On Wednesday, the head of a leading green group joined a coalition of environmental organizations in opposing the extended operation of an aging California nuclear power plant slated to shut down by 2025 but given a new lease on life this week by the Biden administration. Reuters reports the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced Wednesday ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A former US police officer has pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter for his role in the 2020 killing of George Floyd, Minnesota’s attorney general announced Thursday. Thomas Lane was one of three former officers on the scene as fellow ex-officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on Floyd’s neck for more than nin...
MOSCOW (AA) – The Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Wednesday that 959 Ukrainian servicemen surrendered at the Azovstal steel plant in the besieged city of Mariupol over the past day. Speaking at a press briefing in Moscow, spokesman Igor Konashenkov said there were 80 wounded among them, including 51 soldiers who needed hospitalization. All...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The US dollar hit an all-time high against Pakistani rupee on Wednesday, rising past 200 in the open market. The greenback that began its streak against the Pakistani rupee last month — amid a political crisis, which also saw the ouster of former premier Imran Khan through a no-trust motion — [&hellip...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The Belgian government tried to send nearly expired medicines from its strategic stockpile to Ukraine as humanitarian aid, local media reported on Wednesday. According to an investigation by the Het Laatste Nieuws (HLN) newspaper, the €3.4 million ($3.6 million) worth of humanitarian aid that the Belgian federal governmen...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday warned Israel that it would have to face devastating consequences if it resumed its policy of assassinating Palestinians. His media adviser Taher al-Nunu said the Hamas leader sent messages to several foreign leaders warning against any resumption of the assass...
Not every progressive candidate was victorious in Tuesday’s primary contests, but on the whole, the Democratic Party’s progressive wing had a successful showing despite the best efforts of the party establishment and millions of dollars in right-wing super PAC money. While progressive candidates came up short in North Carolina, the...
Summer Lee declared victory late Tuesday in the Democratic primary race to represent Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District in the U.S. House, voicing confidence that the remaining uncounted votes will favor her campaign over corporate attorney Steve Irwin’s. With 93% of precincts reporting, Lee holds a 446-vote lead over Irwin...
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman handily defeated Rep. Conor Lamb in the Democratic primary for the battleground state’s open U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday, pitting the progressive against whichever right-wing candidate prevails in the deadlocked GOP contest between Mehmet Oz and Dave McCormick. In a statement following his 33-point vi...
GENEVA (AA) – Over the last week, COVID-19 cases have risen in four of the six World Health Organization regions, the WHO chief said Tuesday, airing concern about the increasing difficulty in learning how the virus is mutating, along with the need for more information from North Korea. WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said that du...
