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JP Carroll In a bid to change the outcome of Venezuela’s Dec. 6 legislative elections, the ruling Venezuelan Socialist Party wants to appoint sympathetic judges to the country’s Supreme Court. The conservative Democratic Unity Roundtable, known as MUD, publicly accused Socialist President Nicolas Maduro Wednesday of using “legal tricks to steal something the voters didn’t want to…
Casey Harper Chicago is in turmoil over multiple police killings in the city, and similar events in Cleveland have led to confusion around the country about what exactly is going on. Here are the seven things you need to know about what is happening with Black Lives Matter protestors in Chicago and Cleveland right now. 1. There…
Blake Neff Update: The article has been posted once again, and modified to note Moore’s background. Salon deleted an article on its website Wednesday about an arson attack on a Houston mosque, after news broke the alleged attacker was Muslim. Authorities charged Gary Moore early Wednesday with setting fire to the Islamic Center of Houston on Christmas Day,…
Kathryn Watson While many Americans are making hopeful New Year’s resolutions for 2016 like losing weight, learning a new skill or saving more money, federal agency officials could focus on being more productive with the trillions of tax dollars they collect every year. There is no shortage of ways to do so. The Government Accountability…
Josh Fatzick Maryland may soon be forced to change its state song “Maryland, My Maryland,” after an advisory panel said the song is too racist. According to the state advisory panel the lyrics of the Civil War-era song, which refers to Abraham Lincoln as a “despot” and called on Maryland to join the Confederacy, doesn’t…
A recent Pew research poll found a shockingly high number of Americans believe the government is their enemy. More than 1 in 4, or 27% answered as such in the survey released last month. CBS reports: Pew Research Center found that 27 percent of registered voters say they think of government as an enemy, up 8…
Chris White A professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst told his students earlier this month that human beings are in the midst of a “sixth mass extinction,” according to audio obtained and published Tuesday by The College Fix. “We humans are creating the conditions for our own extinction as a species,” Timothy Pachirat, a comparative…
Casey Harper As protesters call for his resignation, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel will announce major changes to local law enforcement policies Wednesday in an effort to tamp down police violence. One of the new policies states all officers who go out on service calls will have a Taser and be trained on how to use them, CNN reports. The…
Jacob Bojesson Turkey and Greece engaged in a cat and mouse game Tuesday after several Turkish airplanes repeatedly violated the Greek airspace. The violations were the first since early December and come just a month after Turkey shot down a Russian aircraft for the same violation. A formation of six Turkish jets, with a CN-235 transport…
After widespread allegations, Bill Cosby has actually been charged with sexual assaulting a Pennsylvania woman in 2004. The Washington Post reports: Prosecutors charged Cosby with aggravated indecent assault, a felony, First Assistant District Attorney Kevin Steele said in a morning press conference. The single charge stems from an alleged sexual assault in early 2004. “Today, after examination…