Judi Lynn

Why is the U.S. pushing regime change in Venezuela during a pandemic?

By Editorial Board
April 2, 2020 at 2:56 p.m. CDT

THE “DEMOCRATIC transition framework” for Venezuela laid out by the Trump administration this week was described by some as a compromise, since it proposes that both regime leader Nicolás Maduro and U.S.-backed opposition head…[Read more]

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By Chelsea Gohd – Space.com 11 days ago

cientists think that dark matter produces a bright and spherical halo of X-ray emission around the center of the Milky Way.
(Image: © Artistic rendering by Christopher Dessert, Nicholas L. Rodd, Benjamin R. Safdi, Zosia Rostomian (Berkeley Lab), based on data from the Fermi Large Area…[Read more]

By Charles Q. Choi – Live Science Contributor 10 hours ago

An artist’s depiction of a distorted exoplanet.
(Image: © NASA, ESA, and J. Olmsted (STScI))

An exoplanet may be shaped like an American football due to the mighty gravitational forces it experiences close to its star, a new study finds.

Scientists investigated KOI 1843.03, an…[Read more]

The president attacked the U.S. Health and Human Services principal deputy inspector general, Christi Grimm, suggesting she was biased.

Hunter Woodall
Politics Reporter
Updated Apr. 06, 2020 8:00PM ET / Published Apr. 06, 2020 7:06PM ET

President Donald Trump went after the acting inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human…[Read more]

by Colin Kalmbacher | 7:41 pm, April 6th, 2020

A subordinate judge who issued an opinion that was critical of his Gov. Ron DeSantis-appointed supervisor was sanctioned and suspended last Wednesday.

Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) John Van Laningham called out Division of Administrative Hearings Chief Judge and Director John MacIver in the…[Read more]

Virginia pastor Landon Spradlin had said on social media that the coronavirus was overhyped before falling ill

Gino Spocchia
7 hours ago

A 66-year-old pastor and street musician who said media coverage of the coronavirus was overhyped died of the virus after travelling from Virginia to preach at Mardi Gras.

Pastor Landon Spradlin died at a…[Read more]

Posted by News Editor in Latest News, RSS, Transport on April 3, 2020 5:22 pm

WASHINGTON, DC, April 3, 2020 (ENS) – The Republican administration of President Donald Trump has not let the deadly coronavirus crisis stop it from getting rid of Obama-era federal fuel efficiency standards and replacing them with a less ambitious plan. The Trump p…[Read more]

Published on
Thursday, March 26, 2020
byCommon Dreams

“An absurd demonstration of Washington’s gangsterism.”

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday announced charges of international drug trafficking against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a move that was immediately denounced by progressives as a cynical…[Read more]

Published on
Monday, April 06, 2020
by Common Dreams

“The president’s attempts to rid the government of those who would provide appropriate oversight and accountability for abuses… sets us on a dangerous trajectory.”

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer

Michael Atkinson, the Intelligence Community inspector general fired by President Donald Trump on…[Read more]

Published on
Sunday, April 05, 2020
by Common Dreams

“The media doesn’t need to choose sides in the story. It need only courageously do its job in reporting the facts of Trump’s critical role in allowing the pandemic to spread.”

by Robert Freeman

In the 2016 election the media gave more than $2 billion of free publicity to Donald Trump. It w…[Read more]

Published on
Monday, April 06, 2020
by Common Dreams

“To politicians and anti-abortion groups playing political games amid a pandemic: Let this be a lesson to you that we won’t allow you to put our patients and the community at risk.”

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Reproductive rights advocates celebrated on Monday after U.S. District Judge…[Read more]

First time Washington has labeled white-supremacist group as terrorist organization, says Nathan Sales
Beyza Binnur Dönmez |
06.04.2020

ANKARA

The U.S. designated Monday a Russian ultra-nationalist group Russian Imperial Movement as a terrorist organization.

“This is the first time the United States has ever designated white supremacist…[Read more]

The state had local elections and the Democratic presidential primary scheduled for Tuesday. Gov. Tony Evers expects a court challenge.

By NATASHA KORECKI and ZACH MONTELLARO

04/06/2020 01:51 PM EDT
Updated: 04/06/2020 06:50 PM EDT

The Wisconsin Supreme Court blocked Gov. Tony Evers’ late executive order postponing in-person voting in T…[Read more]

APRIL 6, 2020 / 4:56 PM / UPDATED 33 MINUTES AGO

Jake Spring
3 MIN READ

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s Environment Minister Ricardo Salles has dismissed a senior analyst who opposed rescinding environmental authorizations for wood exports, according to a notice published in the official government gazette on Monday.

Reuters reported last month t…[Read more]

MARTIN MACIAS JR April 6, 2020

Indigenous inhabitants of islands in the Caribbean and off the coast of West Africa developed lifestyles that allowed them to adapt to catastrophic climate events such as hurricanes and sea-level rise, researchers say. (Courtesy of Kristina Douglass / Penn State)

(CN) – Communities in the Caribbean and on i…[Read more]

President, who has clashed with the Minister of Health, said he is not afraid “fire” people for the good of Brazil

Apr.6.2020 1:59PM

Without naming names, President Jair Bolsonaro said on Sunday (5) that he would fire members of his government who become “stars.”

“(For) some people in my government, something went up in their heads. They are…[Read more]

The positive evaluation is higher among those who earn 2 to 5 times the minimum salary (35%) and in the range between 5 and 10 minimum salaries (36%)

Apr.6.2020 1:42PM

The ministry, led by Luiz Henrique Mandetta, is approved by 76% of the population, while the president received 33% approval amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Brazilians…[Read more]

by Adriaan Alsema April 6, 2020

Former President Alvaro Uribe and President Ivan Duque allegedly involved multiple crime families in a plot to rig Colombia’s 2018 elections, a wiretap released on Sunday revealed.

In the wiretap, Uribe’s former PA Maria Claudia Daza informed the brother of of late money launderer Jose Guilllermo Hernandez tha…[Read more]

April 01 2020 10:27 PM

Thomson Reuters Foundation/Bogota

The first two cases of the coronavirus has been confirmed among Colombia’s indigenous people, local authorities said, fanning fears that the highly contagious disease could decimate vulnerable tribal communities.

The cases were found in two people from the Yukpa group who live in dire p…[Read more]