Month: October 2020

The attack on Yemen will continue until Shiite Houthi rebels in that country “withdraw and surrender their weapons,” a coalition of Arab leaders announced Sunday at the conclusion of the Arab League Summit, held in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh this weekend. Leaders of the 14 member states—which include the Gulf States, Sudan, […]

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Rep. Donna Edwards, who’s running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), pledged on Thursday not to take Wall Street money for her campaign. In an email sent to supporters Thursday by the Howard Dean-founded Democracy for America, Edwards states: Click Here: Cardiff Blues Store Edwards, the first member of the […]

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In addition to vacuuming up troves of emails, web searches, and other written records, the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) had devised a way to collect spoken communication as well, according to documents from the leaked archive of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and reported on Tuesday by The Intercept. In a top secret government […]

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The fossil fuel industry receives $5.3 trillion a year in government subsidies, despite its disastrous toll on the environment, human health, and other global inequality issues, a new report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published Monday has found. That means that governments worldwide are spending $10 million every minute to fund energy companies—more than […]

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92-year-old Violet Palmer of Denton, Texas said she was moved to act after the state, overriding the will of the people, passed a law forbidding municipalities from enacting fracking bans. On Tuesday, Palmer, her 64-year-old son Theron, and a small group of activists were arrested for protesting at the gates of the first new drilling […]

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OTTAWA — The cost to consumers of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s keystone environmental policy will have to rise if the country is to meet its Paris climate accord goals, the parliamentary budget office says, just as the country may be finally pulling itself out of a historic recession. The question is how much the federal […]

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau waded gently — very gently — into the divisive U.S. presidential election Thursday, while strongly suggesting he would rather talk about how Canadians are faring amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “I think we are certainly all hoping for a smooth transition or a clear result from the election, like many people are […]

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OTTAWA — A new Statistics Canada report that paints a picture of widespread sexual misconduct at the country’s prestigious military colleges is prompting fresh criticism as well as promises of action more than six years after the Canadian Armed Forces first committed to rooting such behaviour from the ranks. The report follows a survey of […]

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Supporters of 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 and Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersThe Hill’s 12:30 Report: Milley apologizes for church photo-op Harris […]

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