Non-Profit Groups Help Ex-Convicts Start Their Own Businesses
Calvin Duncan knows a lot about prison; he spent 28 years there. “I was born in New Orleans but I was raised in Louisiana State penitentiary,” Duncan says. “I went to prison in 1982 for a murder that I...
View ArticleSix Million Americans Are Drinking Toxic Water
High levels of chemicals shown to cause cancer and other health problems are laced in the drinking water of six million Americans, according to a team of researchers from Harvard’s School of Public...
View ArticleTropical Storm Hermine Still Posing Threat to N.J. Coast
The projected track of Tropical Storm Hermine has shifted eastward again, with the brunt of the storm more likely to remain further away from New Jersey than the westward track that forecasters had...
View ArticleGeorge W. Bush’s White House ‘Lost’ 22 Million Emails
For 18 months, Republican strategists, political pundits, reporters and Americans who follow them have been pursuing Hillary Clinton’s personal email habits, and no evidence of a crime has been found....
View ArticleNewsweek Reveals Trump’s Dangerous Financial Relationships
If Donald Trump is elected president, will he and his family permanently sever all connections to the Trump Organization, a sprawling business empire that has spread a secretive financial web across...
View ArticleSenate Races Begin to Open Up Across the Country
With the election of Hillary Clinton now an almost foregone conclusion, attention is shifting to the United States Senate, where the Democratic Party has a real chance of regaining a working majority....
View ArticleA Naive Donald Trump Faces Urgent Russia Dilemma
The telegram was one of the first to arrive from a world leader. On the morning of November 9, the Kremlin announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin had sent a message to U.S. President-elect...
View ArticleSea Ice Levels At Record Lows On Both Poles
They are quite literally poles apart but both the North Pole and the South Pole have something unfortunate in common at the moment: They are both seeing the lowest levels of sea ice since modern...
View ArticleAlec Baldwin to Join Michael Moore in NYC Inauguration Protest
Alec Baldwin will be standing outside Trump Hotel in New York City the night before the inauguration, and it won’t be a “Saturday Night Live” skit. The actor, who portrays President-elect Donald Trump...
View ArticleTwitter Users Are Pleading: ‘Stop President Bannon’
There are at least thousands of people who don’t believe President Donald Trump could really be behind the executive order that blocks immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations and turns away...
View ArticleFact Checking Trump’s First ‘Solo’ Press Conference
News organizations – including some labelled as “fake news” outlets by freshman president Donald J. Trump – are having a field day fact checking President Trump’s first “solo” press conference, and...
View ArticleThe Smoking Gun Unveiled: Trump’s Russian Connections
The Washington Post is reporting evidence that Attorney General Jeff Sessions LIED to Congress on several occasions when asked if had any contact with members of the Russian government either before or...
View ArticleTrump’s 2005 Tax Return Proves Nothing New
The copy of Trump's Form 1040 released by Rachel Maddow on her 9 P.M. MSNBC program last night turned out to be another case of "much ado about nothing" because Form 1040 is a summary of an actual tax...
View ArticleCommon Cause President: Nunes Can’t Investigate the Russian Connection
The White House is doing plenty to undermine the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race. The last thing we need is the chairmen of the congressional committees charged with...
View ArticleTrump Removes Bannon from National Security Council
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has removed his controversial chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, from the powerful National Security Council in a staff reshuffle that consolidated the power of...
View ArticleTrump Orders Tomahawk Missile Attack on Syria
PALM BEACH, Fla. — The U.S. military launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield on Thursday, President Donald Trump’s first major military action since taking office. The strike, which...
View ArticleHow Drug Use Effects Brain, Makes Relapse Likely
A dance with the devil. That’s how 33-year-old Elizabeth Mooney describes her struggle with drug addiction, recalling the “little voice” that repeatedly overpowered her mind after she had been in...
View ArticleTexas Voter ID Rules Suppressed Democratic Vote in 2016 Election
This story was co-published with The Texas Tribune. The confusion started in the first hour of the first day of early voting in San Antonio last October. Signs in polling places about the state’s...
View ArticleFive Warning Signs Your Child Could Be Suicidal
The latest statistics issued from the Center for Disease Control indicate suicide is the second leading cause of death ages 10-24. The Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide Professional Counselor,...
View ArticleTrump’s Huge Fake Twitter Following
Anyone can amass an exorbitant number of Twitter followers. You don’t even have to be famous. All you have to do is pay for them. The comedian Joe Mande currently has a healthy 1.01 million followers,...
View Article