October 13, 2016 – The upper house of the New South Wales state parliament in Australia is condemning Donald Trump‘s run for president of the United States calling him a “revolting slug” unfit for public office. On Thursday, Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham introduced a motion slamming Trump’s hateful comments about women and minorities, including the […]
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ACLU and Human Rights Watch Report: The Disastrous Toll of Drug Use Criminalization
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12, 2016 – The massive enforcement of laws criminalizing personal drug use and possession in the United States causes devastating harm, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in a joint report released today. Enforcement ruins individual and family lives, discriminates against people of color, and undermines public health. […]
Federal Judge Extends Florida Voter Registration Deadline
October 12, 2016 – A federal judge in Tallahassee today extended Florida’s voter registration deadline to October 18 after voting advocacy groups filed a lawsuit arguing more than 100,000 voters could be disenfranchised because of disruptions caused by Hurricane Matthew. The League of Women Voters of Florida, along with counsel from the Brennan Center for […]
Study Gives Doctors Guidance on ‘Reproductive Coercion’ by Men
EAST LANSING, MI, Oct. 11, 2016 – New research finds that men purposely are breaking their own condoms and pressuring female partners in their teens and 20s to go without birth control in order to get them pregnant. The study, led by a Michigan State University scholar and published online in the journal Contraception, provides […]
Next century will bring 9-foot floods to New York City as much as 17 times more frequently
Oct. 10, 2016 – New York City can expect 9-foot floods, as intense as that produced by 2012’s Superstorm Sandy, at least three times more frequently over the next century – and possibly as much as 17 times more frequently, according to a paper published today by scientists at Rutgers University, Princeton University and the […]
Landmark Settlement Reins in Rogue Federal Wildlife Killing Program
MISSOULA, MT, Oct. 10, 2016 – A federal court approved a groundbreaking settlement agreement between WildEarth Guardians and the federal wildlife killing program, Wildlife Services, late last week. The settlement comes over a year after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed that WildEarth Guardians’ interests are injured by the program’s activities and the organization […]
Trump vs. Clinton: Three key moments from the second debate
Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr., Washington University in St Louis; Peter Kastor, Washington University in St Louis, and Rebecca Wanzo, Washington University in St Louis October 10, 2016 – Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton took the debate stage Sunday evening. We asked three scholars from the Washington University in St. Louis, where the debate was held, […]
The Indigenous Environmental Network responds to U.S. Court of Appeals Injunction Denial to Halt DAPL Construction within 20 Miles of Missouri River
Cannon Ball, ND October 10, 2016 – The U.S. Court of Appeals Sunday night rejected the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s request for a temporary injunction to halt construction of the Dakota Access pipeline thru traditional unceded Oceti Sakowin treaty lands near the Missouri River. The three-judge panel issued its decision Sunday after hearing oral arguments […]
Trump on Hot Mic: ‘When You’re a Star … You Can Do Anything’ to Women
Editor’s note: This story contains graphic language that many may find offensive. A decade before Donald Trump became the Republican nominee for president, he shared candid and lewd views on women that were caught on tape. “I’m automatically attracted to beautiful women — I just start kissing them, it’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I […]
Shale gas — not EPA rules — has pushed decline in coal-generated electricity, study confirms
Oct. 7, 2016 – Cheap shale gas produced by fracking has driven the decline in coal production in the United States during the last decade, researchers at the Great Lakes Energy Institute at Case Western Reserve University have found. Power plants, which use 93 percent of the coal produced nationally, have been operating under the […]
USA: UN rights expert troubled by allegations that Yahoo complied with surveillance demands
GENEVA (7 October 2016) – Reports that Yahoo complied with US intelligence demands by searching the e-mails of hundreds of millions of customers raise serious human rights concerns, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, said today. According to reports, Yahoo customized software to scan all […]
Pence Wouldn’t Defend The Indefensible
Oct. 5, 2016 – Following last night’s Vice Presidential debate, Hillary for America is releasing a new video spotlighting Mike Pence’s inability (or unwillingness) to defend Donald Trump’s divisive insults and dangerous policies. From Trump’s praise of Vladimir Putin as a “strong” leader to his assertion that women should be “punished” for having an abortion […]
Yahoo Scanned All Incoming E-mails on Behalf of NSA
October 4, 2016 – Reuters reported today that Yahoo complied with a government directive last year to scan all of its incoming customers’ e-mails for certain content. Previously, companies were known to turn over e-mails from particular accounts, but this broad a search of content by a company has never previously been reported. Ironically, the […]
Trump’s organization did business with Iranian bank later linked to terrorism
Oct. 3, 2016 – Donald Trump’s real estate organization rented New York office space from 1998 to 2003 to an Iranian bank that U.S. authorities have linked to terrorist groups and Iran’s nuclear program. Trump inherited Bank Melli, one of Iran’s largest state-controlled banks, as a tenant when he purchased the General Motors Building on […]
New York Times Publication of Trump’s 1995 Tax Records Underlines High End Audit Challenge
SYRACUSE, NY, Oct. 3, 2016 – This weekend, The New York Times published the tax returns that Donald Trump had filed with New York, New Jersey and Connecticut where the Republican candidate for president claimed nearly a billion dollar business loss for that year. Although the Times said the experts it had consulted did not […]
New York Attorney General’s Office Issues Notice Of Violation Directing Trump Foundation To Cease And Desist New York Solicitations
NEW YORK – On Friday, September 30, the Office of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued a Notice of Violation to the Donald J. Trump Foundation (“Trump Foundation”) and directed the entity to cease and desist from soliciting contributions in New York. The notice states that the Trump Foundation “is in violation of […]
Immigration Detainers are Unlawful, Federal Court Rules
CHICAGO (October 3, 2016) – The federal district court of the Northern District of Illinois has invalidated the federal government’s practice of issuing detainers against people in law enforcement custody, ruling that the practice exceeds the government’s limited warrantless arrest authority under federal immigration laws. The decision, issued Friday evening, will nullify thousands of detainers […]
50 Native Tribes Join Fight to Prevent Delisting of Yellowstone Grizzly Bears
Tribal leaders from the U.S. and Canada signed a joint treaty today opposing the proposed delisting of Yellowstone grizzly bears by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS). More than 50 federally recognized tribes, backed by the 900,000-member Assembly of First Nations, support the treaty. The USFWS has been working to remove the Yellowstone grizzly […]
Western Attorneys General Throw Cold Water on Legal Case Against American Public Lands
DENVER, Colo. October 3, 2016 – The Associated Press reported that the Western Conference of Attorneys General has issued an analysis rejecting claims made by leading opponents of U.S. public lands that the U.S. government has no right to hold national forests, wildlife refuges, national monuments, and other public lands in trust for all Americans. […]
With Rehearing Denied in US v. Texas, What Now?
Washington, DC October 3, 2016 – The news that the U.S. Supreme Court has denied a rehearing petition in the U.S. v Texas immigration case should focus attention on a pressing legal question: why has Texas Judge Andrew Hanen been able to issue a nationwide hold on DAPA and DACA+? There’s a strong case to […]