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[edit] September 2016
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | A Juvenile Law Center report finds that poor children are often locked up when can't pay juvenile court fees. (The report itself.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Millions of Indian workers strike for better wages. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | The Santa Clara police union has threatened that they may stop working San Francisco 49ers' home games over Colin Kaepernick's protest. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 3 | Calais refugee camp running out of food amid donor fatigue. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | South Carolina hosts its 27th annual pride festival. And for the very first time, there are no protestors. Progress! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Ken Ham's Ark Encounter does not seem to be meeting its attendance goals. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | The FBI has released Hillary Clinton's email investigation documents. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Georgetown University will offer preferential admission to descendants of slaves. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | The FDA has ordered that all antibacterials must be removed from consumer soaps. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | David Sneddon, a BYU student who went missing in China in 2004, has been found to have been kidnapped by North Korea in order to teach English to Kim Jong-un. (Autoplay video) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | A leaked memo from Nancy Pelosi in 2015 tells House Democrats to not support concrete policies from BLM. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Tasmanian Devils may be rapidly evolving to resist a deadly face cancer. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Protests have erupted in San Juan, Puerto Rico over the institution of the unelected economic control board. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | DAESH has claimed responsibility for the shooting of two police officers by a Bosnian-Dane in Copenhagen. Police are still investigating if it was a drug-related crime the group is prematurely taking credit for. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | A Royal Marine has been charged with manufacturing and storing explosives across England and Northern Ireland for use by Irish terrorist groups. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Islam Karimov, President of Uzbekistan, has died. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | In his new Memoirs, former Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg accuses Britain's former Chancellor of the Exchequer of admittedly discriminating against poorer people in welfare and housing cuts because of their tendency to vote Labour. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Court upholds ban on gun sales to medical marijuana card holders. |
[edit] August 2016
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | A woman charged with child abuse is using Indiana's Religious Freedom law as a legal defense. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | A Ukrainian pogrom against the Roma have forced dozens to flee. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Albquerque police continue to ignore New Mexico's law against civil asset forfeiture. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | A Black teen was run down by a white supremacist after a violent confrontation in Gresham, Oregon. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Israel has approved the construction of 464 settlement homes in West Bank and is queitly legalizing pirate outposts. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Meet the worst cocaine smugglers of all time. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Insulin is the latest drug to become unaccesible to the poor. (Autoplay video) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | Ohio's aborting restrictions made women less safe. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Where the death penalty is still heavily used in the US. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | DAESH second-in-command, head of propaganda, and leader of oversees terrorist operations, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani has been confirmed dead in a Coalition bombing in the Aleppo governorate. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 36 | A protestor tried to film police roughing up another protestor at a 'Black Lives Matter' rally. Police took his recording phone. When he called at a police station to get it back, they locked him up for 15 hours. He's due in court on Sept 9th 2016. James Croft needs donations to cover legal costs and clear his name. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 29 | Oklahoma police tased an unarmed Black man and pepper sprayed his inocent 84-year-old grandma, possibly endangering her life. All that was because the man ran a stop sign. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 34 | One of the biggest crime waves in the US is being committed by employers. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | NASA says that the Earth is warming at a pace unprecedented in 1,000 years. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | The Obama Administration has reached its goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees. And no, refugees are unlikely to commit more crime. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | The DEA will classify Kratom as a Schedule 1 drug. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | SETI has observed a strong signal that may originate from a Sun-like star but probably isn't space aliens. The signal could just contain useful information that we can't decode. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Protests have begun in Kargoorlie, Western Australia after a white man killed an Aborigine teen for allegedly stealing a bike. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | Teen births in the US is plummeting, and the reason will shock you! Not really, it's just access to contraceptives. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | Mother believes daughter is possessed, forces crucifix down daughter's throat and kills her. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | The European Commission rules that Apple's tax benefits in Ireland are illegal and orders Apple to pay Ireland $14.5 billion plus interests. Both the corporation and the country have promised to appeal the decision. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 30 | A Catholic hospital refused to remove an IUD from a bleeding woman. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | The evidence of fracking’s health effects keeps mounting. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | FBI-owned Megaupload.org serves up porn and sex ads. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | European copyright leak exposes plans to force the Internet to subsidize publishers. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | The unabashedly racist White Lives Matter will be listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (Autoplay video) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | It ain't just Stalin being sanitised. Dictatorship denial is on the rise in Argentina |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | The TTIP has likely died. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Deadly heat in US prisons is killing inmates because prisons refuse to take actions to mitigate the dangerous temperature. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 40 | University of Chicago tells freshmen it does not support trigger warnings. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | Almost a year after Texas passes a 'Campus Carry' law which allows concealed carry of firearms in public colleges, UT students stage a protest - by publicly carrying sex toys around on the first day of the new semester. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Police in Zimbabwe have begun to crack down on protestors by hitting them with batons, tear gas, and water cannons. (Autoplay video) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Stingray documents offer rare insight into police and FBI surveillance. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | The IDF might be conducting a kneecapping campaign in the West Bank. The military clears itself of wrongdoing over 2014 Gaza air strikes. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | Just 90 companies are responsible for most of the Earth's carbon emissions. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | A judge gives a high school athlete probation for two rape charges while a Wisconsin wrestling coach says he was fired for reporting sexual assault allegations to the police. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | The ADL took US cops to Israeli prison, occupied Hebron, and settler winery during counter-terror seminar. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | A study by the London Business School finds that lawmakers overseeing Wall Street are given bigger, more favorable loans than others on similarly powerful committees. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Black and Hispanic people are enemies of the state, at least if that state is Maine. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Like abstinence, robot babies are not an effective form of birth control |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Paul LePage leaves vulgar and homophobic voicemail. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | In the Philippines, a peace deal ends a 48-year Communist insurgency. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Five men from Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent in the UK's Black Country have been arrested on suspicion of plotting to commit acts of terror. An Army bomb disposal unit has been ordered into the region to search properties. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Extended sessions of posting on the internet makes you worse at posting on the internet. At least on reddit. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | The US military has confirmed that Abu Al-Baghdadi was held at Abu Ghraib. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | German police dismisses that neo-Nazis were responsible for the murders of several Turkish immigrants, despite suggestions of a link. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Median income is down, but public college tuition is way up. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 34 | A black homeowner called 911 to report a carjacking; he is then mistaken as the suspect and shot in the stomach. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | America’s bail system punishes poor people even if they're innocent of any crime. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Officials are cracking down on Native American protestors in North Dakota. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Secret cameras record Baltimore's every move from above. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Because being a woman on the Internet is a crime, actress Leslie Jones has her personal website compromised and filled with explicit and racist content and personal information. (The website has since been taken offline.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Turkish military, with U.S. air support, makes incursion into Syria to aid anti-Daesh rebels. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -3 | Jeremy Corbyn sat on the floor of a Virgin Train claiming public ownership could fix the underlying problem now there is debate on whether the train actually was "ram-packed" as Corbyn claims or it was all a PR stunt as Virgin claims |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Three British Muslims were marched off their Easyjet flights because their text messages were believed to be "ISIS materials". |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 30 | Earth-sized planet discovered orbiting closest star to the Sun. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | 6.2-magnitude earthquake strikes central Italy. Over 100 confirmed dead, many villages devastated. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -11 | Worshipping the Flying Spaghetti Monster is not a real religion, US court rules |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | If stoned rats get enough reward to get by while jumping through fewer hoops, we ought to applaud their wisdom and model our own lives after their wholesome pattern. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | Andrea Tantaros has now filed a lawsuit against Fox News, implicating not only Roger Ailes but also Bill O'Reilly and former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown, who is a frequent Fox contributor. