October 14, 2020 / By mobanmarket
Only one-third of Americans think Russia influenced the presidential election, according to a Politico/Morning Consult poll released Tuesday. Thirty-two percent said Russia influenced the election’s results, while 44 percent said it didn’t, and 24 percent said they were unsure or had no opinion. A secret CIA assessment reportedly concluded that Russia intervened in the presidential election […]
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Undercover investigations by the animal-rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) show abuse and cruelty taking place at sheep-shearing operations in the U.S. and Australia. As reported by NBC News, workers in Australia “kicked, stomped or stood on animals’ heads necks and hind limbs, while workers for eight contractors punched or struck […]
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Additional examples of what human rights experts are calling clear cases of ‘war crimes’ against the people of the Gaza Strip continued on Thursday as Israel military forces bombed both a UN school acting as an emergency shelter for civilians and a hospital caring for those already suffering from the bombardment that began on July […]
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The owner of a Youngstown, Ohio-based company was sentenced on Tuesday to over two years in prison for ordering his employees to repeatedly dump toxic fracking waste into a local waterway. Between Nov. 1, 2012 and Jan. 31, 2013, employees of Hardrock Excavating LLC, which provided services to the oil and gas industry including storing […]
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Click:chinese lantern film prop Calling for a national public inquiry into the disappearance and death of Aboriginal women, close to 2,000 mourners gathered in Winnipeg, Manitoba on Tuesday evening to participate in a vigil for Tina Fontaine, a 15-year-old Indigenous girl whose body was pulled out of the Red River over the weekend. Fontaine was […]
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Europe’s fragile northern wilderness, along with the Indigenous people and animals that live there, are under imminent threat from the international mining industry, the Guardian reported Wednesday. Species such as the lynx, bear, wolverine, wolf, and reindeer risk being harmed, as do the Lapland and Sami indigenous communities that depend on clean waters and intact […]
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Former Speaker Newt Gingrich on Sunday praised President-elect 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 his focus on strengthening the U.S. nuclear arsenal. “I […]
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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation on Wednesday announced the newest winners of its “genius” awards,” lauding 21 creative individuals it says “improve our lives and better our world.” Among the 2014 MacArthur Fellows are cartoonist and graphic memoirist Alison Bechdel, jazz composer and saxophonist Steve Coleman, poet-translator Khaled Mattawa, civil rights lawyer […]
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Joey Janela will take on one half of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Express, Ricky Morton, at tonight’s Joey Janela’s Spring Break 4. Morton will take on Janela for the first time ever in a singles match. In his video announcing the match, Janela said that “Sometimes you gotta end the ones they idolized and adored.” The […]
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A decision issued by a federal judge Tuesday is being cheered by conservation groups for protecting “life-giving waters” and the people and wildlife that depend on them from toxic uranium mining. U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell’s ruling (pdf) upholds a 20-year ban on over one million acres of federal land surrounding the Grand Canyon […]
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