Corporate profits hit a record $2 trillion in the second quarter. Meanwhile, many workers are unable to afford a $400 emergency payment. A new report out Monday shows that 59% of U.S. consumers were living paycheck to paycheck last month and many were unable to afford an emergency expense of $400—all while the country’s corporations enjoy […]
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said Gorbachev “did more than any other individual to bring about the peaceful end of the Cold War.” Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet president whose gradual opening of his country paved the way for both the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the communist empire, died Tuesday at […]
The U.S. Justice Department said late Tuesday it had evidence of likely efforts to obstruct the government’s investigation of classified documents being held at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate. A court filing cited a June declaration by a Trump representative saying all classified documents had been returned to the government, as well as statements by a […]
“For this was indeed a genocide—the deliberate wiping out of an entire people by cattle ranchers hungry for land and wealth,” said one Indigenous rights campaigner. Activists and conservationists worldwide mourned Monday following news that a man believed to be the last of a remote Brazilian tribe was found dead after years of resisting all efforts […]