Moore laments racial division between 'reds and yellows'
By Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, one of two Republicans competing in a primary runoff next week, appeared to use racially insensitive terms to describe Native Americans and Asians during a campaign speech on Sunday. Moore, a former chief justice on the state Supreme Court, lamented divisions between Americans based on race, mentioning “reds and yellows.” Click Here: […]
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Democrats flip two seats in state special elections
Democrats on Tuesday flipped two seats in special state elections in Florida and New Hampshire. In Florida, Annette Taddeo won a Miami-area state Senate seat, The Daily Beast reported. The Miami Herald noted that the race was heavily contested due to its importance to both parties, adding that the Republican who resigned from the seat faced controversy after […]
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Tennessee Gov. Haslam won't run for Senate
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R) won’t run in 2018 for the seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerGOP lawmakers stick to Trump amid new criticism Trump asserts his power over Republicans Romney is only GOP senator not on new White House coronavirus task force MORE (R). Haslam in a statement Thursday thanked […]
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NYT: Trump Being "Advised" for Clinton Debates by Disgraced Roger Ailes
Though Roger Ailes resigned his top seat at Fox News last month following accusations and lawsuits over sexual harassment of female employees, the New York Times reports Tuesday that Donald Trump has brought the disgraced executive aboard his campaign to “advise” him ahead of upcoming presidential debates. “Just when we think Donald Trump can’t get more […]
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Report Shows Whopping $8.8 Trillion Climate Tab Being Left for Next Generation
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children,” is an oft-quoted proverb, frequently used to explain the importance of environmental preservation. Unsaid, however, is how much it will impact the next generation if the Earth is bequeathed in a lesser state. Environmental campaigners NextGen Climate and public policy […]
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National Outrage Stoked as Mr. Trump Goes to Mexico
When news broke late Tuesday that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had accepted Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s invitation to meet in Mexico City on Wednesday, the reaction in Mexico was swift and “furious,” according to New York Times reporter Elisabeth Malkin. Trump, who has called Mexican immigrants “criminals and rapists” and campaigned on a […]
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Humans Have Pushed Oceans to Their Absolute Limit, Warns Report
The effect of climate change on the world’s oceans has been understudied, a recent report from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) finds, and it is far worse than many scientists and politicians had previously thought. “We all know the oceans sustain this planet,” said Inger Andersen, IUCN’s director general, to National […]
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Dakota Access Construction Will Continue, Pipeline Corp CEO Vows
The heated, ongoing battle over the Dakota Access Pipeline continued Tuesday as the billionaire CEO of the pipeline company Energy Transfer Partners issued a memo to employees and outside media promising to “reiterate our commitment” to the pipeline’s construction. “We won’t stop until they stop.”—Sacred Stone CampThe memo (pdf) pushed against three federal agencies’ Friday […]
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Instead of ISIS, US-Led Bombing Kills Nearly 100 Syrian Soldiers Fighting Them
An emergency U.N. Security Council meeting was called and an already tenuous cease-fire agreement is under further strain after U.S.-led coalition bombers on Saturday killed nearly one hundred Syrian army soldiers who were battling Islamic State (ISIS) fighters near the Deir al-Zor airport in eastern Syria. Early reporting indicated that between 62 and 90 Syrian […]
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Watch: Clinton and Trump Face Off in First 2016 Presidential Debate
The first 2016 presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump takes place Monday night beginning at 9pm ET. The event is being held at Hofstra University and will be moderated by Lester Holt of NBC News. The themes, announced last week by the Commission on Presidential Debates, are “America’s Direction,” “Achieving Prosperity,” […]
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