Second correctional officer pleads guilty to assaulting handcuffed inmate
“Damaging repercussions are felt across our community and beyond whenever a sworn officer violates the civil rights of a person in their charge.”
Trump administration proposes excluding noncitizens from 2030 census count
The plan would also strip race, ethnicity and sexual orientation questions from the count that decides how many House seats each state gets.
US-Canada trade war deepens as Trump revives Depression-era trade tool – what’s at stake...
Trump’s use of a trade tool created during the Great Depression helped trigger a trade war between the two border countries, with few signs of de-escalation in sight.
Texas report projects data center growth would push air pollution back toward 2000s levels
The governor's September permit freeze runs until the state grid operator finishes an audit, as groups sue over generators at two San Antonio sites
The New Battle of Seattle
While fossil-fuel corporations are exploring the world’s oil, protesters in Seattle are banding together to stop Shell’s plans to drill for oil in the Arctic. And they don't plan on backing down to these catastrophic effects on climate change.
Monsanto Hits All the Wrong Notes
In his new album called "The Monsanto Years," Neil Young takes on the the corporate giant for its relentless attempts to profiteer at human expense. And there is no intimidating, buying out, censoring, or escaping this cultural power.
The Great Unraveling
Such labels as “liberal” and “conservative” are meaningless in the neoliberal order. Political elites, Democrat or Republican, serve the demands of corporations and empire in our system of “inverted totalitarianism.”
A ‘buyback’ for our future?
“Corporate profits should be shared with the workers who actually create them.”
Ebola outbreak in Congo nears 10,000 confirmed cases as first vaccine trial begins
The Bundibugyo strain has no approved vaccine or specific treatment, and confirmed cases now extend to Kenya and Nigeria.
Top Five Things Congress Should Investigate Instead of Benghazi (Video)
There are real problems with U.S. policies and actual places where wrongdoings have occurred. Juan Cole suggests five investigations Congress should focus on rather than Benghazi.