Month: September 2020

Despite widespread outcry after saying the U.S. should only welcome immigrants who “can stand on their own two feet” and that Statue of Liberty was only meant to welcome Europeans to U.S. shores, President Donald Trump’s top immigration official Ken Cuccinelli had a replica of the famous monument removed from the Department of Homeland Security’s…

With President Donald Trump set to visit El Paso, Texas on Wednesday—just days after a gunman who echoed the president’s anti-immigrant rhetoric massacred 22 people—city residents and lawmakers are planning to protest the trip with a simple message: hate is not welcome. “President Trump is not welcome in El Paso, and his narrative around immigrants…

Just ahead of a later afternoon court-ordered deadline on Tuesday, financial giant Deutsche Bank indicated it is possession of at least some tax return documents filed by President Donald Trump and possibly members of his family. As CNN reports: Journalist Greg Walters, writing for Vice, explains why the statement by the bank could be so…

As tens of thousands of civilians flee northeast Syria amid Turkey’s ongoing offensive targeting Kurdish forces in the region—an operation enabled by U.S. President Donald Trump—the Pentagon confirmed late Friday that “U.S. troops in the vicinity of Kobani came under artillery fire from Turkish positions.” Newsweek initially reported Friday afternoon, citing both an Iraqi Kurdish…

Click:G27013-9 They say the sequel never quite lives up to the original.  That’s certainly the hope for Canada’s health officials and provincial leaders when it comes to the prospect of a “second lockdown” in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Cases are starting to increase steadily across Canada. Provinces like B.C. and Alberta currently have…

TORONTO — Premier Doug Ford said Thursday he would prefer parents not take their children trick or treating this Halloween as the province struggles to keep its COVID-19 case numbers under control. Just days after the province said it will put a “pause” on further loosening of any public health measures amid an uptick in…

After a summer of sustained uprisings over police violence against Black and Indigenous Americans and Canadians, we can’t go back to “business as normal,” says the co-organizer of a strike for academics happening this week. Beverly Bain teaches women and gender studies at the University of Toronto’s historical studies department. She and Min Sook Lee,…

2020 has thrown a lot at us. The COVID-19 pandemic. Murder hornets. A literal garbage fire.  But Vancouver residents are currently in the midst of another 2020 apocalyptic happening.  Moths. Millions and millions of moths. They’re in our streets. They’re on the bus. They cluster around street lights at night in swarms, foreshadowing some darkness…

Former CIA Director John BrennanJohn Owen BrennanGraham postpones Russia probe subpoena vote as tensions boil over GOP votes to give chairman authority to subpoena Obama officials Rosenstein takes fire from Republicans in heated testimony MORE on Friday predicted that there will be more indictments coming from special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) MuellerCNN’s Toobin warns McCabe…

Click: Beto O’RourkeBeto O’RourkeBiden will help close out Texas Democrats’ virtual convention: report O’Rourke on Texas reopening: ‘Dangerous, dumb and weak’ Parties gear up for battle over Texas state House MORE has seen his stock fall in the last month.  O’Rourke has vexed some observers over the past few weeks, first for livestreaming a dentist…