The judge presiding over Tuesday’s class-action lawsuit against the New York Board of Elections has moved the hearing to a later date, reports The Young Turks‘ Jordan Chariton, who attended the hearing. The judge also instructed the plaintiffs to name all New York counties as defendants and to give the counties notice that they have…
Read moreJustice for Berta Caceres Incomplete Without Land Rights: UN Rapporteur
The murder of Honduran Indigenous woman Berta Caceres is only too familiar to Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. All around the world, Indigenous peoples are murdered, raped and kidnapped when their lands fall in the path of deforestation, mining and construction. According to the group Global Witness, one Indigenous person was killed…
Read moreDreaded 'Nightmare Bacteria' Resistant to All Antibiotics Is Finally Here
A so-called superbug immune to all antibiotics was discovered for the first time in a person in the U.S., reports a study published Thursday in the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. The discovery “heralds the emergence of a truly pan-drug resistant bacteria,” the study’s authors warned. “I’ve cared for patients for whom there are no…
Read more'Victory for Children of Every Color': SCOTUS Upholds Affirmative Action
In a narrow but significant 4-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the University of Texas at Austin’s affirmative action program. The court’s decision (pdf) in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin “is a victory for children of every color in America,” the NAACP Legal Defense Fund said on Twitter. The case…
Read moreChallenger’s super PAC accuses Flake of betraying voters in new ad
A political action committee backing Sen. Jeff FlakeJeffrey (Jeff) Lane FlakeGOP lawmakers stick to Trump amid new criticism Kelly holds double-digit lead over McSally in Arizona: poll Trump asserts his power over Republicans MORE’s (R-Ariz.) primary challenger is out with a new ad buy accusing Flake and Sen. John McCainJohn Sidney McCainThe Hill’s Campaign Report:…
Read moreLeft-Wing Party In Spain Borrows Ikea Style to Promote Anti-Austerity Manifesto
The Spanish anti-austerity political party Podemos has an interesting idea to make its new platform the “most-read manifesto ever produced”: put it in the form of an Ikea catalog. Across pages of photographs depicting the party’s leaders relaxing or working in their sun-dappled homes, Podemos outlines its proposals (pdf) on key political issues, covering familiar…
Read moreNo Charges for Clinton Expose 'Two-Tiered System of Justice'
The FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of private email servers turned up no recommendation that she be charged with any crime, but it did offer a reminder of how powerful officials—especially the former secretary of state—are seemingly held to a different standard when it comes to rule of law in general and secrecy laws…
Read moreRNC Night(mare) Two: Trump Junior, the 'Lynch Mob,' and… Lucifer?
On the night Donald J. Trump officially secured the GOP nomination for president (he’ll formally accept the nod on Thursday), Republican convention speakers “barely mentioned” the real estate tycoon, focusing instead on Hillary Clinton, keeping conservative control of Congress, and Lucifer. Donald Trump, Jr. was arguably the winner of Tuesday night, with multiple sources referring…
Read moreGlobal Surveillance Industry Database Helps Track Big Brother Worldwide
Offering a groundbreaking glimpse of the global surveillance industry—the tools it employs, the extent of its reach, and the accountability it largely evades—human rights watchdog organization Privacy International on Tuesday released a searchable database and accompanying report that track Big Brother worldwide. The initiative “provides much needed information about a secretive industry which has grown…
Read moreUS Calls 'Unacceptable' Turkey's Attack on Kurdish Fighters in Syria
The United States has criticized as “unacceptable” the fighting between forces backed NATO ally Turkey and U.S.-backed pro-Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, just days after the U.S. and Russia suggested there was no imminent ceasefire to the conflict that has killed at least a quarter of a million people. “We are closely monitoring reports of…
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