Month: October 2020

Handing a victory for President Barack Obama and the Affordable Care Act—as well as millions of people who gained more affordable healthcare under the law—the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that individuals who get their health insurance through an exchange established by the federal government will continue to be eligible for tax subsidies. The…

More than half of voters in seven key 2018 battleground states are concerned about President Trump’s Cabinet nominees, according to a poll commissioned by a progressive group and released Thursday. Overall, 59 percent of voters in the seven states said they were “somewhat” or “very” concerned that Trump’s picks would “result in conflicts of interest that…

As relief and rescue efforts continue in Nepal following an earthquake which killed more than 2,200 people on Saturday, people in the region were forced to seek safety on Sunday after a substantial 6.7 magnitude aftershock hit the Himalayan nation. According to the Associated Press: SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT In a dispatch from Nepal,…

A Texas man who won a controversial $350,000 auction last year for a permit to kill a black rhinoceros on Monday felled one of the endangered giants in Namibia, prompting immediate condemnation from conservation groups and experts who say the slaughter sets a dangerous precedent. The kill by 36-year-old Corey Knowlten, who hails from Dallas,…

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden should be credited with helping change U.S. surveillance law, Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, said Monday in an interview with The Guardian. “It’s interesting to see that the first time… this mass surveillance that’s been going on is subjected to a genuine debate, it didn’t stand up,”…

In a move viewed as further evidence of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ continued momentum in the polls and among potential voters in the 2016 presidential election, some Hillary Clinton supporters have gone on the offense against the self-described democratic socialist. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), a Clinton backer, launched what The Hill described as “the sharpest attack…

After more than two months of war and an increasingly dire humanitarian crisis that has become lost in the global news cycle, independent journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous reports Tuesday from the ground in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa  to offer an up-close look at the devastation. Speaking with Democracy Now! on Tuesday, Kouddous warned that…

The UK government on Tuesday handed out dozens of new drilling licenses to energy companies looking to launch fracking operations in the country’s rural areas, just days after officials imbued ministers with new powers to fast-track fossil fuel exploration against residents’ wishes. The Oil and Gas Authority issued 27 new drilling licenses to 12 energy…

President Trump is willing to help the GOP in April’s nationally watched Georgia special election “if needed,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Wednesday. But Spicer stayed noncommittal about whether Trump would actually campaign or offer other concrete support on the high-profile race to fill the House seat last held by Tom Price, now…

On the eve of a once-in-a-decade White House Conference on Aging (WHCOA)—and in the face of what they describe as the “impending retirement savings crisis facing this nation”—a group of 70 Democratic lawmakers led by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) on Sunday called on President Barack Obama to expand Social Security…