Paraguay's Senate unanimously impeached President Santiago Peña on Friday, for his role in the country's banking crisis. Peña was a close ally of U.S. president Donald Trump.
“The death penalty is a flawed, expensive, and error-filled practice that fails us all,” said Equal Justice Initiative’s Bryan Stevenson, urging other elected officials to follow the California governor’s lead.
In an effort to preserve Dem support for Israel in 2028, entire alternate realities were created by US media. Tuesday night debunked them.
Democrats may have just won control of the Senate and House, but the Trump administration has already found ways to target and prosecute activists standing up against its policies.
“Blue wave” wins have produced enough Democratic state governments to pass the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
The real question is this: come January when they control Congress, will Democrats take advantage of the new populism to enact measures most Americans need and want?
What’s taking shape at the ballot box and in the streets is a fight over the future of humanity. That future can’t belong to autocrats, warlords & those who own the money. It must belong to the people
“Tonight, we sent a crystal-clear message to the people at the top: We will not be conquered,” said senator-elect James Talarico.
“This is where Section 219 of the NDAA comes in,” said one observer. “They’re going to transfer all of the aid behind closed doors and cut it from the appropriations process.”
Advocates say inhumane conditions and no-contact policies at the CoreCivic-run facility are intentionally designed to pressure people detained there into signing deportation orders.
I can’t predict the results of this week’s high-stakes elections around the country, but when it comes to Trump and the MAGA-fied GOP, there is one prediction I’m confident making.
As part of our on-the-ground coverage of the midterm elections we’ve spoken to voters from across the spectrum in Lehigh Valley in the battleground district of PA-7.
“Macron and his government have left us no choice but to prepare for a total … shutdown of production and public services by uniting our trade union confederations and standing in solidarity with the students.”
“Should [we] have a society where some people can spend all day giving orders because they have money and some people have to spend all day taking orders because they don't?”
El-Sayed has 95% of Democratic voters’ support—the same as the GOP support for Rogers. But “division” narratives hound only one candidate. Why?
“We, the workers in the ports, know very well that without us nothing moves. Without our hands, containers remain still, ships are not loaded, the war machines are blocked.”
“We fear that if we do not get this government out of power, we will lose everything,” one Palestinian voter said.
As mounting debt and questionable returns raise fears of an AI investment bubble, economist Dean Baker examines the warning signs that the industry's financial boom may be faltering… if not destined for a bust!
“Through courage and determination, she helped change what the world saw as possible, who the world saw as deserving of rights and dignity.”
After lying to the press that he wasn’t a flight risk, Bolsonaro snuck out of the country in the dead of night, with alleged support from the Trump Administration and is now in the US
