Eleven states are suing the Obama administration over its recent directive requiring public schools to grant transgender students access to bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identity. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced the lawsuit Wednesday on Twitter and NBC News reports that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican “who was charged with […]
Click:three piece forged wheels Climate advocates are praising the Chinese government’s new dietary guidelines designed to cut meat consumption in half—which would reduce the country’s livestock-related carbon emissions by 1 billion tons by 2030. Li Junfeng, director general of China’s National Center on Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation, said that if China’s population of […]
After coming up just short in a handful of high-stakes special elections this year, Democrats once again find themselves hoping for a big win in a critical swing district this November — a seat that could change the partisan makeup of an entire state. The battle for a state Senate district in suburban Seattle is […]
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Testing the endurance of the proverbial ‘camel’s back’ on Tuesday, many mainstream Republicans claimed to have reached their threshold of blatantly discriminatory remarks made by the anointed party nominee, Donald Trump. Throughout his campaign, the New York billionaire has insulted entire sectors of people, from Mexicans and Muslims to women and people with disabilities. Despite […]
As Europe comes to terms with a Brexit vote fueled in large part by anti-immigrant hate-mongering, a new report exposes how war profiteers are influencing EU policy to make money from unending Middle East conflicts as well as the wave of refugees created by that same instability and violence. The report (pdf), , released jointly by […]
The U.K. House of Commons on Monday voted to renew the Trident nuclear weapons system, 472-117. As the BBC explains, “the MPs’ vote approves the manufacture of four replacement submarines at a current estimated cost of £31bn”—though campaigners have put the cost much higher. “Which part of the non-proliferation treaty do they not understand?” wondered […]
The hits keep coming for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the disgraced former chair of the Democratic National Committee, as new polling released on Sunday found that her once-longshot challenger Tim Canova is swiftly closing the gap in the primary race for her House seat. According to FloridaPolitics.com, the survey released by the Canova campaign […]
Parts of Louisiana’s disastrous, ongoing flooding has been upgraded by meteorologists to once-in-1,000-years rainfall, with other areas classified as 500-year and 100-year events, nola.com reported Monday, as scientists warn that such storms are growing more and more frequent as the planet heats up. “On Tuesday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is set to […]
President Trump tweeted his support for Alabama Sen. Luther StrangeLuther Johnson StrangeThe biggest political upsets of the decade State ‘certificate of need’ laws need to go GOP frets over nightmare scenario for Senate primaries MORE (R) on Wednesday, just days before he is set to visit the state to stump for Strange in the Republican primary […]