Month: October 2020

The American middle class is shrinking. Click Here: Cardiff Blues Store For the first time in more than four decades, middle-income households have lost their majority status in the U.S., according to new findings, and are now outnumbered by their counterparts on opposite ends of the income spectrum. “The fastest-growing segments are the ones at…

Health officials in Brazil have warned of an “unprecedented situation” and are even urging women in some states to avoid getting pregnant as they’ve linked a rise in babies born with a serious birth defect to a mosquito-borne viral disease. The virus in question is Zika, which is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.  That…

Tens of thousands of junior doctors across the United Kingdom joined in strikes and pickets on Tuesday, protesting what they describe as “a fundamental breakdown in trust…for which the government is directly responsible.” Tweets about #JuniorDoctorsStrike OR #JuniorDoctors The strike stems from a dispute over pay and working conditions, weekend shifts in particular. The junior…

The Danish Parliament on Tuesday approved a controversial law which allows authorities to seize money and valuables from refugees, as well as delay family reunification—treatment which critics decry as “morally horrible” against those fleeing war and other violence. “The bill presented by the center-right minority government of prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen was approved by…

Citing the need for “urgency” and “big ideas” to take on dueling threats to democracy and the planet, Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon broke with his Democratic colleagues and became the first U.S. Senator to endorse Bernie Sanders for president. Despite the “uphill battle ahead,” Sanders’ “leadership…and willingness to fearlessly stand up to the powers…

Brexit talks grind on as the clock counts down to the end of the transition. The last formal round of talks between the U.K. and the European Union on their future relationship ended Friday and the following day Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen ordered their teams to keep…

Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanBush, Romney won’t support Trump reelection: NYT Twitter joins Democrats to boost mail-in voting — here’s why Lobbying world MORE (R-Wis.) on Thursday condemned GOP House special election candidate Greg Gianforte for allegedly assaulting a reporter, but did not call on Gianforte to drop out of the race. Click Here: cheap…

In the corner of Darrel Steinberg’s office sits a thermometer, printed on poster board about three feet high. Someone has colored in the bottom parts of the thermometer in red ink, to represent the number of high school seniors who have been placed in paid internships across Sacramento, part of a program the city calls…

MONTREAL — A public inquest into the death of an Indigenous woman who filmed herself being insulted by Quebec hospital staff hours before she died will be launched as soon as possible, the province’s chief coroner announced. Pascale Descary said the late-Saturday decision came as the result of a formal request filed hours earlier from…

A disastrous spate of oil spills in the Peruvian Amazon have gone from bad to worse in recent days, leaving Indigenous tribes frantically trying to clean up the mess left by the nation’s state-owned oil company. The catastrophic ruptures in Petroperu’s Northern Peruvian Pipeline occurred on January 25th and February 3rd and have threatened the…