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Ramen is displacing tobacco as most popular US prison currency because of cost cutting measures by private facilities. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | A proposed California bill could criminalize media reporting of undercover videos. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Forensics shows that Turkish investigative journalist Barış Pehlivan was framed for terrorism. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 2 | More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state were donors to the Clinton Foundation. New emails also show that consultants also raised cash for Hillary while she was the Secretary of State. Clinton also approved weapon sales to Bahrain as they were violently surpressed protests after they gave $32 million dollars to her family Foundation. Update: A roundup of investigations on the Clinton Foundation. (Autoplay video) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Sheldon Adelson is funding a group run by Horowitz in order to smear pro-Palestinians activists. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | The NLRB rules that graduate students are employees and can therefore unionize. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Syria has given up control of Hasakah to the Kurds while China has agreed to join Russia and Iran's coalition. Meanwhile, Turkey has shelled Kurdish controlled Manbij in order to deter them from moving westward towards Jarablus. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Ted Lieu is leading the charge on trying to end the US's support for Saudia Arabia. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | North Carolina police killed an unarmed deaf man while he tried communicating to them using sign language. (Autoplay video) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | UK to scrap Human Rights Act in favour of British Bill of Rights. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | Look, the gender pay gap exists (18% UK), most among higher educated women, and increases after having kids. Who knew? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | Residents in West Calumet, East Chicago, Indiana are being relocated because the EPA has found that their community has a dangerosly high amount of lead and arsenic comtaminating their community. The community was kept in the dark about the lead contamination that their community was built on. TYT did several interviews with local residents. (Videos) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs has killed approxiametly 1,800 people, Filipino senators have started an investigation into said killings. After the UN criticized the war, Duterte threatened to leave the organization but quickly reneged. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | A federal appeals court in the District of Columbia circuit reinstated a case challenging the Bureau of Prisons’ use of secretive and experimental prison units known as communications management units. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | White supremacists show up outside the Houston NAACP office to tell us how white people are the real victims in the U.S. (On the bright side, they were soon outnumbered by counterprotesters.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | First U.S. offshore wind farm is almost completed. Meanwhile, July was the hottest month on record, making it the tenth such month in a row, Antarctica continues to melt, and coastal villages in Alaska are having to relocate due to climate change. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -5 | German government urges its citizens to stockpile groceries as a preventive measure in case of an uncertain to happen, future terrorist attack. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | 51 people killed in suicide bombing in Turkey. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | The parents of a Pakistani-American special needs student at a Long Island middle school allege he was forced by school administrators to confess to being a terrorist after students bullied him. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act, signed into law by Mike Pence, is now being invoked to defend religious minorities. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | The Lakota have halted the construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Half of Wisconsin's Black neighborhoods are jails. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | People are being evicted from their homes for calling 911. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Whistleblower Jeffery Sterling is being denied life-sustaining medical care. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Israeli air strikes pound Gaza after rocket attack. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | An audit reveals that the US Army has been fudging its accounts by trillions of dollars. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Texas is planning to scale back prison sentences for people who can't afford their traffic tickets. Racially charged criticisms ensue. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | The largest detainee transfer from Guantanamo Bay under President Obama is underway. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | UKIP's glorious infighting |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | The Sad Puppies fail again at the 2016 Hugo awards |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | With the legalisation of homosexuality, Belize enters the 21st century. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | A transgender woman has been murdered in Turkey, which has the most murders of transgender people of any European country (in reports that count it as part of Europe). Who'd have thought a country ruled by Islamists would be unsafe for transgender people? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | Alabama will build a memorial to lynching victims. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Turkey has closed a pro-Kurdish daily and arrested two dozen journalist. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Syria's civil war:Assad's government has renewed its attacks against the Kurds. Human rights groups report that more than 17,000 people have died in Syria's jails. Omran Daqneesh, the Syrian boy rescued after a Russian bombing on Aleppo, brother has died. Meanwhile, Turkey vows to take a more active role in Syria and will work with Iran and Russia in order to achieve their goals. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Video shows an LAPD officer strangling a Black man to death. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Chris Christie has now signed legislation blacklisting groups associated with the BDS movement. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Corporate crimes: Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, will not pay US corporate taxes because he believes they are "unfair"; Aetna's CEO has threatened to pull out of Obamacare if the administration prevents his company from merging with Humana. Meanwhile, the SEC halted a massive $35 billion stock on suspicion of manipulation. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Top Indian hospitals are buying kidneys from poor villagers to sell to rich patients. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Workplace suicides are on the rise, globally. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | US soldiers are relying on millions of dollars in food stamps in order to survive. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Walmart is causing out of control crime. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Debt collectors may soon be able to buy your lawsuit. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Texas's legislature has awarded $1.6 million to the Heidi Group, a crisis pregnancy center. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | The US has found that Volkswagen acting criminally in their emissions scandal. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | A Michigan judge has ruled in favor of a funeral home that fired their employee because they were transgender. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | A federal appeals court in the District of Columbia upheld the dismissal of Mohammed Jawad's case; he was seeking justice for being tortured and detained at Guantanamo when he was 15. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Policing reforms: The Justice Department has denounced bail practices that result in unnecessary incarceration. Baltimore's PD has cut ties with a lawyer who had associations with Neo-Nazis. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | This is how people are being treated in Arizona's immigration detention centers. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Zika transmission confirmed in Miami Beach. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Chicago Police Department will seek to fire seven officers for filing false reports about an officer-involved shooting. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Police in Huntington, West Virginia responded to 26 heroin overdose calls within 4 hours on Monday. The U.S. death rate from drug overdoses has surpassed that of motor vehicle accidents. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | North Korea's number two UK diplomat defects to the South. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | Atheists Are Raising Funds to Help Flood Victims in Louisiana. Please Consider Chipping In! (Since they're not on charity navigator, brief summary, according to tax records Foundation Beyond Belief took in $439,000 in donations and gave out $440,000 in charitable grants in 2014) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 38 | The US makes one small step forward for basic common sense. Private prisons to be banned at the federal level. Most prisons are state rather than federal, but it's a good start. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 63 | Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, who has claimed that natural disasters are God's way to punish gays has his home destroyed by a natural disaster. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 29 | In a gold rush, the money is in selling shovels. How "nootropics" woo is sold to desperate Silicon Valley dot-com workers. You'll be next. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | Turkish post-coup round-ups continue as private businesses are raided for perceived associations with Gulenists. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 29 | The NSA has been hacked, and samples of top-secret code from their hacking software have been released. Because of how sophisticated the hack was, Edward Snowden suspects the group is associated with the Russian government. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | A man has killed his Lebanese neighbour in Oklahoma for being a Muslim. He had a history of stalking his neighbour and was realeased from jail for trying to kill his neighbour's mother. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Renewed Saudi airstrikes in Yemen have hit an MSF hospital, killing 11, and a a school, killing 10 children. In response, Houthi rebels have shelled Saudia Arabia's southern border and the Saudis ramped up airstrikes in retaliation. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | An Israeli security officer was caught confiscating a Palestinian girl's bicycle; a 10-year-old Palestinian boy was killed by a security officer who fired a "non-lethal" sponge at him. Fortunately, Israel has passed a law forcing officers to to wear body cameras but have also passed a law allowing the imprisonment of children as young as 12. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | David Amsalem, a Likud MP in Israel, has proposed a new law that would shield the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, from any future criminal investigation while in office. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | Notorious Salafi hate preacher Anjem Choudary has finally been convicted of pledging allegiance to DAESH and serving as a recruiter. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | While most of the world is getting rid of birthright citizenship in a sad racist trend away from ius soli[wp] towards ius sanguinis[wp], the prime minister of the German state of Thrunigia, Bodo Ramelow (Die Linke[wp]) proposes automatic citizenship for all children that are born to refugee parents on German soil. (Link in German; no paywall, just click "continue reading") |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | Britain First banned from every English Mosque, Islamic centre and the entire town of Luton for three years. