Month: September 2020

A group of over two dozen House Republicans on Wednesday barged into a secure room in the U.S. Capitol building ahead of a closed-door deposition and delayed the testimony of Pentagon official Laura Cooper, a witness in House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. “The GOP members who protested the Cooper deposition have essentially shut down the impeachment…

Sen. Bernie Sanders was joined at a Climate Crisis Summit in Des Moines Saturday afternoon by author Naomi Klein, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and other influential figures in the grassroots effort to pass a Green New Deal and achieve environmental justice for all. Ahead of the summit, Klein said on Twitter that she was planning at…

House Democrats approved on Friday a sweeping elections reform measure that would reshape campaign finance rules, impose new voter registration requirements and compel presidential candidates to release their personal tax returns. The legislation, H.R. 1, is in many ways a direct response to what Democrats have alleged is potential impropriety on the part of President…

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 (D-Minn.), who…

Ex-Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) has named a former top Obama aide to manage his presidential campaign. Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, who served as former President Obama’s deputy campaign manager in 2012, confirmed to The New York Times on Monday that she would be taking on the new role. O’Malley Dillon has worked on five presidential races, according to…

November 15, 2012 at Mitchell, SD Dakota Wesleyan 22, St. Olaf 18 125: Wesley Azariah (SO) pinned Zach Nelson (DWU) 6:14 133: Richard Rios (DWU pinned Nicholas Chrisner (SO) 0:43 141: Adam Woitalla (SO) dec. Karl Bell (DWU) 4-2 149: Thomas Mork (SO) dec. Brock Woehl (DWU), 2-0 157: Trever DeVestern (DWU) maj. dec Seth…

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot began to crumble to a tidal wave of pressure and criticism from the city’s striking teachers and their allies on Thursday and said she was willing work out a compromise on whether school make-up days will be included in the Chicago Teachers Union’s new contract following a two-week strike. The make-up days were…

Warning of grave threats to Americans’ privacy and demanding transparency in the name of public good, the national ACLU and its Massachusetts chapter filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Drug Enforcement Administration in an effort to unveil the agencies’ secretive use of facial…

A “bombshell” new report from The Wall Street Journal describes a secret project from Google and healthcare giant Ascension to store data on millions of Americans, a move that critics of the tech conglomerate decried as another example of overreach. “When will someone go to jail?” wondered mathematician and musician David C. Lowery. “That would stop this shit…

A United Nations report released Wednesday warns that worldwide projections for fossil fuel production over the next decade indicate that the international community is on track to fail to rein in planet-heating emissions and prevent climate catastrophe. “This important report shows that governments’ projected and planned levels of coal, oil, and gas production are dangerously…