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Ethan Barton Chinese and Russian propaganda supplements are regularly included in The Washington Post, but the widely read newspaper won’t say how much money it gets on the deals. China Watch – a China Daily publication – and Russia Beyond The Headlines – a Rossiyskaya Gazeta publication – have both appeared in the Post for years…
Rachel Stoltzfoos A Jeb Bush Donor upset about his failed attack on Sen. Marco Rubio in the Republican presidential primary debate Wednesday called Rubio a “Jedi Master,” who the Bush campaign should have known not to mess with. “Marco is a [expletive] Jedi Master,” the reportedly “distraught” Florida donor told Politico. “Hopefully these idiots learn not to [expletive] with him anymore. Not…
Juliegrace Brufke The House passed a sweeping bipartisan budget deal negotiated by party leaders and the White House Wednesday, angering some conservative House Republicans. The deal passed 266-167 with the support of just 79 Republicans and every Democrat who voted. It lifts the debt ceiling until March, 2017, preventing a potentially disastrous default on U.S. debt the…
Guy Bentley Leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party Nigel Farage is accusing the European Union of moving towards a Soviet-style government. In a fiery speech delivered in the European Parliament, Farage lamented the ousting of European leaders such as Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi and Greece’s George Papandreou under E.U. pressure in 2011. Referring to the E.U.’s…
Andrew Follett People are ruining the planet and there needs to be a lot fewer of them in order to save the environment, according to a recent article by a Brown University academic. “[Pope Francis] utterly failed to address a major threat to humanity’s future that he and the Catholic Church have helped create: over-population” claimed…
Steve Birr With pipeline projects mired in environmental battles and oil prices trapped below $50 a barrel, Royal Dutch Shell announced Wednesday it is halting its oil sands project in Canada. Shell stopped development at its Carmon Creek facility in Alberta, a project that would produce 80,000 barrels of oil a day. The loss will…
Jonah Bennett NATO member countries are in talks to send in a battalion of troops to each of three Baltic states bordering Russia. Each battalion would be comprised of anywhere from 800 to 1,000 troops. That proposal is the more aggressive one. An alternative proposal on the table is to send just one NATO battalion…
Steve Ambrose Liquor delivery company Minibar announced on Oct. 28 it will add a new subscription service which allows users to set up automatic deliveries. The co-founder of Minibar, Lara Crystal, told Next Web News, “[s]ince we launched Minibar, customers have been requesting subscriptions. Now anyone can set up a weekly beer order for their office or…
Josh Fatzick With the number of gay and transgender people on the upswing in the District of Columbia, city council members want to force doctors to take cultural competency classes to better accommodate them. The council heard testimony Wednesday from local activists urging them to pass legislation that would make“LGBTQ cultural competency training” a part…
Blake Neff Iran’s Islamist government is pretty uneasy about dissidents. So uneasy, in fact, that the government is trying to delete them from history. Iranian television aired footage Sunday from a 1984 speech delivered by Ayatollah Khamenei, who today is the country’s Supreme Leader. In the background is a large photo of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder…