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, still sorting through the wreckage of her 2016 presidential campaign, recently had former aides on her…
Move over dirty fossil fuels, the solar revolution is coming. That, at least, is the buried headline contained in new reporting from Reuters on Sunday which looks at the ability of the solar industry to upend the world’s energy system in ways similar to recent innovations which allowed oil and gas companies to squeeze previously…
Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz on Tuesday walked across the stage and accepted her graduation diploma with a mattress in tow. Since the beginning of the school year, Sulkowicz has lugged her dorm mattress all over the Manhattan campus to protest Columbia’s alleged dismissal of her rape charges. According to Sulkowicz, during her sophomore year…
Continued warming of the world’s oceans may trigger disruptions to marine life not seen in 3 million years, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change. The study, put forth by scientists from the University of Science and Technology in Lille, France, and other institutions, aims to put the anticipated…
A U.S. government review board said Friday that Abdul Rahman Shalabi, a prisoner who has been on a nine-year hunger strike at the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has been cleared to return to his native Saudi Arabia. Shalabi, one of the first prisoners brought to Guantánamo in January 2002, was never charged with…
Israel on Monday provoked the outrage of journalists and human rights campaigners alike when its foreign ministry released a short, animated video mocking foreign correspondents reporting from Gaza. Critics say the video is especially offensive given Israel’s history of repressing, harassing, and killing journalists, particularly in last summer’s 50-day military assault on Gaza. In a…
In a ruling that rests on what one rights group described as “a warped interpretation of the First Amendment,” a three-judge panel has said that corporations have a constitutional right to conceal information about whether minerals in their supply chains may have funded conflict. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday…
After Republicans won big in successive election cycles to take control of more governorships than at almost any other time in the party’s history, the GOP now finds itself defending a huge number of seats in critical swing states in 2018. That’s the reverse of the scenario in the U.S. Senate,where Democrats are playing defense….
D’Army Bailey, a civil rights activist, judge, author, and actor who founded the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, died on Sunday. He was 73. His wife, Adrienne Bailey, said her husband passed away after a long illness, surrounded by family at Methodist hospital in Memphis. “Judge Bailey’s passing is a tremendous loss to…
More than 1,000 science and technology experts on Monday published an open letter calling for a ban on autonomous weapons—machines capable of killing without human operators—to prevent a “virtually inevitable” high-stakes global arms race. Among the signatories are physicist and professor Stephen Hawking, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, among many others….