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | Cosmetics are largely unregulated in the U.S. A proposed bill in Congress aims to change that, motivated by widespread reports of adverse effects caused by Wen Hair Care products. Many of the large cosmetics companies actually support the bill, but a group of smaller companies led by the Mary Kay MLM business have enlisted Jeff Sessions to fight it. Also Sessions's bill would preempt tougher state regulations. So much for states' rights. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Floods in Louisiana kill seven and displace tens of thousands. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | Research shows that the minimum wage saves lives. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Here’s how many hours you need to work to pay rent in every state. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Most states in the US have very lax regulations on amusement parks. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | New account on Attica prison riot, the bloodiest US prison riot, names shooters. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Inside the Obama administration's $1 billion deal to detain Central American asylum seekers. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | American politicians have claimed there was no terrorism before Obama before, but Rudy Giuliani is the first to actually acknowledge 9/11 right before. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | The US is using gang data to deport undocumented immigrants. Many immigrants who got out of detention are now trapped in debt. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Civil asset forfeiture: The DEA regularly mines Americans' travel records to seize millions in cash. Meanwhile, in New York, the NYPD's civil forfeiture system has taken millions from low-income citizens. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | The inspector general of the Justice Department has released a report that finds private prisons are less safe and secure. Prisons are also trying new methods of restraining inmates which have deadly outcomes. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Having a trial by jury is becoming a rarity as plea deals become the norm. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | National Guard have been activated after Milwaukee protests over a traffic stop suspect being killed became violent. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Notorious Filipino kleptocrat to be given hero's burial |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Manbij has been liberated from |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Further religious violence in the US as an Imam is murdered on the streets of Queens outside his Mosque. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | After reading more than 800 academic studies, a psychologist concludes that "a wedded bliss is largely a myth". |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | At least six people are seriously injured in Switzerland after a knifeman slashed several people on a train and set himself on fire. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 35 | Problems for UKIP as one of Nigel Farage's aides and nephew of a prominent noble donor is arrested for money laundering for undercover police and then blackmailing them. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Massive rail strikes have started in the UK. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | How Israel is trying to enforce gag orders beyond its borders. (972 mag) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | The U.S. will rearm Saudi Arabia to the tune of $1.5 billion as airstrikes resume in Yemen. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Burqinis banned from Cannes beaches for showing ‘allegiance to terrorists’ (RT) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | Uncertainty doesn't excuse climate change inaction. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | British Jehovah's Witnesses react to allegations of child abuse in an all-too-predictable way: going to court to block an inquiry. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Further lives lost: LA police killed an unarmed black man who was misidentified as a carjacking suspect. A Florida cop fatally shot a 73-year-old woman during an academy simulation. Lastly, a white homeowner called 911 to report a black man as a "hoodlum" and proceeded to fatally shoot him. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | The average Black family would need 228 years to build the wealth of a White family today. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Venezuela's inflation rates are now highest in the world. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | According to a report by the Women and Equalities Committee, Muslim women are the most economically disadvantaged group in British society. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany’s finance chief, bails out Spain and Portugal by intervening against the EU commission's sanctions. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Palo Alto, CA city planning official moves out of the city because she can't afford to live there.[No, not The Onion] |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Snapchat decided it would be hilarious to add a yellowface filter. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | Fox News sexual harassment scandal continues to expand. Vox has an overview of the allegations. Try not to vomit. Update: Ailes used Fox News like a criminal empire. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | U.S. DEA rejects request to reschedule cannabis. They're basically passing the buck to the FDA, saying they won't reclassify it if the FDA hasn't approved it for medical use. The DEA did announce they will make it easier for researchers to obtain federally-sanctioned cannabis for research. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Twin-bombing at a resort in the Thai city of Hua Hin. 11 reported casualties so far including 1 fatality. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | The Nauru Files: 2,000 leaked reports reveal scale of abuse of children in Australian offshore detention. (The files themselves.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | Newly declassified documents reveal that Henry Kissinger hindered US effort to end mass killings in Argentina |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | Comcast believes it should be allowed to charge its users a premium for privacy. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | Working hazards: A survey by TUC has found that more than half of women say they have been sexually harassed at work and most don't report it. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Labor protests in China are increasing as their economy slows. (Autoplay video) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | A Harvard study finds that millions of Americans may be drinking water contaminated by PFAS. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | The DOJ will finally track police killings. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Vietnam moves new rocket launchers into the disputed South China Sea. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | The Affordable Care Act is making people in the U.S. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Despite threat of lawsuit, the school board of Berkeley County, South Carolina, decides to resume using the Lord's Prayer to open meetings. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 36 | Department of Justice investigation of Baltimore Police Department finds it intentionally targets blacks, sky is blue, grass is green. Update: Officers were also found to have frequently dismissed or mishandled sexual assault complaints. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 41 | Proposed California law would prohibit schools receiving state funding from discriminating against LGBT+ people, mostly removing an existing exemption for religious schools. Religious schools are predictably up in arms about this "attack on the First Amendment". (The bill itself.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 53 | Justice prevails, as the right Schlafly beats the wrong Schlafly. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | Climate change is leading to increased numbers of dangerous Vibrio bacteria in the North Atlantic. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszu shatters world record at the Olympics, so naturally NBC announcer credits her husband and coach for the victory. This appears to be a media habit. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | Jamming of GPS and other wireless signals is becoming a widespread problem. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 35 | Car dealer refuses to sell an Indian man a Mercedes, citing concern that he'll "ship it to the Taliban" |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | Olympic athletes have strange red marks on their bodies - |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | An undercover FBI agent encouraged the "Draw Muhammad" shooting in Texas. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Assad's government has likely used chlorine gas against the Syrian rebels. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | The US has released its drone strike playbook. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Another Bitcoin exchange compromised. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | First mammal species confirmed to have been driven to extinction by anthropogenic climate change. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | An anomaly found last year in data from the Large Hadron Collider turns out to have been a random fluke. This is interesting because it's yet another negative result for supersymmetry. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | Human rights groups report that Australia deliberately ignores refugee abuse in order to deter people from migrating to the country. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Phillip Galea, who has been linked with Reclaim Australia, has been arrested and charged with terrorism offences, claims charges are "a conspiracy against the patriot movement". |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 33 | Melting permafrost in Siberia has caused an outbreak of Anthrax, infecting 13 people. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | Zika vaccines show early promise. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | The Associated Press has found that the medical benefits of dental floss are largely unproven. (Autoplay video) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | 18 year old arrested on terrorism charges has a child-like mental state. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Al-Qaeda has broken the Syrian government's siege on the city of Aleppo after a violent offensive. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Sweden's largest evangelical church plans to use drones to bomb DAESH with tiny, electronic bibles. The crazies in question[wp]. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 36 | DAESH is finally starting to take advantage of Boko Haram's "loyalty" pledge by demanding a new - DAESH-approved - leader, arguing on the grounds that its leader Abubakar Shekau[wp] kills Muslims and is therefore not a Muslim. The irony here is that DAESH is accusing another group of being too extreme. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 72 | Missouri is seriously short of funding for public defenders. Fortunately, in extremis, the head public defender can draft any member of the state bar to serve as a public defender. For instance, the governor who vetoed proper funding for public defenders. (The letter to the governor is a thing of beauty.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Obama shortens terms for 214 prisoners. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Billionaire Peter Thiel is very interested in parabiosis as a life extension technique. That is, rejuvenating the old with the blood of the young. "I suspect we're a little too biased against all these things in society," Thiel said. Elizabeth Bathory as neoreactionary role model. There's even a "patient-funded" study in progress. (PZ Myers dissects the pseudoscientific thinking that's going on here, and what the original parabiosis experiments were actually about.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | Skye Mockabee, a Black transgender woman, was found dead in a parking lot in Cleveland in an apparent case of murder. If such is the case, she is the 17th transgender person to be murdered this year. For context, that makes the chances of being murdered for trans people approximately 8.5 per 100,000 per year, more than double the average murder rate. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | The Center for Media and Democracy has found that AARP is funding ALEC while leaked emails reveal that Coca-Cola has ties within the CDC. Meanwhile, the Olympic executives has embraced the "Olympic Movement" that underpays athletes. