Month: October 2020

As European delegates met with stakeholders in Brussels Wednesday to discuss the details of a massive, pending trade deal between the U.S. and Europe, a new report highlights the revolving door that exists between negotiators of the deal and the industries expected to profit from it. Watchdog groups have long warned that the Transatlantic Trade…

A white University of Cincinnati police officer was indicted Wednesday on a murder charge for fatally shooting Samuel DuBose, who is black, during a traffic stop on July 19. “This is without question a murder,” Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said at a news conference announcing the charges against Officer Ray Tensing. “He purposefully killed…

Vermont Senator and presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is surging ahead of Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, a new Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll shows. Forty-four percent of likely Democratic presidential primary voters in the state backed Sanders, while Clinton had the backing of 37 percent. The poll (pdf), conducted August 7-10, has a 4.7 percent…

With eye contact and a short “Go ‘head” to a swift-moving member of his security team, Republican presidential candidate and billionaire media personality Donald Trump appeared to authorize the physical ejection of Univision’s anchor Jorge Ramos from a press event on Tuesday evening. Captured by numerous cameras at the event in Iowa, the display of…

The Republican Party is cementing a long-term agenda ahead of the upcoming international climate change talks in Paris with the aim of subverting President Barack Obama’s environmental legacy, according to new reporting by Politico. The “wide-ranging offensive,” as Politico describes it, includes a plan blocking future legislation from passing in Congress and spreading skepticism among…

Chicago’s cover-up scandal is deepening after city officials were forced to release additional surveillance footage of the deadly shooting of 17-year-old African American Laquan McDonald by a white officer—and it showed an unexplained 80-minute gap covering the time the teenager was killed. The missing footage aligns with the account of Jay Darshane, the manager of…

Renault’s Daniel Ricciardo reckons the Eifel Grand Prix could spring a shocker based on the inclement weather that is likely to surround the Nürburgring next weekend. The German track owes its presence on the 2020 calendar to this year’s COVID-19 truncated schedule that has forced F1 to rebuild its agenda by focusing in priority on…

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 reacted angrily to then-Senate candidate Chris Van Hollen’s attempt to not help black voters to the…

Caving to stiff opposition from Saudi Arabia, western countries on Wednesday abandoned their proposal for a United Nations inquiry into human rights violations committed during the six-month-old military assault on Yemen—which is led by the powerful Gulf monarchy and backed by the U.S. The Netherlands tossed out its draft resolution, which had gained backing from…

Perceptions of equality in the U.S. are still sharply divided by race, even as a majority of Americans acknowledge that race relations have declined in the past year, a new survey released Monday has found. The survey, conducted by PBS Newshour/Marist Poll, asked respondents if they believed that black and white Americans receive equal pay…