Highlighting what they say is a “global human rights issue,” dozens of rights campaigners on Monday morning locked themselves together and formed a human chain to block buses at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Takoma, Washington from carrying out […]
The U.S. television series “Homeland”—widely criticized as Islamophobic and racist—was hacked by three street artists who were hired to paint “authentic” Arabic graffiti for a film set depicting a refugee camp on the Syria/Lebanon border. The artists staged an intervention […]
A top scientist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) filed a whistleblower complaint Wednesday that accuses the agency of harassment and retaliation for his work showing harmful effects on monarch butterflies from a class of widely used insecticides know […]
Though falling substantially short of the boycott campaigners have been calling for, the European Union on Wednesday adopted new measures (pdf) to label products made in Israeli settlements. “Since the Golan Heights and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are […]
The Democratic Iowa caucus was still too close as midnight came and went Monday night with Hillary Clinton holding a less than .5 percent edge over Bernie Sanders with just a handful of precincts left to report. Tweets about #FeelTheBern […]
Haas team boss Guenther Steiner does not want Callum Ilott to play the hero in Friday’s FP1 session at the Nürburgring, expecting instead consistency and feedback from the F1 rookie. Ferrari junior Ilott will enjoy his first official F1 outing […]
Thursday’s House vote on the GOP’s ObamaCare replacement plan comes with significant electoral implications for vulnerable Republicans on the ballot in the 2018 midterms. Republicans and the White House have massaged the bill for months in the hopes of striking […]
Protests spilled into the streets of Chicago Tuesday night, and more are expected, after the city was forced to release damning dash-cam footage showing a white police officer fatally unloading 16 shots into 17-year-old Laquan McDonald last year. Made public […]
The U.S. solar market is poised to have its best year in history, according to new statistics released Wednesday by GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). The record-breaking numbers show that 30 percent of all new electric […]
A critical tool in the fight against global warming is right below our feet. So where is this “shovel-ready solution” amid all the talk of climate fixes in the wake of the COP21 summit in Paris? “Instead of subsidizing a […]