Monday, November 9, 2026

Drunken Secret Service Agents Crash into White House Barricade

Secret Service agents Mark Connolly and George Ogilvie were returning from drinking and celebrating the retirement of departing Secret Service spokesman Edwin Donovan. While driving drunk through the police tape and interrupting an active investigation, the agents crashed into a temporary barricade in their government vehicle.

Five biggest border lies debunked

Republicans are lying about immigrants and the border.

When AI assists workers, it is displacing them

The discussion of AI continues to be almost otherworldly.

Labor Day 2017: Working families move closer to paid parental leave

For the nation’s poor working parents, the absence of paid leave is only the visible top of an iceberg of workplace challenges.

1,000+ rhinos poached in South Africa for fourth straight year

Together, we need to commit to long-term demand reduction efforts to protect rhinos.

Families rally to end police raids in NYC public housing

Over the last few years, the New York City Police Department has collaborated with various federal agencies to conduct militarized raids in multiple New York City Housing Authority public housing developments around the city.

In California’s Imperial Valley, residents aren’t waiting for government to track pollution

For marginalized communities along the California-Mexico border, projects to gather and share scientific reports are crucial to holding agencies accountable.

5 ways to support courageous nonviolent resistance in Ukraine

Government and civil society can take immediate action to break the dynamic of violence and build a more sustainable just peace in Ukraine.

Feeling the “pulse of Europe,” tens of thousands are protesting to save the E.U.

Demonstrators say their first taste of activism for the French election has inspired them to carry on.

VICTORY: Washington DC Raises Minimum Wage to $15

Several other cities have passed minimum wage laws, promising to have a minimum wage of $15 an hour by 2020 or 2021.