By Lauren von Bernuth on Dec 07, 2019 01:00 pm
 “PG&E pumped out $4.5 billion in dividends and let the tree budget wither.” On Friday, California utility company Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) announced it had reached a $13.5 billion settlement with victims of several California wildfires that killed dozens of people and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses across the state from 2016-2018. “From [...]
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By Lauren von Bernuth on Dec 07, 2019 10:48 am
 In a temporary softening of relations between the U.S. and Iran, the two countries agreed to a prisoner swap on Saturday. Princeton graduate student Xiyue Wang was freed by Iran on Saturday after serving three years of a ten-year sentence over two espionage charges. In exchange, the U.S. released Masoud Soleimani, an Iranian stem cell [...]
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By Lauren von Bernuth on Dec 07, 2019 09:37 am
 West Virginia officials fired and suspended over 30 corrections officers for their participation in a photo showing officers giving a Nazi salute. Three people have been fired and dozens suspended over a photo which shows a West Virginia basic training class of corrections officers giving a Nazi salute beneath the wording “Hail Byrd!” in a [...]
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By Guest Post on Dec 07, 2019 07:00 am
 Lobbying firms in Washington D.C. saw revenue more than double in the Trump era. (By Yue Stella Yu, The Center for Responsive Politics) For many well-connected Washington lobbying firms, business is booming after President Donald Trump’s 2016 election. At least 22 lobbying firms saw revenue more than double in the Trump era compared to the [...]
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By Lauren von Bernuth on Dec 07, 2019 05:00 am
 “Voting rights should be a nonpartisan issue, and the fact that in this amendment they would try to politicize voting rights – we should all, ALL, be appalled by that.” In a highly partisan vote, 227 Democrats and one Republican legislator in the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 4 or the Voting Rights Advancement [...]
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By Rami Almeghari on Dec 06, 2019 02:06 pm
 In late November, U.S. navy personnel boarded an unmarked ship and found a cache of missile parts that the U.S. claims are Iranian made and bound for Houthi rebels in Yemen. U.S. naval forces in the Arabian Gulf seized guided missile parts bound for Houthi rebels in Yemen that the U.S. claims were Iranian in [...]
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By Peter Castagno on Dec 06, 2019 11:59 am
 “We saw him on the ground and told him to crawl. But then a military vehicle raced up and a soldier fired at him, shooting him in the right leg. Soon a helicopter came and took him away.” The body of a 17-year old Palestinian boy was returned to his family in Gaza on October [...]
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By Wess Haubrich on Dec 06, 2019 10:48 am
 The Great Recession of 2008, desperation, and the documentary of the Great Cocaine Treasure Hunt: meet director Theo Love & Rodney Hyden. I chatted with The Legend of Cocaine Island’s director Theo Love and Rodney Hyden, the man who lived this bizarre and wickedly-entertaining tale of desperation, big dreams, and the power of a crazy [...]
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By Rami Almeghari on Dec 06, 2019 07:00 am
 In an attempt to modernize and improve the appearance of Egypt, the government is moving to replace tuk-tuks with minivans but could devastate an off-the-grid economy while doing so. Egyptian transportation authorities are considering a new plan for replacing small taxi vans, the tuk-tuks, with seven-seat minivans. Tuk-tuks, three-wheeled vehicles that run on gasoline, have [...]
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By Laurel Sutherlin on Dec 06, 2019 05:00 am
 Food manufacturers may be causing the destruction of a nationally protected wildlife reserve in Indonesia. Picture a rhinoceros in the rainforest, add a herd of elephants, families of orangutans swinging through the treetops and tigers prowling the understory, and there is only one place in the world you could be. Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem is one [...]
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By Lauren von Bernuth on Dec 05, 2019 02:15 pm
 The Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2019 could restore one of the most powerful provisions of the original 1965 Voting Rights Act, but must first pass an upcoming vote in the House. In 2013 the Supreme Court case Shelby County v. Holder dealt a devasting blow to voting rights advocates by nullifying one of the key [...]
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