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Filipino police and vigilantes will partake in a state-sanctioned killing spree of drug suspects in Manila. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | The Movement for Black Lives has released its racial justice demands beyond police misconduct. (The full policy list.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | The financial firm that cornered the market. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 37 | The US blew $1.4 billion on abstinence education in Africa. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | Japanese people are working themselves to death. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | There's a massive battle going on right now for the Syrian city of Aleppo, with the Syrian government fighting al-Qaeda-led rebels for control of a key supply line. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | The operator of the balloon that crashed in Texas had four prior DUI convictions, another drug-related conviction, and dozens of business complaints. The NTSB urged the FAA in 2014 to implement stricter regulation of ballooning licenses, but the FAA ignored them. (autoplay video) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | Zika outbreak in Florida continues to grow, as does the already-massive outbreak in Puerto Rico. And there's no federal funding to fight it thanks to the Republicans. Mosquitoes only bite poor people, so just work harder! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | Here are all the UK companies, councils, and charities who used benefits claimants as unpaid labour. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | A man who threatened to kill a Muslim woman and attempted to drive her off the road will not be charged with a hate crime. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Swaziland has begun to evict all Asian immigrants following its ban on Asian immigration. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | The rise of "K2" or "synthetic marijuana". The War on Drugs continues to succeed! As does the U.S.'s lack of universal health care, which means the only place many of the poor can get medical treatment is prison. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | College students in Texas can now carry guns to school |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | It's possible that the UAE funded the Turkish coup. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | Ireland has jailed 3 bankers responsible for the Great Recession. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | The UN has found that American rights to peaceful assembly and association have eroded and race is a major factor. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | E-cigarettes emit harmful chemicals. |
[edit] July 2016
![]() ![]() ![]() | 45 | Faced with drought conditions, Israel has made major advances in economical water desalination and is now working with neighbouring governments to spread the technology through the region. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | A Canadian judge rules an anti-terror investigation was entrapment. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Philippine Centre for Investigative Journalism's website was taken down by a cyberattack. They have accused Duterte's government of targetting them for their coverage of his human rights abuses. (Autoplay video) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 36 | Ryan Bundy files legal motion declaring himself an idiot |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 29 | Wayne Grudem attempts to solidify the evangelical vote for Donald Trump by saying not voting for him is a sin |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Chelsea Manning may face indefinite solitary confinement for her suicide attempt. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Inside the CIA's penal colonies. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | The IMF admits its disastrous policies on the eurozone. (The Telegraph) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | France's prime minister plans to ban foreign funding to mosques. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Haggard's Law strikes again. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | The 10-day armed standoff continues in Armenia's capital, Yerevan, after 30 gunmen who captured a police station took several doctors as hostages. They are demanding the release of opposition politician, Jirair Sefilian, and the resignation of President Serzh Sarksyan. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | The al Nusra Front has officially split from al Qaeda. Meanwhile, poverty and war in Afghanistan has led many men to fight for Assad in Syria's civil war. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Amid the US's opioid epidemic, Congress has loosened pharmaceutical regulations. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | Canadian police have beaten a mentally ill Somali-Canadian man to death. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 38 | Remember that historic flooding last year in South Carolina? It could have been far worse. If four workers hadn't refused to evacuate and lived at the water treatment plant for five days, working with almost no sleep, the entire capital city of Columbia could have been flooded with 150 million gallons of raw sewage a day. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 36 | A jailer in Oklahoma choked a man to death on video and has yet to be charged. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | A BMJ study has found that in 2012 US police hospitalized 54,000 people during legal stops. Keep this in mind as the NYPD is exploiting fears about terrorism in order to further militarize themselves. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | Official who oversees whistleblower complaints files one of his own. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 36 | The richest CEOs run the worst performing companies. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | A computer simulation demonstrates that a key prediction by climatology is consistent with gravitational physics. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | Top Saudi clerical body finds catching Zubat near bloody impossible, takes out frustrations on Pokemon in general. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | Taxes on groceries are hurting the poorest Americans. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | In the days after the attempted Turkey coup, WikiLeaks points at dump of emails and government data... that doxxed millions of Turkish women's political affiliations and information. Oops. The actual uploader is very sorry and has removed them (a bit late). |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | In one day, first Tim LaHaye and now, Miss Cleo. Birds of a feather. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | The Great Barrier Reef is undergoing a complete ecosystem collapse. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | New UK trade minister Liam Fox opens a UK trade office in North Carolina, just as US companies are boycotting NC en masse. Genius! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | BREAKING: Syrian Army besieges rebel-held Aleppo city. 250,000 civilians besieged. The government has told all civilians in rebel-held districts via text message that they can leave without punishment. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | Video shows that children being held in the Don Dale detention center are being tortured. Meanwhile, the Spanish infrastructure company, Ferrovial, may be liable for crimes against humanity. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | The UK Parliament's Work and Pensions and Business Committees are asserting that Philip Green was responsible for the BHS collapse, and specifically for the £571 million BHS pension hole. His knighthood is in danger. And Theresa May may have to act against a major Tory donor to back her words about corporate responsibility. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | Doomsday |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Another shooting in Florida |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 42 | An international tribunal has ruled that Indonesia's communist purges constitute as genocide and that the US, UK, and Australia were complicit in said genocide. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 42 | Alaska's Supreme Court has ruled that parental notification for abortion is unconstitutional. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | ISIL has claimed responsibility for an attack on a Hazara protest in Kabul that has killed 80 people. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | Video shows a Swedish bus driver assaulting a Syrian refugee. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | Guards at a juvenile detention center at Fort Lauderdale offered a snack bounty to anyone who would brutalize a 13-year-old. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | A new study, funded by the DOJ, has found that far fewer minors are involved in sex trafficking than previously thought. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 35 | After a black teacher is violently arrested, a police officer tells her that people are "afraid of black people because of their violent tendencies." (Autoplay video) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Ongoing investigation in Munich, Germany after a shooting took place at a shopping mall. The official death count is ten, with the suspect having committed suicide in a park. Munich Police have identified the shooter as a local German-Iranian. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | Edward Snowden and Andrew Huang have published a paper detailing how you can prevent your smartphone from being used to spy you. (The paper itself.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | Emails show that federal agents went undercover in order to spy on anti-fracking groups. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | Muslim detainees were fed garbage at a federal immigration facility in New York. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | Out of the frying pan, into the fire. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 100 | Miami Police shoot black man who is lying down with arms raised as he helps his autistic patient. He was shot in the leg and has survived his wound. He asked the policeman, 'Why did you shoot me?' the policeman replied, 'I don't know.' Kinsey claims he was handcuffed and left bleeding in the street for 20 minutes.] Update: The Miami police union president has released an excuse for the officer's action, the officer meant to shoot the unarmed austistic man. Since the relevant part of the video is missing that can't be confirmed. Since the autistic man is white it's far less likely he would have been shot. Warning! If you're black and a white policeman has a gun don't holler. You may feel you have good reason to holler to prevent an unarmed patient playing with a toy being shot. Still it's a big risk. Too many white American police dealing with blacks shoot first and ask questions later. Further update: The autistic man was identified as Arnaldo Eliud Rios Soto. What's more Rios Soto was also treated as a criminal, he was kept handcuffed in a squad car for hours among other abuses. [http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/north-miami/article91472342.html Rios Soto is now in psychiatric hospital and traumatized. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said Texas's voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act, but doesn't strike it down. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | How predatory open access works: chemtrails advocate pays to publish articles, people notice the articles, they keep getting retracted. Repeat. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | Tens of thousands of Turkish citizens have been targeted by Erdogan's government, accused of links to |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 38 | Nero has fallen. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | The US's broken justice system: Virginia is facing a statewide class action lawsuit over their scheme that suspends the driver’s license of anyone who can’t pay trivial fines. In Houston, an audit has revealed that 298 people have been wrongfully convicted for drug use. Mass incarceration is making infectious disease outbreaks worse and is overly impacting Americans with disabilities. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Wikileaks has released almost 300,000 emails from Erdogan's AKP party after the failed coup. (The searchable archive itself.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | A US coalition airstrike in Syria has killed at least 56 civilians. