Big oil claimed boosting fossil fuel exports would be a boon to U.S. consumers, but researchers say the “economic instability and damage to local communities and the planet created by this rapid export expansion are only now becoming clear.” In 2015, fossil fuel industry executives and lobbyists adamantly claimed that lifting a 40-year-old ban on U.S. oil exports […]
“The priorities of poor and low-income people are on the ballot this election—from healthcare to living wages to social programs that lift the load of poverty and much more,” said Poor People’s Campaign co-chair Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis. Less than a month before Election Day, low-income people and allies came together across the United States on […]
“I think they were trying to hand the Justice Department all the evidence on a silver platter,” one legal expert said of the panel probing last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol. As former President Donald Trump faced an onslaught of criticism and ridicule over his “rambling” 14-page response Friday to a subpoena from the U.S. House select […]
“The Supreme Court’s Second Amendment jurisprudence has grown so radical that it now shields criminals trying to conceal their involvement in a violent crime,” said one observer. Legal experts said Friday that a federal judge’s ruling in West Virginia illustrates the danger posed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s right wing majority, which ruled this year in New […]