For the majority of Americans who are so poor, they barely have to pay income taxes, Scott’s plan is just the latest in a 40-year barrage of assaults and insults coming from the GOP. They’re at it again: Republicans want to raise taxes on poor and working-class Americans, end Social Security and Medicare, jack up pollution […]
“Just last week the crown prince told journalists he plans to modernize Saudi Arabia’s criminal justice system, only to order the largest mass execution in the country’s history.” The government of Saudi Arabia has executed 81 people—including seven Yemenis and a Syrian national—over the past 24 hours in what is believed to be the largest mass […]
“The Russian occupying forces have dropped several bombs on the children’s hospital,” said officials from the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol. Local Ukrainian officials said Wednesday that a Russian airstrike hit a maternity and children’s hospital in the besieged port city of Mariupol, inflicting heavy damage and burying patients under the rubble. “The Russian occupying […]
While “less than 7% of people in low-income countries are fully vaccinated,” Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal said the U.S. must “invest more in global vaccination efforts immediately.” A full two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, a grim milestone was reached Monday as the global death toll surpassed 6 million people—a figure much higher, say many experts, than […]