Noting the ex-president once said that “only guilty people and mobsters plead the Fifth,” a Democratic congressman said that “today he proved the point.” Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday refused to answer questions from New York Attorney General Letitia James about his business dealings, explaining he was invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. […]
“We must denounce the Big Lie and those who refuse to uphold the will of the people in our elections,” said one democracy defender. Democracy defenders on Monday welcomed reports that Dana Nessel, Michigan’s attorney general, is calling for a special prosecutor to probe allegations of a Republican-led attempt to feloniously break into voting machines after […]
“In the Covid-19 pandemic, world leaders have allowed pharmaceutical companies to place extraordinary profits ahead of saving lives,” lamented one campaigner As Moderna reported higher-than-expected revenue driven entirely by sales of its publicly funded Covid-19 vaccine, health equity campaigners on Wednesday renewed calls for pharmaceutical companies to waive patent protections in order to share their lifesaving […]
“This chemical should not be in our bodies,” asserted one green group in response to a new CDC study. Environmental and public health advocates renewed calls to ban glyphosate after a recently published U.S. report revealed the cancer-linked herbicide—which is the active ingredient in Bayer’s popular Roundup weedkiller—was found in the urine of more than 80% […]