Month: September 2020

Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Netflix have collectively dodged over $100 billion in global taxes so far this decade, according to an analysis released Monday by a U.K.-based tax transparency campaign group. Later this week, the Fair Tax Mark plans to publish its full report on the tax conduct of the companies, entitled The…

Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign announced Thursday that it raised a “staggering” $34.5 million from an average donation of just $18.53 in the fourth quarter of 2019, the largest single-quarter fundraising haul of any candidate in the Democratic primary so far. “Bernie Sanders is closing the year with the most donations of any candidate in…

Part of the crowd at a Trump rally in Michigan started chanting “AOC sucks,” referencing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAlexandria Ocasio-CortezAttorney says 75-year-old man shoved by Buffalo police suffered brain injury How language is bringing down Donald Trump Highest-circulation Kentucky newspaper endorses Charles Booker in Senate race MORE (D-N.Y.), after Donald Trump Jr.Don John TrumpTrump Jr. calls…

Pete ButtigiegPete ButtigiegScaled-back Pride Month poses challenges for fundraising, outreach Biden hopes to pick VP by Aug. 1 It’s as if a Trump operative infiltrated the Democratic primary process MORE, the Democratic mayor of South Bend, Ind., hinted early Thursday that he will formally declare his 2020 presidential candidacy later this month, revealing on Twitter that…

Stacey Abrams says Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerChuck SchumerOvernight Health Care: US showing signs of retreat in battle against COVID-19 | Regeneron begins clinical trials of potential coronavirus antibody treatment | CMS warns nursing homes against seizing residents’ stimulus checks Schumer requests briefing with White House coronavirus task force as cases rise Schumer on Trump’s tweet about 75-year-old…

Sen. Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisRand Paul introduces bill to end no-knock warrants The Hill’s Campaign Report: Biden campaign goes on offensive against Facebook McEnany says Juneteenth is a very ‘meaningful’ day to Trump MORE (D-Calif.) expressed regret for some consequences of a state truancy law she championed as San Francisco district attorney in a Pod…

November 17, 2012 at Kearney, NE Brackets/Results at TrackWrestling.com Elite – 125 1st: Tim Lambert (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) won by decision over Gerald Huff (Adams State College) (Dec 8-3) 3rd: Josh Martinez (United State Air Force ) won by pin over Tyler Cox (University of Wyoming) (Pin 2:36) 5th: Tj North (Augustana College) won by…

Swedish teen environmental activist Greta Thunberg on Wednesday was named TIME magazine’s 2019 Person of the Year for her role in sparking a global youth-led movement that has brought millions into the streets to pressure governments to act on the climate crisis. TIME editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal told NBC‘s “Today” that Thunberg, at just 16 years old,…

Sen. Bernie Sanders made a full-throated case for universal programs that leave no one behind during the 2020 Democratic presidential debate Thursday, favorably contrasting proposals like Medicare for All and tuition-free public college with complicated means-tested alternatives offered by rival candidates that would render large swaths of the population ineligible on the basis of income….

Top Democrats in Congress are pointing to a bombshell report published Thursday by Just Security about unredacted emails that “tell the behind-the-scenes story of the defense and budget officials who had to carry out the president’s unexplained hold on military aid to Ukraine” as the latest evidence of the need for the GOP-controlled U.S. Senate…