By Amy Gunia, CNN (CNN) — India is one of the world’s top spacefaring nations. It is the first Asian country to reach Mars orbit, and the fourth on the planet to take a spacecraft to the moon, landing closer to the south pole, known for its cratered terrain, than anyone else has. But its
Andrea Ye was arrested on Wednesday and charged with making threats of mass violence after allegedly planning to shoot-up Wootton High School in Rockville, Maryland.
Calls for the National Guard to stop campus protests are not about safety.
Venezuela's socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro attempted to issue a message in English to U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday to discuss the upcoming expiration of Biden's generous oil and gas sanctions relief package to his regime.
Nick Montgomery says he wants to banish the “Hibsed it” curse from Easter Road forever. And the under-fire manager, who went “all-in” by moving his entire family to Scotland when he replaced Lee Johnson last September, believes he deserves a proper summer transfer window to prove his value to the club. Speaking at East Mains earlier today, Montgomery got his first chance to respond to last week’s statement by the Hibs board. Directors went public in the wake of the team failing to make the top...
The next time Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) stands in front of a microphone to talk about election integrity, I want you to remember this: Nearly a third of voters in Louisiana are Black, and yet Black voters had control over less than 20% of the state’s congressional districts. White voters make up less than 60% of the electorate yet had control over more than 80% of the power. When the Democratic governor vetoed attempts to suppress the Black vote, the Republican state Legislature overrode the...
Google fired 28 employees Wednesday who protested the tech giant’s cloud computing contract with the Israeli government. Protesters staged sit-ins Tuesday at two Google offices — New York City and
Employees at Google's offices in New York and Sunnyvale staged a sit-in in protest of Project Nimbus on Tuesday. Nimbus is a government contract between Google and Amazon and the Israeli government for their cloud computing services. Protestors demanded that the $1.2 billion contract be terminated, ending Google's complicity and aid in human rights violations in Palestine. — Read the rest
Greg Abbott implied that openly transgender and gender-nonconforming people should no longer be allowed to teach in Texas schools.
The following piece by Harold Meyerson appeared in The American Prospect. Can Republicans keep building their support among working-class voters? Not if the Republicans have anything to say about it. Earlier today, the Republican Study Committee (RSC) released its recommendations for the fiscal 2025 budget. Among its particulars was a real working-class winner: raising the retirement age… Source
Stephen A. Smith continues to face backlash over his Donald Trump comments. Last week, Smith went viral when he appeared on Fox News and defended Trump by saying there was some truth about Trump’s comments on how black americans can relate to his legal troubles. “As much as people may have been abhorred by Donald […]
Google has fired more than 50 employees in the past week for participating in protests against the company's cloud computing deal with the Israeli government, according to activist group No Tech for Apartheid.