Here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today: TOP STORIES Meet the ‘Dreamers’ Jirayut “New” Latthivongskorn graduated from UC Berkeley with honors, earned a master’s degree from Harvard in public health and a doctor of medicine from UC San Francisco. Gurkaran Singh is still in college but already runs a real estate business. Karla Estrada […]
As more than 90 of the world’s major banks meet in Brazil on Monday, indigenous people and climate activists have launched a three-day international #DivestTheGlobe movement to encourage people and institutions to stop using banks that invest in constructing dirty energy infrastructure like oil and gas pipelines. “Big oil, multinational corporations, and their financial backers […]
The political crisis on the Iberian peninsula continued to escalate on Friday when the Spanish state moved to impose direct rule over Catalonia following an overwhelming vote by the northeastern region’s parliament to declare independence. The upper house of the Spanish parliament gave the OK to Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to invoke the never-before-used Article […]
In a sign of growing opposition to the recently approved resolution, a group of Israeli Holocaust survivors has urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to “allow suffering and torture of people under [Israel’s] protection” and to toss out the country’s plan to expel tens of thousands of African asylum seekers. In their letter sent Thursday, […]
Building on the massive march against the expansion of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline that brought 10,000 people to the streets of British Columbia last weekend, Indigenous leaders and their allies staged a sit-in on Saturday at a pipeline construction site on Burnaby Mountain, kicking off a wave of civil disobedience that is set to […]
As Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) put on a “genuinely unhinged” performance during Thursday’s Senate hearing with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford—constantly interrupting Democratic senators and repeatedly inserting self-serving rants between questioning—more than 50 Iowa-based and national groups representing hundreds of thousands of Americans sent a letter denouncing Grassley’s “failed leadership” and demanding that he immediately resign […]
In case you hadn’t heard, Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez are in love. And on love. And next to love. The star couple posed around a “LOVE” sculpture together, and we think the subtext is pretty clear here. Alex Rodriguez / Instagram A-Rod posted the photo of them on Instagram on Sunday with the caption […]
You’re definitely not the only one who sings in the bathroom. On Tuesday, Ariana Grande offered a kind reminder that when an iconic tune is stuck in your head, there’s only one thing to do: sing. The 24-year-old pop diva took to Instagram to share a memorable video of herself singing in the bathroom. In the black […]
Last week, on July 26, the United States House of Representatives passed the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, which will then go on to the U.S. Senate and finally to the U.S. president. It is worthwhile to note that 139 Democrats, including the entire Democratic Party leadership, voted for this bill. This Act provides the […]
Less than a month after giving birth to daughter, Bodhi, Nikki Reed is already back on the fitness train. Her workout of choice? Acro-yoga, as demonstrated in a new post on Instagram. In the inspiring snap, the new mom flaunts her ripped abs in a sweat-breaking pose with her brother. And her tummy isn’t the only muscle she has tightened during the weeks following postpartum. Wearing only […]