LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrea Vacchiano Martin Shkreli, the former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals who gained notoriety for raising the cost of the AIDS drug Daraprim from $13.50 to $750 a pill, begins a long-awaited securities fraud trial on June 26 in Brooklyn. Shkreli is being accused of running a Ponzi-like scheme between…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ryan Pickrell South Korea is using the Winter Olympics to connect with the North, but the rapprochement Seoul is seeking with Pyongyang is advancing poorly. South Korea, which will host the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang has proposed co-hosting the sporting event and even forming a unified team. The goal is…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follett The UK’s electric grid will become more vulnerable to cyber attacks as more green energy comes online, the ex-chairman of the country’s national grid said Monday. Steve Holliday, the the former chairman of the U.K.’s national grid, said decentralized power from wind turbines and solar panels are…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ryan Pickrell Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese human rights activist recently diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer, has been released on medical parole and moved from his prison cell to a hospital. Liu was a prominent leader during the Tiananmen Square protests almost three decades ago, and he spent two years…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Grace Carr A teacher is suing the California Teachers Association for taking educators’ money but reportedly giving them no political voice or representation in return. Bhavini Bhakta, a California educator who was laid off shortly after receiving her school’s teacher of the year Award in 2009, never intended to become an activist….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Henry Rodgers House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi appeared on CBS Monday morning to respond to members of her own party calling for her to step down from her position. Among others, Democratic Reps. Kathleen Rice of New York, Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, Filemon Vela of Texas and Tim Ryan of Ohio called…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Nick Givas Democratic Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota appeared on “Morning Joe” Monday and said that the alleged Russian election interference was the fault of the Obama administration, and the reason former President Barack Obama didn’t investigate further was because he didn’t want to put “his thumb on the scale” for then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will review lower court rulings blocking enforcement of President Donald Trump’s executive order on refugee and migrant entry, and stayed injunctions barring the order’s enforcement. The announcement is a major victory for the president, whose signature immigration policy has been…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Grace Carr Black Lives Matter advocates attempted to hold up the Minneapolis Pride Parade Sunday by protesting the inclusion of police in the march. A group of about 75 protesters — some of which wore rainbow garb and carried a “Justice for Philando” banner while shouting slogans like “No KKKops at Pride!” — briefly blocked intersections and caused several…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jacob Bojesson The British Conservatives reached a deal Monday with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to form a minority government. Prime Minister Theresa May and the Conservatives needed backing from at least nine members of parliament to reach a majority. DUP, a conservative Northern Irish party, will give them…