Filipina journalist Maria Ressa and Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov accepted the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their “efforts to safeguard freedom of expression.” “There are so many more journalists persecuted in the shadows with neither exposure nor support, and governments are doubling down with impunity,” said Ressa in her acceptance speech at Friday’s Nobel ceremony, which we play in full.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could soon face charges in the United States after a U.K. court ruled Friday in favor of the U.S. government’s appeal to extradite him. U.K. Judge Timothy Holroyde said he was satisfied with a pledge from the United States that Assange would not be held in a so-called ADX maximum-security prison in Colorado, despite a U.K.
An explosive new investigation details how the European Union has created a shadow immigration system that captures migrants arriving from Africa before they reach Europe and sends them to brutal militia-run detention centers in Libya. “This is a climate migration story,” says Ian Urbina, investigative journalist and director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, who authored the report for The New Yorker magazine.
Ticket sales were so lackluster the upper tier of the arena was shut down, reports the Sun Sentinel.
Ticket sales were so lackluster the upper tier of the arena was shut down, reports the Sun Sentinel.
Retired Army colonel Phil Waldron also told The Washington Post that he briefed several members of Congress on “options” the night before Jan. 6.
Biden also countered the narrative that “Armageddon’s on the way” during his first late-night TV interview as president.
“Our government is still under attack,” warned Joanne Freeman in an op-ed for The Washington Post. “The offensive is quieter now but no less menacing.
The transcript of the former president’s inflammatory address before the U.S. Capitol riot shows otherwise.
An explosive new investigation details how the European Union has created a shadow immigration system that captures migrants arriving from Africa before they reach Europe and sends them to brutal militia-run detention centers in Libya. “This is a climate migration story,” says Ian Urbina, investigative journalist and director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, who authored the report for The New Yorker magazine.
“I liked Bibi. … But I also like loyalty. … Bibi could have stayed quiet. He has made a terrible mistake,” Trump said, according to an Israeli author’s account in Axios.
The president called the move by Kellogg’s “an existential attack on the union and its members.
Robert Scott Palmer was arrested 12 days after he was identified in a HuffPost story and pleaded guilty in October.
Georgia Republican David Perdue is furthering his embrace of debunked claims that Georgia’s 2020 presidential election was wrongly decided as he runs for governor.
Publicist Trevian Kutti tried to intimidate a Georgia election worker into making false claims of voter fraud, Reuters reported.
We speak with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney on his new film, “The Forever Prisoner,” which follows the story of Guantánamo prisoner Abu Zubaydah, who was the first so-called high-value prisoner subjected to the CIA’s torture program and has been indefinitely imprisoned since 2006 without charge. Nearly two decades after the start of the U.S.
Filipina journalist Maria Ressa and Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov accepted the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their “efforts to safeguard freedom of expression.” “There are so many more journalists persecuted in the shadows with neither exposure nor support, and governments are doubling down with impunity,” said Ressa in her acceptance speech at Friday’s Nobel ceremony, which we play in full.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could soon face charges in the United States after a U.K. court ruled Friday in favor of the U.S. government’s appeal to extradite him. U.K. Judge Timothy Holroyde said he was satisfied with a pledge from the United States that Assange would not be held in a so-called ADX maximum-security prison in Colorado, despite a U.K.
Animal rights activist Wayne Hsiung has been convicted on felony charges of burglary and larceny for removing a sick baby goat from a goat meat farm in North Carolina in 2018. Hsiung is the co-founder of the animal rights organization Direct Action Everywhere. He was given a suspended sentence and 24 months probation.
The National Archives said it is working with Meadows, who is also clashing with a House panel over records related to the Capitol riot.
The former president is trying to stop the release of hundreds of records related to the White House’s involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
James, a progressive whose investigation of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) pushed him out of office, is running for reelection as attorney general.
Attorney General Letitia James wants the former president to sit for a deposition related to the Trump Organization.
An explosive new investigation details how the European Union has created a shadow immigration system that captures migrants arriving from Africa before they reach Europe and sends them to brutal militia-run detention centers in Libya. “This is a climate migration story,” says Ian Urbina, investigative journalist and director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, who authored the report for The New Yorker magazine.
As calls grow for Biden to extend the moratorium on student debt, we speak with the Debt Collective’s Astra Taylor and feature her new film for The Intercept, “Your Debt Is Someone Else’s Asset,” animated by artist Molly Crabapple. The $15 trillion in U.S. household debt is “a form of wealth transfer” from the poor to the rich, Taylor says. “People are in debt by design.
President Biden may soon approve the largest military spending bill since World War II, which ramps up spending to counter China and Russia. Separately, the Senate voted down a bipartisan bid by Senators Bernie Sanders, Rand Paul and Mike Lee to halt $650 million in U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia amid the devastating ongoing war in Yemen.
“If I’m wrong, so be it, bro,” Carlson’s guest said after he’d told Fox News viewers that the St. Louis baseball booster was “clearly a law enforcement officer.
At least fifteen lives have been saved, so far, after the nation’s first supervised illegal drug injection sites opened in New York City about a week ago. The facilities provide clean needles and the opioid reversal medication Naloxone, as well as medical care and drug dependency treatment options. This comes as U.S. overdose deaths topped 100,000 during the first year of the pandemic.
The Fox News conspiracy theorist suggested coronavirus “feminizes” people.
Several Democrats joined Republicans in a symbolic rebuke of the Biden administration’s vaccine or testing mandate for businesses.