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Norovirus strikes RNC staffers. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 46 | Not content to have her husband have all the fun, Melania Trump gives a speech in which she rick rolls the RNC and plagarizes Michelle Obama's speech from the 2008 DNC. The Trump camp, of course, denies all. (Side-by-side comparison of speeches.) Republicans blame Hillary Clinton. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 38 | The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | US Rep. Steve King preaches literal white supremacy on national television. (This is the same Steve King who has a Confederate flag in his office. But he's just celebrating his Iowan heritage!) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | Stopped clock for the Republican Party as they pledge to bring back Glass-Steagall. (More here.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | The UN has unveiled a report that accuses both Ukraine and the Russian-backed rebels of war crimes. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | MSF says that Yemen's entire healthcare system is collapsing leaving many to needlessly die. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | A human rights group believes many migrants are dying in the Sahara desert while attempting to settle in Europe. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 35 | Germany has finally recognized the Herero genocide and has apologized to Namibia. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | White House responds to petition to label Black Lives Matter a "terror" group. The response: Nope. (Video and text.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Michigan State Police will pick 5 counties for roadside drug testing pilot program. This program is meant to quickly drug test saliva during a roadside stop but critics assert that there isn't a way to judge the amount of a drug or the intoxication level of the driver. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | A federal judge rules that the police can't track your cellphone without a warrant. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | The circle of violence continues as 3 policemen are shot in Baton Rouge[1] |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | A year since Sandra Bland died, at least 810 people have died in jail. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | New York City's Democrat-controlled council has voted down a police reform bill. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | Newt Gingrich: the U.S. should "test" all Muslims in the country and deport them if they believe in sharia. (And since they could be practicing taqiyya we'll just have to deport them all, won't we? Note also one can follow sharia in one's personal life without believing it should be imposed on others, akin to halakha, not that Islamophobes know or care.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 59 | Military coup underway in Turkey. Update: the coup appears to be failing, only backed by a faction in the military. 2,839 soldiers have been arrested since the coup has failed. Erdogan is now requesting the US extradite Gulen, the Islamic cleric he believes inspired the coup. 6,000 people have now been reportedly arrested in the aftermath of the coup. 2.700 judges have also been removed from their positions. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | The U.S. government has released a once-classified chapter from a congressional report on the 9/11 attacks that addresses Saudi connections about some of the hijackers. You can download it here. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | Herbalife has agreed to a $200 million settlement with U.S. regulators, under which the dietary supplements maker will change the way it does business and avoid being labeled a pyramid scheme. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | A study finds that it is becoming harder for US workers to move up the economic ladder. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Fresno has released the police body cam video of the Dylan Noble shooting. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | How a modest contract for 'applied research' morphed into the CIA’s brutal interrogation program. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | International tribunal rules that China's claims on the South China Sea are invalid. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | Police in Nottinghamshire, England, will now treat misogyny and harassment of women as a hate crime. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 48 | 84 are declared dead and dozens more injured in the coastal city of Nice, France after a truck was intentionally steered over the sidewalk of a busy street on Bastille Day. Police exchanged gunfire with the driver, who has since been confirmed dead, and counter-terrorism police are investigating the scene. The State of Emergency enforced after the November attacks has been extended until the end of October. The French press reports the attacker to be a local French-Tunisian non-practicing Muslim. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) speaks about he has been targeted by police for being black. Conservatives, meanwhile, continue to bury their heads in the sand. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 39 | When police tell women experiencing death threats and harassment on social media that they can't do much about social media harassment, this turns out not to be the case if it's them. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | Obama has written a scholarly paper advocating for a "public option". (The paper itself.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | This is how the US trains foreign police forces and soldiers from across the world. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | An NYPD cop has recorded his captain encouraging him to racial profile minorities. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Chris Simcox, leader of the racist Minutemen militia, has been sentenced to 19 1/2 years for child molestation. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Philadelphia airport workers have voted to go on strike during the Democratic convention. They are demanding to be allowed to unionize, have increased wages, and better work schedules. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 56 | With Prime Minister Theresa May fresh in power, the cabinet now consists of Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary (presumably to see if he can actually get France to nuke Britain), and Philip Hammond as Chancellor of the Exchequer, with George Osborne resigning from the government entirely. Hammond immediately goes against the Brexiters' wishes by stating that it would take six years to leave. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | As protesters shut down a bridge and refuse to move, a child stuck on it has a medical emergency and almost dies. Yeah, like that wouldn't have been another PR disaster... Oops, turns out the story is fabricated. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | Human Rights Watch is concerned about a possible mass cover up of Turkish army abuses. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Police crackdown: Video from the Baton Rouge protest shows that the police arrested protestors who were invited on a woman's private property. These police crackdowns against BLM have been greenlit by the FBI. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | Now that North Carolina has finished ruining trans people's lives they have decided to no longer allow public access to police dash cam videos. |
[edit] Older stories
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | The House Financial Services Committee has found that Eric Holder prevented attorneys from prosecuting banks like HSBC for financial crimes. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Even the Anglican Church of Canada is not immune to voting errors as Canadian Anglicans vote to allow same-sex marriage. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Israel's Parliament has passed a law forcing human rights NGOs to label themselves as foreign-funded. The law only applies to NGOs who receive half of their funds from foreign governments, but not from foreign individuals or foundations. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Philando Castile had been stopped by police 52 times for traffic violations. 86 of those violations were dismissed. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Micah Johnson was blacklisted from various Black militant groups because he was believed to be "mentally unstable". |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | Jahbat al-Nusra has become al-Qaeda's largest formal affiliate in history. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Snowflake, Arizona: where the residents are allergic to life |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | We have broken the record for hottest month ever recorded for the ninth time in a row. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | EU referendum: youth turnout almost twice as high as first thought (64%) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | Legalizing medical Marijuana has dropped Medicare prescription drug costs. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | AT&T workers in Nevada and California have walked out on their jobs in order to force AT&T to sign a contract with them. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | Police have arrested hundreds of people protesting police brutality across the country. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | The internet is killing religion. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Leaked tapes show that Libyan Gen. Khalifa Haftar is backed by French, British, and US forces despite his opposition to the Tripoli government. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Telco businesses claim net neutrality threatens 5G rollout. They call this "a positive stance on innovation". |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | A massive eviction in the Silicon Valley will demolish 216 unit complexes and displace hundreds of tenants. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | Epipens have more than quintupled in price since 2004. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | Chelsea Manning's legal team has confirmed that she has been hospitalized. It is assumed she attempted suicide. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 35 | Police in Utah have finally released a video from 2014 shows a police officer assaulting and saying vulgar insults towards a handcuffed woman. Another released video, from June 25, shows Fresno police shooting an unarmed man lying on the ground. (Both links are NSFW) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 36 | At a peaceful protest in Dallas, TX in response to the recent police shooting incidents, 12 police officers were shot by two snipers, four dead (AUTOPLAY VIDEO). Update: 12 officers shot, five dead. Three suspects in custody, fourth was killed by explosive used by cops. (AUTOPLAY VIDEO) Aftermath: The shooter, Micah Johnson, supported militant black supremacist groups. The Oath Keepers, a militant group, has called for "an armed struggle against Marxists while former IL representative, Joe Walsh, threatens "cop hater" President Obama. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | A general strike has started in Zimbabwe over police harassment and the country's failure to pay civil servants. It has already brought the country to a standstill. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Israel is targeting Palestinian protesters on Facebook. |
