Month: October 2020

President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named “Trump says he's 'open-minded' on issues involving environment”

A majority of Senate Democrats are refusing to reveal where they stand on a bipartisan Iran sanctions bill that experts warn risks a catastrophic war “Eyes on Silent Dems as Hawks Push for War with Iran”

After pleading guilty to destroying evidence that implicated contractor Halliburton in the largest offshore oil spill in history — the 2010 BP disaster in the “Halliburton Supervisor Avoids Jail Time for Gulf Spill”

A new compromised Farm Bill that passed the House of Representatives on Monday and has received backing from prominent senators of both parties will make “As Congress Targets Food Stamps, Working Poor Get Whacked Again”

Activists opposed to India’s plans to massively increase civilian nuclear power production are aghast that a plan for an Indo-Japanese nuclear cooperation deal is gaining “Protesters Resist an ‘Indian Fukushima’”

Where’s the deterrent for stopping big banks from breaking the law? That was the question posed by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) Thursday at the Senate “Sen. Warren: Are We Making It Easier for Big Banks to Break the Law?”

Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein plans to ask donors to which organizations she should donate any money that may be left over from her “Stein to ask donors how to spend unused recount funds”

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has publicly acknowledged the supposedly covert CIA drone program. While media outlets and some government officials have publicly admitted “DNI Clapper Admits CIA's Not-Really-Secret Secret Drone Program”

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is redrawing flood maps across the United States to pass the costs of massive storms — expected to worsen with “As Climate Floods Surge, Taxpayers On Hook to Insure Homes of the 1%”

A class of insecticides known as pyrethroids used inside the home is increasingly found in the human body, a team of researchers from UC Davis “Common Insecticides on the Rise in Your Home and Body: Report”