“The man is a destructive, deceitful and lethal menace,” the head of Media Matters for America said of Jones. “Let these damages crush him under the weight of his own lies.” A Connecticut jury on Wednesday ordered far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay nearly $1 billion to people including relatives of victims of the 2012 […]
The organizations blasted the American Chemistry Council’s promotion of “advanced recycling” technologies, arguing that “there is nothing advanced about them and nothing gets recycled.” More than 200 civil society groups sent a letter to members of the United States Senate on Monday urging them to eschew sponsorship of potential industry-backed bills that critics say rebrand polluting […]
“We need more action on legislation that would ban Congressional stock trading. And fewer members of Congress in violation of the rules already on the books.” A leading government ethics watchdog on Tuesday renewed calls to ban members of Congress from trading stocks during their terms in office after The New York Times published a major investigation revealing that […]
“This is, quite simply, a speech intended to incite domestic terrorists to kill FBI agents and members of the Biden administration,” said one attorney. Former President Donald Trump was accused of inciting domestic terrorism following a Saturday rally speech in which he called President Joe Biden an “enemy of the state” while threatening a “backlash the […]