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![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | A Nigerian refugee of Boko Haram attacks is murdered by an Italian football hooligan. The Italian party "Lega Nord" (Northern League) condemns his death, but shifts the blame on to immigrants. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 29 | Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson sues CEO Roger Ailes, alleging sexual harassment. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Police brutality: In Louisana, video shows a police officer killing Alton Sterling, a black man who was selling CDs outside a convenience store. A second video shows that he was unarmed. (Autoplay video) Meanwhile, a police officer in Falcon Heights, Minnesota has killed Philando Castile, a black man, during a traffic stop. (All links contain graphic videos) Update: This is everything we know about the Alton Sterling shooting. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | The ACLU says that the US is deporting countless veterans. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | UK police accessed civilian data for fun and profit. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | The US and UN have condemned Israel's plan to expand settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 39 | The Chilcot report into Britain's role in the Iraq War says Tony Blair's case for war unjustified. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | Judge rules that sites like ChristianMingle and LDSSingles must allow same-sex matches. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | At least 45 people have been killed under Duterte's operation against crime and drug dealing. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Suicide attackers launch a wave of strikes in Saudi Arabia. (Autoplay video) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 30 | A Buddhist mob in Myanmar has burned down a mosque. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Documents obtained by Adalah reveal that Israeli police are allowed to use lethal force against stone throwers and those who fire fireworks at them. (The report itself which is written in Hebrew) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 1 | Secret records and lack of hearings raise concerns in merger review. (Autoplay video) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | A federal judge blocks Kansas's attempt to cut Planned Parenthood from Medicaid. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | A federal judge has ruled that the warrant that allowed the FBI's hacking in a child porn case was unnecessary. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | ISIL has burned 19 Yazidi women for refusing to have sex with their fighters. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Thousands of pupils in England have seen school closures or disruption as the National Union of Teachers staged a one-day strike over funding. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Well that didn't take long: Republicans are already criticizing the FBI decision to not indict Clinton. Rep. Mike Turner wants to bring back the Office of the Independent Counsel which was used against Bill Clinton and House Speaker Paul Ryan will hold hearings on the FBI's decision. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Elite K-8 school begins separating classrooms to instruct white children about their privilege and to "challenge notions of colorblindness" and "raise awareness of Whiteness". Wonderful. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | F.B.I. Recommends No Charges Against Hillary Clinton for Use of Personal Email. Cue the conspiracy theorists and cries of "The fix is in!" Update: Loretta Lynch has revealed that the Justice Department will not charge Clinton. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Israel continues siege on Palestinians in Hebron. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | The lobbying reform that enriched Congress. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 34 | The Juno orbiter successfully reaches orbit around Jupiter, and begins a two-year survey. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | UAE Muslim visiting Ohio is arrested for wearing traditional garb and speaking Arabic on the phone. See, Trump was right; Muslims coming into the U.S. leads to violence! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | Two Muslim Youths have been beaten outside their mosque in Brooklyn, New York. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Walmart retail workers in China have gone on strike due to unfair scheduling. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Michael Foot's memorial has been vandalised with swastikas. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 52 | Nigel Farage stands down as leader of UKIP. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Black lives matter pulls out of SF Pride Parade in protest when organizers increase security presence in response to Orlando shootings. Their sister group in Toronto, despite given "Honoured Group" status, stalls the Toronto Pride Parade with a sit-in, refuses to move until parade organizer agrees to group demands to remove all police floats, among others. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | 126 people have died in a bombing in Baghdad. ISIL has claimed responsibility. (Autoplay video) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | A Muslim doctor has been shot and stabbed by three men outside of a mosque in Texas. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Hundreds of Ethiopian Israelis protest police brutality in Tel Aviv. (A more in-depth link.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Facebook defends position on content standards after Israeli censure. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | Chatbot lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Israel approves construction of 42 units in West Bank settlement home to slain 13-year-old. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Disabled cancer patient slammed to the ground by TSA guards after she became confused at a checkpoint. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | A recent poll finds 71 percent of Americans believe U.S. economy is rigged. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | U.N. creates position to monitor violence, discrimination against LGBT people. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court will examine the Chilcot report for evidence of abuse and torture by British soldiers but have already ruled out putting Tony Blair on trial for war crimes. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Elie Wiesel dies at age 87. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | Florida coast is affected by huge algae bloom after emergency releases from Lake Okeechobee. Unsurprisingly, this is the result of the state and federal governments not funding necessary public works. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 33 | Over 100 Nobel laureates sign an open letter to Greenpeace criticizing its opposition to golden rice and other genetically modified foods. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 68 | Boris Johnson, the man who spearheaded the Brexit movement all the way up to its The Producers-esque conclusion for purposes of becoming Prime Minister, has announced he will no longer be running for Prime Minister. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 68 | This is how Chicago is handling police misconduct allegations. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | FBI asks agencies who responded to Pulse to deny records requests. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Pedro Pablo Barrientos Nuñez, a former Chilean lieutenant under Pinochet, has been found liable for Victor Jara's torture and death. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | U.S. offers to increase military aid to Israel. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Major political news outlets are selling interviews at the DNC and RNC conventions. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | The US says that its air and drones have only killed between 64 to 116 people. Human rights groups estimate several hundred civilians have died in these bombings. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Islamic militants stage attacks and take hostages in Bangladesh's capital. They appear to have targeted foreigners. Update: At least 22 people have died as a result of the 10 hour standoff. (Autoplay video) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | The libertarian paradise of Detroit charter schools. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Hacked emails reveal that the supreme commander of NATO forces in Europe, Gen. Philip Breedlove, plotted to overcome President Obama's reluctance to escalate tensions with Russia during the war in Ukraine. |
[edit] June 2016
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Congress wants to exempt Minor League baseball players from minimum wage and overtime pay laws. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | The Feds are asking for a 27-month delay in release of Clinton staff emails. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | A federal judge has blocked Florida's anti-abortion law. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | The ACLU has filed a lawsuit challenging the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act because it creates a significant barrier on research on online discrimination. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Encryption isn't obstructing law enforcement investigations. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Iowa's Supreme Court rules that ex-offenders can be permanently stripped of their right to vote. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Here are the FBI's classified rules for targeting journalists with National Security Letters. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | 31 science groups are urging Congress to take action against global warming. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 0 | New Jersey becomes the 11th state to pass anti-BDS measures. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | A judge has ordered a man who made threats against a US senator on Twitter to never tweet again. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | The death penalty is largely driven by overzealous prosecutors. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 3 | Why prison phone rates keep rising despite the FCC's recent regulations. (Autoplay video) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | Capitol Hill workers have been told not to drink the water inside the Cannon House Office Building because it is tainted with lead. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -4 | Mark Kirk, Illinois's RINO senator, has exploited the recent Istanbul terrorist attack to smear Syrian refugees. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Senate panel grants more visas for Afghans who supported US. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | A report has found that the US's efforts to regulate encryption have been flawed. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | Kabul to investigate child sex slavery fuelling insider attacks. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | U.S. military lifts transgender ban. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Combat AI beats the Air Force's top tactical experts. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Alvin Toffler[wp], prophet of our current crisis, has died. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 2 | The wrecked jet stream now runs from Pole-to-Pole. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | The Senate has passed the Puerto Rico "relief" bill that will create a commission that can cut pensions, lower the minimum wage, limit overtime pay. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Six gay men in Ivory Coast were abused and forced to flee their homes after they were caught showing support to Orlando victims. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Poor Louisiana defendants fight alleged debtors’ prison. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | British paedophile sentenced to 85 years in US for trafficking child abuse images. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 48 | Hate crimes in the UK up 57% according to Huffington Post following Brexit vote |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Chris Christie's lawyers hid a personal e-mail account and a cell phone from investigators during the Bridgegate Scandal. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 60 | Xenophobia in the UK following Brexit hits ridiculous levels the woman in question is a white German who has lived in the UK for decades. This is your doing, Nigel Farage! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | UNICEF warns that unless current trends in global poverty and education are addressed 69 million children will die by 2030. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Ban Ki-moon criticises Israel's Gaza blockade as collective punishment. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | The UN is concerned about inequality in the UK. (Autoplay video) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | A daring American plan to defeat ISIS on their home turf turned into an embarrassing rout for the allies. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | Huge helium gas find in east Africa averts medical shortage |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | An inside look at Charles Koch's plot to hijack American universities. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Gunman dead after shooting woman in downtown Denver, Colorado. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | 1,000 southern Chinese villagers have marched against the government demanding their chief be released from prison. