As U.S. inflation hit a new 40-year high Wednesday, Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman took aim at the “corporate greed” exacerbating the nation’s affordability crisis. “I am going to go to Washington to fight to bring down prices,” Fetterman—who is also Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor—said in res...
Progressive campaigners on Wednesday urged members of the U.S. public to contact their representatives and demand their support for a pair of amendments that would reduce the country’s military spending, a call that comes as the House is set to vote on legislation that would hand the Pentagon more than $800 billion in the coming fiscal [...
A progressive coalition comprised of nearly three dozen environmental groups and labor unions on Wednesday urged Democratic leaders in both chambers of Congress to significantly increase funding for President Joe Biden’s executive orders to ramp up the domestic manufacturing of clean energy under the Defense Production Act. “Biden&...
“Mr. President, this is apartheid.” That’s the message that U.S. President Joe Biden will see on billboards and digital screens as he travels through parts of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) this week—the opening leg of his first trip to the Middle East since taking office. Prominent Israeli human rights group B...
More than 200 congressional staffers have urged the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate to finalize a reconciliation package that includes robust measures to tackle the fossil fuel-driven climate emergency before the August recess. “We’ve crafted the legislation necessary to avert climate catastrophe,” the staffers wro...
GENEVA (AA) – The head of the World Health Organization said Tuesday that he is concerned coronavirus cases and deaths are climbing, stretching health systems while monkeypox is also rising with 9,200 cases reported in 63 countries. “The Emergency Committee on COVID-19 met on Friday last week and concluded that the virus remains a ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The Somali military on Tuesday said that it had killed 25 al-Shabaab fighters during an operation in the country’s central Hiiraan region, according to Somali military radio. The military operation was conducted on the outskirts of the Mahas district, said Mohamed Ibrahim Hassan Bakaay, a military commander. The...
PARIS (AA) – A French court on Tuesday sentenced a former Rwandan official to 20 years in prison after finding him guilty of complicity in the 1994 genocide in the African country. The Paris Assize Court held Laurent Bucyibaruta, 78, the former prefect of Gikongoro province, guilty of acts of genocide and complicity in genocide […...
New research published Wednesday shows that since the coronavirus pandemic began more than two years ago, the five largest pharmaceutical companies in the United States have spent nearly $150 million lobbying against Democratic proposals to lower the country’s increasingly outlandish drug prices. The analysis by the corporate and governm...
WASHINGTON (AA) – John Bolton, former President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, has admitted that he was involved in planning coups in foreign countries. Bolton made the stunning revelation during an interview with CNN anchor Jake Tapper while discussing the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol building by Trump’s suppor...
