Month: September 2020

Former Rep. Beto O’RourkeBeto O’RourkeBiden will help close out Texas Democrats’ virtual convention: report O’Rourke on Texas reopening: ‘Dangerous, dumb and weak’ Parties gear up for battle over Texas state House MORE (D-Texas) is not running for Senate again but likely will announce a presidential bid soon, The Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday, citing sources close to O’Rourke.  […]

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Rep. Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardGabbard drops defamation lawsuit against Clinton It’s as if a Trump operative infiltrated the Democratic primary process 125 lawmakers urge Trump administration to support National Guard troops amid pandemic MORE (D-Hawaii) said Sunday that she believes Americans don’t know “how rampant sexual assault in the military is” because there is still a “fear […]

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Democratic presidential hopefuls this fall will participate in an LGBTQ issues forum hosted by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. The event is scheduled for Oct. 10, the day before National Coming Out Day, and will have the same participant eligibility threshold the Democratic National Committee is using to determine who […]

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Sen. Amy KlobucharAmy KlobucharHillicon Valley: Biden calls on Facebook to change political speech rules | Dems demand hearings after Georgia election chaos | Microsoft stops selling facial recognition tech to police Democrats demand Republican leaders examine election challenges after Georgia voting chaos Harris grapples with defund the police movement amid veep talk MORE, one of […]

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Approximately 100 mothers and their babies blockaded the entrance to Google’s London headquarters on Wednesday to demand the online giant stop “funding climate change deniers.” Click Here: camiseta boca juniors The action was just one of a number that Extinction Rebellion activists staged in London on Wednesday—in defiance of a “chilling” city-wide protest ban—as they […]

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Columnist E. Jean Carroll filed suit Monday against President Donald Trump for defamation. “Decades ago, the now president of the United States raped me,” Carroll said in a statement released Monday. “When I had the courage to speak out about the attack, he defamed my character, accused me of lying for personal gain, even insulted […]

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Acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor testified Wednesday during the first public House hearing on impeachment that a member of his staff overheard a phone call in which President Donald Trump personally demanded information about “the investigations” he pressured Ukraine’s leader to launch. Trump’s conversation with U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, […]

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A viral animated video posted to Twitter Tuesday shows Microsoft CEO Bill Gates’s astronomical wealth compared with middle-class salaries, the wealth of other considerably rich Americans, and a number of major public services which Gates could easily pay for using just a tiny fraction of his assets. According to the data cited by the user who created […]

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Big polluters must pay for their role in creating the climate crisis, campaigners said Wednesday as the United Nations hosted its 25th annual Conference of the Parties (COP 25) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. “For decades, big polluters have gone to any lengths to block, weaken, and delay policy,” Pascoe Sabido, researcher […]

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Mother Nature: 1.  President Donald Trump: 0. That’s the scorecard from the southern border after gusts of wind of up to 37 miles per hour took down a section of the president’s much-vaunted border wall in Calexio, California.  The steel wall sections that toppled under the winds, which fell in the Beaufort Scale as “moderate […]

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