New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders (D., Vt.) in the Democratic presidential primary. “I am standing with Bernie because he stands with working families, and always has,” de Blasio said in a statement. “I […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced a nationwide fracking ban Wednesday. The Democratic New York congresswoman’s bill is a companion to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ legislation seeking to ban fracking across the country by 2025. If passed, the laws would prohibit natural gas production […]
By Huizhong Wu BEIJING (Reuters) – A day after the city government of Wuhan locked down all of its public transportation to keep the coronavirus outbreak that began in the city from spreading further, three nurses found themselves stranded outside […]
At the center of San Francisco’s National LGBTQ Center for the Arts, two queer activists stood up and disrupted a private fundraiser for Pete Buttigieg after he received a question from the audience about his husband, Chasten. The packed room […]
(Bloomberg) — South Africa’s second-biggest opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters, disrupted the start of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s state-of-the-nation address in parliament. EFF leader Julius Malema and the party’s lawmakers prevented Ramaphosa from speaking as they demanded he remove Pravin […]
After a five-year pause, Oklahoma will resume executing inmates on death row. There are 47 inmates on Oklahoma’s death row. The state put a hold on lethal injections after several botched executions; in 2014, an inmate flailed on the gurney […]
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma plans to resume executing death-row inmates, five years after lethal injections were put on hold following a series of death-chamber mishaps, state officials announced Thursday. Gov. Kevin Stitt, Attorney General Mike Hunter and Oklahoma Department […]
A baby with a serious heart condition has died after she received an infection from mould in a Seattle hospital’s operating room, her mother says. Elizabeth Hutt was born with a heart condition that she battled for the entirety […]
President Donald Trump demanded New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) drop all of New York state’s lawsuits against him prior to a meeting between the two on Thursday to discuss the suspension of travel programs that would benefit immigrants, along […]
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) visited President Trump on Thursday afternoon to try and negotiate the reversal of his administration’s new ban on New Yorkers participating in the Global Entry and “trusted traveler” programs, which ease border crossings and […]