#Istanbul Tweets This story may be updated. News outlets quoted Turkish officials report that at least 28 people are confirmed dead and scores more wounded following a violent attack at the major international airport in Istanbul, Turkey on Tuesday. Two explosions hit Istanbul’s main international airport on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people and wounding […]
A Wisconsin congresswoman, “sick and tired, and sick and tired of being sick and tired, of the criminalization of poverty,” plans to introduce a bill requiring drug tests for the rich before high-dollar tax deductions are approved. U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, a Democrat from Milwaukee, told the Guardian in an interview Wednesday that her initiative […]
Click:active components in electronics The GOP is amping up its campaign against those seeking to hold Big Oil accountable for climate deception, with House Science, Space, and Technology Committee chairman Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) announcing Wednesday that his panel has issued subpoenas to the New York and Massachusetts attorneys general and climate groups demanding information on […]
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, a longtime friend of the Clinton family, said this week that Hillary Clinton would support the controversial Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) if elected president, despite claiming to oppose it—before walking the comments back and then doubling down on them again. In a video interview that aired Wednesday on MSNBC‘s “Morning Joe,” […]
The same architects of Britain’s exit from the European Union are now pushing for the United Kingdom to withdraw from the global climate treaty negotiated in Paris last December—a movement called Clexit (for “Climate Exit”). The post-Brexit development confirms what many climate advocates feared might happen. Environmental group Friends of the Earth warned after the […]
A documentary filmmaker who could face more than 30 years in prison for merely capturing images of a climate activist taking part in a direct action has asserted her First Amendment rights, releasing on Friday a statement as well as raw footage taken the day of her arrest. Lindsey Grayzel, along with cinematographer Carl Davis, […]
Lewis Hamilton has revealed his top pick as sport’s greatest icon, a man who is also the six-time world champion’s personal hero. On the first day of Black History Month, Hamilton was polled by the The Sun along with other black personalities who were asked to name a black individual they have particularly admired in […]
Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borissov is taking flak | Pool photo by Francisco Seco/AFP via Getty Images Justice committee MEPs turn up the heat on Bulgaria’s Borissov Parliamentarians strike a far tougher tone than the European Commission on corruption in Sofia. By Maïa de La Baume 10/1/20, 9:35 PM CET Updated 10/2/20, 3:15 PM CET […]
Piers Morgan is calling for Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhite House accuses Biden of pushing ‘conspiracy theories’ with Trump election claim Biden courts younger voters — who have been a weakness Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton qualifies to run for county commissioner in Florida MORE to move on after the former Democratic presidential nominee released a new […]
Former Republican congressman Michael Grimm, who went to jail after pleading guilty to tax evasion, on Sunday announced his bid to win back his old congressional seat in New York. “I have matured. I’m tempered. I’m wiser. But I’m still the same guy you know yearning to serve you every chance I get,” Grimm said during the […]