Actor Antonio Sabato Jr. is launching a bid for Congress in California, the Los Angeles Times first reported. Sabato, who supported President Trump during his bid for the White House and spoke at the Republican National Convention last summer, will challenge Rep. Julia BrownleyJulia Andrews BrownleyHouse Democrats eyeing much broader Phase 3 stimulus Assistant House Speaker self-quarantines…
Anti-austerity demonstrations in Belgium on Wednesday drew tens of thousands of people—some of whom clashed with police and were sprayed by water cannons as they marched through Brussels demanding an end to new measures which they say unfairly target workers and favor corporations. #manif7oct Tweets Organized by Belgium’s three largest unions, the protests came in…
Despite originally being renewed for a fourth and final season, Netflix has cancelled GLOW. Deadline reported that Netflix has reversed its renewal decision due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Netflix had originally committed to a fourth season of the show back in August of 2019. “COVID has killed actual humans. It’s a national tragedy and…
The U.S. is reportedly considering a plan to leave as many as 10,000 troops in Afghanistan “beyond the end of 2016,” the Wall Street Journal has reported. The paper reports that the option was one of five that the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Campbell, offered the Pentagon and NATO officials in Brussels….
The American Civil Liberties Union has accused Biloxi, Miss. of operating “a modern day debtors’ prison,” filing a lawsuit on Wednesday charging that the city, in violation of the U.S. Constitution, jails impoverished people for unpaid fines and fees they are unable to pay. “It’s essentially a jailhouse shakedown,” stated Nusrat Choudhury, an attorney with…
The Environmental Protection Agency concluded in June that there was “no convincing evidence” that glyphosate, the most widely used herbicide in the U.S. and the world, is an endocrine disruptor. On the face of it, this was great news, given that some 300 million pounds of the chemical were used on U.S. crops in 2012, the…
Offering a dramatic window into the fractious and complex geopolitics now swirling around the war against the Islamic State inside Syria and Iraq, the downing of a Russian warplane by Turkey on Tuesday was also followed by the release of footage purporting to show a Russian military helicopter being destroyed by Syrian rebel forces armed…