Calls are growing for Labor Secretary Tom Perez to enter the race for chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Perez has several close allies among the state Democratic chairmen who are privately urging him to run for party leader, along with support from parts of the labor movement. Some leaders in the AFL-CIO, the nation’s…
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Thursday that New York City was ending its legal battle against reforms to the controversial stop-and-frisk practices. De Blasio had made reforming stop-and-frisk a central part of his campaign pledges, and promised at a news conference Thursday a “commitment to fix the fundamental problems that enabled stop-and-frisk to grow…
The Young Bucks survived a four-way tag team match in the main event of Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite to earn a shot at Tag Team Champions FTR at November’s Full Gear pay-per-view. After the match, FTR went to shake the Bucks’ hands but the challengers were surprised from behind by a Tully Blanchard chair shot, eventually…
Former CIA spokesman George Little is blasting 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 bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE for the president-elect’s dismissal of the secret CIA assessment that concluded…
Today—Tuesday, February 11th, 2014—is the day the . With an online campaign designed to galvanize supporters of privacy and the open internet against the troublesome trend of government spying, more than 600 hundred organizations from around the globe—including Access, Demand Progress, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Fight for the Future, Free Press, BoingBoing, Reddit, Mozilla, ThoughtWorks,…
Kota Ibushi has won the G1 Climax tournament for the second year in a row. Ibushi defeated SANADA tonight at Sumo Hall to become the first back-to-back G1 Climax winner since Hiroyoshi Tenzan in 2003 and 2004. In a back and forth match that lasted over 35 minutes, Ibushi defeated SANADA after landing two kamigoyes….
Despite reports of a “shale bubble” as well as climate, public health and water consumption concerns associated with fracking, Ryan Lance, CEO and chairman of energy giant ConocoPhillips, foresees a long future ahead for the country’s shale revolution. Lance made the comments Friday at the “The Geopolitics of Natural Gas” conference in Houston, where he…
Bernie Sanders says he is “prepared to run for president of the United States.” That’s not a formal announcement. A lot can change between now and 2016, and the populist senator from Vermont bristles at the whole notion of a permanent campaign. But Sanders has begun talking with savvy progressive political strategists, traveling to unexpected…
CAIRO – When Egypt’s then-president Mohamed Morsi said in June 2013 that “all options” including military intervention, were on the table if Ethiopia continued to develop dams on the Nile River, many dismissed it as posturing. But experts claim Cairo is deadly serious about defending its historic water allotment, and if Ethiopia proceeds with construction…
New revelations reveal a near certain threat of flooding and erosion that will cause radioactive pollution from a coastal nuclear waste dump in the UK. In operation since 1959, the Low Level Waste Repository (LLWR) near Drigg in Cumbria houses nuclear waste from the nearby Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site in addition to military, hospital and…