House Democrats grilled CEOs of Big Oil companies, like ExxonMobil, Chevron and Shell, Wednesday about rising gas prices and profiteering from the Ukraine war. We get response from environmentalist Bill McKibben and speak with Ukrainian environmental lawyer Svitlana Romanko about how the war in Ukraine is impacting energy markets around the world.
The newly released “Poor People’s Pandemic Report” shows poor people died from COVID at twice the rate of wealthy Americans and that people of color were more likely to die than white populations. “Our country has gotten used to unnecessary death, especially when it’s the death of poor people,” says Rev. Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign.
We go to El Salvador for an update on how the government under President Nayib Bukele has arrested over 6,000 people since a 30-day state of emergency was imposed following a wave of violence. The state of exception has suspended freedom of assembly and weakened due process rights for those arrested, including an extension of how long people can be held without charge.
The Senate is expected to confirm Jackson on Thursday, securing her place as the first Black woman on the high court.
The former president said he had seen firsthand the “degree to which information, disinformation, misinformation was being weaponized.
The congresswoman who once supported executing Democrats said she had reported the comedian’s Will Smith slap joke as a “threat of violence.
The Arkansas senator’s insinuation about the Supreme Court nominee was apparently “a bridge too far,” even on Fox News.
The governor’s dubious plan follows the Biden administration lifting a public health policy that limited asylum-seekers from entering the U.S.
Women in Afghanistan are protesting a number of gender-based restrictions from the Taliban, including an order in March to shut down public high schools for girls. In response, U.S. officials canceled talks with Taliban leaders in Doha, continuing to freeze billions in Afghan assets while Afghanistan spirals into economic catastrophe. We speak with Masuda Sultan and Medea Benjamin, two co-founders of Unfreeze Afghanistan, a coalition advocating for the release of funding for Afghan civilians.
As the Russian assault on Ukraine continues, more videos are emerging that show evidence of Russian brutalities and possible war crimes, such as executions and torture. Russian officials have denied the accusations, calling them Ukrainian propaganda. We speak with Washington Post video journalist Jon Gerberg, who has been filing video reports from the war for the past six weeks, and see extended interviews from civilians he interviewed.
Ukrainian officials are accusing Russia of committing war crimes for killing civilians. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and EU leaders condemned images of dead civilians in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, where corpses were found littering the streets after Russian troops withdrew from the area, some with their hands bound behind their backs.
A judge said John Eastman appeared to be part of a “campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history.
The additional sanctions were taken against Russia after the emergence of troubling new evidence of war crimes in Ukraine.
Lauren Handy and her colleague Terrisa Bukovinac claim a medical waste worker let them take a box of aborted fetuses, but the company says that’s false.
The right-wing Senate candidate from Ohio said that Martin Luther King Jr. marched on the Edmund Pettus Bridge “so skin color wouldn’t matter.
The Missouri Republican does not use the same language as the more zealous members of his party — but he doesn’t like to contradict them, either.
The newly released “Poor People’s Pandemic Report” shows poor people died from COVID at twice the rate of wealthy Americans and that people of color were more likely to die than white populations. “Our country has gotten used to unnecessary death, especially when it’s the death of poor people,” says Rev. Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign.
We go to El Salvador for an update on how the government under President Nayib Bukele has arrested over 6,000 people since a 30-day state of emergency was imposed following a wave of violence. The state of exception has suspended freedom of assembly and weakened due process rights for those arrested, including an extension of how long people can be held without charge.
Pakistan is facing a constitutional crisis after Prime Minister Imran Khan dissolved the country’s National Assembly and called for new elections in an effort to block an attempt to remove him from power. Khan was facing a no-confidence vote in Parliament that would have unseated him, but his allies blocked the vote from happening.
Imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is “crumbling” physically and psychologically, says journalist Chris Hedges, who last week attended Assange’s wedding to his longtime partner Stella Moris at London’s Belmarsh prison. Assange has been behind bars for nearly three years awaiting a possible extradition to the United States on espionage charges for publishing documents revealing war crimes committed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
YouTube has deleted the entire archive of “On Contact,” an Emmy-nominated television show by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges which was hosted on the Russian government-funded news channel RT America. We speak with Hedges, who connects the YouTube censorship of his show to a growing crackdown on dissenting voices in American media.
A news station gets the second of three dashcam videos of the GOP congressman’s traffic stops by the North Carolina Highway Patrol.
In her response to Peter Doocy, she called the law a “reflection of politicians in Florida propagating misinformed, hateful policies.
A megachurch hosted the Kremlin-positive Fox News host — just as horrifying images of murdered civilians in Ukraine emerged.
Three Republican senators — including Susan Collins — have now said they will vote to confirm the Supreme Court nominee.
The new law guarantees access to reproductive care before and after pregnancy and bans local governments from imposing their own restrictions.
Ukrainian officials are accusing Russia of committing war crimes for killing civilians. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and EU leaders condemned images of dead civilians in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, where corpses were found littering the streets after Russian troops withdrew from the area, some with their hands bound behind their backs.
We speak with the two best friends who led a drive to organize workers at Amazon’s warehouse in Staten Island, New York, and made history Friday after a majority voted to form the first Amazon union in the U.S. We speak with Christian Smalls, interim president of the new union and former Amazon supervisor, about how he led the effort after Amazon fired him at the height of the pandemic for demanding better worker protections.
At first, he wanted a cut of the advance for a book planned by photographer Shealah Craighead featuring her own work.
Every student should now use “they” and “them” pronouns to avoid obvious gender identifiers like “he” and “she,” indicates a letter reportedly circulating in the state.