Month: September 2020

More than 3,000 Google employees have signed a letter that’s circulating in the company demanding that the tech giant end its involvement in Project Maven, a Pentagon program that could be used to develop drone technology. The project, the workers argue, runs counter to the company’s stated mission and motto. Click Here: cd universidad catolica…

The United Nations secretary general added his voice on Thursday to the international call urging President Donald Trump to maintain the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, days before the president is expected to announce his decision on the agreement. “I believe the [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)] was an important diplomatic victory and I…

Democratic strategists fear a pending catastrophe in California, where so many Democrats are running for Republican-held House seats that they’re threatening to box the party out of general election races. Now Democrats are spending precious resources to boost turnout, hoping that their embarrassment of candidates does not turn out to be a straight-up embarrassment. Party…

Pete d’Alessandro (D), a former campaign aide to Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersThe Hill’s 12:30 Report: Milley apologizes for church photo-op Harris grapples with defund the police movement amid veep talk Biden courts younger voters — who have been a weakness MORE (I-Vt.), on Tuesday was defeated in the Democratic Primary in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District.  D’Alessandro…

Rhode Island’s state Senate passed a bill this week that would keep candidates off the presidential ballot in their state if they don’t release five years’ worth of tax returns, according to the Providence Journal. State Sen. Gayle Goldin (D), who sponsored the bill, noted that every presidential candidate since Richard Nixon had released their…

This is a breaking news story and may be updated. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen told a federal judge on Monday that he had just three clients in the past year—the president, GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy, and a “mystery” client whose name he really did not want to divulge. The secrecy didn’t last…

Taking the stage on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, high school student David Hogg offered hundreds of thousands of audience members a visual representation of his reasons for helping to organize the March for Our Lives, a worldwide gun control advocacy demonstration. “I’m going to start off by putting this price tag…

White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney has already admitted that he sold access to lobbyists as a member of Congress, but now Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is demanding to know whether he’s doing the same as acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), given that “almost every major decision he’s made” at the…

In his first speech as Costa Rica’s new president, Carlos Alvarado Quesada announced this week a plan to make the country the world’s first carbon-free society in just a few short years. Alvarado called the goal “titanic” but expressed confidence that the forward-thinking country could eliminate the use of fossil fuels in its transportation system…

Two social and economic justice movements converged on Tuesday as Fight for 15 and the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund lodged sexual harassment complaints against McDonald’s on behalf of 10 employees of the fast food chain. “McDonald’s advertises all over television saying it’s ‘America’s best first job,’ but my experience has been a nightmare,” said…