Since the pandemic began, the United States has spent 7.5 times more money on nuclear weapons than on global vaccine donations. Stated another way, the money put towards global vaccine donations has amounted to just 13% of the money put toward nuclear weapons. The comparison shows that, even during a shared international crisis, in which an ou...
Parents forcibly separated from their children during then-President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration crackdown continue to suffer enduring trauma and should be justly compensated by a Biden administration that’s instead defending its predecessor in court, according to a report published Tuesday by a prominen...
The Biden administration on Wednesday appealed a federal judge’s ruling that struck down a mask mandate for public transportation. Following the ruling of a Florida-based judge appointed by former President Donald Trump that terminated the mask mandate on Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said has said that it would appeal the...
The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday granted a temporary stay of execution to a condemned prisoner who was set to be the first in the state to be killed by firing squad. The Associated Press reports the Columbia court paused the state’s scheduled April 29 killing of 57-year-old Richard Bernard Moore, who was found guilty of the ...
More than five dozen advocacy groups on Wednesday pressured Congress to cut off U.S. military support for the Saudi-led war and blockade on Yemen, highlighting that it “has helped cause the deaths of nearly half a million people and pushed millions more to the edge of starvation.” The groups’ letter to Congress — led by Churc...
According to a top aide’s campaign memo seen by The Washington Post, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has not ruled out a third bid for the White House if President Joe Biden does not run in 2024. “In the event of an open 2024 Democratic presidential primary, Sen. Sanders has not ruled out another run for […]
Following anger over disclosures that Amazon reached out to Global Strategy Group, a renowned Democratic polling firm, to aid its union-busting effort in New York City, the Democratic Party’s governing board is reportedly exploring a strategy to bar its consultants from anti-union action. According to a report in Politico, “a union...
On Tuesday, immigration justice campaigners demanded that federal lawmakers reject a legislative measure dubbed the “Stephen Miller bill” that would formalize a regulation that has resulted in the expulsion of more than 1.7 million asylum seekers since the start of the Covid-19 outbreak. The proposal, officially known as the Public...
A federal court on Monday declared that a lawsuit seeking to bar Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from Congress for her involvement in the January 6 Capitol Insurrection can go forward, allowing Georgia voters to challenge the Republican’s reelection attempt under the 14th Amendment. Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the United St...
A report released on Monday stated that CEOs of some of the country’s major corporations made 254 times more than their median employees in 2021, as executive bonuses and stock awards increased remarkably. According to the most recent edition of the Equilar 100, an annual analysis that examines executive pay at large U.S. corporations, m...
