In a move welcomed by civil liberties advocates, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation to end once and for all the National Security Agency’s authority for mass surveillance of Americans’ phone records. “It’s a welcome and necessary first-step in […]
Facebook is partnering with an extreme right-wing website’s fact-checking arm, a move that is generating condemnation from both mainstream and progressive critics. Axios reported on Wednesday that Facebook would be working with The Daily Caller‘s for-profit fact-checker website Check Your Fact to uncover bias and […]
Click:NBA zhibo Reaffirming earlier findings, the media watchdog group Media Matters for America released a study Tuesday showing that contrary to Republican claims, Facebook is not censoring right-wing users or messages. The group studied nearly 400 accounts focused on political […]
Workers in countries all over the world joined marches and rallies on Wednesday to mark International Workers’ Day, or May Day, with progressive political leaders joining some events and other protests being quashed by law enforcement. The Industrial Workers of […]
A far-reaching lawsuit filed Friday by the attorneys general of more than 40 states accused some of the nation’s largest generic drug manufacturers of conspiring to inflate prices, in some cases by over 1,000 percent. “We have hard evidence that […]
Just hours before President Donald Trump took to the stage in Greenville, North Carolina and unleashed more racist vitriol against Rep. Ilhan Omar and other progressive members of Congress, 137 House Democrats joined a united Republican caucus on Wednesday to […]
He’s come close on multiple occasions since stepping up to the Red Bull Racing team last summer, but Alex Albon finally secured his maiden F1 podium position this weekend in the Tuscan Grand Prix. He’s the first Thai driver to […]
Rep. Beto O’RourkeBeto O’RourkeBiden will help close out Texas Democrats’ virtual convention: report O’Rourke on Texas reopening: ‘Dangerous, dumb and weak’ Parties gear up for battle over Texas state House MORE (D-Texas), after losing the Texas Senate race to Sen. […]
County officials in California are still slogging through more than 4 million uncounted ballots four days after Election Day. The lengthy process is sowing frustration for anxious Democrats and Republicans eyeing nail-biter congressional contests in Los Angeles, Orange County and the […]
Rep.-elect Joe Neguse (D-Colo.-02) DATE OF BIRTH: May 13, 1984RESIDENCE: Lafayette, Colo.OCCUPATION: Former state officialEDUCATION: B.A., J.D., University of ColoradoFAMILY: Wife, Andrea; one daughter Joe Neguse will be Colorado’s first black congressman after winning election in the state’s 2nd Congressional […]