Nordic countries with strong social welfare structures fared best, as they have in previous years, on the United Nation’s annual accounting of global happiness—while the United States finished in 18th place, down four spots from 2017. Finland was ranked number one on the World Happiness Report, compiled by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. The […]
After Kentucky’s GOP-controlled legislature passed a bill last week to slash teachers’ retirement benefits—a proposal that has provoked a series of massive protests—lawmakers approved legislation that would cut taxes for the state’s wealthiest residents while hiking taxes for the remaining 95 percent, moves that critics say clearly demonstrate the misplaced priorities of the Republican Party. […]
Four Maryland high school students were arrested by Capitol Police on Friday afternoon for peacefully protesting outside House Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) office in Washington, D.C., demanding that the lawmaker work to pass stricter gun control legislation that has the support of most Americans. “We should not live in a country where we have to […]