White House hopeful Bernie Sanders said Sunday that his campaign is on track to do “better and better” as the presidential primaries continue, and again pointed to polls showing that he is the Democratic candidate that is able to trounce Republican front-runner Donald Trump. Speaking to CBS’ Face the Nation from the campaign trail in […]
Uber’s first-ever transparency report, released Tuesday, reveals that in the second half of 2015 alone, the popular ride-sharing app handed over information affecting more than 12 million riders and drivers to a number of U.S. regulators, and shared data about more than 400 users with federal and state law enforcement agencies. In a blog post, […]
A new petition released Tuesday calls on Democratic Party leadership to make ending mass incarceration a core part of the party platform. “So far, both [parties] have fallen short,” reads the petition created by non-partisan public policy institute the Brennan Center for Justice. “Even Democratic Party platforms haven’t merely been silent; they have actually called […]
The era of President Trump has brought a flood of new Democratic candidates running for House seats, right as the party looks to channel Trump backlash into a House majority. As of Tuesday, 489 new Democratic candidates had registered House bids with the Federal Election Commission. That number vastly outpaces new candidate registrations in every […]
A Republican consultant says singer Kid Rock would be “prohibitive favorite” if he enters the Michigan Senate race. “I think there’s no question about that. I think he’s the prohibitive favorite if he gets in,” Dennis Lennox, a Michigan-based Republican political consultant, told Politico. ADVERTISEMENTThe musician, whose real name is Robert Ritchie, just needs to steer […]
Can the Bernie Sanders campaign beat the record fundraising haul it pulled in last month? That’s the campaign’s goal, it announced Thursday, saying that it’s already brought in over $39 million this month from donations of around $27 apiece. “A lot of people in the corporate media and other establishment types are trying to call […]
In direct response to a lawsuit filed by North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory filed earlier in the day against the federal government, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch held a press conference Monday afternoon to announce the Justice Department is now filing a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state. Calling North Carolina’s controversial HB2 law […]
North Carolina’s sweeping and controversial election reform law, HB 589, was upheld on Monday by a federal judge in Winston-Salem, prompting vows to appeal from the plaintiffs who allege that the legislation’s dramatic voting restrictions widely disenfranchise minority voters. “The sweeping barriers imposed by this law undermine voter participation and have an overwhelmingly discriminatory impact […]
Pentagon officials tasked with protecting whistleblowers have lied under oath, illegally destroyed documents, and gone out of their way to ruin people’s careers and lives for attempting to raise concerns about government abuses of power, according to a high-ranking Department of Defense (DoD) official, John Crane, who went public with his story on Sunday. Crane’s […]
Boxing great Muhammad Ali, known around the world as a humanitarian who spoke out forcefully against racial inequality, social injustice, and the Vietnam War during the 1960’s, has died at the age of 74. #MuhammadAli Tweets The news of the athlete’s passing was confirmed by several news outlets late Friday night as well as a […]