With “utter dismay,” the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced Tuesday that the symbolic Doomsday Clock will hold at three minutes to midnight—at the “brink” of man-made apocalypse—because world leaders have failed to take the necessary steps to protect citizens from the grave threats of nuclear war and runaway climate change. Click Here: Putters “Three […]
Democratic presidential contenders Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will face off Thursday night at 9 pm EDT in a critical debate ahead of the April 19 New York primary. CNN says the debate in Brooklyn—the fifth one-on-one between Sanders and Clinton, but the first since Miami on March 9th—”could be the feistiest yet.” #DemDebate Tweets […]
Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) is calling on Greg Gianforte, a GOP House candidate in Montana, to apologize after Gianforte allegedly assaulted a reporter on Wednesday night. “Greg Gianforte needs to apologize,” Daines said on Twitter. Greg Gianforte needs to apologize. — Steve Daines (@SteveDaines) May 25, 2017 Daines has campaigned for Gianforte, who is running […]
STOCKHOLM — British scientist Michael Houghton, who works at the University of Alberta, and Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. Announcing the prize in Stockholm, the Nobel Committee noted that the trio’s work helped […]
Drawing outrage from many sides, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee decided in a closed door meeting on Tuesday afternoon to deny hearings or a vote on a Supreme Court nominee in 2016. “This committee will not hold hearings on any Supreme Court nominee until after our next president is sworn in on Jan. 20, […]
President Barack Obama’s 2017 budget, released Tuesday, includes a proposal to cut more than a third of a billion dollars from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) state water funding program, just weeks after the president declared a state of emergency over Flint, Michigan’s water crisis. The budget proposes slashing $370 million, or 11 percent, […]
Dr. Quentin Young, the Chicago-based physician who cared for Martin Luther King, Jr., Studs Terkel, and President Barack Obama and was described as “perhaps the nation’s most eloquent and high-profile spokesperson for single-payer national health insurance” in the United States, died Monday surrounded by family. He was 92. “I’ve spent a lifetime trying to help […]
The world’s biggest coral reef ecosystem is experiencing “severe” bleaching as a result of climate change, environmental groups and Australian government officials are warning. According to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, recent underwater surveys have detected “substantial levels of coral mortality” in remote far north areas of the reef, due in part to […]
Greenland’s ice sheet has started melting so early that scientists initially thought their models had broken when they saw the record-breaking measurements. Melt in Greenland, over this wide an area, this early in the season, is not supposed to happen.—Climate scientist Mike MacFarrin “To say the 2016 Greenland melt season is off to the races […]
The judge in charge of military tribunals at Guantánamo Bay allegedly colluded with prosecutors to hide evidence that supported the defense of suspected 9/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, “irreparably” harming his case, according to a court document obtained by the Guardian on Tuesday. The accusation could be the impetus to reform the highly controversial tribunals […]