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | A terrorist attack in an Istanbul airport has resulted in 36 dead and 147 injured. (Autoplay video) Trump has used this to reiterate why the US should ban Muslim immigrants from entering the country. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | 2,500 marine scientists and policy experts are urging the Australian government to stop using coal in order to save the Great Barrier Reef. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | Rating agencies have downgraded the UK's credit rating from a AAA to a AA after the Brexit vote. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | An Amnesty International report shows widespread and systematic sexual assault against Mexican women by the police and military. (The downloadable report itself.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | The US has most likely killed at least 6 Afghan hostages in an airstrike against the Taliban. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | A report by Detention Watch and the Center for Constitutional Rights has found that ICE officials are profiting from secret deals with private prisons over immigrant family detention. (The report itself.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | A report by OpenTheBooks has found that between 2005-2014 67 agencies unaffiliated with the Department of Defense spent $1.48 billion on guns and ammo. A total of $335.1 million was spent by agencies traditionally viewed as regulatory or administrative. (The report itself.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | A new report has found that teens are suffering from tinnitus which could lead to permanent hearing damage due to their exposure to loud music. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Washington pharmacists must stock morning after pills and supply them when prescribed. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | A House report found no new evidence that could implicate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the Benghazi attacks. Can we move on now? In case you missed it, a stupid Republican explained the real reason behind repeated investigations and hearings. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | 7 people were stabbed during a Neo-Nazi march in Sacramento. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | C.I.A. arms sent to the Syrian rebels have been sold black markets. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Pakistani clerics declare transgender marriages legal in Islam. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Officials held a 3-year-old immigrant alone in detention center for days. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | On the far-right the Austrian Freedom Party and Our Slovakia want a referendum on leaving the EU. France's "leftist" Economy Minister, Emmanuel Macron, wants a referendum, as well. Meanwhile, Australian republicans demand a referendum so they can leave the Commonwealth. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | Multiple outlets have reported an increase in hate crimes after the Brexit vote. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Four reasons why killing insurgents in Syria might backfire. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | The Supreme Court has unanimously overturned former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell’s public corruption conviction sparking outcry from campaign finance watchdogs. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | The Supreme Court has ruled that "reckless" domestic abusers can be barred from owning a gun but justices Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor have dissented declaring that the "majority blurs the distinction between recklessness and intentional wrongdoing". |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Woman Wins $10,000 From Microsoft After Unwanted Windows 10 Upgrade |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 51 | A Texas law making abortions more difficult was found unconstitutional. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 41 | Pope Francis says Christians should apologise to gay people. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | A major terrorist attack has occured at a Somali hotel in Mogadishu resulting in 15 dead. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | A mob in Myanmar has destroyed a mosque. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Central American migrants at risk of trafficking. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Turkey and Israel have ended their six-year standoff over the 9 Turkish activists killed in the Gaza flotilla incident. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | A Tennesee judge has refused to recognize the parental rights of a woman in a same sex marriage because she isn't the biological parent of the child. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | A judge has struck down Obama's fracking rules. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Baltimore's police union faces a backlash over its tweets about the Freddie Gray case. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 55 | Well that didn't take long........"Leave" leaders walking away from Brexit promises |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | 1 in 10 Cal State students are homeless. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Israeli soldiers shoot dead woman who allegedly rammed vehicle into a parked car, injuring two settlers. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Hawaii has become the first U.S. state to place gun owners on the FBI's database. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | The FBI and local Cleveland police are knocking on the doors of activists who plan to protest the Republican convention. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | The FBI's secret surveillance budget costs hundreds of millions. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | The city of Fallujah has been fully liberated from ISIS. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Britain's choice of pride and prejudice over sense and sensibility means bad news for scientific collaboration. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | An Indiana University frat house rapist will receive one-year of probation. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Russia's Duma has signed some of the most repressive laws in its post-Soviet history. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 3 | Extreme weather: A California forest fire has killed 2 people and burned 19,000 acres while a massive flood in West Virginia has killed 26 people so far. (Both links have autoplay videos) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Some doctors think AspireAssist (a stomach-to-bag weight loss tube) will encourage bad eating habits; some patients argue otherwise. Amidst the ruckus, the FDA approves it. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | The Indianapolis Metropolitan PD is investigating an incident involving an officer slamming a handcuffed teen to a wall. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | The UN urges solutions to Dark Web drug trading. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | China has rejected India's bid to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group. Modi says this will result in a delay of the Paris Climate Agreement. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | #Texit? Ehh, they're all nuts - I say let 'em go. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | EU leaders' reaction to Brexit: Bye, don't let the door hit you on the way out. Spain: Hey, can we get Gibraltar now? Anti-EU parties in other EU countries want their own referendums. Trump: Brexit is a yuuuge win; also it's Obama's fault. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | AP: Clinton's State Dept. calendar missing scores of entries, many from her political and Clinton Foundation donors. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 30 | So what are Britons searching for on Google, now that they're done voting? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 36 | Schadenfreude grips the Remain votes as Farage admits his promise to spend money "saved" on the NHS was a lie. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Apparently it's Jeremy Corbyn's fault that an internal Tory spat broke the UK. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Colombia announces a peace agreement with the FARC rebel group, ending a 50-year conflict. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | David Cameron steps down as PM |
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![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Britain's defense secretary, Michael Fallon, has agreed to pay damages to an imam after repeating false claims that he was a supporter of Islamic State. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 0 | The State Department scrambled on trouble on Clinton's server. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | A Washington judge has ruled that public hospitals must provide abortions on site. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | New York City will give all women in public schools, prisons, and homeless shelters free access to feminine hygiene products |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | A gunman in Germany has been killed during a shoot off with police after he shot his gun off inside a theater. Luckily, he only had blanks. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Actual science journal article title: Misperceiving Bullshit as Profound Is Associated with Favorable Views of Cruz, Rubio, Trump and Conservatism |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | The ACLU has urged Congress to vote no on the effort to ban those on the terrorist watch list and no-fly list from owning guns. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Up to 700 barrels of oil spills in Ventura County, California. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | SCOTUS has upheld the University of Texas's affirmative action plan (Autoplay video) but its split decision on Obama's immigration plan has upheld the lower court's decision to overturn it. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 29 | “We Demand the Killing of Atheists” Was Trending on Arabic Twitter |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | The Orlando shooter's former lover says the attack was about revenge and not ideology. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | U.S. House Republicans unveil their "plan" to replace the Affordable Care Act. It's basically just a repackaging of ideas they've been throwing out for years: cut and privatize everything. Some analyses: [2] [3] [4] (Meanwhile, it turns out U.S. health care spending has been much lower than projected.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | U.S. law to regulate chemicals in consumer products is signed. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | After Colorado legalized recreational cannabis, the state has descended into a living hell of reefer madness. Just kidding, cannabis usage among Colorado teenagers has declined slightly. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | 11 million Americans spend half their income on rent. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Germany has banned fracking indefinitely. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Democrats hold a sit-in within the House of Representatives to demand gun control legislation. Unfortunately, one of the reforms they are pushing for is the secret, racist terror watchlist. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | UC San Francisco study finds even accepting one meal from a pharmaceutical company appears to make physicians more likely to prescribe the company's drugs. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Why America's men aren't working. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Bill Donahue celebrates defeat of Child Victims Act. He believed that it was meant to "rape the Church". |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Latino car wash workers reach a $1.65 million settlement for wage theft. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | A British undocumented immigrant has tried to assassinate Trump. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | Irish women using drones to get plan-B type birth control |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | State legislators have introduced more than 80 pieces of anti-Muslim legislation since 2013. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | ICE has arrested 331 undocumented immigrants in a month of deportation raids. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor gives a scathing dissent against the Court's decision that the police may use evidence obtained during an illegal search. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | Surprising no one, the |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Microsoft avoids paying £100m a year in UK corporation tax. