Month: October 2020

A U.S. airstrike on Tuesday killed scores of people in southern Yemen, an attack that one analyst says may represent a new approach to the administration’s “targeted killing” program. The Pentagon said in a statement that the target of the attack was an al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) training camp, adding, “our initial assessment…

Bernie Sanders on Tuesday praised President Barack Obama’s proposal to close Guantánamo Bay, noting in a statement that he has supported closing the U.S. military prison in Cuba for years—unlike Hillary Clinton, his rival for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. “I am encouraged to see that the president is sending Congress a plan to shut…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed a plan to encircle his entire country with a fence as protection against “wild beasts,” referring to those in neighboring Arab states. He made the comments Tuesday while visiting an 18-mile stretch of fence already under construction on the Israel-Jordan border. “At the end of the day, in…

More than six in 10 Americans are represented by a climate denier in Congress, according to new research from the Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAPAF). CAPAF researchers “classified any lawmaker who has questioned or denied the scientific consensus behind human-caused climate change, individuals who answered climate questions with the ‘I’m not a scientist’…

An unsolved December break-in to the Flint City Hall office where files on the water crisis were being stored was “definitely an inside job,” the city’s police chief has told local media. That statement raised more than a few eyebrows as Flint officials are currently being investigated for their role in the ongoing lead poisoning…

Click:12 watt led street light price The FBI paid professional hackers to unlock the suspected San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone after a months-long unsuccessful attempt to force Apple to create decryption software, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. The hackers reportedly discovered and alerted the bureau to at least one previously unknown security flaw in the…

In a development heralded as a win for democracy, Illinois lawmakers on Tuesday passed legislation to enact automatic voter registration. It marks “a landmark victory for voting rights,” according to the Brennan Center for Justice’s Jonathan Brater, who adds that the move “in the nation’s fifth most populous state is a big deal in a…

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Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), the chair of the House Democrats’ campaign arm, defended Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday amid an intraparty squabble about whether she should stay on as leader following multiple special election losses. “Being leader is a tough responsibility, and there’s no one who works smarter and around the clock…

Democrats in both chambers will gather in rural Virginia on Monday to unveil a new national messaging campaign aimed at easing the economic strain on working-class Americans — and propelling their party back to power in order to check an unpopular president in Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats…