House Democrats outlined their early strategy for the 2018 midterm elections in a Monday memo, targeting 59 seats as they seek to rebuild a party that suffered significant losses two months ago. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s (DCCC) memo sees the organization focusing on dozens of Republican seats that Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhite House accuses Biden…
The United States Department of Agriculture on Thursday approved Monsanto’s controversial herbicide-resistant genetically modified strains of soybean and cotton, in a move that critics say is a bow to the powerful biotechnology industry, at the expense of human and environmental health. The green-light is “simply the latest example of USDA’s allegiance to the biotechnology industry…
The ACLU filed an emergency motion with a federal judge to stop the new GOP chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee from repossessing the full-length version of a revealing inquiry into CIA torture. Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) has requested the White House and various executive agencies “immediately” return copies of the 6,700-page report, which Burr…
Large financial backers of the Clinton Foundation charitable fund have been found among those named in the trove of leaked documents from a Swiss division of HSBC bank this week, raising questions about the integrity of such individuals and what it says about the relationships they have with the powerful Clinton family. According to the…
The FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice are still pursuing an “ongoing criminal investigation of WikiLeaks,” news outlets reported Thursday, citing a ruling from the U.S. district court for the District of Columbia. In largely rejecting a Freedom of Information Act request by the Washington, D.C.-based Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) for information about…
Voting along party lines and following nearly 24 hours of continuous debate, the Wisconsin Assembly on Friday approved anti-worker legislation that bans labor contracts requiring workers to pay union fees. Republican Gov. Scott Walker, a presumptive 2016 presidential candidate whose assault on organized labor is ongoing, said he “looks forward” to signing the bill on…
As the first bodies were brought ashore on Monday, following a boat-capsizing that killed as many as 700 people over the weekend, government officials in Europe and across the world were urged to dramatically elevate their crisis response in the aftermath of what is being called the worst tragedy in living memory involving refugees and…
When he woke up on Saturday morning, Nico Hulkenberg was expecting to spend the day at the Nurburgring working on German TV Formula 1 coverage of the Eifel Grand Prix. But instead, it turned out that he was to have an altogether different viewpoint for qualifying. The 33-year-old German driver, who was dropped by Renault…