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | China outlines a plan to cut its population's meat consumption in half. The main goal is to improve public health, but the climate impact would be huge as well. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | The teacher's protest in Oaxaca has resulted in a clash with six dead. Update: 8 people have now been reported killed. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | NASA says the ozone layer will not fully recover until 2070. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Workplace harassment isn't being reported because minorities feel that they will be retaliated against. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Jeremy Corbyn says EU free movement means no immigration limit. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Ex-White House officials criticize vague rules around disclosure of hacking tools. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | South Asian migrants say they were beaten and put in body bags for deportation from the US. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 1 | Israel approves extra $18m for West Bank settlements. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | NYPD officials busted in corruption investigation. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | A Chinese crackdown has begun and is aimed at rooting out Xi's opponents. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | LIGO announces a second detection of gravitational waves from a black hole merger. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 33 | Yes, Donald, we know Belgium is rather small. That doesn't mean it's a fucking city though. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | Pope Francis says most Catholic marriages are null because the spouses don't "understand" what a lifelong commitment is, causing some consternation among Catholics. (Alternative headline: "Lifelong bachelor tells married couples they don't know what they're doing") |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -22 | 51 U.S. State Department diplomats sign an internal "dissent" calling for the U.S. to bomb Assad. Because what we really don't have enough of is American military involvement in the Middle East. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 37 | John McCain says Obama is "directly responsible" for the Orlando massacre. DAMN IT OBAMA WHY DID YOU SHOOT UP THAT NIGHTCLUB?!?! He later issued a half-hearted "clarification". For context: McCain is running for re-election this year, and many think this was an attempt to appeal to "Trumpistas". What's worse, honestly believing insane shit, or cynically parroting it to get votes? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | New research suggests a strong link between the public revelation of the Tuskegee Study and poor health outcomes for black men. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | Jo Cox's killer responds when asked about his name, “My name is death to traitors, freedom for Britain.” |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Doctors Without Borders will reject all EU funding in order to protest Europe's treatment of refugees. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | PepsiCo's affiliate in Indonesia has been linked to child labor, worker exploitation, unethically low wages and hazardous working conditions. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | Marines under investigation for allegedly threatening to attack gay bars. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | Southern Baptist Convention votes to condemn Confederate battle flag. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Iraqi forces scored a major victory against |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | Cleveland police locked a man in a closet for four days without food or bathroom breaks. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | New York City has found a million intelligence documents on 1960s radicals. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | The Supreme Court's next case will deal with the US's epidemic of prosecutorial misconduct. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Parkinson's disease, like schizophrenia causes a dramatic drop in religiosity, though not necessarily changing religious beliefs. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | U.S.'s first legally non-binary person. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Congresspeople are at least trying to improve gun safety. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | This afternoon, literally everything cryptocurrency skeptics had been saying for months came true yet again. $50 million drained from the Decentralized Autonomous Organization through security bugs in the "smart contract" code. Also causing a price crash in Ethereum. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Gun sales surge among gays and lesbians. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | The man who shot British MP Jo Cox seems to have bought a gun-making manual from a US neo-nazi group. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | After a study found racial bias among Oakland's police force, the Oakland PD have been implicated in a sex scandal. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Border clashes have occurred on both the Eritrean-Ethiopian border and the Afghan-Pakistan border. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | The UN has found that Eritrea has committed widespread crimes against humanity. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Chinese loan sharks are exploiting female students by offering student loans in exchange for nude photos. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | Public schools across the US are violating the separation between Church and State. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Scotland's police force participated with the GCHQ's mass surveillance program. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Consumer groups have accused AT&T and Comcast of violating US privacy law by collecting user data without consent in order to sell it. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Ethiopians and Sudanese refugees may be pretending to be Eritreans in order to gain asylum in other countries. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | A new study by a Florida State University researcher shows that both a lack of stimulation in the workplace and a dirty working environment can have a long-term cognitive effect on employees. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Duterte's government has begun peace talks with the Communist Party of the Philippines. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | CIA declassifies documents detailing torture. (The report itself) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Democrats embrace the secretive, discriminatory, flawed, and unaccountable terror watchlist in the fight against gun violence. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | The Federal Reserve has put rate hikes on hold due to Brexit. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -9 | A defense spending bill would prevent transferring any detainees out of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | NATO has approved of expanded military basing in Afghanistan. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Kenya upholds use of anal exam to determine sexual orientation. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Shiite militias have reportedly killed and tortured Sunnis fleeing Fallujah. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 34 | British MP shot dead apparently by British nationalist. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | The FBI has 411 million photos in its facial recognition system and refuses to disclose the locations of their utility pole surveillance cameras. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | US citizens have committed 80 percent of terrorist attacks since 9/11 |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Israel has cut off water to the West Bank during Ramadan. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | A pending bill in New York would bar funding for student organizations that want to boycott Israel, NATO members, and various other nations. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | NYC schools have suspended sexual assault victims because they’re black. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Why most gay men are still not allowed to donate blood. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | US spies are building software to spot your suspicious behavior in live video. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | A computer crash has wiped out years of Air Force investigations. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | A Chicago police officer stomped on a man's head during an arrest. (Autoplay video) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | A prison in West Virginia locked a man in solitary until he agreed to let them remove his penis marbles. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | Belief in tough-on-crime ideas such as death penalty and long prison sentences has no relationship to real world variables such as crime rates, prior victimization, knowing victims, or perceived risk of crime, but only related to ideology, race, and the amount of television news you watch (full paper) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | A Federal Appeals court has upheld net neutrality. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | U.S. top court rejects American Samoan birthright citizenship case. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | A gay Chinese man is suing a mental hospital for trying to "cure" him with drugs and beatings. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Germany wants the UK to extend its inquiry into activities of undercover British officers in Germany. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -11 | The Supreme Court has sided wth Puerto Rico's lenders by ruling that Puerto Rico doesn't have the ability to declare bankruptcy. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Bengali Bust: Bangladesh has started a nationwide crackdown including over 5,000 arrests following international outcry over recent spate of brutal murders. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | The RCMP surveilled thousands of innocent Canadians for decades. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 44 | In more progressive news, the Dutch woman arrested for being raped will receive a small fine and a deportation. Her rapist will receive 140 lashes. Not exactly ideal, but it's a start. Hooray Qatar, welcome to the 18th century! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | The FBI pursued questionable terror suspects before the Orlando massacre. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | The LAPD has arrested an armed man who wanted to attack the LA pride parade. An American-born non-muslim. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | The Ninth Circuit Court has ruled that the Second Amendment doesn’t protect a right to concealed firearms. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Four Navajos have sued the Mormon church over child sex abuse. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | A federal judge has ruled that California must allow trans inmates items that match their gender. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | The Urban Areas Security Initiative appears to be a slush fund for surveillance of activists and police militarization. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | The NYPD have assaulted a rapper for being in the Brooklyn Bridge Park. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | ISPs are trying to fight competition. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | The DEA is trying to gain surveillance access to millions of private medical files. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | Over 100,000 Texas women carried out their own abortions after the State introduced new restrictions on abortion clinics. The US Supreme Court has decided the restrictions are unconstitutional. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | After Germany decided to recognise the Armenian Genocide as such, the 11 Turkish-German MPs that voted for the recognition received death threats, while Erdogan questions their Turkishness. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 49 | 50 dead, 53 wounded in mass shooting at Florida gay club. Shooter is reported to be American-born Muslim. A speaker at a mosque about 20 miles from the massacre site quoted a text advocating killing gays, 'out of compassion'. It's not clear if Farrokh Sekaleshfar quoted that text at the nearby mosque or elsewhere. |


